CHAPTER 419 THE LOST PEARL

The crisp slap almost stunned Sophia. She nearly fell due to dizziness.

She shook her head and finally came back to her senses.

Then she asked with her face full of disbelief, "How dare you beat me?"

"Smack!"

Lennox slapped Sophia right in the face again. "Yeah, I beat you. So what? Who do you think you are

to offend Mr. Cohen and Ms. Henderson? Are you sick of living?"

Sophia covered her face and looked terrified in her eyes.

She suddenly found that Lennox wasn't the only one holding a grudge against her. Other chairmen,

including Michelle and Ronnie, also looked at her indifferently like a psycho.

She was as shocked as she was terrified.

"How dare you? Aren't you afraid that the L Group will get back at you?"

Ronnie couldn't care less. He said disdainfully, "Are you using the Lawson family to threaten us? You

got a death wish?"

"Even Kieran Lawson wouldn't dare to speak to me like that? You're merely a legal person of the

Lawson Group! What makes you think you can threaten me like that?"

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Ronnie wasn't afraid of the Lawsons at all. With Leo behind his back, Ronnie had become even more

fearless.

"Ms. Walsh, if you're here for cooperation, we'll be more than glad to welcome you, but if you're here to

make trouble, I'll have to ask you to leave."

Michelle said coldly.

She wasn't as quick-tempered as Lennox, so she chose to make an angry yet cold expulsion order.

The ten companies, led by Dottie Technology Corporation, didn't have many connections with Leo, but

they had heard plenty of his stories.

The former richest man in Emerdale, Alan, had been back to Hopkins Metropolis. Therefore, the richest

man in Emerdale now was Justin. The ten companies relied heavily on Justin. They heard that Justin

acted really humbly before Leo.

As time went by, they finally understood this young man, who they had always ignored, was actually a

formidable bigwig.

Darcey's words made Sophia tremble even more.

"Mr. Cohen, how are we dealing with this crazy woman?"

"You're crazy! This is crazy!"

Sophia yelled with dull, dead eyes. The acquisition didn't turn out to be like what she had expected.

She thought these companies would beg for a chance to develop from the Lawson Group.

It seemed the opposite now.

"Do you know who the chairperson of Lawson Group is now? It's Kate Lawson!"

"Do you know who's Ms. Lawson's most trusted person?"

"Do you know that you're offending the Lawson family and the person behind their back?"

Sophia glanced at everyone and questioned loudly.

Leo narrowed his eyes. There was a hint of cold lights in it.

He had suspected before that Kate was relying on external forces. Now his guess turned out to be true.

He motioned other chairmen to step backward for a few steps.

That scene made Sophia even more stunned.

These people seem to be so obedient to Leo.

"Tell me who's supporting Kate, and I'll let you go intact."

Leo looked at Sophia coldly, and his tone still sounded indifferent.

Sophia shivered and subconsciously covered her own mouth. Those words just slipped out of her

mouth. She knew she had made huge trouble for Kate."

Sophia was no longer as arrogant as before. She forced a guilty smile and wanted to sneak out of the L

Group under so many people's watch.

Before she could step out of the gate, Irene stopped her and asked, "Where do you think you're

going?"

They didn't mind that Sophia had joined the enemy, but they were boiling with anger to see that she

was helping the enemy bring down the L Group. Their irritation cracked.

Sophia gritted his teeth hard and replied, "I don't know anything."

Leo scoffed upon hearing the answer, "In that case, I'll leave her to you."

"No problem, Mr. Cohen!"

Lennox put on a grim face and said to Ronnie, "Mr. Ronnie Stewart, you shouldn't be bothered by this

trivial matter. How about letting me deal with her for you?"

Ronnie's face changed, and he said sternly, "She offended Mr. Cohen and Ms. Henderson. She needs

severe punishment, which my family happens to be good at."

"There's no need to fight over it. Why don't you leave it to us?"

The Chairman of the Dottie Technology Corporation waved his hand and walked to take charge of it.

"No! You should leave her to us!"

The chairmen of other groups also argued in dissatisfaction.

These people suddenly got into a dispute.

Sophia was already dumbfounded. She couldn't believe those people were actually fighting over the

right to punish her.

Thud!

She was so frightened that her legs softened and fell to the ground.

"Please let go of me. I'm just a messenger."

Lennox scoffed, "You said you were the legal representative of the Lawson Group. How come that

you're just a messenger now?"

"Take her and come with me!"

A group of a sturdy men stepped forward immediately and tried to take Sophia away.

Lydia had decided not to have any mercy on Sophia this time. She knew that would only make Sophia

keep haunting her.

"Stop!"

Suddenly, someone yelled calmly but loudly.

That voice made many people change their color.

They knew whose voice that was, but none of them dared to say her name because they were under

lots of stress.

At the end of the stairs, a man and a woman were approaching slowly.

The woman was in modern suits, but her elegant and classical temperament was hard to hide.

The man was taller, and his shoulders were thick and chunky. The suit on him failed to hide the sharp

light given out from his interior.

The two standing together felt like some scene from Beauty and the Beast.

"Ms. Lawson, please help me!"

Seeing the man and the woman coming by, Sophia immediately screamed out as if she had seen her

lifesaver.

"Kate!"

Leo and Lydia both looked serious in their eyes.

The arrival of Kate and the young man made the situation weird again.

Leo narrowed his eyes and looked at Kate in her professional attire. Then he asked, "You're here,

finally."

Kate replied with a cold expression, "You could've just let go when the negotiation failed. Why did you

get your hands on her?"

Sophia got all snotty. She almost wetted herself out of scare just now.

"Ms. Lawson, you have to stand up for me! They were way over the line!"

"Shut up!"

Before Sophia could finish speaking, Kate suddenly growled.

Her voice was cold as ice. A chill crawled along Sophia's body after that, and she immediately shut up.

"You're just a loser that can never do anything right. You don't deserve the chance to be forgiven!"

"A huge trouble just slipped out of your mouth. Do you know that? I wonder what you need your tongue

for."

She glanced at Sophia coldly, and ordered loudly, "Take out and slap the hell out of her for me!"

Thud!

Sophia trembled in desperation as if she had fallen into an ice cave. She knelt down in front of Kate.

"Ms. Lawson, I know I said Something wrong. Please don't kill me."

However, Kate was hard-hearted and expressionless.

"Ms. Lawson..."

"Ms. Lawson!"

"Kate!"

Soon, Sophia was dragged away by Kate's people, and the screams became sharper and more

mournful.

Smack, smack...

Soon, a loud and dense slapping sound came from outside.

It lasted for five minutes. Leo and Lydia widened their eyes and couldn't believe what had just

happened.

Lennox and Ronnie felt a chill, too. They subconsciously took a step back.

Their original intention was just to teach Sophia a lesson. They weren't going to do anything cruel to

her, and thus they were shocked to see Kate just show up and have Sophia slapped over 100 times.

That was very cruel, given how many scars it would leave on Sophia's face.

Kate was getting more and more Venomous over the years.

Lydia couldn't stand it any longer. She said with a gloomy face, "Kate, that's your way to treat your

people?"

Kate said calmly, as if she didn't care at all, "That's odd. She's the traitor of this company, and she has

said things that she wasn't allowed to say. I'm punishing her for you. You should thank me for it."

"But you shouldn't let them beat her so hard!"

Lydia asked angrily, "Who gives you the right to hurt other people like that?"

"The right?"

"I can do that because their lives are at my mercy!"

Smack!

Another sound of slapping came behind her.

The man grinned a grim smile, "Maybe that was why I take you as my fiancée. You're as extraordinary

as every other woman my family picked."

Leo and Lydia's expressions changed drastically as soon as they heard that.

It seemed that the man was from the royal families in Valenham.

And Kate had been picked by one of the families, too.

Other people didn't even have the time to feel surprised. The man's eyes paused when he saw

Michelle.

Then his eyes lit up.

He walked quickly to Michelle, put his hands on her shoulders, and said excitedly, "Finally, I found you,

the Lost Pearl!"

Michelle broke away from his hands and looked at the man as if he were a delusional psycho. "The

Lost Pearl? You must have watched too many fantasy fictions."