Chapter 230: Chapter 230: You Are Nothing
Outside, Harrison Grant was seen sitting on the bench.
His hands were resting on his knees, fingers interlocked on his forehead, his head hanging low, obscuring any expression on his face.
Summer Monroe was in a great mood as she walked over and glanced at him.
"Harrison Grant, just a few days left, just wait. The position of Mrs. Grant can only be mine."
The person on the bench remained motionless, a deathly silence enveloping the surroundings.
Summer paid no mind, curled her lips into a smile and walked leisurely away from the police station.
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In the bedroom, the dim light added to the silence.
Clothes were thrown haphazardly on the floor and bed.
The person curled up on the bed was shivering, clutching a photo frame.
In the photo, a middle-aged man held a little girl, a joyous smile on his face.
But that vitality had vanished from her sight.
Since her father died, Harrison Grant treated her as a daughter of his own.
But now, he is the murderer who killed her father.
The person she loved is the son of her father’s murderer.
What should she do?
Evelyn Clayton lay powerless, curled up with the photo frame in her arms, a tear falling from the corner of her eye.
In the dim environment, her tear-reddened eyes were invisible, only small sobs could be heard, intermittent, repressed, and helpless.
Outside the door, a frantic knocking resounded.
"Evelyn! Open the door! Evelyn! It’s me, Matthew Sullivan! Open the door!"
She hadn’t been to the company in days, just curled up inside her room.
Matthew had sought her out time after time, yet she never opened the door.
But that person, there wasn’t any news from him.
"Evelyn Clayton! Open the door!"
The sound outside was so loud it made one’s head ache, the deathly still room finally lit up.
At the instant the light came on, the incandescent light pierced her eyes painfully, and she raised her hand to block it.
The door finally opened, and an unexpected sight greeted Matthew Sullivan: a face almost devoid of color, bloodless, sickly pale, with red-rimmed eyes and appearing utterly haggard.
"Evelyn, what’s wrong, are you sick? Why didn’t you come to work, shall I take you to the hospital?"
Watching as Matthew Sullivan continued his earnest yet feigned concern, Evelyn Clayton sometimes couldn’t help but acknowledge how enticing status could be.
"Matthew Sullivan."
She stared at Matthew with cold eyes, her voice raspy: "Is the Grant Family status really that important to you?"
"Matthew, you are just Harrison Grant’s illegitimate child. For that illusory power, you’re not even comparable to Jasper Grant in the least. Does even that compel you to trample on your pride to entangle with me, aiming to use me to gain Harrison’s favor and establish yourself within the Grant Family?"
Meanwhile, Harrison was in cahoots with Summer Monroe.
To Evelyn Clayton, the Grant Family was nothing but a bottomless abyss, consuming people whole without leaving a trace.
"No, it’s not like that, Evelyn, listen to me, I know I’m just an illegitimate child, without Harrison I’m nothing. But believe me, I will work hard, I will give you a good life!"
Even after being exposed, Matthew Sullivan anxiously clung to excuses, shamelessly trying to justify himself.
Evelyn found it utterly ridiculous, lowering her head as she laughed, but the laughter was particularly mournful and helpless.
"Matthew Sullivan, you’re pitiful too. You deliberately brought Sheldon Zane to seduce Iris Lockwood, getting him to break up with you, what kindness do you have left? They’re lowly tricks, might fool others, but I won’t fall for it. Matthew, stop sparring with me, you won’t win."
Harrison Grant doesn’t even care about whom he marries, even if he married her, he wouldn’t hand over the Grant Family to Matthew.
He’s even wary of James, let alone someone like Matthew who means nothing.