CHAPTER 434 THE WILL

"No, but she emphasized that once you hear about what she has to say, you’ll take it very seriously," Joe reiterated what Jacqueline said.

Henry sneered coldly, "Why makes her think that I'll take her seriously?"

Joe shrugged his shoulders. "I don't know. I saw her expression and she seemed very confident."

"Hah!" Henry snorted disdainfully as he walked to a door and stopped. He lifted his leg and kicked the door open.

The people in the house screamed in shock when the door suddenly opened.

Jacqueline immediately went into Dominic's arms.

Dominic patted her back to comfort her. "Don't be afraid, Jackie. It's okay, it's just Henry."

"Henry?" Jacqueline lifted her head from Dominic's arms and looked towards the door. She saw two figures standing there, which were Henry and Joe standing at the back.

Jacqueline let out a sigh of relief and she slowly calmed down.

It was not because she was timid, but she had been tortured since she was taken away by Shaw.

Moreover, after everything that happened yesterday, she was constantly on the edge and felt afraid over every little thing.

"Henry, you're here." Jacqueline's face was still pale, but she forced a smile at Henry.

Henry didn’t bother to greet her. He glanced around the room, and after seeing the two documents on the coffee table, he walked towards it.

He stopped in front of the coffee table and bent over slightly to pick up the two documents. "Why didn't you sign these?"

The father and daughter had always broken their promises, so his eyes were full of coldness.

Dominic was a little scared and he started breaking out in a sweat on his forehead. He stubbornly said, "I...

I signed it..."

"What?" Jacqueline was stunned and she shouted at him in disbelief, "You signed it? When did you sign it?"

A dim light flashed in Henry's deep pupils. He wanted to know the answer to that question too.

Before he got there, Sue also told him that Dominic refused to sign the documents, so why did he sign them now?

Henry was very interested in the reason for his sudden change. His sharp gaze fell on Dominic, and h e kept staring at him.

Dominic's shoulders shrank even more, and he even lowered his head as he didn't dare to look at Henry and his own daughter.

"I... I signed it when you were in the bathroom," he replied ashamedly.

Jacqueline was so angry that she almost tripped." Father!"

What was the problem?

Why did he suddenly become so timid?

He was not like this before.

Jacqueline could not help but feel resentful towards Dominic. She resented the fact that her father had become so cowardly and useless.

Henry and Dominic both noticed how disgusted and repelled Jacqueline felt about her father.

Dominic was shocked and angry in his heart. He couldn’t believe that the daughter he had rescued by giving up on his own dignity and pride would actually dislike him.

He had become cowardly and that was why he gave i n. But he didn't want to do that either, he only did it because he had been tortured so terribly-he was going to have a mental breakdown. holds this content.

These days, he had been locked in the room where he could not even get out. All the windows in the room had been sealed with wooden boards by Joe to prevent him from having any chance to escape.

Because the doors and windows were all sealed, he

couldn't see the outside world either, and the sun couldn’t get in. The room was humid and gloomy, and when the lights were not turned on, it would be as dark as the night, where nothing could be seen.

He had been through many days like that. No one paid attention to him, and no one came to save him. It was dead quiet as if he was the only one left in the world, and he was kept in the dark. He was swallowed by the darkness, and that was why he had become so shriveled and pathetic.

"This is interesting!" Henry suddenly said, breaking the strange silence in the room.

He really didn't expect that what he said could cause a conflict between the father and daughter. It seemed to show some signs of their relationship falling apart.

He thought that the father and daughter's relationship was close, but it turned out to be different.

"Dominic, since you’ve signed it, all the properties under your name will no longer belong to you now. I'll arrange a financial advisor to confirm all the assets. If you leave anything out, I'll make you pay me double." Henry patted Dominic's face with the signed documents.

This move was obviously utter humiliation to Dominic. His pride and dignity were crushed once again.

Dominic's heart was full of humiliation and hatred, but he didn't dare to show it. He could only stay low without saying a word.

Henry thought that was boring. He handed the document to Joe behind him and picked up Jacqueline's unsigned document before approaching her.

"Why didn't you sign this? Tell me a valid reason. If you can't, I'm going to make you sign it," Henry said loudly as he pinched Jacqueline's chin and got closer t o her.

Jacqueline shuddered. Her heart froze but she forced herself to keep a straight face. "Henry, it's not that I don't want to sign it. I made a will and it has been notarized. You know that the will supersedes everything, so with the will, even if I signed the transfer of property, it won't help."

Henry suddenly tightened his hand that was squeezing her chin as if he wanted to crush her. She was in such pain that her facial expression was distorted, and tears were flowing down her face.

When Henry saw this, his eyes were full of disgust and he didn't bother interrogating her. He quickly pushed her chin away and straightened his body as he took out a handkerchief from his pocket. He began to carefully clean his fingers one by one as if he had gotten his hand dirty with poisonous venom. When Jacqueline saw that, she was angry and annoyed.

Did he despise her so much that he had to do that?

Jacqueline wanted to cry because she realized that once a man changed his mind, he would never look back no matter what.

Even if he didn't love her anymore, they still had a relationship before. However, he didn’t care about the past at all and he was so mean to her! 1

Henry didn't know what Jacqueline was thinking, and he wasn’t interested either. He wiped his fingers and threw the handkerchief on the ground as he asked grimly, "When did you make the will?"

He never expected that this woman would make a will secretly, disrupting his plan to transfer their assets.

"I made it very early on, just after I turned eighteen." Jacqueline lied to his face.

In fact, her will was done not so long ago. It was actually after she found out that Yvonne was her half-sister, and she did it in order to prevent her property from falling into Yvonne's hands.

She knew very well that Yvonne despised her, and that she would find out about her identity someday. Therefore, once Yvonne learned that they were both Conrads, she might get revenge on her and snatch all the Conrads' assets. That was why she had a plan set i n place and made a will. So even if she really died to Yvonne's hands, Yvonne would not get her property.

Sure enough, she made the right move.

As Jacqueline thought about this, she had a crazy smile in her eyes, and all her thoughts were written on her face.

Henry licked his teeth and narrowed his eyes as he asked, "Jacqueline, where's the will?"

"I won’t tell you." Jacqueline smiled brighter, "Henry, I know that you hate me now and are disgusted by me. We are destined to never get back together, so I won’t bother pretending. Let me make this clear-I will not let Yvonne have my things." 1

Henry looked at her with cold eyes. "What the Conrad family had was never meant for you. Those things you talked about are supposed to belong to Yvonne."