"Naive," Mitchel retorted, his expression growing darker, which sent a chill through Raegan.

Just then, there was a knock on the door.

Mitchel's faint voice permitted entry with a simple, “Come in."

Mitchel's assistant stepped inside, holding a phone in his hands. He respectfully extended it toward Mitchel, saying, "Mr. Dixon, please check this."

Mitchel took the phone with an air of nonchalance. Raegan's eyes widened in shock as she recognized the device as her own white phone.

Her astonishment deepened when Mitchel, without a word, pressed the phone to her face and played a recording.

The voices from Raegan's earlier conversation with Katie filled the room.

"Are you going to step aside?"

"Raegan, why can't you just vanish? You're a constant affront to me, a repulsive reminder of everything I despise!”

“Let go! Leave me alone!"

The recording stopped abruptly after a terrified scream echoed, leaving a tense silence in its wake.

Before the incident, as soon as Raegan saw Katie, suspicion crept in, prompting her to record their conversation. She had no malicious intent. She merely wished to avoid being unjustly victimized further.

Earlier, when Mitchel forced Raegan into the car, Raegan had handed her phone to the factory owner, asking the latter to contact Erick.

Yet now, her phone was in Mitchel's possession, revealing that he had discovered it.

Raegan's complexion paled as she reached out to snatch her phone back.

“Give it back."

Mitchel simply raised his arm, keeping the device just out of her grasp. His voice was low and deliberate. “Are you trying to use this recording to prove your innocence?"

Raegan responded icily, "Don't tell me you couldn't see that it was your fiancée who tried to frame me and ended up trapping herself instead."

Mitchel gazed down at Raegan, his tone icy. "Setting aside that this recording doesn't capture everything, it still doesn't prove your innocence."

He then lowered his arm and, with a sharp snap, threw Raegan's white phone into a container filled with liquid. It hissed as it made contact.