Chapter 703 - 700: She Is the Real Mastermind

Chapter 703: Chapter 700: She Is the Real Mastermind

The thought of the immense humiliation her mother had endured, and the terrible pain that followed, made her truly want to kill him right now!

Seth Quinn glanced at Adam Warren, then looked at Clara. A cold, disdainful sneer touched his lips. "Killing a piece of scum like him? Why would you need to get your own hands dirty? With just one word from me, I can make him vanish from this world forever!"

Their exchange nearly made Adam Warren piss his pants.

"No, no, please listen to me! Everything I just said is true. I was framed! I really didn’t do anything to your mother back then."

Desperate to be let off the hook, Adam Warren didn’t hesitate to spill everything about what had happened. "Actually, kidnapping your mom back then... it wasn’t my idea. It was... it was Jean Jarvis who told me to do it. So, she’s the real instigator, the mastermind..."

Jean Jarvis’s hands, which were braced on the table, suddenly went weak, and she nearly collapsed to the floor. She gritted her teeth, filled with regret and hatred. ’I should have personally watched him leave Novaria back then. I can’t believe one momentary lapse in judgment led to this!’

’But Adam Warren... Is he even a man? To sell me out so easily!’

The moment Adam Warren spoke, all eyes, filled with astonishment, landed on Jean Jarvis.

Marcus Jarvis had only intended for Adam Warren to come and clarify what had happened all those years ago. He never imagined his own cousin, Jean Jarvis, was also mixed up in it.

’He found it hard to believe. Jean had been a bit selfish and bossy as a child, but she was fundamentally kind-hearted. How could she have become like this?’

Skylar Hayes stopped crying and looked at Adam Warren in disbelief. "You... what did you just say?"

"Jean Jarvis?" Clara also looked incredulous as she asked, "You’re saying Jean Jarvis was the one who told you to kidnap my mom?"

"Yes, Jean Jarvis! It was her! The same Jean Jarvis who was your mother’s best friend! The one who’s now Mrs. Grant! I swear, I’m not lying." Fearing she wouldn’t believe him, Adam Warren even raised his hand in an oath. "If I’m lying, I hope I get hit by a car the moment I step outside! May I... may I be struck by lightning..."

"Adam Warren! You’re spouting malicious lies!"

Before he could finish, a piercing shriek echoed throughout the entire hall.

Jean Jarvis was like a drowning woman, on the verge of death yet struggling with all her might.

Only then did Adam Warren finally see her, and he froze. "Jean Jarvis? What are you doing here?"

"What? Are you disappointed? If I weren’t here, you could have just pinned everything on me like you wanted, couldn’t you?"

Jean Jarvis forced herself to calm down and continued aggressively, "Every criminal, when cornered, instinctively tries to make excuses for themselves and pin the blame on someone else.

I’m only just realizing now that you were the one who kidnapped Skylar and violated her! You committed all those crimes yourself. You can’t hold a grudge just because I refused to lend you money back then and now try to make me your scapegoat! In your dreams!"

Cedric Grant turned to Jean Jarvis, his brow deeply furrowed. "Didn’t you say you didn’t know him?"

Jean looked at him and stammered, "I... I was just afraid you’d get the wrong idea, so I..."

But seeing Jean Jarvis shift all the responsibility onto him, Adam Warren shot to his feet and said indignantly, "Jean Jarvis, you sure can spin a web of lies! When did I ever borrow money from you? Me, borrow from you? Hah! When you were with me back then, I knew full well you were dirt poor. As if I’d borrow money from you!

Oh, so just because you’re scared to death, you try to pin it all on me? Well, I’m scared to death too! Since you’re here today, let’s settle this and get everything out in the open, face-to-face."