The Pampering CEO: Don't Mess With My Secretly-Married Sweet Wife

Chapter 221 Key Witness

"Mandy? Mandy?” Madam Ainsley shouted when she did not hear any response from Mandy.

Mandy snapped herself out of her trance and replied sternly, "Mom, send some more people to look for her. She is very important to me. We must find her!"

Madam Ainsley did not dare to take it lightly after hearing how serious Mandy sounded. She dispatched more of her men and continued the search.

"Mr. Jenkins, when we got there, the apartment was already empty. According to the neighbor, she had already been taken by another group of people. I suppose the group of people is not from the Ainsleys since they were slower than us.”

Tapping his finger on the table, Luke replied," Understood. Thank you for your hard work."

"Do we need to continue the search?"

"That is not necessary." Luke narrowed his eyes. "I’ve told you to try and get a photo of the woman. How's it going?"

He had secretly deactivated the monitoring software o n Mandy's phone a few hours ago. However, it was after the conversation between Mandy and Madam Ainsley, so Julian must have gotten his hands on the address as well. He was certain that it must be Julian's men that had taken the woman away. As such, instead of her whereabouts, he was more curious in knowing the woman's identity who Mandy was so hellbent on looking for.

"Yes. We got a picture of her and her neighbor from one of her neighbors."

Luke took over the photo and his expression changed.

He knew the person in the photo. She was one of the maids that used to serve his family. The maid was different from any other maid. The mother of the maid was Madam Jenkins's nanny. After the nanny passed away, she continued to stay with the Jenkins since she was the nanny's daughter.

Due to the special connection, she was Madam Jenkins's trusted confidant.

However, he had never seen the maid anymore after the death of his father at Bali. He had asked his mother about the maid before, but Madam Jenkins said she could not bear to let her stay as a maid anymore since both she and her mother had taken care of them for such a long time. As such, she gave her a sum of money and asked her to stay somewhere else.

Luke felt it was reasonable so he did not press the matter on anymore. Therefore, he could not understand why Mandy suddenly would want to find the maid at this moment.

His brows were knitted tightly in the center of his forehead. No matter what she was going to do, it was all for naught since Julian had already taken the maid away.

"Mr. Shaw, the woman is inside," a bodyguard in black whispered. "After some investigation, we found out that she is Madam Jenkins’s personal maid and also her trusted confidant. After Luke and Mandy’s marriage in Bali, this woman left for America. Since then, nobody has heard any news about her anymore.”

"She went off the grid after the wedding?" Julian asked as his eyes shone bright with excitement," Bring me to her. I want to see her in person."

He had a hunch that this maid would be the key to the Jenkin's Pandora's box.

The bodyguard had locked the maid in a dark room. Once the door was opened, the maid’s frightened voice rang out.

"Who are you? Why do you want me?"

'Snap.'

The light was switched on.

When the maid saw Julian, she grew even more terrified. All colors were washed from her face as she inched backward. Her body began to shake uncontrollably due to her fear as she stammered, "Mr... Mr. Shaw?! I-I’ve never offended you before, so why are you doing this to me?"

"If you have never offended me before like you said, then why are you so afraid of me?" Julian asked,

lifting one of his brows.

"I—I—" The maid wanted to say something, but she was so overwhelmed by her fear that she could not articulate her mind into words.

The woman was afraid of him. This meant that she had done something bad behind him before.

Nevertheless, Julian had no recollection of meeting her anywhere, so where or how on earth could she offend him?

'She disappeared right after Bali. Luke and Mandy's marriage... Death of Richard Jenkins...' Suddenly, after he connected all the dots, something clicked in his mind.

'So that's how it is..." A grim smile crept onto his lips. He looked straight at the maid and said, "Has it ever crossed your mind that you would fall into my hands one day when you framed Susie at that time? Since you're here in my hands right now, I'll not talk nonsense with you anymore.” Then, he turned to one o f the bodyguards and instructed, "You, go and break both her legs."

'Break both her legs...'

The maid’s face turned ashen pale when she heard what Julian said. She never expected that he would go straight to the matter and want to break both of her legs right away.

"Mr-Mr. Shaw, y-you can't lynch me. This is illegal!" the maid shouted when she saw the fierce- looking

bodyguard walking up to her.

As if he heard some kind of joke, Julian chuckled," Illegal? As long as nobody knows about it, then it is not illegal.”

As he was talking, a dark glint flitted across the depth of his eyes, "Don't worry. After you die, I'll get a few wild dogs and have them consume your whole body. I'll make sure that not even a single remnant of you will be left behind in this world. You will disappear into the thin air as if you never existed before. Nobody will suspect me.”

Julian's voice was flat and calm. He sounded as if he was crushing an ant even though he was talking about killing a person.

"You... Stop scaring me. I won't be scared by you," the maid said, though her voice was shaking and her eyes were filled with fear. Nôvel(D)rama.Org's content.

She had anticipated that Julian might torture her to extract a confession. However, she was Madam Jenkins's trusted confidant. She had made up her mind that she would not betray Madam Jenkins even i f it cost her life.

That being said, her resolution was slowly crumbling little by little, and now it was on the edge of collapsing after she experienced how ruthless Julian was. He did not ask anything, and he said with conviction that she was the one who framed Susan. What’s more, he even wanted to feed her body to the dogs after killing her.

"Do it," Julian ordered after giving the maid a sidelong glance.

Hearing the instruction, all of the bodyguards picked u p a stick from the ground. They resumed striding towards her and then swung the sticks onto her legs without any hesitation.

The maid's lips turned pale.

She stared in horror as the barrage of sticks moved through the air, heading straight for her legs. Just when the sticks were about to land on her legs, she shouted, "Wait!"

"Stop," Julian waved his hand. Then, he looked at her expressionlessly and said, "Do you have any last words?"

"Last words...?” The maid was so scared that she wet her pants. Her voice was trembling as she began to wring words out of her lips, "Mr. Shaw, I-you can’t blame me for whatever happened there. I... I was just following orders."

"Orders? On whose orders? Was it Madam Jenkins or Charlotte Jenkins?" Julian pressed on.

The maid did not reply instantly. Seeing her hesitation, Julian ordered, "Do it.”

The bodyguards raised their sticks once more.

Terrified, the maid gave in at last and shouted, "Wait! I'll speak!"

"Very well," Julian said, a triumphant grin tugging at the corner of his lips. "I've done a background check o n you. You have a boyfriend in the States, and I heard you're pregnant? If you listen to me, I'll not only let you go, but I will also give you a sum of money enough for you to spend the rest of your life with your family.

However, if you so much as hide a word from me..."

Julian snorted.

"I won't. I swear," the maid hastily said.

Julian was able to find out about her boyfriend and her pregnancy in such a short amount of time.

'Please forgive me, Madam Jenkins. It’s not that I don’t want to help you keep your secret, it's just that this man is too scary..."

The maid swallowed a gulp of saliva and began to spill everything out.