The Woman From Hell
Chapter 824

Chapter 824

Knowing that Theo had come back, Munchkin wanted to see him.

I embraced him and said helplessly, "Theo has a lot to do lately. Try not to disturb him."

Munchkin agreed obediently. "Mommy, Theo seems to have never-ending work to do. He sounds like he's having a hard time."

I smiled slightly. "If he wants to stand out above the crowds, then he’ll have to endure the hardships that ordinary people can't."

Munchkin partly understood. "Then I must be able to endure hardships as well."

After watching TV in the living room for half an hour, I was just about to take Munchkin upstairs when the bodyguard informed me that Liz was here.

I was not expecting her, but now that she was already here, I could not chase her away. I had no choice but t o receive her.

However, she did not give me the chance to receive her at all as she started shouting angrily as soon as she entered the villa. "Wanda Lane, I thought you were trying to help Matthew by giving him a lump sum of money but you were only trying to ruin him! How can

you be so ungrateful?"

It seemed like her English had improved now that she was speaking it so fluently.

In the face of her unfounded accusations, I gently sighed. “Can you please clear things up so we can communicate?"

"Sure." She gnashed her teeth. "Let me clear things up for you now."

"The money you gave Matthew came from the many years of profits of the company under your name, right? But now Theo is saying that Matthew stole the money from Grant Corporation and the media is wildly reporting about it, causing Zimmer Corporations' stocks to fall off a cliff. It isn't a question about whether Zimmer Corporations can afford this or not but the stolen funds could land Matthew in jail." Liz grew more and more emotional as she spoke.

I frowned. "Are you sure this is Theo's doing?”

"Who else?" Liz sneered. "Both of you sure are a compassionate couple, huh? One pretending to be the good guy while the other is the bad guy. You don't seem to go easy on your strikes, huh?"

There was too much information coming in at once that my mind had no time to react at all.

After a moment of silence, I said, "I’ll give you an explanation for this."

After sending her away, I went upstairs to the study.

Theo was smoking, and smoke filled the room. It smelled somewhat pungent.

I walked behind him and said, "It's almost 11 now. Don’t you want to take a rest?"

He did not say anything. With his long, straight back facing me, he looked cold and distant.

His gaze fell on the table. It was the same acquisition contract.

After a long silence, I said in a muffled voice, "I gave Matthew the money. I owe him my life. He wouldn't have taken the money if it were any other time but the money is crucial to him now that Zimmer Corporations is in trouble. After he took it, we no longer owed each other anything."

His body stiffened slightly, and the cigarette between his fingers was smoldering. The smoke that permeated the air made one choke up.

"If you blame me for not discussing this with you, then that’s my fault, not Zimmer Corporations'."

I hesitated for a long time before saying, "Theo, if you intend to acquire Zimmer Corporations because of this, then that’s really a bad idea. You can’t put him in a desperate situation after I returned his favor."

"I’m putting him in a desperate situation?" Theo stood up and turned around to face me, his gaze dark and deep. "I'll tell you today that I am not the one who is putting him in a desperate situation. He walked into it

himself."

I frowned. "Didn't we agree to leave the past behind, Theo? Let's go on with our lives from now on."

Honestly, I did not understand why he wanted to drive Matthew to the edge.

Theo took a deep breath, and his dark eyes fell on my face. They were tinged with coldness. "Who came just now?"

He walked toward me step by step, and there seemed t o be a sullen air enveloping me. "Or did Matthew call you to whine about it?"

He looked a little terrifying like this, so I stepped back instinctively to avoid him. "Can you not be like thi, Theo?"