Babel Novel
Chapter 2693
Chapter 2693
Winny had been locked up inside the cell for an entire day. When she saw her father enter the visiting room, tears welled up in her eyes.
"Dad, hurry and get me out of here," she cried and whimpered.
"Dad, they laid hands on me. Look at the injuries on my face. They tortured me too. They only gave me some common meal. I requested a fine dining meal from Freesia Road but they refused to give it to me."
"Dad, you have to sue them!"
However, faced with her tirade, Teago did not say a single word. Instead, he gave her a strange look.
Only when she saw that did she notice that her father was very different from how he usually was.
Her father, as a famous lawyer in Jade City, paid a lot of attention to his image. He normally dressed in a suit, with a tie and leather shoes. That was considered basic attire to him.
However, at present, he was missing his tie, and his suit and shirt were both rumpled as if they had just come out of the wash.
His chin was covered with stubble and his eyebags were deep. Coupled with his bloodshot eyes and tousled hair, he looked like a mess.
"Dad, what happened to you? Did something happen outside?" Winny asked.
Hearing her voice, Teago finally raised his head to look at her. "Tell me, how did this happen? How did you offend Fade?"
"What happened? How did I offend Fade? Dad, what are you saying?" She was confused.
He slammed his palm on the table and glared at his daughter. "You're asking me that? My firm went bankrupt and my professional license was revoked. It's all because you offended a big shot!"
"What? How is that possible?" To say she was shocked would be an understatement.
"Tell me, what exactly happened?" He shouted angrily.
She did not dare to hide the truth any longer. The whole story was forced out of her.
After that, she curled her lips and said, "It was just a trivial matter. How did it turn out like this?"
"Trivial matter? Don't you know that Hannah is extremely close to Fade from the negotiation team? He has begun to retaliate now," he told her. "What? Is... Is he the same Fade from the negotiation team, the top martial artist, Fade Chen?" She was still reeling in shock.
Enraged, he asked, "Besides him, who else could make me suffer like this in such a short time?"
"Dad, then what should we do?" Winny had never thought that she would offend such a big shot. Fear began to creep into her heart.
"What should we do? How would I know what to do? I don't have anything now. I don't know what we should do!" Teago retorted. "I've spoiled you since you were young, so you just go around offending anyone you please. Now, everything is over. It's all over!"
She shrank her neck back, although she still felt chagrined. She argued, "Dad, you're the one who told me to say bad things about Fade and the negotiation team. Why are you blaming me for it now?"Belonging to NôvelDrama.Org.
"I told you to do it secretly, but what did you do? You were so high-profile; you even hit someone in school. Do you really think that I'm invincible?" He yelled angrily.
"Dad, then... We will ask those people for help! They're foreigners so they can do something for sure," she urged.
He paused for a moment. Then, as if he had seen a final ray of hope, he took out his phone and dialed a number.
A beeping sound came from the phone. Each beep was like a heavy hammer slamming onto his heart, causing his anxiety to reach a fever pitch.
At the moment, Winny could not
help but hold her breath. It was unclear whether she was comforting her father or herself, when she said, "They'th definitely help us out. We've done so much for them. They won't sit back and do nothing."
The beeping sound continued. Teago's heart sank.
Just as he was on the very edge of desperation, the call was connected.
His heart suddenly jumped out from a pit of despair.
"Macaulay, it's Teago. I'm in trouble now. Fade..."
Before he could finish, Macaulay spoke frostily from the other end, "Teago, I know everything that's happened to you."
"Okay. Then, please help me. I can't hold on any longer," Teago pleaded in a rush.
Macaulay's voice remained ice-cold. "I'm sorry. I can't help you. You don't have to call me again."
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Those words made Teago feel as if he had been hit in the head, and he nearly collapsed.
However, the primal instinct to
survive kept him awake. In the end, he switched back to pleading, "Macaulay, I said that in a fit of rage. I won't reveal our relationship. For the sake of what I've done for you, please help me. Please save me and my daughter! Just this once!"
"Teago, I'm sorry! You are useless to us now." Macaulay hung up with that final, stone-cold sentence.
Teago was dumbfounded. He persisted fervently in redialing the number, but the call never connected again.
Winny did not hear what the other party had said, but an immediate realization struck her when she saw her father's expression. She asked, "Dad, what happened? Is Macaulay going to save us?"
Bang! The phone fell to the ground.
Teago slumped limply in his seat, his eyes blank. He murmured, "We've been abandoned. We're finished. We're done."
"How come? How could they do this?" She grew agitated. "They can't do this to us. We have to fight this. We..."
She was so agitated that she wanted to burst out of the room.
However, at that moment, the door was opened by a police officer who came in to block her way.
From behind the police officer. Fade walked in with a serious expression.
The moment they saw him. Tea go's and Winny's expressions fell.
She gnashed her teeth and glared at Fade. She stretched out her hand to grab at him in a state of agitation. "It's all your fault. You caused my family to be this way. I'm going to kill you."
Slap!
Fade slapped her right on the face and knocked her down.
"Remember, you reap what you sow. Don't blame anyone else."
"You... You..." She covered her cheek, her face still filled with resentment, but she did not dare to retaliate. "It is illegal for you to hit someone. You..." Before she could finish what she was going to say, Fade interrupted her straightaway. "Go ahead and sue me!"