Faux Vows, True Desires
Chapter 173

Mr. Blue glanced at the incoming call and said to his lover, "I got to take this."

And off he went.

The beautiful woman didn't say anything.

She knew what Mr. Blue was up to, and she wouldn't stop him, knowing that his actions could bring in more dough. The richer he got, the more her unborn child could inherit.

Mr. Blue headed to his office upstairs, shut the door, and answered the call.

His office was soundproofed, so there was no worry about being overheard.

Even though he didn't hide much from his lover, there were things he preferred to keep under wraps.

"What's up?" Mr. Blue asked in a low voice.

As he listened to the call, his brow furrowed. After a moment, he asked, "They met? What was Ethan's reaction? They don't know each other? Good."

"You got to keep a close watch on them. See if you can waste that mother-son duo on their way back."

He had suspicions about Ethan's sudden trip.

Just as he thought it was just a cover-up.

Ethan had found Lucinda Blue.

Luckily, they didn't recognize each other.

After hanging up, Mr. Blue's eyes turned cold. He sneered, thinking that Nathan still favored his biological son.

After some thought, he called Madeleine Porter. When she answered, he asked, "Ms. Porter, fancy becoming Mrs. Nathan? You've been with Nathan for so long. How come you're not pregnant yet?" "If you get knocked up, put some pressure on Nathan, and you'll be his wife in no time. Here's some good news: Ethan's met Lucinda, and he's brought his mom. If you don't hurry up, you'll lose everything once Lucinda comes back."

Annoyed, Madeleine shot back, "You incompetent fool, I've given you so many people to kill Lucinda, and you still can't get it done. Now the siblings have met."

Mr. Blue took the insult on the chin, admitting his incompetence in this matter, but it was out of his hands.

"That girl's lucky. Now she's part of Pinehurst's richest, the Anderson family. They're not easy to deal with. Our last plan flopped because the Andersons and the Martinez family got involved. They're big shots in Pinehurst."

"In Pinehurst, we can't touch them. No matter how many men we send, we'll always end up on the losing side."

Madeleine, though annoyed her teammate couldn't get the job done, was just as helpless. Impatiently, she said, "You think I don't want to get pregnant? You see me and Nathan all lovey-dovey. I even spend the night at the Blue family's mansion, but I always sleep alone. Nathan's room has a partition, and even if we're in the same room, we're actually sleeping separately."

Mr. Blue was taken aback, asking, "So, you two haven't?"

"Exactly. I'm starting to doubt if he can even get it up. That woman's been insane for over 20 years. Doesn't he have any sexual needs? If he's not sleeping with me, his young and beautiful girlfriend, then who is he sleeping with?"

Madeleine had been keeping a close watch on Nathan. From the moment she fell in love with him, she wouldn't allow any woman other than her to be by his side.

Mr. Blue hesitated, "Haven't you tried giving him some kind of medication?"

With a dark face, Madeleine snapped, "I've tried several times, but he always manages to dodge it."

Did he think Nathan's easy to fool? He's actually very sharp, always on guard. Even though he seemed affectionate when he's with her, he's always on guard.

Madeleine suspected Nathan still had feelings for that madwoman and even suspected that Nathan and that madwoman were still living a normal married life. Otherwise, why wouldn't he sleep with her? How could he have no sexual needs for over 20 years? Unless he couldn't get it up.

Or, he was still living a normal married life with that madwoman.

Thinking about this, Madeleine was insanely jealous.

She was much younger than Nathan. When she was still a child, she met Nathan at a party her parents took her to.

Back then, she thought Nathan was tall and handsome.

As she grew up, she threw herself into Nathan's arms without hesitation.

She wanted to marry Nathan, to be his wife. She didn't mind that Nathan was much older than her, and her family didn't object either. All in all, what she wanted, she had to have.

She wouldn't allow Nathan to be an exception.

"Let's drop it. Pointing fingers now won't do us any good. I've arranged for someone to take out Ethan and his mom on their way back. They're flying private, and we can stage a plane crash, make them unrecognizable."

"Without them, even if Lucinda eventually returns to the Blue family, she, as a weak woman, won't threaten us. It'll be much easier to deal with her after she returns to the Blue family than dealing with her in Pinehurst."

"How are you going to stage a plane crash?"

"I'm gonna crash a private plane into theirs."

After a moment of silence, Madeleine asked, "Finally willing to use your secret weapon?"

His secret weapon was a suicide squad.

"At this point, I have no choice but to use the secret weapon. Sacrificing a suicide squad member to kill that mother-son duo is worth it."

"If you had the guts to use it earlier, the Blue family would've been ours by now."

Mr. Blue: "It's not that I didn't have the guts, but I didn't have the chance. Do you think Ethan is easy to deal with? He might be young, but he's the heir to the Blue family, with loyal people by his side. He's the successor that Nathan personally groomed."

Madeleine saw Ethan and his mother as enemies.

Without killing this mother-son duo, even if she married the Blue family as she wished, once she had a child, the Blue family will be under Ethan's control. What would her child have then? Madeleine won't allow that. She's now cooperating with Mr. Blue because they shared a common enemy.

Once their common enemy was killed, it will be her chance to wipe out the entire Blue family.

The Blue family must belong to her child.

"Do you have a picture of Lucinda?"

"Yes, do you want to meet her?"

"As a woman, it would be easier for me to approach her."

Mr. Blue agreed, "Later, I'll send you her picture."

"Alright, we'll leave it at that. Remember to send me Lucinda's picture."

After they hung up, Mr. Blue took out an envelope from his desk drawer, which contained Lucinda's current information and a picture.

He snapped a photo and sent it to Madeleine.

Upon receiving Lucinda's photo, Madeleine was surprised to replace that Lucinda looked very much like Grace Blue. If Grace were a few decades younger, they could've been mistaken for twins.