Chapter 463: Framed
Chapter 463: Chapter 463: Framed
Susan Caldwell’s hand trembled involuntarily as her mind raced to come up with a strategy. ’After all, Winter Sullivan is far too shrewd. She’s not easy to fool!’
When she had first called her father, Julian Caldwell, for help, she’d worried she wouldn’t be able to keep the matter under wraps. She never imagined, however, that what had happened over there had already been leaked to the Caldwell family back in Veridia.
’Who could be so despicable!’
The file had been sent directly to Winter Sullivan from a research institute. The deliverer was merely a low-level clerk, who, upon giving her the file, explained only that it was a case handled by narcotics officers on the border. Since the matter involved Susan Caldwell, a copy had been sent to her.
As a foremost weapons expert, Winter Sullivan held an extremely high position at the security company. She had been furious upon receiving the file.
Actually, she had heard Julian Caldwell mention a few things about the situation with Susan and Trellis before. However, Susan had twisted the facts when telling her father. Combined with Susan’s usual sensible, well-behaved, and dignified demeanor, Winter had simply assumed her daughter was the one who had been bullied.
Besides, she was usually engrossed in her weapons research and considered it nothing more than childish squabbles. Susan was older now; a little setback might even help temper her personality. Therefore, she hadn’t paid it much mind.
But after receiving the file, she realized the situation was not at all what she had thought. It wasn’t Susan who had been bullied—it was Susan who was the bully!
She truly never imagined that Susan, who was always so impeccably behaved in her presence, could do such a thing!
As the only daughter of her generation in the Caldwell family, Susan was doted on by practically everyone.
In the Caldwell family, she feared no one—except Winter Sullivan.
To the outside world, Winter Sullivan was a weapons genius; at home, she was an uncompromisingly strict mother. She rarely meddled in day-to-day household affairs and always focused on the big picture when it came to her children’s upbringing. However, the moment any of the children made a mistake, they would face the severest of punishments.
Five years ago, Susan had bullied a classmate behind Winter’s back. Word of it had somehow reached her mother’s ears. At the time, Winter had first taken her to apologize to the bullied girl, then immediately thrown her into the security company for a brutal summer of training. The ordeal nearly worked Susan to the bone.
The incident left Susan with a lingering fear. It also taught her a lesson—to be far more careful whenever she did such things in the future.
She was intelligent to begin with, and when that was combined with her elite education and newfound caution, she hadn’t slipped up once in all these years. Consequently, she grew bolder and bolder, never imagining that this time, the matter would be exposed right in front of Winter Sullivan.
She said softly, "Mom, someone is framing me. This file... it was most likely sent by someone who deliberately wants to harm me..."
Before she could finish, Winter Sullivan slammed her hand on the table. "Frame you? Susan Caldwell, just who do you think you are? So important that the Phantoms would need to frame you? What sort of disgraceful things have you done that would even require them to?"
Very few people knew of The Phantom Company. To the outside world, its operatives were known as the Phantoms.
In truth, Nathaniel Nathan was the one who had arranged for the file to be sent. If Susan Caldwell hadn’t announced her family connections, it might have been more difficult, but by doing so, she had saved him the trouble of even having to investigate her identity.