Chapter 312: PAIN (3)

"So, what exactly are we doing here?" asked Aileen in a bored tone, she then flopped down on the sofa where Hailee sat before, looking at Giana who didn't manage to get access out of this room.

Instead of answering Aileen's question, she asked her own. "You know Leon? How did you come across him?" Giana asked in an unfriendly tone, still annoyed that she wasn't allowed to leave. She would call Dillon to pick her up if in the next hour she didn't get any information about why she had to spend time at one of Leon's properties with Aileen and Hailee.

"Yes, I know him." Aileen then looked at Giana with eyes full of judgment. "He's a member of the Dawson family, isn't he? Leon Dawson. Or better known as Herbert Long to some people."

Yes, Aileen had carried out her own investigation to find out the background of the mysterious man who offered to work with her.

So she knew more or less about Leon and his relationship with the Dawsons, but that was all there was to it. Because there really wasn't much that she could get her hands on, considering that she didn't have as much influence as the well-known families from City A.

"How do you know him?" asked Giana. Looks like she'll be seeing Aileen more often after this. Somehow she had such a feeling.

Regardless of the problem with the video between Aidan and Zia or other problems related to Hailee.

"He doesn't like Ramon and I don't like Hailee. We help each other," replied Aileen while shrugging her shoulders nonchalantly. "Then, what does that have to do with you other than you being his niece? I don't think you have any problem with Ramon or Hailee…" Aileen looked at Giana with probing eyes, of course she didn't know about the affair between Giana and Ramon when she was still Aidan's wife.

"You don't need to know about that," Giana answered briefly, then turned away to hide her expression. Leon hates Ramon?

Aileen's statement just now left her quite surprised, because Giana never knew that Leon hated Ramon.

Didn't Giana tell Leon about her relationship with Ramon and he was the only person who supported her? Then why is Aileen now saying that Leon hates Ramon?

Is Leon just tricking the woman or… Leon hates Ramon because he married Hailee and left Giana? Because after all, Leon knows how much Giana loves Ramon.

Seems like the latter possibility is much more plausible…

"Want a Drink?" asked Giana as she grabbed a bottle of whiskey and asked Aileen if she needed a little alcohol to calm her nerves after a long night.

Aileen glanced at the window and saw that the sun was almost shining, which meant that she hadn't slept for an entire night.

So much had happened that she felt the calm yesterday was like a day from a few weeks ago.

"It's too early for a glass of alcohol," Aileen grumbled, but a moment later she said, "I'd like a beer. Is there any beer here?"

Giana rolled her eyes at that. "You have absolutely no taste."

"Don't criticize my taste, when you have bad taste too," Aileen replied to Giana and she referenced her words to Aidan.

"Says someone who has almost the same problem as me," Giana answered briefly and to the point, which was able to turn Aileen instantly quiet.

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"What do you want to do with Hailee?" asked Lexus calmly. "You want to kill her? To upset my brother?"

"He's not your brother," Leon said when he heard Lexus associating himself with Ramon. "That bastard born to a jerk isn't your brother."

Lexus raised his eyebrows mockingly at Leon. "It's up to you what you want to say, but for sure I love Ramon more." He then chuckled, as if he had just heard the funniest joke he had ever made.

A similar reaction, which Leon often had when he wanted to mock his interlocutor.

"So, where is Hailee?" asked Lexus, after he suddenly stopped laughing. The man looked even more serious than before.

Lexus then stood up and walked over to Leon, crouched in front of him and looked him straight in the eye.

"If anything happens to Hailee, I'll make your life miserable until you start begging to be killed." Lexus paused in his sentence to see how Leon would react. "I will kill you slowly, cut your body into small pieces and let you watch how the hungry dogs eat the flesh off your own body."

Leon couldn't believe what he heard just now and wanted to laugh at himself. How could what Ramon said Lexus would do, actually be said directly by this son with such dreadful sincerity?

But, what Leon didn't really know was; it was Lexus' favorite line when he wanted to threaten someone and Ramon had heard it so many times.

"Did your men bring Hailee out of this town?" asked Lexus. He looked Leon straight into his eyes intently. "Yeah, your men took her out of this town," Lexus muttered.

Then he asked a few more questions which he answered himself by just looking at the expressions on Leon's face.

"Why are you surprised?" asked Lexus after a few questions. "Did I forget to tell you that I am very good at reading micro expressions?"

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Ramon remembered everything...

His meeting with Giana, how he approached her and also the reason why he was able to have the affair…

It all started because of  Leon...

No, Ramon had known that Lexus was Leon's biological son since a few years ago, when he got to know Giana.

Knowing the closeness of Giana and Leon, even though the man had disappeared from the Dawson family and his name was removed from the heir recipient, it turned out that Giana still occasionally communicated with the man.

And arguably, Giana is much closer emotionally to Leon, than her own father.

Knowing this and also Giana's very clear purpose when she started approaching Ramon because she felt this man gave her the green light, made Ramon take advantage of the situation and establish such a relationship with Giana two years ago.

With all this in mind, Ramon couldn't help but think of his ambition to make himself step over the edge...

Not only that… the memories of the past hit his head again, making his vision blur and he had to grit his teeth to endure the almost unbearable pain.