Chapter 104

Chapter 104:
Vivian’s brow furrowed as she read through the document, then she checked a few online sites before letting out a light laugh.
“It’s nothing to worry about,” she said, resuming her search through the rack of dresses.
Her caregiver looked at her, clearly confused.
Normally, Vivian kept her thoughts to herself, but this time she explained a bit further. “If they were really serious about suing me, they would have made the legal notice public instead of sending it privately.”
“I still don’t understand,” the caregiver admitted, shaking her head.
Vivian’s tone was patient. “They’re fishing for my reaction. If I start panicking like you do, they’ll pounce and demand a sky-high settlement.”
The caregiver’s confusion didn’t fade. “So what are you going to do?”
Vivian just shrugged and pulled a dress from the closet, still smiling. “Nothing. I’m going to ignore them for now.”
“Charles won’t dare to push me. It’s not just because of my connection to Brandon, but also because everyone sees me as a poor, doomed soul.”
Vivian arranged her face into a sorrowful look and tossed the dress toward her caregiver. “Iron this before you head to bed.”
She turned away, her voice calm but firm. “If Charles has any sense, he’ll keep his mouth shut. The last thing he needs is to get his brothers riled up and ready to tear him apart.”
Time slipped away quickly. Before anyone realized it, night had returned.
Early that morning, Charles had already arrived to collect Millie. Alexia frowned, insisting that Millie needed more time to recover.
In the end, it was Giffard who talked her into letting Millie go.
Once Millie and Charles had left, Alexia turned to her brother in disbelief.
“Giffard, you’re really just letting Charles take her?”
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Giffard nodded without hesitation. “Yes.”
“But she…”
“Alexia, let’s drop it for now. Pushing too hard could sometimes only make things worse,” Giffard retorted.
Although Alexia still had more on her mind, she gave a reluctant nod. She couldn’t deny that, all these years, Millie’s heart had always belonged to Brandon, never seeing Giffard as anything more than a friend.
Not wanting to linger on the subject, Giffard quickly changed the topic. “Did you manage to get the video yesterday?”
“Yeah, I did. But there’s a bit of a complication,” Alexia admitted.
Tia had managed to sneak her phone out. She swapped it for a new one she bought, leaving the original case on before any confidentiality contract could be signed. That way, even if everyone signed the agreement later, any leak would have technically happened beforehand.
At first, Alexia wondered how Tia had pulled it off since all the phones had been confiscated. But it turned out those devices were simply stored in a drawer in the office, and people were coming and going all the time. Later, she realized no one seemed too worried about theft because the phones had all been wiped clean.
With so many IT experts able to recover data these days, it really came down to how thorough the company was about erasing it—and whether the specialist Alexia would find could restore anything useful.
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