Chapter 74: Beg me.

“You are threatening to have Melanie jailed?” an old woman took over the phone and asked. Elena finally understood why. She would recognize the sound of Melanie’s grandmother’s voice. This woman was the sole reason, an illegitimate child could enter the Herman family. She had been pushing Melanie all these years to marry Daniel and had always joined Cecile to ‘teach her’. She had found evidence from the surveillance footage of the club and text messages from Melanie arranging to have her sold to investors. She had handed this all to the police and had been talking to a lawyer. She did this while trapped in Marcus’ home the whole day because she had found out through the media that her father had traveled. Knowing him, he was not going to entertain any disturbance while traveling for work. She figured that when he came back, it would be too late to reverse. For her grandmother to call, Melanie must have been arrested. “What a funny statement. Melanie, is the one who did s