Chapter 60
What Karen James meant by a perfect plot was to frame Finn Taylor and make him take responsibility for her son’s crimes.
Yet, Linda James agreed to that suggestion. It wasn’t because she liked her nephew very much. Rather, she felt that her sister was right. ‘It was the late Old Master who had introduced Finn Taylor to us and forced him to marry into our family. As such, I can’t afford to chase him away for fear of offending the Larson family. But what if he has killed someone in a hit-and-run accident? As his mother-in-law, I have full authority to chase him out of the Larson family because of that.’
Thus, this strange pair of sisters came to an agreement.
…
In the hospital.
Penny looked at the examination report and heaved a sigh of relief.
“I’m really sorry. Is Granny feeling alright?”
Penny shook her head. “I haven’t thanked you for what you did the previous time. She’s fine; she was just a little shocked. She’s recovering well.”
Upon hearing that the old granny was fine, Finn Taylor finally relaxed. “I’ll treat both of you to a meal. After all, we were at fault both times.”
This was the truth.
The first time, Linda James had staged the accident and claimed that she had been injured.
The second time, Weston Shaw had nearly run that old lady over.
Penny was very forthright. “I’m a little more straightforward as a person, so I’m sorry for being so blunt when I first heard that my mother got into an accident. I hope you won’t take it to heart. Alright, I won’t reject your offer of a meal. Once we have a meal together, we’ll be friends. Let’s not talk about owing each other anything.”
Yvette Larson dazedly stood by the side as she watched her husband. ‘This accident could very well have led to disputes, but my husband resolved the matter so easily. How dare anyone say that my husband is a piece of trash? I will beat up anyone who says so!’
As time went by, Yvette Larson got a stronger feeling that her spouse was simply putting on an act. ‘He’s resolved all the troubles I’ve run into with ease and efficiency, but others still think that Finn Taylor only ruins everything for them. The contract with the Sullivan family, the charity competition, my grandpa’s hospitalization, and the two accidents—these had all been huge messes.’
‘I would’ve made a mess out of them if I had handled them myself, but they were all settled amicably once my husband stepped in. Besides, there’s also the matter of his endless source of money.’ Suspicion grew in Yvette Larson’s heart. ‘Is Finn Taylor really just an ordinary person?’
Before she could even voice her thoughts, her husband dragged her out of the hospital.
“Penny, Finn Taylor is a good kid. Can you not frighten him?” The granny still remembered how fierce her daughter had been when she first rushed out.
“Mom, we had a chat, and all’s good now.”
They found a nearby restaurant and ordered some dishes off the menu as they started chatting.
Through chatting, Finn Taylor learned that Penny’s husband was somewhat of a b*stard.
His name was Oliver Kleine; he was a contractor.
He had married Penny while he had still been poor. He eventually earned his own fortune but had started to go astray after learning from other men in society. He had started to take a liking for younger women.
He had gotten himself a mistress and wanted to divorce Penny.
Penny was a lawyer, and it was humiliating for her to be in such a situation. But since she was already in such a situation, she had simply decided to go ahead with the divorce.
As a lawyer, she wasn’t going to let herself suffer.
Basically, Oliver Kleine was inhumane. It wouldn’t be difficult to get a divorce from him and leave him with nothing.
Penny was kind and was worried that he would be left homeless after the divorce. As such, she had chosen to leave him with the house.
However, it was this very act that had caused trouble for her.
When they had first purchased the house, Penny, Oliver Kleine, and their son’s names were all on the property deed.
Now that she was divorced, Penny was willing to remove her name from the deed. However, there was no way she was going to remove her son’s.
She had no intention of leaving this house to Oliver Kleine and his mistress’s illegitimate son. Because of this, Oliver Kleine’s mistress had probably instigated him to sue Penny.
Of course, Penny wasn’t going to lose such a case since she was a lawyer herself.
Due to this, Oliver Kleine hired thugs to harass his ex-wife repeatedly.
‘Who am I? Do you think you little thugs will be able to bully me?’ The moment Penny showed her lawyer’s license, those thugs were so terrified that they scattered off in all directions, afraid that she would remember their faces.
If she were to press charges, they would easily go to jail for three to five years.
Still, Oliver Kleine refused to back down. As such, he had been heartless enough as to turn his sights to his former mother-in-law—the old lady.
In the past, Oliver Kleine had been so poor that he didn’t even have enough money to get married. It was the old granny who felt that Oliver Kleine was a hardworking and diligent person. As such, she went against everyone’s advice and allowed Penny to marry him.
But now, he was biting the hand that had fed him!
After hearing Penny’s words, Finn Taylor said quietly, “I can help you with this matter.”
Then, he casually started dishing up some food onto his wife’s plate.
‘Huh!?’ Penny had to resist the urge to punch Finn Taylor for showing how lovey-dovey they were in front of her. ‘I’ve just finished telling him the story of my unfortunate past, yet he’s showing off his affection for his wife in front of me? Is he even human?’
Of course, Penny had no time to care about that. She noticed that he had said something earlier: he would be able to help her solve this problem.
“Will you really be able to solve it?” It wasn’t that Penny didn’t trust Finn Taylor, but rather, she knew her ex-husband all too well.
He was just an annoyance. He refused to hit the old lady himself, nor did he allow anyone to do so. All he instructed those people to do was to hang around her house.
They didn’t even step foot into her house. In fact, they did absolutely nothing to the old lady.
It was just that it was psychologically stressful with so many muscular and well-built men standing outside her house.
‘What can you possibly do? It’s not like you can arrest them. Maybe you’ll be able to chase them away. Even so, they’ll be back the very next day. You can’t possibly watch over her house every day, can you? Won’t you still need to go to work?’
“Trust me. I’ll resolve this matter for you. But if you don’t trust me, just take it as though I never said anything.” Finn Taylor picked up a piece of meat and placed it on her plate.
“I…” What Penny wanted to tell him was to stop showing off his affection for his wife in front of her, yet she held herself back.
“What?”
“Nothing much. I trust you.” In the end, Penny chose to trust Finn Taylor.
“Alright. Let’s talk about something else then.”
“Huh?”
“It’s a business deal. Since I’m helping you solve a problem, you should help me solve a problem as well.”
Finn Taylor’s words were beyond Penny’s expectations. ‘I thought that he had been offering to help me out of the kindness of his heart, but it turns out that he has his own demands too.’
“Tell me. How much do you want?”
“It’s tacky to talk about money. Let me introduce you to my wife, Yvette Larson.” Finn Taylor spoke in a serious tone and gestured to his wife.
Penny nearly flipped the table over when she saw that. ‘You’ve been acting as a lovey-dovey couple for long enough! Do you really have to keep doing that? I know she’s your wife!’