My Accidental Husband Is My Revenge Partner - Chapter 382

Chapter 382: An Informant
“Why would we do that? They’re sex slaves that were promoted to be surrogate mothers for our clients?” Samantha was the one to ask.

Anastasia slightly shrugged. “I was just thinking, wouldn’t it be better if they were getting paid so they could have a little something for themselves?”

Both Xander and Samantha shared another look.

“They’re sex slaves—”

“I understand that you’ve kidnapped them and forced them into all of this, but that doesn’t guarantee they’ll stay loyal,” Anastasia said, her voice steady. “Keeping them locked away in this mansion won’t buy their silence. Money will.”

A frown settled on everyone’s face, including Julian’s. The tension in the room thickened as the gravity of her words sank in. Anastasia knew the truth had to be said if they were going to regain control over the situation.

“What do you mean?” He asked. They’d not planned for this at all, but he was ready to back her up.

“Paying the girls will create an illusion that they were willing to participate rather than being exploited. As you said,” she paused, facing Xander, “X is destroying every trade you conduct, which only means he’s catching up to you. Let’s say one of the girls escapes, and they bump into X, she’s going to tell him everything she knows.”

Xander and Samantha had never thought of paying off the girls because they deemed it unnecessary.

“Let’s say in the future when this whole place is discovered, the government wouldn’t hold anything against you because it was a mutual agreement between you and the surrogates.”

Although the chances of their baby factory setting being discovered weren’t a complete zero, there was still this rare chance of it happening, especially with Xavier not giving Xander a single break.

“That’s not a bad idea at all,” Julian mumbled.

“We’ve never paid the girls and they don’t seem to have a problem with that,” Samantha chimes in.

“But I’m sure you’ve had cases of girls who almost escaped from here, right?” Anastasia asked Samantha and the latter immediately clamped her mouth shut. “Now, imagine if those girls had successfully escaped.”

“We have security stationed everywhere,” said Samantha.

“I’m not blind, I can see that,” Anastasia replied with a soft smile that earned her a glare from Samantha. “I’ve given you my opinion, now it’s up to you to decide if you want to implement it,” she finished.

“All that you said wasn’t a bad idea at all,” Xander was the one to speak this time around after being quiet for too long. “X has been hot on my tail lately. We’ll think about it.”

“One last thing, if you do end up deciding to implement that policy, more girls would be willing to volunteer for this kind of business. So you don’t need to kidnap them anymore,” she added.

Without more words being exchanged, they continued the tour. Anastasia and Xander were at the front now, and Samantha and Julian were behind her, but she could still feel the glare from behind her.

“Just where did you get this Jennifer of a woman from, Julian? She practically wants to change everything?” Samantha mumbled to Julian who stared down at her.

“But you can’t deny that her ideas aren’t bad at all,” he replied, earning a scowl from her. But he continued. “Paying the girls seems like a fair game. We can discreetly promote surrogacy to potential women, instead of abducting them which will have not only the police but also Xavier on our necks. What? Are you jealous you didn’t come up with it sooner?”

“I didn’t come up with it because I don’t think there was a need for it,” she replied with an agitated expression. “Something about her feels off to me,” she finally said, and Julian stiffened for a second. I’ve tried looking into her other businesses but I couldn’t find anything.”

“Jennifer has a team that protects all of her business associations. It’s a dangerous world and you never know who’s who, so she makes sure that none of her business is out in the public,” he explained, which was a total lie. Anastasia had no business at all, but he wasn’t going to tell Samantha that and make her more suspicious.

“And her family? Doesn’t she have a family?” Samantha asked.

“Her family background is kinda complicated, and it’s not something for me to say. So, you should ask her yourself when the time is right,” he responded.

Samayah huffed exasperatedly but didn’t say anything anymore.

After their tour, the date for their trip to Regalith was finalized which would be in the next one week.

Anastasia left the factory, heading to her house. Julian didn’t follow her around this time, because he didn’t want them suspecting she was living at his house.

“Now, about the trade that didn’t successfully occur due to you know who,” Xander started after they returned to the office. “I was informed that Xavier didn’t leave with the girls.”

Julian was shocked.

“You have an informant that was watching the trade?” He carefully asked, hoping this informant hadn’t spotted either him or Anastasia there that night.

“Yes, I do,” he replied. “According to him, Xavier didn’t help the girls escape, which only meant that someone else had done it. Someone who hadn’t made any appearance until now.”

From the tone of Xander’s voice, it seemed this informant of his didn’t spot either him or Anastasia helping the girls escape.

“We now have two people who are raiding the trade. It’s not good news,” Samantha said, typing away on her computer. “We’re barely able to contain Xavier. If this continues for a longer while, then we’re in big trouble.”

“Wait up a second, who is this informant and why didn’t you tell me anything about him?” Julian asked, obviously confused.

“He’s a little confused about his decisions in life, but I can tell you we have the same goal,” Xander replied with a grin on his lips. “As for why I didn’t tell you, I don’t trust you quite enough for that.”