False Accusation
Phillips's expression was as sinister as a dark asura who had just emerged from the abyss of hell. He glared at the guards on duty with piercing eyes. "Are you all trash? Not a single one of you noticed that a living person had left the Elder Council? Or are you all her accomplices? Hmm? "
The guards all trembled in fear at Phillips's glare. They didn't even dare to breathe loudly as they lowered their heads in silence.
Phillips narrowed his eyes as he stared at the guards. He walked up to one of them, pulled out his gun, and shot him in the shoulder. The powerful recoil caused the guard to stagger back a few steps before he fell to his knees. His forehead was drenched in cold sweat. "Please spare my life, sir!"
"If you can't find Eve's whereabouts, none of you on duty today will be able to escape!" Phillips's voice was so cold that it was devoid of all warmth. It was as if the person in front of him wasn't a living thing.
Shirley saw this scene when she walked in, and all the blood drained from her face in an instant. She calmed herself down and walked up to Phillips after a long while. She squeezed out an ugly smile and asked, "What happened here? Please calm down, sir. "
Phillips's expression didn't improve at all when he saw Shirley. He suddenly grabbed her wrist and tightened his grip bit by bit.
"Ouch, ouch! Sir, you're hurting me! What are you doing, sir?" Shirley's delicate face was contorted in pain, but Phillips didn't have any protective feelings for the fairer sex. His voice was bone-chillingly cold. "Were you the one who let Eve go?"
Eve's heart skipped a beat. Her eyes were filled with clear fear as she shook her head. "No, no, I didn't let her go. She ran away on her own …"
Halfway through her sentence, Shirley suddenly realized something and hurriedly shut her mouth. However, it was clearly too late. Phillips grabbed her hand and pulled her closer to him. He narrowed his eyes and a sinister smile appeared on his handsome face. "Shirley, do you know something, hmm?"
The tip of Shirley's tongue was trembling. This man was clearly smiling, but her legs were so weak that she didn't even have the courage to look him in the eye.
"Speak!"
Phillips sneered, and Shirley trembled even more violently.
She made up her mind. That woman had already been killed by her subordinates anyway, so there was nothing she could do about it. Shirley quickly calmed herself down before continuing, "Actually, I went to look for that woman because I was too angry, and I just so happened to stumble upon her packing something. She told me that she didn't want to stay by your side at all, and that she hated being around you. She hoped that I wouldn't disturb her … Gasp …"
Shirley sucked in a breath of cold air as Phillips increased the strength in his grip. Tears welled up in his eyes, and he was on the verge of tears.
However, Phillips ordered in a cold voice, "Continue!"
"I know you told her not to run around on her own, and that she couldn't take a single step out of the elder house, so I warned her not to do anything inappropriate. However, she warned me not to meddle in other people's business, or else I'd have to face the consequences. She was simply too scary, and I knew that you had special feelings for her, so I didn't dare to do anything to her. I also thought that the elder house was heavily guarded, so there was no way that she would be able to leave, so I didn't pay her any heed. Who would've thought that she really did escape …"
Shirley was afraid that Phillips wouldn't believe her, so she showed him the marks left behind by Eve's grip on her hand. She put on a pitiful expression as she said, "Your Excellency, I'm really not lying to you. Look at these marks; they were left behind by that woman. I didn't dare to cause her any trouble, so please punish me if I've done something wrong!"
Shirley's words were only half true and half false. She knew that she couldn't reveal the slightest bit of fear at a time like this.
Phillips recalled Eve's rejection, as well as her feelings for Adam, and the flames of fury in his heart burned fiercely. No matter what he did, that woman would definitely return to that man's side? Even if she didn't exist in that man's heart at all?
Dammit, Eve, do you really want to die that badly? In this special period, anyone who has anything to do with Adam will be wiped out by the J Organisation!
He slowly let go of Shirley's hand and said in an indifferent voice, "What else did she say to you?"
Shirley heaved a sigh of relief. She knew that she was safe now, and she began to sob pitifully. "Your Excellency, I really feel sorry for you. You've treated Miss Eve so well, but she doesn't know how to be grateful at all. She even …"
Shirley wanted to say something, but she hesitated.
Phillips glared at her coldly. "Don't make me say it again."
"She also said that being by your side is very disgusting, and that she never wanted to stay by your side. She told me to keep an eye on you and stop bothering her. Also, also! There seems to be someone else in her heart, and she said that she would go find him. She also told me not to tell anyone about this, or else she would kill me. Waah, I'm sorry, Your Excellency. I should've risked my life to tell you about this … "
Phillips's expression turned even colder.
A smug look flashed through Shirley's eyes again. She carefully grabbed onto Phillips' arm and said, "Your Excellency, why don't we send people to search for her right now? Perhaps Miss Eve is still in the capital …"
"There's no need for that. I'm already back."
A cold female voice sounded. Everyone turned around to find a lithe female figure making her way into the room.
Who else could it be but Eve?
Shirley's eyes widened even wider than copper bells. She stared at the supposedly dead Eve with incredulity. "You, you …"
"Eve?" Phillips was also very surprised to see Eve here. He immediately shook off Shirley's hand when he saw the wound on her arm. He quickly made his way over to her and grabbed her arm. "How did you get hurt?"
Eve's face was deathly pale, and she looked as if she had just gone through a fierce battle. Her forehead was also covered in cold sweat. She gave a wan smile as she looked toward Shirley with a meaningful look in her blue eyes. Shirley could see the mockery in her eyes, and she felt extremely guilty. At the same time, she was also cursing her subordinates for being so stupid that they couldn't even take care of a weak woman.
"I'd like to ask Miss Shirley why you tricked me into coming to the elder building, then lured me into an abandoned warehouse. You even arranged for assassins to assassinate me," Eve said nonchalantly.
Shirley's jaw almost hit the ground.
This woman dared to twist the truth!
"It's not like that! I don't know what's going on! " Shirley hurriedly denied. She immediately realized that she had been tricked by Eve. "Bitch, you dare to frame me?"
Eve sneered. "I'm framing you? Then do you dare say that the assassins in the warehouse weren't your men? I found this on their bodies! "
Eve took out a phone as she spoke. She quickly tapped on the screen and opened the call log. It was a list of Shirley's calls with the assassins. The most recent one was when Eve left the elder building today. "You can go to the warehouse and take a look. The bodies are still there."
"Y-you … killed them?" Shirley asked in disbelief.
Eve smiled coldly. As expected, this little girl didn't know anything. She was so innocent that she was too cute.
She cleared her throat. "The key here isn't whether I killed them or not. It's that you're jealous of my relationship with His Excellency, so you tricked me into coming to the elder building in an attempt to silence me! If you don't believe me, you can check Miss Shirley's travel records. I'm sure you'll find some clues. "
"Nonsense! Nonsense! " Shirley stomped her feet in anger. She saw Phillips's gaze grow colder and colder, and her heart sank bit by bit. She hurried over and grabbed Phillips's hand. Her face was red with anxiety. "No, His Excellency, don't listen to this bitch's nonsense. I'm not that … No, no, those people were indeed my men, but I didn't lure her out! She came to me on purpose and begged me to take her out. She said she didn't want to stay here at all, so she asked me to take her out. I didn't lure her out at all! Bitch, you're twisting the truth! "
Eve looked at Shirley's red face and suddenly felt pity for her. This woman was so stupid that she deserved pity.
It was too easy for someone like her.
Eve's face didn't turn red in the face of Shirley's exposure. She spoke with the grievance of a victim. "Miss Shirley, who in the elder building doesn't know how much you hate me? You can't wait to kill me, and you're jealous that I came out of His Excellency's office today. That's why you wanted to kill me in secret. You even lied to me and said that His Excellency had business with me. This is the evidence. "
At this moment, Eve pulled out a recording device from her pocket. It was Shirley's voice.
The general gist of the recording was that Phillips had business with Eve and asked her to leave.
Shirley's expression changed drastically.
She shook her head repeatedly. "No, no, I didn't say that! I didn't say anything like that!"
"Can you deny that the voice in the recording isn't yours? Even if you deny it, do you think everyone else is deaf? "Eve put on a strong front and forced Shirley to take a few steps back.
Shirley's heart was filled with grievance.
She knew it wasn't her who said that.
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