Contract Marriage: Abusive Love with Mr.CEO-Chapter 657 - 342: Geoffrey’s Victory Process 2_2

Rebecca Quentin furrowed her brow and interjected, "Wait, you said Chester Robinson was just waiting for Howard Geoffrey to execute his plan on the wedding day... How did Chester know that Howard chose that day to marry me?" To be honest, even she didn’t know the actual wedding date was scheduled for the day before it was publicly announced.

"Turns out you’re not so dumb, thinking of such a sensitive issue right away."

"Did someone leak it?"

"Yes."

"Skyler Jones."

"Mr. Jones?"

Rebecca Quentin shook her head in disbelief. "How could that be? He was never involved in the confrontation between Howard and Chester from the start."

"Then you’re wrong. Whether it’s in Howard’s plan or Chester’s, Skyler Jones plays a very important role."

"Go on."

"I could never figure out how Chester knew Howard moved the wedding date earlier, after all, the people around Howard have been his loyal men for years, absolutely incapable of betrayal, but Chester never wanted to tell me who that person was... Until the day of the wedding, Howard indeed instructed his men to hand Chester’s criminal evidence to the police as planned, but to Howard’s surprise, on the way Roye was delivering it to the police, Skyler intercepted it."

Rebecca Quentin was astonished, "How could Mr. Jones..." He was Howard’s brother?

"Let me first explain why Skyler helped Chester!"

Rebecca Quentin nodded vigorously. 𝘧𝓇𝑒𝑒𝑤ℯ𝑏𝓃𝘰𝑣ℯ𝘭.𝘤ℴ𝘮

Alice Robinson said, "Do you remember why Skyler and Howard have never gotten along over the years?"

"Howard told me that M had something on Skyler and kept threatening him to fight Howard."

"Do you know what exactly M had over Skyler that made him obey all those years?" Alice asked.

Rebecca Quentin revealed what she knew, "When Mr. Jones was young, his parents divorced, and he was placed under his father’s custody, but Mr. Geoffrey was absorbed by his relationship with M, ignoring Mr. Jones. Coupled with Mr. Jones deep-seated resentment toward his mother for choosing his brother over him, he left the Geoffrey long before Mr. Geoffrey passed away... After leaving Geoffrey, Mr. Jones had a hard life, doing all kinds of jobs, desperate to stand out, hoping one day to make his mother regret choosing Howard over him. But the world is cruel, despite Mr. Jones’s capabilities, no company was willing to hire him after multiple interviews... Until one day, he successfully joined an industrial company. The boss seemed to see Mr. Jones’s business talent, taking care of him everywhere, and within a few months, Mr. Jones was promoted from the ground level to a supervisor. Because of his admiration for Mr. Jones’s abilities, the boss eventually adopted him as a godson. Resentful of his parents and deeply grateful, Mr. Jones changed his surname to ’Jones’ in honor of his godfather... Back then, Mr. Jones wasn’t very guarded. When Boss Jones handed the company over to him and promoted him to manager, Mr. Jones was full of ambition, and then M suddenly appeared in front of him... Skyler only discovered after M’s appearance that Boss Jones was taking orders from M and she was the one helping him behind the scenes all along."

Alice crossed her arms, "Hmm, continue."

"When M was with Mr. Geoffrey, she invested all the money obtained from him into the company under Mr. Jones’s management... Skyler’s perception of M gradually changed, helping to hide the news that M wasn’t dead, and began to trust her. Yet, he never realized M was setting a trap... Once, Mr. Jones got drunk while socializing and had sex with a minor in a haze. Afterward, the girl accused Mr. Jones of rape, a matter M resolved, but M thus gained evidence of Mr. Jones raping a minor... Mr. Jones later learned that the girl was arranged by M to control him, and M used this leverage to pit Mr. Jones against Howard... Mr. Jones was threatened by M for years until he and Howard collaborated to defeat M and retrieve and destroy that evidence."

Alice chuckled, "But Skyler didn’t know that M had a strategist behind her. When M impulsively decided to seek revenge on Howard, Chester, the strategist behind M, anticipated her failure, so he had planned a backup for M..."

Rebecca Quentin anxiously asked, "What backup?"

Alice answered, "Before M met with Howard, Chester had already arranged for M to back up that evidence of Skyler’s rape of a minor. As expected, M failed, but what Howard destroyed was the backup evidencer M had prepared."

Rebecca Quentin was shocked, "You mean the real ’evidence’ wasn’t destroyed?"

Alice nodded, "To be precise, this evidence is now in Chester’s possession."

Rebecca Quentin shook her head in incomprehension, "If Chester still has the evidence, why didn’t he save M and instead watched M go to prison?"

"Because Chester wanted to take down Howard! After defeating M, Howard couldn’t imagine that the evidence against Skyler was still with Chester, and Chester intended to use Skyler to deliver a fatal blow to Howard one day. If he saved M, without Skyler’s cooperation, Chester wouldn’t be confident in defeating Howard."

Rebecca Quentin finally understood, "So, Chester was always aware Howard was secretly gathering evidence of his connections to the drug dealers in N City, but he never stopped it. He was waiting for Howard to execute the plan and then used Skyler to block it at the last moment..."

"Yes."

Rebecca Quentin couldn’t wait to ask, "What happened then?"

Alice responded, "Howard kept watching Chester’s every move, but utterly failed to foresee that the person coming to prevent his plan was the very Skyler Jones to whom he revealed the plan time... Howard’s plan failed just like that."

Rebecca Quentin couldn’t help blurting out, "But in the end, the winner was Howard?"

"Let me finish. After Howard’s plan failed, Chester called Howard, demanding he abandon the wedding with you and divorce you. Otherwise, Chester would hand over Skyler’s criminal evidence to the police, forcing Howard to choose between his brother and his wife... But to Chester’s utter shock, just after his call with Howard, Skyler appeared before Chester, holding not the evidence of a crime committed by Chester’s company, but the ’evidence’ of years of blackmail by Chester and M on him..." Alice sighed, "At that time, I was right beside Chester and witnessed the astonishment in his eyes. To this day, I still don’t understand how Skyler obtained that evidence from Chester. Ultimately, the situation rapidly reversed, and before Chester could figure out what happened, the police arrived. They arrested Chester on charges of money laundering for the drug cartel in N City through his various companies, and because I was with Chester at the time, I was taken to the police station for questioning... But I never expected that during the transfer of Chester to the station, Keith Antony hired people to hijack the police car. As gunfire erupted between the sides, I almost got hit by a stray bullet. At that critical moment, Chester pushed me out of the way and got shot in the head..."