As she spoke, she took out a check from her checkbook that she had written long ago. Handing it to Julie, she said sternly, “Mrs. Lee, this ten million dollars is the commission I promised to give to Inspector Lee after the completion of the matter. You were curious why Inspector Lee should obey me and accept my orders. I needed someone who can absolutely keep secrets and have enough experience to help me investigate the matter and Inspector Lee knew that his daughter is pregnant and also needs a considerable amount of income to pay for the unborn baby and plan a better future.”
“What?” Julie widened her eyes and asked dumbfounded, “What did you ask him to do to be worth as much as ten million dollars?”
Michaela said indifferently, “In your eyes, 10 million may indeed be a lot, but for me, 10 million dollars is not as good as one percent of the compensation that I will pay to those victims on behalf of the Joules family. This matter is actually very dangerous. A little carelessness could cost a life.”
Michaela further explained, “Furthermore, the matter of Patrick is known all over the world and you must have heard of it. In order to make up for the victims as much as possible. The Joules family spent billions of dollars, adding $10 million to it, that’s just a drop in the bucket.”
She looked at Julie and Paula behind her and said seriously, “Actually, what I want to say is that you shouldn’t subjectively complain that Inspector Lee didn’t greet you before this, after all, I commissioned him to do this. The matter is not only very complicated but also very dangerous. If he is not careful, it may even risk your life. Inspector Lee had already retired and planned to go back to take care of his life, so there was no need to take risks, but it is precisely because of this that the ten million dollar commission made his heart, so he would take the risk of taking this commission. He did this not to solve the case, nor to make money for himself, but for the child in his daughter’s belly.”
Seeing the two of them dumbfounded, Michaela continued, “Also, Detective Lee has gone through a lot of dangers these days. As an employer, I admire his courage and his sense of responsibility to his family. He risked his life in exchange for 10 million dollars. It is to enable his future grandson or granddaughter to ensure that he or she will have a good life after birth and to lay an excellent life foundation for him or her so that he or she can be born to become a high-ranking person and struggles less than other peers! For this, even if he sacrificed his own life, he would not hesitate. I personally think that this is very great!”
“So Mrs. Lee, I think not only should you not blame Inspector Lee, but you should give him a big hug and apologize to him for your irrational behavior just now, what do you think?”
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