Five years ago?
Clara was stunned.
Five years ago, she was still Horace's wife.
"Five years ago?" Horace seemed to be as confused as Clara, "But I don't know you and I cannot remember what I did to you five years ago."
"You don't know me. But I know you!" the robber shouted again, "You, the president of Solrace! Five years ago, I invest all my money on your company. Remember what you promised to our shareholders of Sorlace? You told us to believe you. You said you wouldn't let us lose our money. But what have you done?"
The robber had almost lost his mind.
"Then the information of Solrace's clients was leaked. The stock price plummeted and I lost all of my money! My wife also took my child away. I had to wander about here and there alone. It was all because of you, bastard! And you're still living a luxurious life as if nothing had happened! You don't deserve to live. Now just go to hell, son of bitch!"
Oh, that fund!
After he finished, Clara heard the screaming from the crowd and also the laughter of the robber and the mourning of Horace.
Clara tried to move closer as she was so worried about Horace. But before she could see what happened in the main hall, she was stopped by Andre.
"What are you doing? I know you don't care about your own life. But consider Neo! We should leave here right now and call the police. It's none of our business here."
Andre held Clara's arm tightly and he looked quite nervous. Longer they stayed here, more dangerous it might be. He didn't want to die with Clara together yet.
What he cared was the safety of Clara and Neo. He didn't want to risk his life to save other people.
"That's my business!" Neo glared at Andre and then turned to Clara with tears in his eyes, "Shall we save dad together, mom?"
Clara looked at Neo for a while and finally chose to leave. After all, she didn't want Neo to be in danger. As for Horace… now he had nothing to do with her.
Clara took Neo and was about to leave with Andre. But then the she heard some words of the robber and she suddenly stopped.
"It was you who leaked the clients' information, right?"
Those words rally shocked Clara. When information leakage happened just after she was kidnapped and by then she was still in hospital.
Clara felt quite moved. Horace had done a lot for her. He did love her so much…
"We have to leave here now, Clara! Otherwise, it would be too late…" Andre even wanted to knock her out and take her away. He didn't know what she was hesitating for.
Clara was still unwilling to forgive what he did to her child and herself. But now Clara couldn't leave him behind.
She pushed Neo into Andre's arms and said seriously, "You take Neo and go. I still got something to do here."
Horace was now threatened by the robber because of her. She couldn't watch him die.
"You're out of your mind!" With Neo in arms, Andre stood in front of her to stop her, "Don't be a fool. It's not the time to stay here. Just go with me!"
Then Andre tried to took her but Clara had made up her mind not to leave. She didn't want to live the rest of her life in guilt.
"I've made the decision. Just take Neo go and take care of him, please."
She looked at her child affectionately for a while then shook Andre off to run into the main hall.
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