Chapter 166: The Three Unexpected Events She Gave
Amelia shook her head, not telling them the details, only saying she needed to leave first.
York thought for a moment: "Where do you need to go? I'll drive you there."
Amelia looked at York and said: "the Brown Group."
York looked at her carefully, then nodded.
Soon after, a car stopped downstairs at the Brown Group.
"I'll go up with you," York said.
"No need," Amelia said. She didn't want things to get too complicated right now.
She already had an idea about how to win this bet. Those six gemstones were the key.
Alvin, that man...
Never played by the rules.
She needed to test the waters first to figure out what was really going on.
She couldn't let her affairs here be exposed.
York nodded and said: "I'll wait for you in the parking lot."
Amelia didn't make a fuss about it and agreed.
So Amelia got out of the car and walked into the Brown Group building.
York drove all the way to the parking lot. Sitting in his seat, his face no longer showed that gentle smile from before.
He took out his phone and made a call.
After two rings, someone answered.
"Go do something for me..."
After giving a series of instructions, he put down his phone and looked through the car window toward the Brown Group in the distance.
At this moment, Amelia was standing in the CEO's office.
As soon as she walked in, she saw William standing across from her.
He didn't look pleased. When he saw her, he tossed a toy gun that shot flowers onto the table beside him.
On the other side, Alvin came forward with a smile.
"Amelia, long time no see," Alvin said, then hesitated slightly, looking her up and down. "Amelia, you've changed quite a bit compared to before."
Amelia ignored his remarks and asked directly: "You called me here today. What's this about?"
"Right." Alvin pulled out a document from his briefcase and handed it to Amelia.
"Take a look. This is the document you and William signed when you came to find me at Seraphim."
The document even had some dried, coagulated blood on it.
Amelia's gaze fixed on the contract. Everything from that year at Seraphim seemed to come flooding back.
That day, William rushed over, jumped into the ice pool to pull her out. She stared at Alvin and said her last words to him—"You promised me."
"I promised you." At this moment, in the CEO's office, years later, Alvin, now more mature, spoke the same words.
That bloodstained contract looked particularly striking under the bright office lights.
Before Amelia could take the contract, a hand with distinct knuckles had already grabbed it.
It was William.
Just like that autumn years ago, when he held her and used hands covered in her blood to pick up the pen and seal to sign the contract.
Now, holding the contract in his hand, his eyes narrowed dangerously as he stared at Alvin.
Alvin looked at William, a red glint flashing in his eyes.
Then he smiled.
"I've honored this contract until now because of Amelia," he said, looking at William. "Now that you're divorced, I think this contract should be voided too."
He turned to Amelia and smiled: "What do you think, Amelia? Just say the word, and I'll terminate this contract immediately."
Amelia didn't look at Alvin. She simply walked to William's side, reached out, and took the contract.
Page by page, every clause and sentence was an invisible blade from their negotiations back then.
That year, they won.
But she didn't win.
Instead, in that gamble, she lost completely.
Amelia placed the contract on the table and looked at Alvin, who stood across from her, smiling.
"Alvin," she said.
"What is it?" His lips curved up pleasantly. Compared to the shock and unwillingness of years ago, he now looked like a knight waiting for his princess to give orders.
But Amelia knew this was all just an act.
He was actually a ruthless demon with blood on his hands.
"If you want to break the contract, please find a better reason," she said. "I don't want to be your excuse."
A flash of confusion crossed Alvin's face.
"What?" He seemed unable to believe what she said.
Just like back then, when he couldn't believe that he, who always played games with people, had been played by her.
The bet that year was started by Amelia.
No one knew this except the two of them.
Everyone thought Alvin held all the power, that he threatened Amelia and forced her to compete with him.
But actually, she was the one who spoke first.
That was the second surprise in Alvin's twenty-plus years of life.
And the first surprise was also given to him by her.
In those ten-plus minutes when William was gone.
She gave him three surprises in total.
Making him, who had no intention of signing the contract, give them their only victory in years.
And now, after years of not seeing each other, she was surprising him again and again.
"I thought you would hate him," Alvin smiled, glancing at William standing nearby. "Want to use every method to get revenge on him."
Amelia lowered her eyes slightly, avoiding the question.
"If you called me here for this contract, then I want to say," she said, "this is between you two. It has nothing to do with me. I was just a former employee of the Brown Group. Now that I've left, you should handle it yourselves and sort out the responsibilities."
Amelia paused briefly and continued: "You can stop working together for any reason, but please don't drag me into it."
"I have other things to do. Excuse me."
With that, Amelia turned to leave.
It wasn't that she didn't hate him, she just didn't want to be someone else's convenient weapon.
She came today just to see what Alvin wanted after all these years.
Now that she knew, she didn't want to stay here another second.
But the next moment, her wrist was grabbed. She turned back and saw William's dark eyes.
"That year, at Seraphim, during those ten-plus minutes when I was gone, what exactly happened?" William asked.
Before she could speak, he continued: "Amelia, the child we lost was mine too. I think I have the right to know."
Her nose tingled. Amelia forcefully shook off William's hand.
Her gaze swept over the contract.
Once, he said the Brown Group was also their child, that if they worked together, they could definitely help the Brown Group complete its transformation.
He also promised her.
He and the Brown Group would be her strongest support.
But now, he wouldn't even give her what belonged to the Martinez family.
His promises seemed to have never been kept.
So, should she tell him what happened back then?