Mrs Hale, I Surrender
Chapter 309 - 308 Vicious woman, utterly rotten-hearted (6 updates)

Chapter 309: 308 Vicious woman, utterly rotten-hearted (6 updates)

Jovan Gonzalez continued, "I have filed my resignation, and the shares you gifted me when we married, I’ve transferred them all to Tim."

"Iva Payne!" the Payne Family was shocked, "Have you lost your mind? What are you doing?"

"Everything the Payne Family has given me over the years, I’ve returned to you."

"You gave the shares to Tim Payne, are you out of your mind!"

Iva Payne gritted her teeth, "Even if you didn’t want the Payne Corps shares, you should have given them to our own daughter, not to an outsider!"

"Yes, Dad?" Celine also looked confused.

"You should have discussed these things with us, has someone threatened you?"

Jovan Gonzalez smiled lightly, "An outsider? Tim is like my own son, someone I watched grow up. So in your heart, he’s always been an outsider?"

"You..." Iva Payne was so furious she clenched her teeth.

She was panicked and spoke without thinking.

"The shares were a pre-marriage gift from Mr. Payne, not marital property. How I handle them is my business, and I don’t need to inform anyone. Also..."

"I’ve already consulted a lawyer and prepared a divorce agreement."

Jovan Gonzalez pulled out a few bound pages from his briefcase, "Iva Payne, let’s get a divorce."

"As for the marital assets, including our child, I want nothing; I will leave with nothing."

The crowd was in an uproar.

Discussing divorce now?

The Payne Family drama is getting even more interesting!

"Dad, what are you doing? Why do you want to divorce Mom? You’ve been married for over twenty years, and you’ve always seemed so close!"

"It was all for show."

"Jovan Gonzalez, if you think you can divorce me, let me tell you, you have no chance. Everything you have is because of the Payne Family, and without the Payne Family, you are nothing!"

Jovan Gonzalez chuckled lowly, "Maybe, who cares."

Iva Payne dashed forward, snatched the divorce papers, tore them up, and threw them on the ground, "I don’t agree!"

"Then we’ll have to settle this in court. Are you sure you want to make this so embarrassing for me at this time?"

Jovan’s words razed Iva’s face with embarrassment.

At this critical moment in the struggle for the company, though personal matters should be separate from business, a family discord, especially a husband preferring to give shares to Tim Payne rather than keeping them, is quite telling.

After all...

The person who sleeps by your side is one of those who know you best.

"Jovan, have you thought this through?" Mr. Payne frowned deeply.

"Dad, stop trying to persuade me. You know how our relationship has been these years. I was willing to marry into the family because I loved her. I just never expected her to be so ruthless..."

"She even dared to kill her own niece to take over the company."

"This kind of vile, treacherous woman, sleeping beside her, I always worry that one day while I’m asleep, she might slit my throat."

The reporters around were stunned.

In all their years of reporting, they had never seen anything like this, a husband openly accusing his wife.

"Iva Payne!" Iva made a swift move forward and slapped Jovan, "You can desire a divorce, I might agree, but you can’t defame me just to get one."

"That year you had someone sabotage the car, causing an accident, resulting in two deaths and one missing."

"That’s nonsense!"

Iva went to hit him again but was stopped by Mario Payne, "Brother? Do you believe him?"

"If you didn’t do it, there’s no need to panic. Let him finish."

Tim Payne chuckled lowly, "Indeed, Aunt, you wouldn’t be freaking out because you’re afraid of being exposed for what you did back then, wanting to shut Uncle up, would you?"

"Shut up! You have no say here."

"If it involves my sister, it concerns me! You are a murderer!"

"I did not!" Iva Payne gritted her teeth, "Jovan Gonzalez, do you have any evidence?"

"Yes!"

Iva Payne’s face changed drastically.

She had known her husband for many years.

Unassuming and kind, appearing gentle yet very principled, the couple had often disagreed on how to manage the company over the years, leading to discord and separate living arrangements under one roof.

He would never fight a battle he wasn’t sure of winning.

Everyone present held their breath.

It had been assumed to be an internal dispute within the Payne Family, but once it escalated to a matter of life and death, it was no joking matter.

At that moment, Assistant Law came in beside Tim Payne, followed by a brown-haired foreigner, whose eyes were soulless and body skeletal, like a wandering ghost in this world.

"Speak about the event from 20 years ago," Assistant Law communicated with him in English.

The man muttered for a long time.

Assistant Law translated, "He said that someone paid him $500,000 to tamper with a car’s wiring and he used a screwdriver to break the fuel line of the generator."

"Only later, when he saw the news, did he learn that the car had an accident and plunged into the sea, causing the death of three Chinese."

"You’re full of shit; do you think you can just pick someone to frame me?" Iva Payne didn’t recognize him, after all, when hiring, she didn’t know whether the person carrying out the task was male or female.

The less she knew, the better.

Jovan Gonzalez smirked and then took several pieces of paper out of a bag and handed them to Mario Payne.

"This money was laundered through the purchase of antiques, but the vase she acquired was worth at most $5—she planned to launder the money and then transfer it."

"Meanwhile, this man won a $500,000 lottery ticket."

"All of this can hardly be a coincidence."

Everyone gasped.

Money was laundered through the purchase of fake antiques and then channeled out through lottery winnings.

If anyone wanted to audit this in the future, it would probably be difficult.

One must admit, Iva Payne did her job very cleanly.

After all, at the time of the car accident, the police must have suspected it was not an accident and naturally investigated if there was anyone suspicious in the Payne Family.

Yet no trace was found, evidence she had covered her tracks well.

"Iva, is it true?" Julia Yates looked at her.

"Sister-in-law, this is just one side of the story. I spent money on antiques and ended up with a fake; it just shows I was deceived, but what does it have to do with me that this man won $500,000 on a lottery?"

Iva Payne spoke confidently, sure of her ground.

"Jovan Gonzalez, if you want a divorce, you can just tell me; there’s no need to drag up so much drama."

"Aren’t you curious at all how, despite your secretive actions, I could still find out?"

"It’s all fake; how would I know!"

"Because during the car accident, I was at the scene..."

When he said this, Iva Payne was stunned for several seconds.

"There’s something you might not know; that child from then actually didn’t die."

"The accident happened suddenly, and after the car plunged into the sea, the driver or the assistant in the car lifted the child out, but she had almost drowned. By the time I rescued her, she had fallen unconscious."

"Jovan?" Mario Payne was shocked, "Are you saying you saved my daughter?"

"Brother, I’m sorry, the situation was urgent back then and I was afraid someone wanted to harm her, so I didn’t tell you. After such an event, there was definitely a mole in the family."

At that time, Jovan Gonzalez had sensed something.

"I didn’t dare to keep her abroad, I silently brought her back to our country and had her hospitalized."

"How did you secretly bring her back to the country?" Iva Payne’s pupils dilated, not believing her husband’s words.

"Payne Corps has a dedicated line for transporting gemstone roughs; given my position, it’s not hard to bring a few people back to the country."

"It was chaotic at home at that time, and later, at the hospital..."

"She suddenly disappeared."

"After she was gone, the police closed the case as an accident, ruling she had died, and I had to suppress the whole thing. But over the years, I never gave up searching for the truth about what happened, and I have been secretly looking for her whereabouts."

"But it turns out, after all these searches... it led back to my own wife."

When Jovan Gonzalez finished speaking, the entire lounge was deadly silent.