My Four Miraculous Treasures

He had given her a chance?

Confusion filled Edith's teary eyes.

Then, she remembered what Jasper said to her this afternoon in the office.

Like a bolt out of the blue, she shuddered as she came to a realization.

The design was Hughes Corporation's secret. It should've been kept by the person in charge of it, so Jasper had asked her how it had ended up on the conference table.

After all, she was in charge of taking care of it.

Jasper had prompted her verbally, giving her a chance to come clean.

However, Edith didn't seize that chance. Hence, Jasper's call to Tyson, asking for the security footage of the 57th floor, was made so that Edith would overhear him. She would then try to delete the footage in the control room and be caught in the act! Edith was regretting her actions now.

She was too flustered to analyze the situation and didn't have the mental capacity to discern right from wrong.

She was the one who had discussed with Deborah in the corridor about framing Willow, hoping that the rumors would get Willow kicked out of Hughes Corporation.

When she heard Willow coming over, she rushed up to the highest floor and went one floor down to the 57th floor.

There were no surveillance cameras in the corridor, but the 57th floor did. It must have captured footage of her running anxiously into an executive's office.

Jasper would've suspected her if he saw that. With his intelligence, he could easily guess that she was the culprit if he saw her escaping into someone else's office looking so guilty.

Hence, Edith panicked when she overheard Jasper wanting to see the security footage of the 57th floor. Everyone else had got off work, but she was the only one who stayed behind.

She had also been keeping tabs on Jasper. She let her guard down after seeing Jasper leave the office.

She would wait until it was nighttime before sneaking into the control room to delete the footage that caught her on camera on the 57th floor.noveldrama

Yet, the lights suddenly came on and reporters swarmed in, asking her such decisive questions that indicated that she was the spy.

Edith didn't know what was going

on. At first, she was furious and tried

to escape. When Jasper appeared and said what he said, she realized that Jasper knew what she had done all along. en

He merely kept quiet and waited for her to expose herself.

Edith understood now, but there was one thing that still puzzled her.

Feeling hurt and upset, she looked straight at Jasper. With clenched fists, her tips trembled as she asked indignantly, "Mr. Hughes, if you were already aware, why didn't you stop Master Frank when he tried to imprison Willow?"

Jasper stared at her coldly before snorting. "Ms. Price, you've been in the corporate world for seven years now. Don't you understand decoy tactics?" Edith's eyes widened and she was shaking from her core.

She understood now. Jasper didn't stop Willow from being locked up so Edith would assume that Willow was acknowledged as the culprit. That way, Edith would let her guard down, leading her to give herself away. This led to her brazenly sneaking into the control room to delete the footage after eavesdropping on Jasper's conversation.

Then, she would fall into the trap Jasper had laid out for her.

Edith was trembling with heartache. The tears she had tried to hold back came pouring down her cheeks.

Holding onto a last glimmer of hope, her voice trembled as she asked, "Mr. Hughes, don't you feel sorry for me, even just a little?"

She had served him for so many years. She should at least be rewarded for her efforts if not achievements. Yet, the man had heartlessly trapped her instead.