Substitute Bride: Utterly Pampered by Her Billionaire Husband-Chapter 1242: I Won’t Leave Her Alone

"You and Melissa have long since recognized each other. You two, father and daughter, truly are birds of a feather. All these years, you’ve been building your own network of connections and influence around the old Chief. You’ve already woven your own web."

"But no matter how much you plotted, you didn’t expect that the old Chief would personally report to the higher-ups for me. The official document came down immediately, and I became the new Chief."

"You’re no longer willing to wait. While I haven’t fully secured my position as Chief and while the old Chief is still in a coma in the hospital, you want to leave me here on Mount Cinder forever!"

"Ha, hahaha," the confidential secretary laughed, "What a Blood Eagle you are. No wonder Julian Carter has valued you so highly all these years, treating you almost like his own son, nurturing and supporting you. Yes, you’re right in everything you said!"

"I’ve worked so hard beside Julian Carter all these years. The position of the new Chief was supposed to be mine. Why, just why do you deserve it and not me?"

The confidential secretary’s face twisted into a grotesque snarl of unwillingness, jealousy, and greed.

At that moment, a cold humph was heard, "Why, I would like to ask you just the same!"

The confidential secretary froze. This voice?

He quickly turned around. Julian Carter had arrived.

The confidential secretary was incredulous, "You... weren’t you supposed to be in a coma in the hospital?"

Julian Carter looked at this confidential secretary, "Did you think the poison you gave to Dianna was consumed by me? Actually, I never got poisoned at all. I was just waiting for this day to see your true face!"

The confidential secretary’s face turned as white as a sheet. He understood, he’d been duped.

This was the plan of Julian Carter and Mort Thorne.

This time he was caught red-handed, his connections and forces would be completely exposed and eradicated.

This last month, Mort Thorne and Julian Carter had shown restraint, and it turned out to be a setup, entrapping him like a turtle in a jar.

He had lost.

"You want to be the Chief, but do you know what the position of power entails?"

"You don’t understand why I favor Mort Thorne, because you’ve never fought your way through a blood-soaked path like he has, nor looked up from the darkness to await the dawn like he has. You have never sacrificed love for the country, shedding tears like Mort Thorne has."

"Without resilience and iron-clad determination, without pure belief, how can you step into this position as Chief? This position is a power granted by the people, and everything should be done in the interest of the people!"

Julian Carter’s words were forceful and resounded deeply in everyone’s heart.

To reach this position, who hasn’t made sacrifices?

He only recently found out that Melissa is not his biological daughter.

In that era, he and his late wife were arranged by superiors. She was a virtuous lady from a respectable family, and after marrying him, she remained kind and dutiful. There was no real love between them, but it was harmonious.

He didn’t know he had been cuckolded.

After marriage, he went undercover for several years, unable to return home or contact his family, and that was when the confidential secretary took advantage.

The confidential secretary was stunned; all devious forces crumble in the face of justice, leaving no place to hide.

But up to now, only a bloody fight remained. The confidential secretary sneered savagely, "Kill them for me!"

...

In the hotel room.

Dianna and Dotty played for a while, and then a melodious ringtone rang out. Her phone was calling.

She reached out her little hand for the phone. It was her mother Jodie Young calling.

She pressed the button to answer, "Hello, Mom."

"Dianna, didn’t you take Dotty to see Mort Thorne? But why do I see him leaving the hotel before dawn? Did you not explain everything to him, or did he intend to abandon you after becoming the Chief?"

"This is preposterous, how dare he mistreat my daughter like this, haven’t you done enough for him?"

"Dianna, don’t worry, I’m on my way to find Mort Thorne. I heard Mort Thorne is training at Mount Cinder, and I’ve already reached Mount Cinder. I’m going to make a scene at the military camp today. If he doesn’t give me an explanation, let’s see how he continues being Chief."

What?

Dianna immediately sat up from the bed; her mother actually went to Mount Cinder to find Mort Thorne?

Mort Thorne was handling business there, and Mount Cinder was quite dangerous.

How reckless.

"Mom, listen to me. Mort Thorne and I are fine; you need to return right now, immediately..."

Before Dianna could finish her words, a scream came from Jodie Young’s side, followed by a busy tone of "beep beep."

Jodie Young was unreachable.

Dianna dialed again, but a cold, mechanical female voice responded, saying that the number was out of service.

What happened to Mom?

Dianna’s face turned pale. She handed Dotty to the babysitter and left the hotel herself.

...

Dianna flagged down a taxi on the road, "Driver, to Mount Cinder, quickly."

The driver in front turned on the radio, "Young lady, why are you heading to Mount Cinder? I heard a category 1 tornado is landing on Mount Cinder at 2 PM today. The weather bureau has already issued a yellow alert. I can only get you close."

Dianna’s heart sank, a tornado is coming?

A tornado is actually coming.

Dianna checked the time. It was twelve o’clock, just two hours to go.

She pulled out her phone and dialed a number.

Very soon, an enchanting voice came through, "Hello, Dianna."

It was Leah Thorne.

"Leah, something’s wrong here!" Dianna clutched her phone and explained the situation.

The other end was silent for two seconds, "Dianna, don’t panic. Justin and I are heading over now, but listen, Dianna, there’s a powerful tornado landing around Mount Cinder. If you haven’t found your mom by 2 PM, evacuate immediately."

Dianna’s hands and feet were cold, but she nodded, "Okay, I got it."

She said, her eyes turning red, "Leah, once again, Mom has caused trouble, as if she’s always causing us problems. But I’ll bring her out, no matter what she’s done before. She gave me life; she’s always a mother: selfish, narrow-minded, burdensome, ridiculous... but it’s all her love."

"She has nothing left now, and she’s aging, so I won’t leave her alone."

Indeed, Mom is aging.

Day by day, Mom is truly fading and aging.

Jodie Young’s life has seen mistakes, choices, all like a ruthless blade of time, wantonly ravaging her appearance for so many days and nights. She too has felt pain.

Jodie Young, this mother, is such a pitiful yet hateful person.

Leah Thorne fell silent for a few more seconds on the other end, then curved her lips with a gentle tone, "Dianna, you’ve always been your mom’s pride."

There are many people in this world learning how to love others along their journey.

Dianna has always understood love. Those who love others love themselves, and self-love with love for others is an indomitable strength. She is the one Mort Thorne loves the most and the pride of her mother’s life.