CHAPTER 587 JACQUELINE’S RECORDING

"Do you like it?" Henry asked instead of answering.

Yvonne fiddled with the rose petals. "I like it."

"I'm glad you do."

Henry’s mouth curled upwards.

Before he came here, he actually thought about getting her a gift.

However, he didn't know what to get, so he asked Sue. Sue suggested that he get a bouquet of flowers, preferably roses. So, he went and bought a bouquet of roses personally.

Yvonne put the flowers aside. Her drooping eyelids made it difficult to see the emotions in her eyes.

She didn't expect Henry to get her roses. She was surprised, but at the same time, she also felt very conflicted.

When they were still married, he had never given her roses, but now that she was living under the identity o f Shannon Smith, he got her roses.

Even though it was all her, she still felt a little conflicted.

"Well, let's order our food, Henry." Yvonne gathered her thoughts and handed the menu to the man who was sitting opposite her. "Thank you for sending me

back last night. Order whatever you like. Don’t be shy.”

Henry chuckled lightly, "Okay."

He took the menu and opened it. After a casual glance, he ordered a steak.

After ordering the dishes, Yvonne handed the menu to the waiter.

As soon as the waiter left, she thought of something. She got up and pushed a suitcase beside Henry, "This i s for you."

"What's this?" Henry looked at the suitcase in confusion.

Yvonne took a sip of coffee and explained, "It has Theo's clothes and toys. I heard from Shane that Theo i s with you. When he heard that we were going to have dinner together tonight, he gave me this so I could bring it here for you to take home."

"I see." Henry nodded and put the suitcase aside. "Got i t. I'll bring it to Theo."

"Well, I'll tell Shane that I’ve completed my mission then." Yvonne picked up her phone and started typing in front of him. She finally turned it off and put it back in her bag.

At this moment, their dishes came.

They stopped talking and began to eat.

After the meal, Henry received a call and had to leave first.

Yvonne didn’t leave. She sat in the car to have a video call with Sam.

In the video, Sam was in pajamas and he seemed tired in front of the camera. He looked at her begrudgingly," Shan, it's literally dawn here.”

Yvonne stuck out her tongue. "Sorry brother, I forgot about the time difference."

"It's alright. Why did you call?" Sam cut her off by waving his hand.

"I want to ask if you managed to find any information about Liam Lodge. Why did Jacqueline transfer such a large sum of money to him?" Yvonne immediately became serious when it came down to business.

Sam yawned, "I was going to tell you after I woke up, but you called first."

"So, you actually got the information?"

"Well, it's actually not that difficult. Just beat him up and he confessed everything himself," Sam replied lightly.

The corner of Yvonne's mouth twitched. "Is it really that simple?"

"It's that simple!"

"I can’t believe it." Yvonne covered her face. "All the people I encountered here were so stubborn. They refused to admit anything even after they were beaten up. I was forced to use mental torture on them instead, only then they would tell me the truth. Tell me, why did it become so simple when you were handling it?" copyrighted © content.

"Well, all I can say is that you're unlucky." Sam smiled sympathetically at her. "Not everyone is that difficult t o deal with. Since there are people who are stubborn, there will also be cowards. Liam is one of them. He’s a typical coward who would bully the weak and fear the strong. Just teach him a lesson and he'll easily admit defeat."

"I see. So why did he get so much money from Jacqueline?" Yvonne asked.

"Well, I guess you can say it’s a threat."

Sam poured himself a glass of water, and then continued, "When Jacqueline gave birth to a child five years ago, she went abroad to meet Liam once. At the time, they had a couple of drinks and

Jacqueline got drunk. She opened up to Liam and shared some of her concerns. She talked about her two attempts to kill you. Liam is a very smart person, so he knew what Jacqueline said would be useful to him, so he recorded it."

"And he threatened Jacqueline with the recording and asked her to pay him hush money monthly?" Yvonne took a guess.

Sam nodded. "More or less."

"What about the recording?" Yvonne was most concerned about this.

Jacqueline's confession would be key evidence, she must get it.

"The recording is here. I'll get someone to send it to you in a while." Sam had a sip of water.

Yvonne nodded repeatedly. "Thank you, brother. How’s Liam now?"

"He's not a saint either. He has committed a lot of crimes over the years. Not only did he keep some of the customer’s jewelry to himself, but he also exchanged some of their jewelry for something else. This is a huge crime of theft. I'm going to detain him first. After we find out where the jewels are, we'll send him to the police station," Sam replied.

Yvonne said, "Okay, brother. It's all up to you. Goodbye. " i

"Bye," Sam responded.

After Yvonne hung up, she stretched her waist and threw her phone on the passenger seat before leaving the restaurant.

The next morning, when Yvonne was working at the office, Lisa knocked on her door and came in with a courier box in her hand. "Director, Mr. Smith sent this t o you."

As soon as she heard it was from Sam, Yvonne immediately knew it was the recording.

She quickly put down the pen in her hand and stood u p. "Quick, give it to me." "Here." Lisa handed the box over.

Yvonne took out a small penknife from the pen holder and opened the box effortlessly. She then reached into the box and took out a recording pen that had some paint peeling off of it.

The recorder still had some battery left, so Yvonne immediately started playing the recording.

Sure enough, as Sam said, Jacqueline's voice could be heard in the recording. It was soft and hoarse, she was obviously drunk.

In the recording, Jacqueline confessed to all the bad things she had done and said that she did it for Liam.

Yvonne thought it was extremely ridiculous for her to say that.

For Liam?

Jacqueline clearly did it for herself!

Though she did love Liam, her love for him was far less than her love for the title "Mrs. Lancaster." The glory, power, and money that it brought were far more important. 1

So, that was why even though Jacqueline loved Liam, she chose not to be with him but with Henry instead.

After listening to the recording, Yvonne connected the recorder to the computer.

She was worried that if the recording device broke or disappeared by accident, the recording inside would b e gone. So, it would be better to keep a copy as a

backup.

After she transferred the file, Yvonne put the recorder i n her drawer and went to see Lisa. "Anything else?"

"There's actually big news." Lisa nodded.

"What's the big news?" Yvonne sat back and picked up her pen again as she was preparing to go through the remaining documents.

Lisa gulped, "Director, haven't you watched the news?"

"No. I left the company very early yesterday, and my work was already all piled up. I've been busy the moment I came in today so I didn’t have time to catch the news at all. What's the big news?" Yvonne asked casually while she continued to go through her documents.

Obviously, she didn't pay much attention to all the major events on the news and she was not very interested either.

"Well, it's shocking news. The whole city of Vancouver is in shock."

"Then tell me, what's the matter?" Yvonne was dumbfounded as Lisa had not told her anything about the big news yet.

Lisa coughed slightly and cleared her throat. "Okay, I’ll tell you then. Director, I hope you won’t be too surprised. Mr. Lancaster is divorced!"