Love Is a Sweet Addiction

Gill continued, “Esther, everything has been clear. The wedding dress was indeed destroyed by someone. Don’t try to defend yourself anymore.”

“But I never did it.” Esther raised three fingers and said, “I swear I really didn’t.”

“But we can see the truth here.” Anne pointed angrily at the broken wedding dress in front of her.

“Even if the dress was deliberately destroyed, you can’t say it was me.” Esther rebutted. “It looked complete when I gave it to you. And you had tried it on, right?”

“You mean that I destroyed the wedding dress and made a fool of myself?”

“I…” Esther failed to fight back.

Anne continued, “Besides, it was destroyed in an almost invisible part. So even if I tried it on, I can’t find what was wrong with it.”

Esther was speechless by Anne’s aggressive words. She was anxious and angry for a while, but Esther sneered, “What? You can’t find an excuse? Then just admit it.”

“I will never admit something I have never done,” Esther said angrily.

“We can’t let this matter go just because you refuse to admit it,” Gill said.

“That’s right.” Clark also echoed, “If we let you go this time, you will be encouraged and do something else.”

Since the two elders had said that, Esther naturally found it difficult to argue. She looked around but found none of them believed in her. Even Terence did not say a word for her.

She took a deep breath and said, “Well, since you’ve said that, I won’t say more. But you can’t judge me based on the results of your investigation. You should give me a chance to prove my innocence. This is fair, right?”

“You want to prove your innocence? How?” Gill raised her eyebrows.

“I will try my best.”

“You’re trying to stall for time so that we will forget this matter.” After Amanda finished speaking, she turned to Clark and said, “Dad, you can’t be fooled by her. She has always been scheming and has bad intentions. Otherwise, she wouldn’t have opposed me being with James so much.”

“It makes sense. She has the right to do it.” Clark glanced at Amanda and then turned to Esther. “You have two days. If you fail, then…”

“Terence, what do you think we should do?” Clark turned his gaze to Terence.

Terence glanced at Esther and said, “Just do whatever you want. I have no objections.”

“Esther is your wife. The reason why she would do such a wicked thing is that you have not taught her well. You have to be punished with her.”

“Okay.”

But Gill hurriedly said, “Master Gibson, didn’t we say yesterday that only Esther would be punished? This matter has nothing to do with Terence. How do you want to punish him?”

“How do you know it has nothing to do with him? As for how to punish him, I haven’t thought about it yet.” Gill was overwhelmed by his question.

“It’s easy. A project in Proley happens to require a persuasive manager.” Kilborn, who had been silent all this time, suddenly said.

As soon as he said this, Gill’s expression immediately changed.

Proley? Not to mention that such a small place didn’t need people like Terence, the project had many problems which had challenged their company the most. Terence wouldn’t do the job well if he went there.

Kilborn’s proposal obviously carried ill intentions. He wanted to use this project to dampen Terence’s spirit. Then the higher-ups of the company would think lowly of Terence that pushed him out of the headquarters.

Kilborn smiled and continued, “Proley is a good place. It has beautiful mountains and clean water, the best for Terence. Grandpa, what do you think?”

Clark thought for a moment and nodded. “Kilborn is right. The project indeed needs a powerful manager from our family.”

Esther knew little about the Gibson Group and the project. But she knew that Proley was a small place, and from everyone’s reaction, she could tell that this project was difficult to deal with.

She also wanted to shoulder the responsibility alone. Even if she did something to the wedding dress, she did not need Terence to take the blame for her.

But it didn’t matter. She believed that she would find evidence to prove her innocence within two days. Then neither of them would be punished.

When hearing that Terence would work in a small place like Proley, Amanda was very happy in her heart. This way, her precious son would have fewer rivals.

After all, that project was really troublesome. She believed that Terence couldn’t solve it.

She glanced at her eldest son with a look of appreciation. She did not expect that he would actually help her at such a critical moment. After all, she didn’t think highly of him in the past. It seemed that it was time to bring him back to City R so that he could help her with the inheritance.

“Terence, what do you think of Kilborn’s suggestion?” Clark looked at Terence and asked.

Terence glanced at Kilborn and nodded. “It’s okay with me.”

“Alright, then it’s settled.” Clark stood up from the chair and said, “Come back after you finish thins about that project.”

“Okay.” Terence nodded.

After the meeting, Esther asked Terence in confusion when they went upstairs together, “In there any conflict between Kilborn and you?”

Terence glanced at her and said in a cold tone, “Later you will find that everyone in the family has a conflict with me, so…” He paused, turned around, grabbed her arm, and pushed her against the wall. He looked down at her and mocked, “If you want to think of me as your backing in the family, I’m afraid you will be disappointed.”

“What do you mean? Is Proley that scary?” Esther swallowed her saliva and carefully pushed his large palm away from her arm.

She did not like being pressed against the wall or the door, because she would be overwhelmed so much that she almost couldn’t breathe.Content is property of NôvelDrama.Org.

Terence did not answer her question, nor did he want to answer it.

As for that place, he did not feel that there was anything terrible about it. But he knew that it was just the beginning of Amanda’s scheme against him. Amanda was not someone easy to deal with. Besides, Esther was such a disappointing wife.