Chapter 494 – Catching Leo Bort
Lisa looked at her slyly, “He called, it’s just that you were on the line at that time Superintendent, that’s why he found me and asked me to give it to you.”
Christine White raised an eyebrow, then the corner of her mouth twitched.
So that’s it.
She did just talk to Baird Lane on the phone for a long time.
“Okay, I get it, anything else?” Christine White held her forehead.
Lisa pulled out her own laptop and flipped it open, “You have a client to meet with at 4:00 p. m. Director, so don’t forget.”
“No.” Christine White nodded.
Lisa closed the laptop, “Then Superintendent, I’ll head out.”
With that, she turned toward the door.
Christine White looked at her back and smiled, shaking her head.
She then put the smile on her face away and with a serious expression, she plugged the flash drive into her computer and read what was inside, which was a video.
Christine White frowned suspiciously and clicked the video on, and a face so familiar that she hated it appeared on the screen.
That’s, Leo Bort!
Christine White’s eyes were dead set on Leo Bort in the video, after six years, he had aged a lot, his hair was all gray, his face was creased with wrinkles, he looked like a seventy year old man.
Moreover, he was very thin, his cheekbones and chin were sharp, his eyes were sunken in, and together with the wrinkles on his face, it made him look like he didn’t have a bit of the kindness that an old man should have, and to say that he was snarky would not be an exaggeration.
If she remembered correctly, he was only fifty-seven this year, but he looked like he was seventy, and she didn’t know what he’d been through in the past six years, but it was obvious that he’d had a bad time.
This was certainly a good thing for Christine White, who felt happy as long as Leo Bort was not doing well!Content (C) Nôv/elDra/ma.Org.
Christine White stared intently at the video, which showed Leo Bort bound in hand chains and ankle cuffs to a rusty, single iron bed, his entire body with its eyes closed, seemingly still unconscious and not waking up.
And he was in a dark, damp environment with not a single source of light, only a small, dimly lit station that barely illuminated everything around him.
Christine White looked at it for a long time before she could see that it appeared to be a secret room.
So Leo Bort was captured by Bess Camp’s men and locked up in a secret room.
As he was thinking about it, the phone in his hand rang.
Christine White paused the video and picked up her cell phone and smiled, answering it quickly, “Brother.”
“Did you get your brother’s gift?” Bess Camp asked with a smile.
Christine White immediately responded that the gift he was talking about would be the flash, nodding heavily, “Roger that, I’m admiring it now.”
“Like it?” Bess Camp asked again.
Christine White’s mouth quirked up as she watched a descriptive Leo Bort on the video, “Of course, it’s the best gift I’ve received this year, ever!”
“That’s good.” Bess Camp said with satisfaction.
Christine White leaned back in her chair, “Brother, where did you find him?”
“In the country.”
“Is that the same countryside where I gave that tip earlier?” Christine White asked.
Bess Camp hmmm’d, “That’s right, he changed his name to live in his old home and looks so much paler than he used to that the men I sent over there almost didn’t recognize him and were about to give up and leave when one of the villagers called out his old name and that’s how we caught him.”
“So, I can’t believe I’m being punked by the villagers.” Christine White burst out laughing in a good mood.
Bess Camp laughs back, “Yeah.”
“But why would Leo Bort be in his old neighborhood, and change his name, and look like he’s having a bad time?” This is what Christine White is most confused about at the moment.
Bess Camp answered her, “He was sent back by Molly Bort, as for the reason, there are only those kinds of reasons, either they are worried that you will come back someday and take revenge, after all, Molly Bort is the one who believes most that you are still alive, the other is worried that someday Baird Lane regained his memories, he will also dispose of them, so Molly Bort then sent him to the country.”
“Meh, she thinks it’s safe to send people to the country?” Christine White rolled her eyes dismissively.
Bess Camp laughed, “Sometimes the easiest place to go is the safest instead, would you have thought Leo Bort was hiding out in his old house if Dr. Norton hadn’t warned you?”
Christine White looked stiff and lowered her head in embarrassment.
“See, it’s easy to get fixated on the human mind, and you never thought Leo Bort would give up urban prosperity to hide back in his impoverished hometown.”
Christine White nodded her head in an educated manner, “You’re right, that is indeed something I hadn’t thought of.”
“But it’s a good thing Dr. Norton thought of it and warned you, or it would have been a long time before we caught Leo Bort again.” Bess Camp lamented.
Christine White’s heart filled with gratitude for Ives Norton, “Yeah.”
She’ll cook a table herself tonight and treat him to dinner, just to thank him for the tip.
With that thought, Christine White tightened her grip, and it was decided.
On the other end of the phone, Bess Camp added, “As for why Leo Bort is not doing well, the reason is that there is no money. He can only make a living by farming his own land, and he’s been pampered for more than twenty years, and he’s long since forgotten how to farm, how to cook, and other such life skills, so six years down the line, he’s aged like this.”
“What? No money? How is that possible!” Christine White exclaimed.
Leo Bort was screwed by Owen Dong back in the day, and although he lost most of his family’s fortune, he still has a lot of it left in his hands.
He also gave half of the family fortune to Molly Bort.
She wanted to take back Leo Bort’s and Molly Bort’s family fortune because it all belonged to her and her real mother, but she didn’t get that back because of the murder by Molly Bort later on, and it’s still in the hands of both the father and daughter.
But now Bess Camp tells her that Leo Bort doesn’t have any money in his hand, which is unbelievable.
“It’s true, Leo Bort had no money in his hands, what he had, all of it was taken by means of Molly Bort.” Bess Camp said.
Christine White huffed backward, “Molly Bort?”
“Yeah.”
“Why did she do it?”
“This father and daughter between the two seems to have no feelings, so Molly Bort robbed Leo Bort’s property without the slightest bit of softness, I think Molly Bort is probably remembering that Leo Bort raised her for a time, loved her for a time on the sake of, did not drive him to the end of the world, but just left him in the hometown of his own life, right? ” Bess Camp Analysis.
Christine White listened for a long time.
It wasn’t until Bess Camp thought she was gone and was about to call out to her that she spoke, “Brother, do you think Leo Bort regrets it?”
“Hmm?” Bess Camp somewhat missed her point.
Christine White’s eyes darkened, “Regretted rekindling an old flame with Molly Bort’s mother, regretted spoiling Molly Bort so much, and if he hadn’t done that, he probably wouldn’t have ended up in this situation.”
Bess Camp thought for a split second, “Who knows, people like that think in ways that often normal people can’t understand, maybe he doesn’t regret it, maybe he only regrets that he didn’t let you die on the operating table when he took your bone marrow.”
Christine White’s pupils shook and her throat gamboled a little, unable to speak.
Yeah, maybe Leo Bort regrets not betraying her own mother back then, but letting her live.
Bess Camp added: “For people like Leo Bort and Molly Bort, once they are unfortunate, the first thing that comes to their mind is not what they have done wrong, but the fact that they did it without tidying up their tails, leaving behind hidden dangers for themselves, and you are a hidden danger for them, so Christine, you don’t have to think about such childish questions as whether Leo Bort regrets such childish questions as whether he does or not.”
“Well, I’m sorry, I’m still too innocent.” Christine White covered her face.
Bess Camp’s voice softened, “Well don’t think too much about it, now that Leo Bort has been captured as well, think about what to do with him.”
At those words, Christine White took a deep breath and hastily adjusted her mind, her expression returning to seriousness, “Brother, where are you keeping Leo Bort?”