Chapter 424: Chapter 424

After Nanny Sawyer was taken away, Paige Sterling organized the results of her investigation into a document package and sent it to the authorities.

Although it wasn’t conclusive evidence at the moment, it was enough to draw attention from the authorities and prompt a deeper investigation.

As long as the state intervened in the investigation, a result would certainly be found.

As Paige Sterling expected, not long after Nanny Sawyer was taken by the police, Paige received news that something happened to Nanny Sawyer at the police station.

Someone infiltrated the station to silence Nanny Sawyer, attempting murder, but failed, and the person was caught.

Nanny Sawyer has now been transferred to the district office.

At the police station, Nanny Sawyer refused to explain anything, but after this incident, she confessed everything.

She knew well that even though she didn’t know much, the others would rather kill than let her go, intending to silence her permanently.

She was somewhat disheartened, feeling that she had done unspeakable things for that man all her life and ended up with neither money nor status. Now, she was arrested, and what awaited her was unknown.

She just hoped that by honestly confessing, the authorities would show leniency in view of her cooperation, because in the end, she hadn’t really harmed Paige Sterling. If she had a good attitude, there was definitely a chance of getting out.

Many years ago, Nanny Sawyer and a man named Thomas Thorne were in love, but Tom Sawyer was just a fresh graduate with no job, no money, and an unfavorable family background.

Nanny Sawyer’s parents valued sons over daughters and hoped to marry her off for a dowry, so they forbade Nanny Sawyer from seeing Thomas Thorne and quickly married her off to another man due to a larger dowry from that man’s family.

However, that man didn’t know that when Nanny Sawyer married him, she was already pregnant.

After marriage, the man named Thomas Thorne disappeared, and Nanny Sawyer resigned to life with her husband.

But unexpectedly, a few years later, Thomas Thorne appeared before Nanny Sawyer again, very different from before. The once downtrodden Tom Sawyer was now vibrant, generous, kind and attentive, rekindling their old romance quickly.

Later, Nanny Sawyer’s husband discovered her affair and divorced her.

Nanny Sawyer thought that after the divorce, she and Thomas Thorne would finally be together, but unexpectedly, Thomas Thorne disappeared again.

It was then that Nanny Sawyer began working for Mrs. Hawthorne, as a maid for The Upton Family. Newest update provıded by noⅴelfire.net

She thought that Thomas Thorne would never appear again, but who knew Thomas Thorne contacted her once more.

This time, she refused to forgive Thomas Thorne, believing he abandoned her whimsically and was now toying with her again.

To earn her forgiveness, Thomas Thorne obliquely mentioned the special nature of his work, explaining he wasn’t toying with Nanny Sawyer but was restricted by the secrecy needed for his lab, which was in a rather isolated place, limiting his appearances.

To convince Nanny Sawyer, he even showed her the results of the lab research by injecting a substance into a small dog.

Seeing the dog mutate after injection didn’t frighten Nanny Sawyer; instead, she felt Thomas Thorne was really quite capable.

The vial of injection with Nanny Sawyer was left by Thomas Thorne at that time, kept at her request, though she didn’t know why she insisted.

Knowing the nature of Thomas Thorne’s work, although their times together were rare, they maintained contact.

Yet, Nanny Sawyer didn’t know when she and Thomas Thorne injected the dog, their son saw it from outside the door.

Later, Nanny Sawyer and Thomas Thorne, wishing for a prosperous future for their son, schemed to make their son The Upton Family’s son-in-law, hoping The Upton Family would pave the way, elevating The Thorne Family to high status.

At the time, to impress Mrs. Hawthorne, their son told her about the vial and even gave it to her.

Unexpectedly, an accident occurred later: their son kidnapped the Chambers Family’s heiress for ransom and was ultimately injured by Jared Sullivan.

They understood that if their son didn’t die then, captured by the police, his life would be ruined, and worse, the police might trace back to Thomas Thorne.

Thus, Thomas Thorne and Nanny Sawyer staged their son’s fake death, bringing him to Thomas Thorne to assist him.

Of course, they couldn’t accomplish this scheme alone; the laboratory’s hidden big boss helped settle matters swiftly, without police suspicion.

At that time, the lab was in desperate need of manpower, so with Thomas Thorne as guarantor, his son stayed on.

The research institution being confidential meant that over the years, father and son rarely appeared in public.

Nanny Sawyer’s return this time was at Thomas Thorne’s behest because of Paige Sterling’s exceptional scientific abilities. The lab’s secret boss wanted Paige’s talents but faced difficulties due to her well-protected status and formidable skills, prompting them to use Nanny Sawyer.

However, they didn’t anticipate Nanny Sawyer being captured so quickly.

Now that Nanny Sawyer had confessed, the following matters were the authorities’ concerns and hardly related to Paige Sterling, so she no longer paid attention.

However, Mrs. Hawthorne seemed quite resentful about Nanny Sawyer being taken away. To her, right or wrong didn’t matter; what she saw was that Nanny Sawyer’s arrest, instigated by Paige, was a direct slap to her, the mother-in-law’s face.

If she let this slide, wouldn’t Paige ride roughshod over her in the future?

Therefore, when Julian Hawthorne and Paige Sterling attended a banquet, Mrs. Hawthorne acted directly, bringing out Nanny Sawyer’s distant niece to the event.

Before Paige even realized, Nanny Sawyer’s niece knelt before her in the middle of the hall, surrounded by guests.

"Young Madam, please, I beg you, my aunt is old and alone. How could you frame her into prison? Please spare her. If you have any anger, direct it at me. Just please let my aunt go..."

Paige looked down at the girl kneeling at her feet, with her long braids, looking sincere and convincing.

But for her to rush into such a venue, who would believe there wasn’t someone assisting her?

Paige didn’t speak at once, just stared at her.

Her gaze intimidated the girl, who dared not meet her eyes, merely keeping her head down, pleas tumbling from her lips.

To the unknowing, it might seem like a heartfelt reunion with a long-lost relative.

After a pause, Paige suddenly asked, "Who is your aunt?"

The girl hesitated, "Young Madam, my aunt is Nanny Sawyer. She worked as a maid at The Hawthorne Family, always honest and diligent. I don’t know how she offended you, Young Madam, for you to call the police and have her arrested, and now she’s still detained..."

This abrupt scene inevitably drew the banquet guests’ attention, all eyes turning towards them.

The matters at The Hawthorne Family had not been publicized, and the outside world was largely in the dark at this point.

"Oh, it was Nanny Sawyer, wasn’t it." Paige turned towards Mrs. Hawthorne watching on the sidelines, "Aunt, isn’t Nanny Sawyer someone around you?"