Chapter 448

“The will?” Janet shot up from the sofa, her eyes wide with surprise. “Juniper, what will?”
“Here.” Juniper handed her phone to Janet, showing her the information she’d just found. “Orville left you two-thirds of the family assets. By my calculation, that’s worth a few hundred million.”
A few hundred… million? Janet stared at the phone, completely stunned. Had the world gone mad? Since when did her life involve figures with that many zeros? She thought Orville hated her and her mother. Why would he…
“Guilt,” Juniper explained, sucking on a lollipop. “First, you’re brilliant, and Orville thinks you can bring honor to the Wilcox name. Second, he feels guilty about your father and wants to ease his conscience. And third, after being sick for so many years, his mind isn’t what it used to be.”
Janet listened, her feelings a tangled mess.
“Do you want it?” Juniper asked, her gaze fixed on Janet’s face. “Just say the word, and I won’t just get you the inheritance, I’ll hand you the entire Wilcox family on a platter.”
Zorion was the eldest son. Janet was the legitimate heiress of the Wilcox family. No one else had any right to challenge her claim.
“No.” Janet answered without hesitation, a weary smile on her face. “We may be poor, but we have our pride. If I could, I’d trade all that money to have my father’s name cleared, and to get justice and restore my mother’s honor.”
“Good.” After hearing her out, Juniper squeezed her cheek in approval. “That’s my Janet. You’ve got integrity.”
“However,” Juniper paused for a second, “you need to make the Wilcoxes think you want it.”
“Huh?” Janet didn’t understand.
“A cornered animal will do something desperate,” Juniper explained calmly. “The car accident that killed Ms. Miller’s boyfriend, and even your father’s accident… I doubt they were entirely accidental.”
“Juniper, are you saying Janet’s eyes instantly reddened with disbelief.
“I suspect Yelena’s father was behind it,” Juniper confirmed.
In the fight for power and money, even brothers could turn on each other. But Ezra
was a clever man; he had destroyed all the evidence from back then.
Did he really think he could get away with it scott-free? How laughable.
“So, you want to provoke the
Wilcoxes into making a move on et
me?” Janet’s voice trembled. “And uše that opportunity to catch them and bring them down?”
“Clever girl,” Juniper nodded, her tone gentle was going to wait a little longer, but now She peeled a banana and placed it in Janet’s hand, her voice turning icy. “Since they re in such a rush to die, might
dre tmight
as well oblige them.”
She would settle this before Janet started university. It would be the perfect matriculation gift.
Janet clutched her phone, her face pale, and said nothing.
“Getting soft-hearted?” Juniper asked, her eyes narrowing.
“No.” Janet lifted her head, her eyes so red they looked like they might bleed im thinking about,” she said,
each word deliberate, “what kind of
punishment would make them
suffer the most.”
Her father’s death, her mother’s pain, the years of insults and humiliation she had endured… Soft-hearted? Not a chance.
As she spoke, Janet took out her phone and unblocked Trent’s number.
“Juniper, what should I write to really piss him off?”
Juniper took the phone and casually typed a few words: [That’s right. Your grandpa
left me a few hundred million. Hehe.]