Chapter 1614:

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Meanwhile, Vicki and Lowe faced their consequences, imprisoned without bail. Their futures looked grim. Lowe’s involvement in serious crimes was likely to earn him a lengthy sentence, potentially over a decade, while Vicki’s secretive dealings had finally caught up with her, ensuring a significant prison term was also in her future.

The extent of their sentences would heavily depend on the Hampton family’s influence.

Even with the Hamptons’ willingness to save Vicki, her future looked bleak, ruined by her past evil deeds.

Doreen had been the least involved and had been detained for only a month, owing in part to Jarrod’s efforts.

Jarrod had sent lawyers to negotiate for Doreen, a gesture that neither Doreen nor Hallie appreciated. To them, Jarrod was a traitor. They assumed he had sided with Nicole and intentionally put Doreen behind bars, even distancing himself from them.

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What Doreen and Hallie didn’t know was that the Hampton family had a vindictive nature, and they had already blamed Doreen for Vicki’s ruin. If they decided to seek revenge, the consequences would be severe.

The Watts family also posed a threat. Doreen had only spent a short time with them, but her failure to win Roscoe over turned her into a twisted woman. Many members of the Watts family had been offended by her rude and spoiled behavior.

At present, the Watts family’s power was in decline, and those who had once leeched off their status and influence found themselves at a loss after being driven out by Roscoe. Unable to let go of their accustomed high life, they might resort to desperate measures.

If Doreen remained in Ardlens, it wouldn’t be unlikely for her to cross paths with those from the Watts family who held a grudge and were looking for revenge.

Right now, the best course of action was for Doreen and Hallie to lie low abroad. It was the only way to avoid trouble.

However, neither Doreen nor Hallie understood Jarrod’s good intentions. They were convinced that he had been bewitched by Nicole and was doing everything in her favor.

As she was being taken away, Hallie, seething, protested, “How could you do this to me? Have you forgotten how good I was to you? I helped you when you were nothing! I can’t believe you’re treating your family like this just for that woman!”

It was a feeble claim. The help Hallie had thrown in Jarrod’s face amounted to a paltry sum of a few thousand dollars. She considered herself kind enough not to add fuel to the flames while Jarrod was down and out. Perhaps back then, she had still been human enough for charity.

However, Jarrod’s acts of repaying the kindness far exceeded the value of that small amount of money from long ago.

But Hallie didn’t see things that way. As entitled as ever, she felt that the world owed her everything she desired. Now that Jarrod was a wealthy man, she expected him to give her more. She wanted him to stay unmarried and without children so that all his assets would be left to her.

Greed ran much deeper than anyone could imagine, and endurance for old times’ sake only served to feed it.

If Jarrod hadn’t continuously repaid Hallie out of gratitude and a sense of familial obligation, Hallie and Doreen wouldn’t have developed such a warped sense of entitlement.

After Hallie was whisked away, the commotion gradually fizzled out.

Seeing that Rhett was there, Jarrod knew Nicole must have had something to discuss to summon Rhett over.

“Have you decided?” Jarrod asked.

“Yes,” Nicole replied evenly.

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