Once Bitten, Twice Shy

Although Rochelle wanted to answer in the negative, doing so would not change the truth and she could only nod her head and say, "Yes… It's with Timothy."

Since the news of Timothy's divorce from Samantha had not yet been made public, he was a step faster than her and took her belongings because she was her husband.

When she arrived, the belongings were already with Timothy and there was nothing she could do about it!

The situation could not be any worse...

Samantha was puzzled. "What would he want my personal belongings for?"

Timothy had no feelings for her and even wanted to murder her. There was nothing in her personal belongings that Timothy needed, and it was unlikely that he took them to reminisce about his time with her.

A sudden thought occurred to her the next second and her face became increasingly serious.

Rochelle became anxious when she saw that too. "What's wrong, Sammy? Don't scare me!"

Samantha looked up at her and said, "I'm worried that Timothy might take my personal belongings for the purpose of destroying them."

After all, he was the one who sent someone to kill her. Perhaps he was worried about whether there would be any clues in her personal belongings that would point to him, so he decided to take them and destroy them outright. That was tantamount to erasing all her traces and there was no longer anything else he needed to worry about.

Timothy was a man with meticulous thinking and it was not impossible that he would do such a thing!

"If it is destroyed... Doesn't that mean that you won't be able to get a divorce certificate for comparison?" Rochelle was both angry and resentful. "If I had known back then, I would have fought with him for your belongings and insist on bringing them with me at all costs!"

Samantha patted her shoulder to console her. "I know you've tried your best."

She sighed again, "If that's the case, the only way left is to check with the Civil Registry Bureau."

Unfortunately, that method was just too risky.

Once there were traces of an inquiry, the fact that she was alive would be exposed if Timothy had been monitoring it.

"No." Rochelle seemed to suddenly remember something. "There's still hope!"

"There is?"

Rochelle said, "I remembered back then that Ronald was the one who handled all the formalities. Ronald has always been around that scumbag and is his most trusted assistant, so there's a possibility that he would know something!"

More importantly, Ronald was an upright and relatively 'naive' person. Getting information out of him was pretty easy and it was not that difficult to deal with him too!

Samantha's eyes lit up slightly.

It would be great if they find out about it from Ronald, but she felt somewhat sorry for him too.

Unfortunately, desperate situations called for desperate measures and she could only 'trick' Ronald for the time being and make it up to him when she had a chance in the future!

Samantha nodded. "Go ahead and call him then."

Rochelle made an 'OK' gesture.

She took out her cell phone, cleared her voice, then dialed Ronald's number and put it on speaker.

After ringing for some time, Ronald finally answered and spoke in a very respectful voice, "Hello, Mrs. Yates, is something the matter?"

Samantha covered her lips and could not help but smile.

Ronald still viewed Rochelle with that much respect and awe even after so many years.

Then again, Rochelle was a queen who struck fear in all but a few men!

Rochelle asked lazily, "Ronald, I heard that your scumbag of a boss is getting married again on the first of next month!"

When Ronald saw Rochelle's call, he was certain that she was going on a fault-finding expedition when she called him. Although he did not want to answer the call, he was afraid of ignoring it too. Her words were so blunt that his expression became incredibly bitter. He answered weakly, "Yes, Mrs. Yates. Mr. Barker…will be getting married next month."

After a pause, he added, "If there's anything you need from me, please…just let me know, Mrs. Yates."

'Don't keep me in suspense. You're making me anxious.'

"Don't you think it's inappropriate for him to keep his previous wife's belongings now that he's getting married to a new one?" Rochelle's voice was hoarse and alluring, but her words were extremely sharp. "Tell that scumbag to hand over Sammy's personal belongings, or else I'll bring a K98 rifle to crash his wedding day celebrations!"

"Both that scumbag and that pretentious b*tch Harmony would get a bullet in their heads!"

Ronald was speechless.

He nearly died on the spot.

Ronald could laugh it off if he heard anyone else say that, but he did not dare to treat it as a joke when it was Rochelle who said it!

She was precisely the kind of woman who could do such a thing!

After all, she did bring a gun and point it to Timothy's head last time.

However, if he were to relay that request to Timothy, he was the one who would receive a bullet in his head—courtesy of Timothy!

Both sides would be the death of him!

Ronald was about to cry, "Mrs. Yates, please…don't put me in a tight spot."

Samantha could not bear it any longer. She gave Rochelle a look and motioned to her to stop bullying Ronald the nice guy.

To think that Rochelle could almost push a grown man to the brink of tears as she spoke.

After Rochelle received the hint, her tone softened. "I just had a dream yesterday where Sammy blamed me for failing to even protect her personal belongings. I panicked, and I feel depressed. Did that scumbag store her personal belongings properly when he received them?"

"Or, did he destroy them? Is that why Sammy's spirit can't rest in peace and came to complain to me in my dream?"

Ronald was able to answer that question and breathed a sigh of relief as a result.

He hurriedly said, "You can rest assured, Mrs. Yates. Her personal belongings are probably still around since Mr. Barker never told me to dispose of them when I took them back and handed them to him."

"Besides, he was once married to Mrs.… I mean Ms. Larsson, even though they had already divorced. Since Ms. Larsson is already dead, Mr. Barker would not go so far as to destroy her personal belongings. Why would he even want to keep them if he really wanted them destroyed?"

Rochelle snorted coldly. 'It's possible, considering how heartless he is.'

Based on Ronald's statements, however, there was still a 50% chance that Samantha's personal belongings still existed.

Their next step was to determine where Samantha's personal belongings were placed.

Rochelle continued her efforts. "Have you seen Sammy's personal belongings after that?"

Ronald replied truthfully. "I…did not."

If he never saw them again, then they were unlikely to have been placed in the office and would probably be where Timothy lived.

The last thing they had to do was determine Timothy's itinerary, that way, they could take advantage of his absence to secretly steal the divorce certificate!

Asking blatantly was out of the question. Rochelle did not know how to work her way around that question and frowned slightly.

Samantha thought for a moment and picked up her cell phone. She opened a memo app and immediately typed out a sentence.

Once she was done, Samantha held the phone in front of Rochelle and motioned for her to look over.

She glanced over at it and enthusiastically gave Samantha a thumbs up. Samantha was sharp-witted and smart enough to figure out an idea.

Rochelle once again spoke in her characteristically nonchalant and contemptuous tone, "Oh, Ronald...."