Chapter 116 - Chapter 116: The Event Six Years Ago
Chapter 116: The Event Six Years Ago
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Johnson’s assistant said, “Congenital heart disease runs in Richard’s family. When they examined his phone, the police found that the last record was a phone call from his girlfriend last night. The police confirmed with the girlfriend that she had called him and that they had a fight on the rooftop the day after the fight. All of a sudden, Richard had a heart attack and fell from the rooftop. The forensic doctor was able to confirm that the heart attack was the primary cause of death and not the impact of the fall.”
When they returned to the hotel and walked up to their rooms, Serenity stood at her door, rummaging through her bag for her room card. Then a shadow loomed over her. When she turned around, she saw that it was Gabriel. Serenity was puzzled.
Why was he standing behind her instead of going back to his room?
“Open the door,” said Gabriel softly.
She finally found her room card and used it to unlock the door to her hotel room. With a turn of the doorknob, they entered her room.
As he stepped in, Gabriel tugged at his tie and took off his suit jacket.
She walked up to him to take his clothes and hung them in the cloakroom. “So how are we going to deal with Richard’s family?”
Gabriel leaned against the sofa and frowned. “Why bother with something that can be solved with a sum of money?”
True, Gabriel’s words were quite reasonable. Since Richard’s death was an accident, the company was not liable for it.
But it would be too heartless to simply sit back and not do anything for the family. So, the company had already done its best to compensate the family members with a considerable amount.
When Serenity came out of the cloakroom, she found Gabriel lying on the tired, evidently exhausted. “Would you like to take a bath? I’ll get it started for you.”
Gabriel opened his eyes and the corners of his lips curled up into a cheeky smile. “If you can satisfy yourself, please go ahead. My current physical condition is not so good.”
Serenity blushed at his words.
She had offered to start a bath for him to help ease his exhaustion from his body. Never would she have expected him to misunderstand her words and intentions.
But Serenity didn’t bother explaining herself and still proceeded to prepare the bath for him. When she came out of the bathroom, the person on the sofa was already asleep.
He had been busy for the past few days. Even though he was overseas, he had been on the phone non-stop. Yesterday afternoon, he had two video conferences in a row and dealt with emails every night.
She walked over quietly and crouched next to him. She took off his shoes and placed his legs on the sofa. Then, she covered him with a thin blanket. Afraid her movements in the room might disturb his rest, she decided to leave the room for a while.
When she walked into the corridor, Caleb had also just stepped out of his room. “Where’s President Jones?”
She pointed to the room and said, “He’s asleep.”
Caleb and Serenity leaned against the gold-plated handrails in the corridor and chatted.
“How long have you been with President Jones?” asked Serenity.
“It’s been four years,” said Caleb with a smile.
She nodded and asked, “Why doesn’t his family celebrate his birthday with him? Does he not get along well with them?”
This was something she could never figure out about Gabriel and the Jones family.
“This concerns President Jones’s private life so it’s not appropriate for me to say anything.” Caleb was still smiling.
Serenity was a little disappointed that she didn’t get the answer she wanted.
Caleb noticed and said, “All I will say is that something happened six years ago to trigger President Jones’s current behavior. Before, he was a person who loved to laugh, was kind and gentle with others, and was less uptight.”
What could have caused a person to become like this?
Her interest was piqued and she no longer felt guilty prying into Gabriel’s past. “Was the incident related to his family?”
“If you want to know, you can ask President Jones directly.” Caleb shook his head.
She immediately lost interest and rolled her eyes at him. Even if she had ten guts, she wouldn’t dare to ask him.
“It’s related to a woman from President Jones’s university-”
“Caleb!” Before he could finish, Caleb was interrupted by a cold voice.
The two people standing in the corridor were shocked and immediately spun around at the same time.
Gabriel had come out of the room at some point and was looking at them grimly.
Serenity and Caleb quivered as if the sinister glare from Gabriel’s eyes were about to tear their stomachs open.
“President Jones, we were just-” But before Serenity could finish her sentence with the word ‘chatting’, she was met with the slam of her room door.
Caleb and Serenity looked at each other, taken aback but what had just happened..