Chapter 78

Someone of Mr. Winford’s status would not have cared about such a small amount as eighty million! But if he had known that Ophelia had forced her family to the brink of despair for eighty million, would he still have liked such a cold-hearted woman?

Ophelia didn’t wait long before she saw Samuel and Erin being brought in by someone.

“Mr. Winford!”

The two people smiled and bowed obsequiously. Ophelia did not get up or speak; she sat lazily next to Winford, quietly playing with his bony fingers.

Suddenly, the back of her hand felt warm, and the man’s large hand wrapped around hers, trapping her hand and preventing her from moving. Winford divided his attention, giving eight points to the mischievous girl beside him and only two points to dealing with the Greene couple.

“Did you two come for something important?”

Samuel did not feel that Winford was cold; in fact, he was quite taken aback that Winford took the initiative to ask him eight words!

“The family company encountered some difficulties and wanted to ask Mr. Winford for help…”

Ophelia raised her eyes and understood. The Greene family needed the funds, and Samuel had not given up yet! Yes, the other party sent her to Sunset Vista back then, didn’t they, just to climb up this relationship and gain benefits from Winford? The company was in urgent need of help, so how could they not turn to Winford!

Thinking of what Winford had promised her before—that his money was only for her use and not for the Greene family—she couldn’t help but curl her lips into a smile. Want money? Unfortunately, her husband was not a fool!

Samuel accidentally saw her smile and was instantly infuriated. She didn’t help him speak and just laughed there. As Erin said, this daughter was indeed an ungrateful wretch, raised for nothing!

“Mr. Winford…”

Winford: “Besides this, what else was there?”

Samuel was taken aback for a moment, then he was filled with wild joy. Did Mr. Winford just agree?! Ophelia instantly perked up, her little face serious.

“Did her husband forget the promise he made to her?”

As soon as she moved, her hand was pinched. She glanced and instantly understood the man’s intention, so she leaned back calmly again.

Just as Samuel was about to say that there was nothing else, Erin suddenly spoke up, her tone sorrowful:

“I wanted to ask Mr. Winford to make a decision on something!”

Ophelia’s eyes narrowed slightly. This woman was probably coming for her! Her intuition was indeed correct; the next moment, she heard Erin say:

“My family was almost driven to death by Ophelia! I begged Mr. Winford to take care of her!”

“Oh?” Winford raised his eyes, deep as a cold pool, and his emotions showed a noticeable fluctuation. “What happened?”

Erin felt a surge of joy in her heart, wiped the corners of her reddened eyes with a handkerchief, and said bitterly, “My family owed Ophelia a bit of money, and we never said we wouldn’t pay it back. But Ophelia went too far; not only did she throw my elderly mother to the ground, but she also forced her uncle to sell the company to pay off the debt!”

The voice was choked with emotion. “Her uncle’s family lost their company and their place to live; they almost ended up homeless! She’s trying to drive them to death!”

Erin looked haggard, her eyes were red, as if she had been driven to a dead end by Ophelia and had no choice but to seek out Winford.

“That’s right, this dead girl, how good has Erin been to her over the years? This is how she repaid her!” Samuel also spoke up, still holding a grudge against Ophelia for not helping just now, as well as for the incident that had angered him during their phone call earlier.

Looking at the two people in front of her, Ophelia sneered coldly in her heart. He cast his gaze towards Erin. Ah, this woman finally stopped pretending? She thought she would have to pretend to be a good stepmother for a lifetime!

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She spoke without any courtesy: “I said, Erin, why didn’t you mention how much your brother’s family owes me? Why didn’t you mention how they ‘borrowed’ money from me?”

“I forced him to sell the company? Why didn’t he think about why he had to sell the company to pay back the money he owed me? Since he didn’t have the confidence to repay, why did he ‘borrow’ from me in the first place? What was his family really calculating?”

“They didn’t say they wouldn’t pay it back”? That cracks me up! If I had waited honestly, I probably would have been waiting until they were six feet under and still wouldn’t have seen my money back!”