Chapter 344 Cause and Effect
"Very well, Catherine, you made your choice."
Half an hour later, returning to the villa room, in addition to Mikhail, there was also Catherine with a complicated expression.
Barron asked her to sit next to him, rubbed his palm on her face, and spoke softly.
"what on earth is it?"
Catherine still clearly remembers that before leaving here with the man and her husband, Barron picked up the mobile phone he found from Colin Hall on the table.
This is the most luxurious Vertu phone at this time. It is the first phone in the Ascent series just released this year. The style still looks very eye-catching now.
However, today’s mobile phones do not have fingerprint or face scanning functions like those used by smartphones more than ten years later. However, after Barron picked up the Vertu mobile phone, he handed it to Mikhail. He was very skillful. Enter the password to unlock, and then use this phone to post a text message...
Next, Mikhail picked up the napkin on the table, put on gloves, wiped the Vertu phone very carefully, and put it back in Colin Hall's pocket.
It was their actions that made Catherine realize something, but now, she still couldn't believe it and hoped to get confirmation from Barron.
"Actually, haven't you already guessed it?"
Barron stood up and said nothing more, but said to Mikhail:
"Now we can clean this place up..."
When Catherine saw Mikhail take out three cameras from an unnoticed place in this room... not just in this room, but also in other locations...
She finally understood what Barron meant by "cleaning up" and why he knew so clearly about Colin Hall's plan...
"Mrs. Hall, am I asleep? Barron, are you here too?"
When Barron and Catherine arrived at Gabriel's bedroom upstairs, after some "awakening", Miss Ella finally slowly opened her eyes.
"Yes, you have been sleeping for three hours, I think I should call you..."
…
Colin Hall is dead.
When the news reached this villa last night, the expression of surprise and sadness on Catherine's face was hard to fake.
And Barron knew that her behavior, apart from Colin's death, was probably more about the outcome, which was likely to happen to her... and Barron.
What I have to lament is that the Rothschild family's behavior is indeed fierce.
The other party actually directly hit the car Colin Hall was riding in with a tanker truck. An explosion destroyed everything, even Colin Hall's bones no longer existed.
This also makes the cautious measures they took before somewhat redundant.
With such an "accident" involving an heir to a prominent banking family, Scotland Yard naturally would not sit idly by and conducted an investigation afterwards.
Scotland Yard questioned Mrs Hall, Barron and Gabriel who were present at the villa where Colin Hall left.
But these people are not ordinary people. Even if they are "inquiries", they must pay attention to methods, not to mention that there are lawyers present who are eyeing them. The final result can be imagined.
In the end, Benjamin Rothschild naturally knew that their "plan" had gone awry, and the person they arranged to physically eliminate eventually became Colin Hall.
But no matter what, at this time, they can only hold their noses and mobilize their strength to work with Barron to suppress this matter and turn it into an "accident"...
As for the Hall family?
Perhaps under the combined pressure of the Rothschild family and the Devonshire family, they will choose to "sit on the vine"...
But in a few years, will Barron still care about them?
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"How on earth can you let me go?"
"Madam, your behavior just now was not like this..."
Hearing what Barron said in a teasing tone, Catherine was so ashamed and angry that she died...
After Colin Hall's "unexpected" death, Barron, as his "close partner", naturally wanted to comfort Catherine Hall, the young widow.
After some extremely overbearing "comfort", Catherine now felt like she had no strength left in her body.
What she had to admit was that at many moments just now, she had indeed felt an impact on her soul that she had never experienced before... But now, she was indeed at a loss.
"Colin's father contacted me and he was going to buy the shares in Northrock Bank that I could get..."
As mentioned before, the Hall family holds a total of 18% of the shares in Northrock Bank. These shares are held by three holding companies controlled by the Hall family.
As the heir to the Hall family, the holding company owned by Colin Hall holds 8% of the bank's shares. In addition, he also holds part of the private bank, Hall Bank.
I am afraid that no matter what, Colin Hall would never have imagined that there would be such an ending today, and that Catherine would even give up his previous plan for this. Therefore, in his will, Catherine was his only property heir...
Now, in order to maintain control of Northrock Bank and the security of Hall Bank, the foundation of the family, the Hall family can only buy back these shares from Catherine.
"I won't ask you to make any choice, Catherine, but you have to think clearly whether the Hall family will still regard you as one of their own..."
"Haha, you can tell from the fact that they are about to buy back their shares, right?"
"Many times, their methods are not just financial... Think about Colin, so do you think that even if you 'return' the shares to the Hall family in accordance with their requirements, you will be safe?"
What Barron said was exactly what frightened Catherine - before that, she was just a lady, and what happened that night directly subverted her knowledge, that unabashed dark side, The corner was lifted, allowing her to see the cruelty.
This is not the tender upper class society in the TV series, but a life-and-death struggle...
"Can't you do that?"
Catherine took a deep look at Barron and said:
"That day you took Colin..."
"You're wrong, Catherine."
Barron interrupted her and said without mercy:
"It's not me, it's you who did it. And, at most, we are just following Colin's script, but he designed the script himself, so this is very ironic. If what he originally wanted was just to click through, Then the result will be determined; if he leaves no room for anything, then the result is his own choice."
Catherine had to admit that Barron was right.
She saw Barron looking directly at her, and his voice was unmistakable:
"I can promise you, Catherine, I will repay you twice as much as others treat me, but as long as you remain loyal, I will be worthy of your trust. Just like now, if you stand by me, then I I will keep you safe!”
"What if I sell these shares to you? Not only are they from Northrock Bank, but they are also from Hall Bank..."
