What they were talking about were probably the plans set up against Adam Jones, no, more precisely, the plans they intended for Adam Jones to overhear.
"After those people left, Sophie Baker came in."
When mentioning Sophie Baker, he seemed exceedingly cautious, and his gaze anchored on Elly Campbell’s face with a hint of trepidation, yet he saw that Elly remained expressionless, simply waiting for him to continue.
Adam Jones pressed his lips together tightly before he continued, "She quietly took me out, and when we got to the elevator, those people came back. They beat Sophie up, and before my people arrived, they had escaped."
He glanced again at Elly Campbell’s face, seeing that she was still listening thoughtfully, while he felt like a child who had committed a serious mistake, honestly confessing his wrongdoings in front of her, hoping to be forgiven.
"After going back, I had someone check the entire hotel’s surveillance..."
He didn’t finish his sentence, but it was Elly who let out an ironic laugh, "You saw me in the surveillance, and you also saw that I went to that floor, right?"
Adam Jones remained silent, not answering, but his expression had already said it all.
In the room, there was such stillness that only the sound of their breathing could be heard; neither of them spoke again.
It was quite a while before Elly Campbell said, "What about Sophie Baker? How is she?"
Adam Jones glanced at her face and guessed what she wanted to ask, so he directly said, "The people who rescued her were from the Jones family medical team, and she almost didn’t make it."
Upon hearing this, Elly Campbell was shocked again. At first, she thought that the plan was Sophie’s own ploy to get close to Adam, but who would risk their life for a man?
This was also Adam Jones’s thought at the time, and because Sophie truly almost lost her life, it was one of the reasons why, despite feeling something was off about her, he ultimately chose to believe her in the end.
After hearing Adam Jones’s narration, Elly Campbell felt a complex emotion. She originally thought that if Sophie was involved, it would have made the events of that year blatantly clear; now, however, she found that it was still a haze.
If it wasn’t Sophie, then who was targeting Adam Jones?
No, she felt it was more precisely aimed at herself, otherwise why would Adam have overheard her talking with those people?
The situation was more complex than she had imagined.
"What about the people who kidnapped you back then?"
She didn’t believe Adam Jones would have let those people off so easily.
Adam Jones said in a hoarse voice, "They died the day after that incident happened."
He had thought at the time that Elly Campbell had turned against him, having completely lost his rationality, and he devoted all his attention to her, while neglecting those minions.
Had he personally asked Elly Campbell back then, would everything have turned out differently?
Even though those people were dead, if he had started investigating back then, it would have been much easier compared to starting eight years later.
"Why didn’t you come and ask me?"
Elly Campbell looked at Adam Jones, her voice showing no fluctuation.
Adam Jones also asked himself inwardly, why had he been so cowardly back then, not willing to ask her, fearing he would receive an even more unbearable answer from her?
Just because of his rage and timidity at the time, he had missed out on so many years with Elly, and now things had come to this, whom could he blame?
Wasn’t it because he was cowardly, stubborn, and conceited?
Adam Jones wanted to laugh bitterly inside, yet he couldn’t bring himself to do it.