Chapter 28 Riding the Tiger
She was like riding a tiger right now.
On one side was Archie, who she did not dare to offend, and on the other side was Alfred, who accused her.
It was ultimately justified.
She never dared to offend Archie, so she had to sacrifice Alfred.
As long as she consist the relationship between Alfred and Natalia, she would have a reason for everything she did today.
Not only that, but Natalia would be saddled with the reputation of cheating.
Who was Archie?
He would allow his woman to cheat on him.
When the time came, not only would Natalia not be able to clear her name, her position in Archie's heart would also be shaken, and then it won't be too late to deal with her! Thinking of this, the look in Clara's eyes grew colder.
However, in the next second, Alfred explained, "Mr. Archie, she's talking nonsense!
Miss Jessica and I have never met before, how can we be related?
You can look it up if you don't believe me!"
"Alfred, you coward!
You begged me on your knees to ask me let Natalia be with you?
Now you said those words, are you still a man?"
Alfred was so angry that his fingertips were trembling, pointing at Clara.
"Old woman, you slander me! And you slander Miss Jessica! Do you think Mr. Archie is a fool? Will he be cajoled by you?"
Clara sneered.
"And you're trying to weasel your way out of this? Ok! You said I was behind this. Where's the proof? I haven't pursued the matter of you drugging Natalia! Now you're blaming me?" Alfred's face turned pale.
He did drug in the drink.
But he did as Clara told him.
And now she was trying to brush it off and blame it all on him.
Alfred was going crazy with anger, but he couldn't say a word and could only stare at Clara with a deadly glare.
When discussing this matter before, it had always been a face-to-face meeting, so Clara had known that he could not produce any evidence. At this time, seeing this, she coldly snorted in triumph. Watching the scene, Natalia had a word suddenly came to her mind -- dog-eat-dog.
It was true.
Previously there were like grasshoppers on a rope, but now they blamed each other being scared by Archie.
It was a pity...
She smiled playfully when she heard the lazy, icy voice of the man beside her.
"I just want to hear the truth and you guys are arguing here. Do you really think I'm idle?"
The man dug his ears, with a hint of impatience flashing across his face.
Clara and Alfred both turned pale with fear.
Clara hastened to show a smile and explain.
"Mr. Archie, I really didn't know about your relationship with Natalia. Since she has long been with you, Mr. Archie, she should have told us before.
It was indeed our mistake to get it like this, and please don't be angry for the sake of the two families' in-laws."
Archie raised his eyes to look at her, smirking.
"Family In-laws?"
Clara showed an awkward smile.
In fact, since Archie and Natalia were a couple, then she, as Natalia's grandmother, was naturally Archie's grandmother as well. Were they not in-laws?
This was why Clara had dared to sit and talk until this moment.
After all, she was the elders. Even if Archie was angry or discontented, for the sake of getting along in the future, he would not go too far.
But if he believed her words and became suspicious of Natalia, it would be even better.
She never expected that Natalia could get anything back from the the Mccarthy family anyway, and even if she did, based on the relationship between the Dawson family and Natalia, it was unlikely that she would think of Natalia.
So it would be better to lose her backer!
Clara thought this in her heart, but suddenly she heard Archie's voice.
"Since you all refuse to tell the truth, I'll just have to treat you all equally and deal with you together!"
Clara was slightly stunned and looked up at him and saw Archie gave an order to Brian.
Brian immediately went out, and not long after, he came in with a large stack of documents.
"Mr. Archie, this is all the properties under the Dawson family and Mr. Chan's name." Archie took it and flipped through it casually.
Everyone in the room was a little confused as to what he wanted.
He suddenly drew one from the midst, lit it with a lighter and put it into the ashtray.
It was a piece of real estate in the name of Alfred, which was given by his father.
When Alfred saw this, his face changed and he said sharply.
"Mr. Archie, what are you, what are you doing?"
Archie said in a slow voice.
"Since you refuse to tell the truth, so I need to think of a way in order to let you speak!
All these properties are yours, and I'll burn one every three minutes. I'll give it back to whoever says it first. What do you think?"
He asked them what they thought.
What?
It was ridiculous.
They dared not say a word. Clara realized at this moment that Archie did not put her into eyes.
She grimaced down and said in a deep voice.
"Mr. Archie, these real estate properties are registered, you think burning the paper documents will help?"
Archie looked at her with a smile on his face, "Oh, right. You remind me, Brian!"
Brian immediately stepped forward, "President."
"Everyone I burn, forcefully acquire the company under their name. If it fails, suppress them until they declare themselves bankrupt. Give up the stocks and funds losing money, but as for anything that's making a profit, tell K to do something about it. I'm sure it'll have no profit immediately before dawn."
Brian made to stifle a laugh and nodded, "Yes."
He turned and headed out the door.
The people of the Dawson family and Alfred both instantly panicked when they saw this.
"Mr. Archie, you can't do that!"
"These are our hard work from decades. You can't destroy them!"
Clara wanted to bite off her tongue at this point.
Why did she talk?
If the paper documents were burnt, they could make up for it in the future. Now she lost everything!
Archie looked at them with a cold face, unshaken.
"Last chance! Say it!"
Alfred nodded, "I say it!"
Clara shouted sternly, "Alfred, think before you say it!"
Alfred, who could care less about that at this point, shouted loudly at her.
"Enough! Dawson family is a big family and can withstand tossing and turning, but I'm not like you, I only have a little bit of property in my fucking name. If it all goes to shit, my dad will be the first one to get me killed!"
Clara was so angry with him that she turned blue.