Will You Marry Me, My Ex-Wife? novel Chapter 2815

Tina's entire body stiffened, and she frowned at him. "What…kind of relationship do you have with him?"

She could tell from Thomas' attitude that he and Joshua were not just ordinary business associates.

"He and I go way back." Thomas curled his lips into a smirk as though he could sense what Tina was thinking and disdainfully added, "Aunt Tina, you're far more naive than I thought. If you had spent the time to actually get to know Joshua, you would've discovered just how smart he is.

"Not only does he dominate Banyan City, but he even turned Merchant City into his business empire within a year of arriving there. You and I can barely even begin to imagine the true extent of his wealth and power.

"The Howard family's fortune is of no attraction to him at all. If he wanted to, he could've established a new business and dominated the entire Saigen City within months, so how could I have bought him out with money?"

Despair crept across Tina's face.

She always thought that Joshua had begun working for Thomas because of the attractive reward he promised her. Even though she knew that Joshua was an exceptionally wealthy man and probably did not even care for Howard Group, she figured, who would say no to more money?

If Thomas offered something attractive enough, she was sure that Joshua would agree to help him.

Therefore, as soon as she was arrested, she began thinking of ways to utilize all her money, including the savings she had stashed overseas in preparation for Dan's future, in order to bribe Joshua into dropping charges.

This was why she wanted to know what relationship Thomas and Joshua had.

She was hopeful that she would receive the answer she wanted—that Joshua was simply bribed into helping Thomas, but it was clear from Thomas' response that this was not the case.

Joshua had not been helping him for the money at all, but if not…

She bit her lip, staring at Thomas, and finally asked, "If he didn't do this for the money…what for?"