Let Me Go, Mr. Harvey

Mr. Lawson grimaced, “You do me this favour and I don’t care if you stay with James afterwards or if you marry into the Harvey family.”

The offer sounded tempting, but Angela’s heart didn’t ripple half as much, “I wouldn’t dare to believe what you say.”

Earlier he said he would help her escape James’ control, but it turned out that he was sending her to prison to spend the rest of her life there.

“…… It’s true that I have terminal lung cancer, I won’t live much longer and I couldn’t care less if I wanted to.” In the past, if someone had dared to treat him in this manner, he would have thrown them into the river to feed the fish!

Angela looked at his pale, furrowed face and it didn’t seem like a lie.

Only, she still had no intention of helping him.

Mr. Lawson was a sinister, cunning old fox she could not trust.

“I didn’t die last time, I did it specifically to show Ela! Heck, the bitch, how dare she count me out!” She didn’t believe in not cooperating, and Mr. Lawson could only say more things to make her cooperate as much as possible.

Angela didn’t remain silent this time, but neither did she agree to his request, instead saying, “Ela counting on you seems to have little to do with whether I help you or not.”

There was no way she was going to help him unless she made this clear today. She didn’t want to be crossed after helping him and end up with a dead body.

“Angela, don’t you stomp on me! I’m giving you face …… cough …… face by asking you to help!” Mr. Lawson stood up emotionally and coughed heavily several times.

He didn’t have a handkerchief and the blood ran down the seam of his hand, which Angela could see clearly. It seemed just as he had said, he really didn’t have much time left.

“Now that you’ve said that, please give that face to someone else, I don’t need it.” Angela said faintly as she withdrew her gaze.

Mr. Lawson wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth and looked at her with a grimace, “Angela!”

Angela ignored him.

If it was true what he said, that he needed her help, then he was the one who was passive, not her.

“Fine, fine!” Mr. Lawson said good several times in a row and said with a grimace, “If you don’t do me this favour, wait until James is finished!”

He grunted heavily, turned and walked away.

Angela craned her head to look at him for a moment and shouted, “Trouble ……”

Only two words had been said before Mr. Lawson stopped in his tracks and interrupted her with an expected look, “You’ve got the sense! What I’m asking you to do isn’t really that hard, as long as you ……”

“I just want you to help turn off the lights on your way out, please.” Angela said.

The words that Mr. Lawson had not yet finished were stuck in his throat, like a lump in his throat, and he could not cough them up or swallow them.

He glared at Angela, who didn’t even look at him and withdrew her gaze.

“Angela, do you really want to see James end up like this?” He gritted his teeth, “Don’t forget, you’re the reason he’s in this mess!”Content from NôvelDr(a)ma.Org.

Angela, “Oh.”

Then nothing more was said.

If it was just James, Mr. Lawson might not have stepped in, but now it was a matter of life and death for the Harvey family, and Mr. Lawson would not have stood by and watched.

As long as the Harvey family is okay, James is okay.

There was no need for her to worry.

Mr. Lawson, “……”

“Heh!” He gave her a deadly stare and sneered as he sat back down on the edge of the bed, “I really looked the other way before. To have James dying for you, how could you not have some tricks up your sleeve?”

“Thanks for the compliment.” Angela didn’t argue.

Relatively speechless.

After a long time, it was Mr. Lawson who broke the silence by saying, without a smile, “Someone is counting on the Harvey family, you know this too, don’t you?”

Without waiting for her answer, he went on, “You’ve just said the mysterious big man, and you should know by now that there’s someone behind that old witch Ela. Are you faking your death this time, too, to escape that person’s watch and help James?”

“Hmm.” Angela nodded her head.

Mr. Lawson said, “Who that man is, I haven’t figured out yet, but he’s definitely big enough of an official to be unimaginable to the average person.”

“So you’re …… a second-rate person?” There are not many people full of people who can make Mr. Lawson say that the official position is so big that it is difficult to image.

“If I knew that, why would I need to come to you now?” Mr. Lawson glared at her, “The fact that I’m not dead can’t be known now.”

“The only person left who can convince James is you. You go and tell James that the man started out trying to use the Smith Group to launder money, and then the Smith Group was so close to bankruptcy by you guys that he turned his mind to the Harvey Group.”

At this point, Mr. Lawson’s face turned even harder, “You’re a goner! Not a single good thing has happened to James since he met you!”

If it wasn’t for the Chante family, James wouldn’t have brought the Smith Group to the brink of bankruptcy. If he hadn’t brought the Smith Group to the brink of bankruptcy, that man wouldn’t have gotten his hands on the Harvey Group!

Angela was now in a state of extreme shock and hadn’t even heard his last two words.

Money laundering?

The man who targeted the Harvey Group was actually trying to launder money!

But –

“What does him laundering money have to do with breaking up James and me? And the fact that I’m alive doesn’t seem to affect his plans.”

Mr. Lawson looked at her like she was a fool, “Do you think Harvey Group is for anyone who wants to get in and launder money?”

Angela didn’t understand what he meant.

“Commercial espionage is common, you know this, don’t you?” Mr. Lawson likes smart people and is never too lazy to break one thing up and rub it in another’s face.

But he needed Angela’s help now, so he had to make her understand the matter as best he could.

Angela nodded her head.

She wasn’t too exposed to the corporate side of things, but she did know this. Commercial espionage is not as ubiquitous, but it is not uncommon, and many people are not professional spies, but are paid to give out information about parts of companies.

“There is a commercial spy in the Harvey Group, but that spy definitely doesn’t have the ability to help someone launder money of that magnitude. Since that person would target the Smith Group and the Harvey Group, it means he must be laundering a lot of money, and it is even more unlikely that a normal business spy would be able to do that.” Mr. Lawson said.

After all he had said, Angela still didn’t quite understand what the man’s money laundering had to do with breaking up her and James.

Mr. Lawson frowned at her, “Don’t you get it?”

“Hmm.”

“How could James have fallen for a stupid woman like you? That little girl from the Smith family is a little more scheming than you’d like, but this is something she certainly understands!”

Angela, “So why do you like James and are so determined to help him when he knows everything and is so good at business?”