Chapter 34

"Yeah, I've been staying with Mr. Soren these past few days, and he's been really good to me."

With every word I spoke, I could see Freya's face going through a whole range of expressions.

Her face kept changing—jealousy, hatred, disgust, resentment... all kinds of emotions flashed across her face!

"Damn it..." Even though Freya's voice was very quiet, I still heard it.

Killian beside her was very displeased. "Enough, stop arguing."

"We're having a family meeting today. Elvira, perfect timing that you're here. Stay put at the company today, and come home with me after work."

I wasn't surprised by this decision at all.

Ever since that accident years ago, Killian had completely taken over as the one in charge of the family.

Family meetings were held from time to time.

But there were several times before when Killian and Freya deliberately excluded me. Later, at a banquet, a business partner asked why I, clearly also a Lacey, wasn't participating in their family meetings according to what he'd heard.

This incident made Killian panic, afraid that other business partners would look down on him for bringing me along. Only then did I get the chance to participate in family meetings.

But today's family meeting obviously wasn't going to be friendly for me.

I decided not to worry about tonight's events just yet.

During the day at the company, I quickly met up with Sebastian in secret.

Over these past few days, I'd asked him to take inventory of the company's liquid assets.

Right now, I was in charge of these two projects, and both were projects Killian was unwilling to give up. Because of this, during our cooperation, he'd given me a lot of authority.

With Sebastian as the financial assistant, this gave me some opportunities to take advantage of.

I was secretly transferring the family's liquid assets.

Liquid assets were an important part of the family's holdings. Without these things, Killian would undoubtedly have a large portion of his power weakened.

First, he'd wonder where these funds went, but on the surface, there were accounts that Sebastian made for me, so he wouldn't know I was the one moving these things—at least not for now.

And by the time he finally found out, maybe I'd already started the next step of my plan, so I wouldn't worry about completely falling out with him.

After making up my mind, I had Sebastian make bigger moves.

After all, I had Charles and Virio secretly helping me with everything.

Everything went very smoothly that day.

Just during the daytime, I'd already secretly transferred at least a million dollars in liquid assets.

And everything was very reasonable, so it wouldn't make Killian suspicious.

I guessed this was also because they'd spent almost the entire day busy dealing with other matters.

I still didn't have key evidence to prove that the assassination attempt in Floridia was Killian's doing.

But I knew that the person who'd been secretly monitoring those retired employees was him.

However, I still wasn't clear about how many people he'd sent or how fast their response time would be.

Just as I was thinking about these things, Killian sent someone to tell me it was time to get off work and I should go home to attend the family meeting.

I packed up my things and slowly followed them to the car. Freya sat in the back seat, quietly looking out the window.

Compared to our meeting during the day, she seemed to be in an especially low mood now, and didn't seem to plan on having any conflict with me, which surprised me.

But it was better to avoid trouble, so I didn't take the initiative to speak either.

On the road, my phone rang.

I glanced at it—it was a message from Virio.

Opening it, I saw several photos.

I narrowed my eyes and looked at them for a while, then the corners of my mouth curved up slightly as I let out a light laugh.

Freya beside me seemed to hear my movement and turned to glare at me viciously.

But when she met my cold gaze, she seemed to shudder all over and immediately looked away.

I put away my phone, suddenly in a good mood.

Until the family meeting officially started.

At the meeting, in front of everyone, Freya suddenly attacked me.

Before Killian could speak, Freya suddenly stood up and pointed at me, saying, "Elvira was just an ungrateful woman; she's been colluding with our enemy Virio all along!"

Usually, in front of me, when she mentioned Virio, she would respectfully say "Mr. Soren."

But now, in front of other family members, perhaps knowing that her feelings for Virio couldn't be shown in public, Freya instead called him our enemy.

I sat in my seat, calmly looking at her, my expression unchanged.

Seeing me like this made Freya even more irritated. She immediately pointed at me again and said, "We've heard during this time that she's been kept like a little pet at Virio's place!"

"I think all the recent troubles the family has faced must be related to this. You must investigate thoroughly! Has Elvira already betrayed us? Does she no longer have this family in her heart?"

Actually, most people present knew about Freya's feelings for Virio, but many people also knew about me and Virio.

So, facing Freya's accusations against me, the other elders didn't speak up right away, just looked at us with complicated expressions.

I knew they were all weighing their options.

Just like Killian.

Even though he knew Virio was our enemy, when the other party proposed cooperation, he chose to temporarily set aside the family rivalry for the sake of profit.

I didn't believe he still didn't know that Charles was actually Virio's subordinate.

I sat there calmly, staring at them.

Because I wanted to know how Killian would respond in front of so many people.

When the others heard Freya say this, they immediately looked at each other, and then most of them looked at me.

"We've also heard such rumors recently, but we weren't sure if they were true."

"Now that even Freya is saying this, it seems to be true!"

"Elvira, this is really wrong of you! I know you've always felt bad about your father's death, but you shouldn't collude with the enemy like this!"

"The Lacey family has never given up on you. Even now your uncle treats you like his own child. Why would you do this?"

Listening to their words, I lowered my eyes and stared at my hands resting on the table.

A moment later, Killian finally cleared his throat to signal everyone to quiet down. "Elvira, is what Freya said true? Have you really been colluding with Virio?"

How ironic.

This morning, he was clearly standing with Freya, accusing me about this very thing, but now in front of others, he was pretending to hear about it for the first time.

I didn't expose the fact that he still needed to cooperate with them, but instead stood up and looked straight at Freya across from me.