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Chapter 142 What a Jinx
After hearing about this, how could Queenie not care about it? No wonder Leanna was always wearing
loose and oversized clothes at work everyday. I thought it was a bit weird of her for doing that. It turns
out that she’s pregnant!
After a slight pause, Queenie decided to probe further as she asked, “Miss Crossley, is the Pearson
Family you’re referring to the Pearson Group?”
“It is.”
Hanging up, Georgina looked out the window with a smug expression. Sometimes, one just needs the
right words and others will do whatever they need on their behalf.
…
Ever since Aidan moved back to the residence, the whole atmosphere had become a lot more
depressing though Leanna would like to differ. To her, it was much more ‘exciting’ compared to her past
prison-like days.
At last, I have someone to bicker with… Still, I’m not sure what’s up with the b*stard. He’s just lazing
around the house all day long without even going to the company. The worst thing is he’ll take a jab at
me whenever he feels like it.
At this point, it was only a few days until Gordon’s birthday.
The closer it was, the more nervous Leanna became as she was afraid that things might go south. Yet,
fate always seemed to have a nasty surprise awaiting her.
Just two days before the birthday banquet, the police received an anonymous tipoff stating that
someone in the Pearson Family was taking drugs.
When the police arrived at the Pearson Family Estate, Gordon became livid upon hearing their
explanation. “That’s impossible! This is preposterous!”
The officers could only apologize and state, “Old Master Pearson, since this incident has somewhat
blown up, even the journalists have heard about it. We are just going through with the procedure. Once
we make sure that it is a false report, we will investigate this to the best of our abilities and give you a
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satisfactory explanation.”
“Then, make sure you turn the house upside down if that’s what it takes!” Gordon jabbed the ground
with his cane in fury. “My family have all been in the field of business for countless generations now
and we have always been innocent. We do not involve ourselves in such harmful things nor do we
conduct any shady deals. Well, since someone has the audacity to make a false report against us, I’d
really like to meet this person who’s dared to walk all over me!”
“Yes, you’re right, Old Master Pearson,” the police said. “I’m afraid we’ll still have to ask for your
family’s cooperation in this test so as to prove your innocence.”
Although Gordon was very much unhappy about this, this would only be at advantage for the person
who made the false report if he was to reject it.
Soon enough, the entirety of the Pearson Family had their samples collected.
Then, the police asked, “My apologies for troubling everyone here. Is there anyone who has yet to do
the test?”
Crossing her arms, Anna replied with a haughty expression, “Leanna is still upstairs.”
To that, Gordon glanced at the servant beside him and ordered, “Bring her.”
“Understood.”
Nodding, the servant left.
Hiding in the bushes nearby were two excited yet nervous journalists who snuck in when the servants
were busy with their drug tests.
Although the journalists did not dare to offend the Pearsons, the person who phoned them revealed
that this would be a very exclusive headline; if the news made its way into the public, not only would
they become famous, the money they would make from it would also be uncountable.
On the other hand, Leanna, who was taking a nap upstairs, was awoken by the servant’s knocks on the
door. After hearing that the police were here to investigate drug usage, she was in a daze and only
snapped back to reality a while after. “Okay. I’ll head down after changing my clothes.”
Subsequent to the servant leaving, she went to the window and saw that there was a crowd in the
garden with two police cars parked beside. This looks serious.
After arriving downstairs, she registered herself with the police. However, when she was asked about
her relation to the Pearsons, she was caught off guard as she did not know how to answer them.
Not wanting to expose her identity, Gordon stated impatiently, “Nobody’s going to escape from here.
Just do the test and look for me if anything happens.”
The police stopped questioning her after they had collected her sample before departing.
As for those two journalists, they recognized Leanna as soon as she came down as they were
previously at the press conference of Lux Magazine. Feeling a huge scope in their hands, they started
to capture photos madly.
We now have the evidence that proves the rumors to be true! She is indeed a mistress of a wealthy
man! McK, you can deny it once, but you can’t deny it any longer!
It was then that the bodyguards found the two journalists and dragged them to Gordon.
However, they had thought up an excuse prior to the hiding and only stated that they were here for the
drug incident scoop.
The mere mention of this made Gordon even more frustrated and angry as he ordered the bodyguards
to check their cameras and chase them away after deleting all the photos.
What they were not aware of was the fact that the two had already backuped the exclusive photos to
their phones before they were even caught.
It was until the servants dispersed that Anna sneered at Leanna, “What a jinx.”
With a low voice, Justin voiced out, “Anna.”
“What? I’m not wrong, am I? When has this kind of thing happened before? There’s been nothing good
ever since she moved in.”
Yet, before Justin could continue, Gordon said, “Justin, you should get off Anna’s back for a while.”
Clearly, his words were hinting that he agreed with Anna while he was also taking his anger out on
Leanna.
Hearing that she was being backed up, Anna became even more smug. “A person like her will be
shunned no matter where she goes. What an annoying woman.”
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To that, Gordon only went back to his room with a snort.
Anna, who wanted to leave too, was stopped by Justin. “Anna, apologize to Leanna.”
“I’m not going to. Uncle Gordon already said—”
“I said, apologize.”
Since Anna had never seen this stern side of Justin before, she was a little taken aback as she turned
to Sienna. “Aunt Sienna…”
Unexpectedly, Sienna replied, “Didn’t you hear what Justin said?”
This only made Anna stomp her foot and said begrudgingly, “I’m sorry.”
At that, Leanna responded, “I’m sorry. I didn’t quite hear you.”
In an instant, Anna’s anger had turned her expression contorted. Since Justin and Sienna had already
made their stance clear, she could only swallow her rage for now as she increased her volume. “I said,
I’m sorry!”
Anna then turned around and went back to her room.
Seeing this, Leanna gave a very subtle smile. I actually managed to hear Anna apologizing to me in my
lifetime. At least there’s something to be gleaned from this.
“I hope you can forgive her, Leanna. Anna still has a bit of a childish temper,” Justin uttered.
Nodding, she replied, “Thank you for that.”
…
Soon enough, the police had released the test report. As expected, nobody in the Pearsons was using
drugs, thus determining the anonymous person to have made a false report.
However, they only found out the identity used to report to the police was a fake one, so the
investigation was halted for the time being.
It looked like the other party had planned it all out.
Before this incident could get its chance to blow over, someone exposed the news on the official
website of Lux Magazine that Leanna was a mistress and had been pregnant all this time. Not only
that, the whole article was also detailedly written and presented with organized proof; it was all photos
of Leanna’s pregnancy.
In the photo, everyone was blurred out while the servants and police were edited out entirely, leaving
Leanna exposed alone in the photo.
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