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Whether Hayley could seize the opportunity entirely depended on her own mindset.
Besides, this was the Zamora family business, and the butler knew Harris wasn’t really expecting an answer.
Harris sat on the sofa in silence for a long time before slowly getting up and speaking in a deep voice, “No matter what her final choice is, I’ve already given her the opportunity. As for where she goes from here, that’s up to her own luck.”
The butler came over to Harris’s side and gave him a hand.
Harris sighed quietly and made his way back to his room.
Back in the living room of the annex, Hayley just sat there, staring off into space.
Having just emailed her resignation letter from the study, Zara looked up to see Hayley sitting on the sofa, lost in thought.
Hayley’s brow was furrowed the whole time, and Zara couldn’t help but feel a bit uneasy.
She walked over and asked softly, “Mom, what’s wrong?”
Hayley looked up at Zara and let out a silent sigh.
“Next week is Marina’s birthday, and Harris wants to throw her a party at the Zamora mansion,” she said.
Hearing that, Zara’s eyes flickered with disappointment.
‘If Harris is willing to throw a birthday party for Marina, it means he’s truly accepted her into the family as Daron’s wife, Zara thought to herself.
She wasn’t surprised at all that Harris had accepted Marina so quickly.
After all, Marina and Daron had been engaged from the start.
It was Harris who’d chosen Marina to be Daron’s wife from the very beginning.
But now that Harris had accepted Marina, Zara knew her own path would only get tougher.
“Mom, it’s actually okay,” Zara said soothingly to Hayley.
Hayley was silent for a moment, then quietly admitted to Zara, “Honestly, this isn’t really what’s bothering
me…”
She lowered her voice and glanced at Zara, then continued, “Harris wants me to give Marina the keys to the
annex.”
At these words, Zara’s face fell.
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They had sold off the valuable items in the annex. What remained were just inconspicuous and worthless things.
Zara understood why Hayley was worried.
After all, once Marina got the keys to the annex, she’d definitely go over there to check things out right away.
If Marina checked, everything they had been doing during this period would be exposed to Daron.
Putting everything else aside, the mere fact that they tried to sell Wilhelmina’s belongings to leave while Daron was critically ill in the hospital was something Daron could never forgive.
Zara bit her lip and finally whispered, “Why don’t we try to buy back what we sold while we still have time?”
But…“Hayley nodded. “Sounds good. But…”
When they were selling those items off, they were in a hurry to dispose of them, so the prices weren’t very high. If they wanted to repurchase the items, the prices would be much higher.
Seeing Hayley still hesitating, Zara quickly said, “Let’s first acquire the noticeable or eye–catching part. For the rest, if we can’t repurchase it, we’ll use counterfeits as substitutes.
“Mom, we absolutely can’t let Daron find out what we’ve done, or…”
Zara couldn’t imagine how Daron would look at them with disappointed eyes after learning about all these things.
Originally, Daron would always stand up for them no matter what happened. If even Daron were unwilling to believe them anymore, then life for them within the Zamora family would become tough from then on.
Hayley finally nodded after Zara urged her. “Alright.“.
She immediately started reaching out to the buyers she’d sold the items to.
However, upon hearing that she intended to buy back the jewelry she had sold, they naturally raised the price.
Hayley couldn’t help but take a deep breath when she heard the new price.
“That’s way too much!” Hayley said, her voice tinged with frustration. “When I sold it to you just a few days ago-”
But the buyer didn’t even let her finish before cutting her off. “When you sold it to me, you were in a rush to get rid of it. But I’m not pressed at all. The longer I keep these, the higher the price goes.
“You can’t even find pink diamonds with this kind of luster on the market anymore.
“Look, I’m only offering you this price because I know you really want it back. If you can’t afford it, then forget it.”
Upon hearing this, Hayley gritted her teeth, but knowing she couldn’t afford to offend them, she just smiled and said, “I’ll think about it.”
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Zara sat down next to Hayley. Seeing Hayley hang up the phone with a disappointed look, Zara couldn’t help but ask, “What happened? Did they refuse to sell it back to you?”
Hayley took a deep breath, her frustration barely hidden, and replied, “They’re willing to sell them to us, but the price they’re asking is more than fifty percent higher than what I sold them for.
“If I were to buy back all those accessories now, the money I have on hand definitely wouldn’t be enough.”
Zara’s face went pale at those words.
Hayley sat on the sofa, thinking for a long time before speaking up, “But we could just use fakes instead.
“Wilhelmina’s things have been in the annex for so long, hardly anyone’s even seen them.
“As long as we get replicas that look just as shiny and have the same design, no one will ever know the difference.
“Even if someone finds out later, we can just blame it all on others.”
As soon as she said it, Hayley’s eyes lit up. She was convinced her plan would work.
‘If we’re discovered in the future, since I’ve already handed the key over to Marina, we could even try to pin the blame on Marina at that point, Hayley thought to herself.
Zara saw the crazy look in Hayley’s eyes and immediately got what she was planning.
She hesitated, but then remembered how much cash they’d have to scrounge up to buy all those pieces back.
Going to such great lengths to handle this matter might still lead to being discovered, Zara thought. ‘It would be better to put a fake one back in place. At least no one will notice in the short term.‘
Zara looked Hayley in the eye, then finally nodded.
When Hayley saw Zara agree, she felt a wave of relief wash over her.
Hayley then said, “Over the years, I’ve been buying jewelry all over the place and have gotten to know quite a few people in this industry.
“If I asked them to replicate a few designs from pictures, they’d definitely agree while keeping it a secret from everyone else.
“That way, we get to keep all the cash for ourselves.”
As Hayley spoke, she couldn’t hide the greedy glint in her eyes.
Over the years, Hayley had been living a prosperous life relying on the 2% dividend from her shares in the Zamora Group.
But when she took out Wilhelmina’s jewelry to sell, she found that a tiny pink diamond alone was worth tens of millions of dollars.
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At that moment, Hayley truly realized just how vastly different her life was from the one Wilhelmina had lived.
It was simply unimaginable to own jewelry worth tens of millions of dollars twenty years ago, and not just one piece.
Even today, it was only by selling Wilhelmina’s belongings that Hayley’s savings reached hundreds of millions of dollars.
Now, asking her to give that money back was something she truly couldn’t bear to do.
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Sara Lili is a daring romance writer who turns icy landscapes into scenes of fiery passion. She loves crafting hot love stories while embracing the chill of Iceland’s breathtaking cold.
