Escaped My Ex, Got Snatched by His Rival - Chapter 447

Chapter 447: A lead (2)
Mateo looked at the woman who was pretending to be innocent and naive. He smiled at her before saying, “Mrs Clamont, you do realise the situation you are in at the moment right?”

“I do not understand,” Mrs Clamont refused to say anything. The things that she had seen and heard, she was not going to breathe a word about it. If she did then she would be in danger and not only her —maybe her family would be in danger as well.

She couldn’t allow such a thing to happen!

Seeing her lack of cooperation, Mateo was not surprised. He simply sighed and said to her, “It’s true that the Ashford family is neutral but we can also show you our might in case you cannot understand our words.”

Though he didnt threaten her outright, his words brimmed with it.

“For what reason are you threatening me?” Mrs Clamton shouted at Mateo, she felt frustrated and angry with the pressure these men were putting on her and her family. “I told you I have done nothing wrong! What right do you have to barge in my house and demand answers from us, we are innocent—”

“You might have not done anything wrong but you also did nothing right,” Emil said shrewdly. “You are hiding something, aren’t you? The same reason that made you change your job and transfer your the hospital where you were working years ago. Clearly, you were close to getting promoted but you suddenly transferred halfway through your career… don’t you think it’s suspicious?”

Mrs Clamton who was raging and acting like she was in a rapid-fire round paused as she choked and stumbled over the words that she wanted to say to the three brothers.

“How did you..” she was very careful back then. There was no way anyone could have traced the actions that she had secured and hidden from others.

“It doesn’t matter how we found out about the truth,” Keon waved aside the question that Mrs Clamton put forth in front of him. He was getting impatient with her actions and lack of cooperation.

In a stern voice, he said to her, “We have told you. Your son was caught trying to smuggle the good products and replace them with the defective ones. He was caught on the spot and had also confessed, unless you want us to press charges I will suggest that you answer our questions.”

Of course, Keon would never care about a small employee like Mrs Clamton’s son but after searching long and hard, he finally traced down this woman and for the sake of trapping her in his trap, he traced all the connections and routes before finding out about her son.

Fortunately, that man was greedy for small benefits and was caught smuggling and stealing which made the entire process much smoother.

Mrs Clamton’s face turned stiff and her complexion turned pale. She knew what kind of person her son was but she still insisted, “You are deliberately trying to push the blame on him. My son— he is a kind boy who will never do such a thing ever in his life.”

“We have enough evidence to prove his crime, Mrs Clamton,” Keon retorted calmly.

“Then you must have instigated him!”

“He is not a child who cannot see right from wrong, no amount of instigation would work if he was honest.”

“That’s just absurd—”

“Dear, why don’t you just give them what they want?” Mr Clamton who was sitting next to his wife could not help but interject. He knew that there was something that his wife was hiding and the fact that she had one day returned with thousands of dollars in her hands, he knew that there was something amiss.

But he had stayed quiet as the money had helped their family. However, now that the past had come to bite them in their bottoms, he could not stay quiet. Especially not when his son and his life were on the line.

“Yo—you what are you talking about?” Mrs Clamton asked as sweat started to form on her forehead in worry. She was afraid that her husband would land her in trouble.

Now she regretted telling him the truth back then. She should have kept everything to herself.

Mr Clamton turned to look at his wife and said to her, “I know you blame me but look at them, they came with evidence to back their claims, are you going to throw our son’s future away?”

Of course, she wasn’t! Mrs Clamton thought to herself.

She bit her lip and turned to look at the three men and asked, “Do you truly promise to let my son go if I tell the truth?”

“Of course, as long as you tell us the truth we will retract our charges,” replied Keon. “However, I hope you will understand that he cannot be hired back after what he has done.”

“Well, something is better than nothing,” muttered Mrs Clamton. She wasn’t happy with the fact that these men were making her confess and that too without returning the job of her son. However, she had no choice because she wanted to protect her son and save him from going to prison.

She sighed and recalled the things that happened in the past when she was working in the hospital, “Alright, I will be honest with you three. Back then when I was working at the hospital, I ended up eavesdropping on Mia Harlow and a man. I heard them when I was asked to bring the corpse of a child who passed without his parents claiming his body.”

“The two of them were hiding in the morgue and discussing exchanging children,” Mrs Clamton tried to remember everything that had happened on that day, though many years had passed. The things that she had heard — were truly shocking which was why she never forgot what they said to one another.

“What did they talk about?” Mateo asked with narrowed eyes, finally they had a lead.