Henry Stevens looked at the assistant with his piercing gaze. "Do I need to repeat myself?"
Although he didn't have any good feelings toward Charlotte Johnson, she was still the woman he had once...slept with.
Other men harassing her upset him!
The assistant immediately looked down. "Yes, President Stevens."
...
Charlotte made a call to her best friend, Mary Sullivan.
Mary had been her friend for many years.
Back in the day, Charlotte had given birth to eight children.
Fearing that she wouldn't be able to support eight children and would drag them down, all her relatives and friends stayed away from her.
Only Mary stayed by her side.
Mary happened to be at Charlotte's house right now.
She was on a break, so she had come to visit Charlotte's eight children today.
The eight children were so cute that Mary wished she could be with them every day.
Octavia, in particular, was adorable and delicate.
She had big eyes, a round face, and a cute voice.
When Octavia saw her coming, she insisted on a hug.
Then she pulled away, went to the refrigerator, and stood on her tiptoes to get a bottle of strawberry milk.
Yolanda thought that Octavia was going to drink strawberry milk again and immediately stopped her. "You already drank your share for today, so you can't have any more!"
It wasn't that Yolanda wasn't affectionate towards her grandchildren. She had to raise eight children, so the financial pressure was too great.
All the food and clothing costs had to be carefully calculated.
Octavia said, "Grandma, I'm not drinking it. I'm giving it to Auntie Sullivan. I don't want the portion for tomorrow. Give it to Auntie Sullivan."
Mary's heart melted when she heard that. She kept refusing.
Octavia insisted, "Auntie, you must. Mom said that you are her best friend. We must treat Auntie Sullivan well."
As soon as they heard her voice, the other children also chimed in.
"I can also give my share of strawberry milk to Auntie Sullivan." "Me too, me too..."
Mary couldn't help but laugh.
Okay...
Everyone thought that her good friend Charlotte would collapse from raising eight children and become an old hag at a young age.
But Charlotte had not done so. She lived happily.
In addition to Charlotte being optimistic by nature, this was also because her eight babies were so sensible.
Just when Octavia was about to force the milk into Mary's hands, Mary's phone rang.
Charlotte was calling.
To let the eight children hear their mother's voice, Mary put her on speaker.
But Charlotte didn't know that Mary was at her home. As soon as she got on the phone, she told Mary that she had been harassed by a man named Jack Jones at the company where she worked and that he had ordered her to go to a hotel. If she did not go, he would drive her out of the company.
Mary listened.
Charlotte spoke too quickly, and it took a moment for Mary to catch up. She immediately took the phone and went outside to answer.
Yolanda was busy in the kitchen and didn't hear it, but the eight children heard clearly. After they looked at each other for a while, Octavia's eyes reddened. "What should we do? Someone is bullying Mom."
"I heard it too. His name is Jack Jones!" Primo raised his small fists. "I'm going to beat him up. How dare he bully Mom? I will never forgive him!"
Quarto was the calmest and said to Primo, "Don't be impulsive. We are too young to beat others up. I just heard Mom say that this man has a wife. We should tell his wife about this."
Quinto agreed. "On TV, wives are strict with their husbands. Telling his wife would definitely be useful."
Octavia bit her pink lips. "But how do we get in touch with the scumbag's wife?"
Tercero's eyes lit up. "I have a plan."
...
The eight children went into the bedroom. Tercero turned on Charlotte's computer and started typing. "Mom works for the Stevens Corporation. I'm now hacking into the Stevens Corporation's employee system. The bad guy is called Jack Jones. There should be contact information for the employees' family members."
After he spoke, the computer screen turned black, and a row of English characters flashed on it.
Although the other seven children didn't understand, they still stared at it attentively.
If Charlotte saw this scene, she would be amazed.
Other than the seven children, no one knew that Tercero was a computer genius.
Charlotte attached great importance to her children's education.
Of course, the most important aspect was that the eight children were surprisingly smart. By the time they were three years old, they had already learned to read.
Charlotte often took the eight children to the bookstore to read.
Because there were too many children, she couldn't pay attention to what books each child was reading. She thought that the eight children were all reading cartoon fairy tale books.
She had no idea.
Every time, Tercero read computer hacking books that many adults couldn't even comprehend.
At this moment, Tercero's talent came into play.
Ten minutes later, Tercero found the phone number of Jack Jones' wife, Caroline Lewis.
Tercero diligently recorded it, then touched the keyboard with his small fingers. "I will send this number to Mom's phone now and let Mom go tell his wife."
...
At the Stevens Corporation, Charlotte and Mary let out long sighs of relief.
At that moment, Charlotte's phone dinged.
A strange text message had appeared.
The sender's number turned out to be hidden, and the content of the text message read, "The phone number of Jack's wife, Caroline Lewis: 13..."
Charlotte looked at it in silence.
She wondered, could it be that when Jack had harassed her, someone from the company had heard them and sent this text message to her?
It seemed that the company still had good people!
Charlotte made a call and found out that the number did belong to Jack's wife.
She did not reveal her identity but asked Jack's wife to go to Room 302 of the Ritz Hotel at 9:02.
She knew that the other party definitely would not believe her if she made the call so out of the blue.
So she asked the other party to come in person.
When she heard the things Jack said to her, the other party would understand everything!
...
After getting off work, Charlotte returned home.
As usual, Octavia gave her a sweet kiss on her face and said in a tiny voice, "Mom, with us here, no one will bully you!"
The other seven children said in unison, "We will protect Mom forever like the stars guarding the moon!"
Charlotte just looked at them.
What was the matter with these children?
But soon after that, Charlotte saw that someone seemed to have touched her computer.
Charlotte immediately called Tercero over.
She had noticed before that Tercero liked to touch her computer.
Charlotte said softly, "Tercero, you are still young, so you can't play games on the computer. Children shouldn't touch the computer."
Tercero said, "Mom, I don't play games. I want to be a hacker."
Charlotte felt helpless.
A four-year-old kid wanted to be a hacker.
How could that be possible?
It was impossible even for a genius.
She deliberately pretended to be upset. "Tercero, Mom doesn't like children who lie."Tercero sighed.
Ah.
If Mom didn't believe him, then so be it, lest he scare her with his skills.
Tercero nodded obediently.
Charlotte laughed.
She kissed his face. "My Tercero is the best."
"Mom, I'm good too." Octavia leaned over. The bread she had just eaten was still in her mouth. With her cheeks bulging, she looked like a little goldfish.
Charlotte kissed Octavia on the cheek, too.
The other six babies leaned over one after another. "Mom, I want a kiss too. I want akiss too."
By the time Charlotte finished kissing them one by one, it was already half past eight.
After she cleaned up a bit, she went to the Ritz Hotel.
The door to Room 302 was open.
Jack was waiting for her.
Charlotte sneered.
Hmph!
You pervert, she thought, just you wait! See how your wife will settle the account with you!
She pushed open the door and went in.
The scene in front of her made her eyes widen in disbelief. An expression of horror appeared on her face.
...
Jack Jones was dead.
He was lying on the ground naked, and a fruit knife was sticking out from under his belly. The scene was horrific.
"Ah!"
Charlotte screamed when she saw it.
Frightened, she turned around, wanting to run and call someone over, but when she turned, she bumped into a woman.
The woman was heavyset and had a face full of flesh.
She passed Charlotte and looked at her dead husband on the bed. After a moment, she stared at Charlotte. "You told me to come."
Charlotte was shocked and horrified, but she nodded instinctively.
The woman suddenly shouted, "Someone come! There's been a murder! This b*tch killed my husband!"
Charlotte was silent.
...
Charlotte was sent to the Public Security Bureau.
She was identified as the prime suspect.
Charlotte's fingerprints were on the fruit knife that had killed Jack.
There were only her fingerprints.
...
The news of Charlotte committing murder soon spread throughout the community.
Everyone discussed the scandal.
"Did you hear about how Charlotte killed someone? A manager at that company was killed. Tsk, tsk! The killing method was exceedingly cruel, too!"
"With how fragile and weak she usually appears, I didn't expect her to be capable of killing a person!"
"Don't blame her. Think about it-she gave birth to eight children! There is no father, either! What woman could stand that? The burden would be too great!"
"But she usually seems so happy!"
"That's all an act! If you had to raise eight children, would you be happy?"
"But I think her eight children are quite cute, unlike naughty children that are annoying to look at."
"Even if they are cute, there are eight of them, you know? Normal people couldn't stand three children, let alone eight!"
"Ah, she gave birth to too many children, and it made her a psychopath."
Yolanda Jones was dumbfounded when she heard that her daughter had murdered someone and that the evidence was conclusive.
After standing there in a daze for a long time, she sat down on the ground and started crying.
"My daughter, how could you do such a stupid thing? Why are you so stupid?
"Although I always complain about how you gave birth to so many children and blame you for not letting your mother enjoy bliss like Lily lets her parents do, I really like those eight children. When I see them, I feel joyful and sweet inside!
"Now that you have killed someone, what will your children do? Why don't you think about your children?"
She fell silent.
Octavia took a tissue and wiped Yolanda's eyes with a sob in her voice. "Grandma, don't cry. Grandma, please don't cry."
As she consoled Yolanda, Octavia herself was about to cry.
How could Mom commit murder?
Mom would never kill someone!
Someone must have framed her!
Yolanda hugged Octavia. "Octavia, how could your stupid mother kill someone?"
"Grandma!" Octavia's eyes were red, but she was very firm. "Mom would never kill someone. Quarto just said he would prove that Mom is innocent."
Yolanda felt sadness welling up inside her.
How could a child prove that Charlotte was innocent?
Yolanda felt sadder the more she thought about it. In the end, she could barely catch her breath.
Many years ago, her daughter and the neighbor's daughter, Lily, had been born at the same time.
Charlotte had been better than Lily in all aspects since they were children.
But why had they turned out so different?
Lily had found a wealthy boyfriend and started living a high life. Her family shared in the wealth and fortune as well.
It was bad enough that her daughter had given birth to eight children for some mysterious reason, but now, she was also a murderer!