Madam Escaped Again, Sir (Lillian Hawkins and Eric Walker) novel Chapter 415

Sonia nodded, a little surprised by Toby’s argument. “It makes sense if you put it that way.”

“Just wait and see. Titus will agree to their terms in no time,” Toby insisted with a thin smile.

She did not say anything else and waited quietly. Sure enough, it was just like he had said—Titus conceded to Hal’s demand for a million in compensation toward the end of their heated exchange.

As things were, Titus’ hands were tied. He couldn’t very well risk Hal and Greta humiliating the Gray Family by making a scene at Triforce Enterprise and the Gray Residence.

Hal and Greta’s beady eyes were twinkling with greed. Titus bridled and shot them a baleful look, but he whipped out his checkbook and pen from his pocket nevertheless. He scribbled the one million sum on the check and tore it before he begrudgingly handed it to Hal and Greta. “Take the money and get out of my sight! I don’t ever want to see the both of you in Seafield ever again, much less bother Rina! If you so much as show your faces around these parts, I have a thousand and one ways to make you regret it. You’re more than welcome to try your luck!”

“Don’t worry about it. Consider us as good as gone!” Hal and Greta clutched the check happily as they promised this while nodding earnestly.

They were no fools, after all; they knew how hard it could be to deal with these rich folks, and to manipulate them into surrendering a small part of their fortune was no easy feat, nor was it one to be repeated. Peasants like them could never beat the blue bloods—something that Hal and Greta were more than aware of.

That being said, getting a million out of Titus this time proved easier than they had thought and they couldn’t help wishing they had asked for double the price instead.

“What are you still doing here?” Titus growled, his face stormy as he glowered at the gleeful couple.

“We’re leaving right now!” Hal and Greta kept the check and fled the testing facility, leaving a cloud of dust in their wake.

Rina saw how incensed Titus was and she reached out to tug on his sleeve. “Dad, I'm sorry that you had to pay a million because of me. It’s all my fault.”

“It’s fine. You’re worth every penny.

Anyway, we should be heading home.” He consoled her on the shoulder to ease her guilt, thereafter leading her and Julia out of the facility.

When they were waiting for the elevator, Julia glanced at Titus in askance. “Honey, are we just going to let Sonia get away with this?”

He gritted his teeth. “I don’t have a choice, do I? Toby is set on protecting her, so we can’t even lay a finger on her.”

“This isn’t fair. She had Rina thrown into jail without difficulty, but here we are struggling to do the same to her!” She seethed while she dug her nails into her palms.

Titus sighed. “We can’t do anything about it now. She certainly has some tricks up her sleeve; she has Toby wrapped around her finger, and for as long as she is under his protection, she will be untouchable. The only way we can get our revenge is if the Fullers become bankrupt overnight, but that’s never going to happen.”

The Fuller Family came from old money, with Toby’s grandfather being a prominent politician back in the day. His grandmother was a force to be reckoned with as well since her ancestors had all been landowners.

In fact, Fuller Corporation was built on the wealth of Toby’s grandmother’s inlaws. It thrived under Toby’s grandfather’s political influence and while the old man had since passed away, the Fuller Family still maintained their connections with both the army and the government. Consequently, the family had amassed a fortune so large that they could go bankrupt a hundred times over and still remain standing.

“Well, desperate times call for desperate measures,” Julia said as she narrowed her eyes.

Titus snapped out of his thoughts as he and Rina turned to look at her. “What do you have in mind?”

Julia flashed a smug look as she drawled with feminine mystique, “A woman’s strategy is something men could never come up with. Now, when a man loves a woman, it’s almost always superficial; if we can find someone prettier than Sonia to seduce Toby and make him fall in love, then Sonia would be left without her precious shield, right?”

In retrospect, she hadn’t been so infuriated when Sonia repeatedly went after Tina. Now that she wants to take Rina away from me, I simply won’t let her get away with this! I have missed out on twenty-six years with my own daughter; Rina is my baby and I will not lose her again!

When Titus heard Julia’s plan, his eyes lit up before he lowered his voice as he approved, “I must say, that sounds like a pretty good idea. We should give it a shot.”

“And so we shall, right after we go back and work on the details.”

The three of them walked into the elevator and their conversation continued behind closed doors.

Meanwhile, in the lounge, Toby gave Sonia a triumphant look after the ruckus earlier had arrived to an end. “See? I was right; Titus coughed up the money.”