"Very good, Catherine, you made your choice."
Half an hour later, besides Mikhail, Catherine, who had a complicated expression, returned to the room in the villa.
Barron asked her to sit next to him, rubbed his hands on her face, and spoke softly.
"What on earth is going on?"
Catherine still clearly remembered that just before she and the man took her husband away from here, Barron picked up the mobile phone he found on the table from Colin Hall.
This is the most luxurious Vertu phone at the moment. It is the first phone in the Ascent series just released this year, and its style still looks very eye-catching now.
However, the current mobile phones do not have the fingerprint or facial scanning unlocking function like the smart phones more than ten years later. However, after Barron picked up the Vertu phone, he handed it to Mikhail. He entered the password to unlock it very skillfully, and then used this phone to send a text message...
Next, Mikhail picked up the napkin on the table, put on gloves, wiped the Vertu phone carefully, and put it back into 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 to Mikhail without saying anything more,
"Now we can clean this place up..."
When Catherine saw Mikhail take out three cameras from an unnoticed place in the room... not just in this room, but also in other places...
She finally understood what Barron meant by "clean up" and why he knew so much 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 slept for three hours, I think I should call you..."
…
Colin Hall is dead.
When the news reached the villa last night, Catherine's expression of surprise and sadness was hard to fake.
Barron knew that her behavior was probably caused not only by Colin's death, but also by the fact that this ending was likely to happen to her... and Barron.
One has to sigh that the Rothschild family is indeed very aggressive.
The other party actually used a tanker truck to hit the car Colin Hall was riding in. The explosion destroyed everything, even Colin Hall's body was gone.
This also made the cautious measures they had taken before seem a little redundant.
Such an "accident" involved the heir of a prominent banking family, so Scotland Yard would naturally not sit idly by and subsequently launched an investigation.
Scotland Yard questioned Mrs. Hall, Barron and Gabriel, who were present at the villa when Colin Hall left.
But these people are not ordinary people. Even if they are "inquiring", they have to pay attention to the methods and ways. What's more, there are lawyers who are watching them eagerly. The final result can be imagined.
Eventually, Benjamin Rothschild naturally learned that their "plan" had gone awry, and the person they arranged to physically eliminate was ultimately Colin Hall.
But no matter what, at this point, they could only hold their noses and mobilize their forces 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 and Devonshire families, they will choose to "sit on straw and taste gall"...
But in a few years, will Barron still care about them?
…
"How on earth can you let me go?"
"Madam, your behavior just now was not like this..."
Hearing Barron's teasing words, Catherine was so ashamed and angry that she wanted to die...
After Colin Hall's "accidental" death, Barron, as his "close partner", naturally had to comfort the young widow Catherine Hall.
After some extremely overbearing "comfort", Catherine now felt that she had no strength left in her body.
She had to admit that at many moments just now, she did feel a shock to her soul that she had never felt before...but now, she was indeed a little at a loss.
"Colin's father contacted me and said he was going to buy the shares of North Rock Bank that I could get..."
As mentioned before, the Hall family holds a total of 18% of the shares in Northern Rock Bank. These shares are held by three holding companies controlled by the Hall family.
As the heir of the Hall family, Colin Hall's holding company holds 8% of the bank's shares. In addition, he also holds shares in a private bank, Hall Bank.
I'm afraid that no matter what, Colin Hall would never have thought that there would be such an ending today, and Catherine would even give up his previous plan for this, so in his will, Catherine is his only heir to his property...
Now, in order to maintain control over Northrock Bank and the safety 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 still regards you as one of their own..."
"Haha, we can tell from the fact that they are about to buy back the shares, right?"
"Many times, their methods are not just financial... Think about it, Colin. So do you think that even if you return the shares to the Hall family as they ask, will you be safe?"
What Barron said was exactly what frightened Catherine - before that, she was just a noble lady, but what happened that night directly overturned her cognition. The dark side that was unconcealed was revealed, allowing her to see the cruelty.
This is not the warm and affectionate upper class society in TV dramas, but a life-and-death struggle...
"Wouldn't you be like that?"
Catherine looked at Barron deeply and said:
"That day you killed Colin..."
"You are wrong, Katherine."
Barron interrupted her and said mercilessly:
"It wasn't me, it was you who did it. And, at most, we were just following Colin's script, but he designed the script himself, so it's ironic that if what he wanted at first was just to get it right, then the result would be just to get it right; if he left no room for anything, then the result was also 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, that I will repay others double for what they have done to me, but as long as you remain loyal, I will be worthy of your trust, just like now, you stand by me, and I will guarantee your safety!"
"What if I sell these shares to you? Not only the shares of Northern Rock Bank, but also the shares of Hall Bank..."