Take Control of Yourself, Please novel (Anna and Liam)
Chapter 287 The Driver Will Lead the Way

Chloe pressed a palm over her mother's mouth.

"Mom! Lower your voice!"

Nicole nodded, her expression harrowing. She lowered her voice and whispered, "He came to see you?"

"Yes! I'm so scared! Mom, what should we do?"

Nicole was flustered too as she paced around the room nervously.

"Don't panic, don't panic. Tell me, how did he appear? And why did he want to see you?"

Chloe sucked in a deep breath and reiterated the days' happenings to her mother. "Mom, you need to think of a way! I gave him a thousand dollars, and the card is already expired but I lied saying there's money inside. I couldn't have chased him away otherwise!

Once he realizes there's no money in the card, with his personality, he won't forgive me!"

Nicole's face turned pale as a ghost, "He knows you're marrying into the Dawson family, he'll definitely stick to you like a vampire!"

Nicole was at a loss too, the more she thought about it, the more panicked she felt, "Why would he come here? How could he come here!"

After she married Bruce all those years ago, she found out he was a gambler, even losing all her dowry to gambling.

She wanted to divorce him but couldn't, every time she wanted to sneak away he would catch her and beat her up, even forcing her to sell herself to repay his gambling debts, after that he even... "Wasn't he given a life sentence in jail? How come he's released now, all of a sudden?" Chloe asked.

Nicole buried her face in her hands, and said painfully, "He hates me, he's taking revenge on me!

He promised me he will never come again!"

"What? Mom, have you seen him before?" Chloe was reminded of the incident when her mother stole the pair of cufflinks, "Could it be you did that to raise money for him?"

Her mother nodded, "He has finished all the money already? He must be taking drugs again!

Finally, after all these years, I'm living a good life now, and again he's back to cause me trouble! When can I ever escape from his evil clutches?"

She shook her head non-stop, "I can't let the public know about my past! I am Mrs. Hamilton, even though I'm not the daughter of a rich family, at least I am a good wife and loving mother!" "Why does he keep coming back to cause us trouble? And right at the time when you're marrying into the

Dawson family!" Nicole was at a loss, feeling panicked and helpless.

"He promised me he would leave and never come back!"

Seeing her mother's emotional breakdown, Chloe grew anxious too, "Mom! Calm down! We have to keep our wits about us! We can't let Daddy realize something is wrong! Otherwise, we'll have to leave this family for real!

We can't let Bryan know of Bruce Walker's existence."

"I know, Chloe, but he's not only here for money. I was the reason he was jailed all those years ago, I know he's back to take revenge on me!"

"Then what should we do? I just got pregnant with Bryan's child, we're getting married soon, I won't let him ruin this for me." Chloe was losing her control over the situation. 1

"Mom, how did you get him into jail? Maybe we can do it again!"

"Do you know how big of a risk I took? Now we are both women with status, we'll be greatly restricted in anything we do. Besides, he must have his guard up around me. The same method won't work again." "There's nothing we can do now?" Chloe fell on the sofa, face as pale as a ghost.

Her deepest memories as a child were when he would come home after drinking, she and her mother held onto each other and hid under the table in fear, but were still unable to escape from the terrible beatings...

Chloe's face turned paler by the second.

"No! I won't live that life again! I am Chloe Hamilton and the future Mrs. Dawson!

I've spent so much time and effort in cultivating my relationship with Bryan, no one can take it away from me! Even if he's my biological father, I won't allow it!" Chloe caressed her stomach, eyes shining determinedly.

"Chloe, he's working in the shadows, but we're exposed. We don't even know how to contact him, what can we do?" Nicole asked.

"Exactly! He's a ticking time bomb, we don't know when he will appear. If Daddy or Bryan sees him, all our efforts these past few years will go down the drain.

Mom, we can't wait for him to come to us, we have to take the initiative!" Chloe announced.

Nicole was aware of this too, cold sweat trickling down her spine, "I told your father I was a widower."

"I don't want people to know my biological father is an ex-convict too!

We have to think of a way!" Chloe paced around the room endlessly.

"But I'm so lost now, we can't kill him when he comes, can we?" Nicole buried her face in her hands and started sobbing. "Why is my life so miserable? Why can't I get rid of him!

Chloe, why not give him some money first, to satisfy him for a while. After you marry into the Dawson family, then we can make a long-term plan!" Nicole said.

Chloe frowned, "We don't have much money to give him. He will put the bite on me and ask for a huge amount!"

"I have some jewelry; we can sell it for some emergency cash."

"Mom, they're your favorite items! We can't give them all to him, he doesn't deserve any of it!"

Nicole's heart ached at the thought too, sighing helplessly, "Then what else can we do? Even though we don't have to worry about the roof above our heads or the clothes on our back, your father has always been careful with his money, this is all I have."

Chloe released her clenched fists and said helplessly," Alright, that's all we can do now..."

Anna was fast asleep when her phone rang.

She glanced at the clock, it was midnight, why did Liam call her?

"Come here now!"

"I'm sleeping."

"You can sleep here." "It's late, if I leave the house so late at night, my family will be suspicious." "The agreement states that you are on call 24 hours." Anna buried her head into her pillows, "Do you have to torture me like this?"

"You can choose not to come; I'll get Miller to pick you up."

"No! I'll go by myself."

If Miller came to pick her up and her family knew she was meeting Liam in the middle of the night, all hell would break loose. "So you'll come by yourself?"

"I'll drive there, Mr. Ackman!" Anna hung up the phone then forced her tired body into the bathroom to brush her teeth and change. When she walked out of the door, she came to a startling realization. When did she start obeying Liam so well?

Even though she felt disgruntled, her lips still curled up into a tiny smile.

"Lisa, if my father asks where I am, tell him I went to the hospital to accompany Nina."

Anna collected the car from the garage and drove out of the door slowly.

She didn't notice Liam was parked in the near distance, watching her car, and following behind at a suitable distance.

Liam looked at her car driving along in front of him and his lips curled into a smile.

"It's nice to have someone leading the way."

He was in a good mood, driving along behind her when he suddenly realized another car followed her closely behind. The smile froze on his face. "That man, is he stalking me, or Anna?" He muttered lowly.