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I Became A Trillionaire After Marrying A Lady Boss CHAPTER NINETY SIX
Reynold sat on a bench opposite the lake in the city park. It was already 6:00 p.m. and the park was beginning to empty.In his thirty minutes of waiting, he watched the sun begin to set, birds traveling in a bunch beneath the golden sunlight, and people's numbers drop in the park. The highlight was the gentle breeze that rippled through his clothes. Regardless of the turbulence he was facing, he sensed peace in the evening breeze. And it was something he would love to get used to—peace."Sir,” Lei approached his bench and sat down beside him.At least this time, she didn’t look half as ridiculous as the last time.“Why did you ask to meet here?”“Do you have it?” Reynold asked, ignoring her question and moving on to the reason they were here. "Yes, I do,” she replied, bringing out some documents from her famous leather briefcase. She stretched the document to him. “All the names and accounts of those she transferred money to and when.”Reynold accepted the document.The font size w
I Became A Trillionaire After Marrying A Lady Boss CHAPTER NINETY SEVEN
“Kayla, I think you should step down a bit.” Kayla’s hands froze on the table and she looked up from the files spread across her. She couldn’t believe what she was hearing. Surely her father hadn’t lost faith in her, just because of some few discrepancies and the arrest days back?Was this the reason why he’d ambushed her today in the office? He didn’t even call to let her know he was coming. He’d just arrived and taken her by surprise. Out of all her relatives, he was the first person she was seeing in days, if not weeks. The only person who’d had her well-being at heart, and she thought it strange, but it wasn’t. “Father…” She hissed. “Sorry, chairman. What did you just say?” “You heard me right, Freya.” He flicked off an invisible speck of dust on his jacket, and looked back at her, gaze boring deep. “Things aren’t looking good at all. The merger with Zhang Corps is happening soon, and the wedding too. Everything has become overwhelming in the last few days and…” He sighed dee
I Became A Trillionaire After Marrying A Lady Boss CHAPTER NINETY EIGHT
When Lei got to the restaurant for their usual meetings, the only customer she met was Reynold.She was dressed in the same clothing as the last time. A character she was beginning to fall in love with. Gave her some kind of solace, and making her briefly forget the crisis her life was right now.She wore a blonde wig, a coat, which this time was more needed because the weather was cold that night, and then the brief case.The place looked totally different from the business and old people she hadn't seen the last time. The coffee shop was darker than it should be, and she found Reynold seated at the same place she had met him the last time.She walked to him and took her seat. She expected him to talk about her clothing today, but he didn't. She’d have given him her rehearsed reply.It was hard to tell what was darker—Reynold's face or the place. A light bulb hung above them, and it made shadows on his face; his eyes were like dens, and his nose cast shadows on his lips.He took a si
I Became A Trillionaire After Marrying A Lady Boss CHAPTER NINETY NINE
Lei rushed to the ladies and closed the door. Nobody was in when she picked up his call.“Meet me at the city park,” he said, then hung up.Reynold returned to the bench he had sat on the last time he was there. The day was different; perhaps the peace he had always wanted was slowly becoming a reality. He took a deep sigh. Finally, he'd be able to vindicate Kayla.Lei stood from afar, watching Reynold sit there with his head raised and his eyes closed. Being a meditator wasn’t a habit that she had grown to know with him.“I am here,” she said.Reynold stood up and stretched a folder to her. "Here," he said.“What is this?”Reynold didn’t respond. She opened it, and it was evidence and proof of Grant's involvement in tax issues and the police warrant to arrest Grant's company.“How did you..."Reynold interrupted, "Tell Kayla about this and suggest that she make a PR blitz.”"Sure,” Lei said, “umm, this is …” Lei couldn’t even hide it any more. How did Reynold get hold of all this ki
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Grant got into his car, filled with mixed reactions. There had to be a rational explanation for how she’s always a step ahead. Someone had to be helping her, and it had to be someone who knew both parties plans. Someone who knew about both his and her secrets.He started his car and took a deep breath. It had to be him, he concluded. It had got to be him. He’s the only person they have mutually. Hamish, that fucking snake, he must have been setting me up all this time.Jovian started his own car, too. He had parked a car about five cars away from him. Reyland's instructions were direct and clear: "He is at his tail”.Jovian’s face was beginning to sweat, his heartbeat was in a rush, and his hands were firmly gripping the wheel. “Follow him,” Jovian recalled what Reynold had told him. “He must have an insider, and that’s where you come in; get whoever is feeding him.” “Don’t ask why; don’t improvise; stick to the plan,” he said, a line he had recently learned from the internet. He sa
I Became A Trillionaire After Marrying A Lady Boss CHAPTER HUNDRED & ONE
Grant Emerson stood in his office thousands of feet above the ground floor.He liked to be up there, with the rain clouds stretched out before him like floating cotton soaked in dye. In the city, the sun rarely ever burned bright, which meant that the skies were almost always one viscous shade of blue or the other. When he was there, standing so high up in the air, Grant felt like a god, like the people thousands of feet below him who looked to be the size of specks from such a great distance were just that: specks. It was a good feeling, this sense of divinity. It was all the more reason why he loathed Kayla and the Johns and the cunningness that ran in their blood like a taint. No other woman could have matched him like she had, move for move. For every inch he gained, he lost another. For every foothold he ceded to gain new ground, she claimed another. Grappling her was like grappling a chess grandmaster, like trying to take hold of a snake sliding in a barrel of butter.He walked
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It was the first night in a long while since Kayla had slept so peacefully. There were no violent interruption; she did not wake up in the dark worried, wondering if her brothers had made another move on her while she slept. Even though she had never needed an alarm clock to rouse her from sleep, her body being one itself, she had an alarm clock on the bedside. It woke her now, cutting through the air with its shrill cry. Kayla slammed a palm down on the device and it responded with sweet, well deserved silence. She sat up in bed and looked around her room. It felt suddenly unfamiliar in the absence of Rey. He had slowly and surely embedded himself in her life without her even realizing it. While, previously, she used to look forward to waking up to the greeting of sunlight dotting her coloured blinds, now it was the smell of his cooking he missed. She could just picture him in the kitchen, apron strings tied around the width of his waist, his arms chiseled to sculptural beauty.
I Became A Trillionaire After Marrying A Lady Boss CHAPTER HUNDRED & THREE
Lei waited outside the boardroom, watching the siblings settle in. Both arms locked behind her back, she stood guard, her spine straight as an arrow, eyes forward— just the way that they had taught her at the academy. Even through the glass doors, the John siblings dislike for each other was palpable. So corporeal, you could touch it. Hell, dislike seemed like an inadequate way to describe what they felt for each other.Sean was unbridled, roiling hate. Tate sat in his chair, curled up like a cottonmouth snake. She had learnt to fear the man—when he struck, he struck hard and fast. Hamish was as cold as ever, a portrait of their father the chairman. When they assigned her to Kayla, Lei was young, barely into her adolescence. The chairman arrived one day and she could still remember it: his slowly graying hair, the sunglasses. He stared down at her for seconds that bled into minutes and made her uncomfortable."This one," he had said to their commander and that was that. Her fate h
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One life ends. Another begins. Such was the world.That was what Rey was thinking as he fondled his ten-month-old baby girl distractedly. He still felt empathy toward Hamish, even though it irritated him. Hamish was his brother-in-law. He shouldn't try to kill him. Nobody's brother-in-law should try to kill him. But unfortunately, that was life. Things happened even when they were absurd, even when they where undesirable.They had charged Hamish and his aide, Sparks, with manslaughter, attempted murder, conspiracy to commit murder. Whenever Reynolds thought about it, he shook his head. It was bad. If either of the two men received a light sentence, it would be life. That was what Hamish got for throwing his life away. On the other hand, the world had not skipped a beat. The three of them had recovered fully (at least physically) himself, Kayla, and the Chairman. The Chairman was no longer a 'Chairman,' corporately, legally, and technically. To Reynolds he was now only a father in-
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Sparks was looking for that one lucky strike.He had tailed Hamish, parked far from sight, approached the building on foot, scaled the fence and come in unnoticed. All according to plan. He knew Hamish was with Reynolds already, and they had been speaking for a few minutes. Hopefully, the stage was well set for his arrival.He went round the building, loathing that he had to use the stairs instead of the elevator. His job always sucked and he hated it.The building was generally deserted as planned. Yes... perfect. At the bottom of the stairs he paused, said a lucky prayer, then set the timer on his watch. Ten minutes for everything... Godspeed.****Hamish and the Chairman stared at each other in bewilderment for seconds."I heard you son. Everything you said," his father told him. For a moment Hamish's mind was blank as he stood transfixed, still holding Reynolds at gun point. Slowly he collected himself, becoming even angrier."I'm not upset at you. Only disappointed. But I don't
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If there could be any reason to spare Sparks life and dispose of him, it was the fact that he had an instinct. He hadn't been a henchman these years for nothing. He knew a trap when he saw one. So, when he phoned the doctor requesting to have the package ready by noon, he became aware that he was not speaking to him.Well, technically, he was. But situationally, he wasn't. The doctor was damaged goods now. He sensed that the guy was bugged.How it happened, he had no idea. But it happened real fast.He phoned Hamish and told him. They'd have to take care of the guy, but not too soon, so they don't throw off a scent. It was a tricky situation for the tricky-minded. The better move now, Hamish told him, was to go directly for Reynolds.There were reasons for this. Beforehand, he had noticed that Kayla had vanished from the hospital ward where she was being treated. Of course, he didn't ask questions or raise suspicions (since the hospital staff couldn't link him to Kayla). But Hamish
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There was one more person to put away when the scheme was done with. That doctor.As much as Hamish hated to deal with it, another clumsy character on the scene meant another loose end. He was going to go all out till he got his package... and till it worked. They he'd pay the man in full before making him disappear.Of course basic logic would question his choice of paying first. He just thought it necessary to stick to one's part of a deal no matter what. So he'd pay the man's family for his service, then kill him. He knew he'd needed a new aide for that job, since Sparks would have to go, too. Either in the process or after the process.In fact, he had started to feel a sense of urgency to do away with Sparks before something spilled. The man was already becoming disgruntled. He was already becoming too important. Nobody became too important with Hamish.But first Sparks needed to get the dirty work done, before he eliminated and dissociated him.****When Benny launched himself
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Doctor Benny liked the concept of a bright future. He had always liked it and other terms like it. Future. Success. Opportunity. Yes, that one. Opportunity. There wasn't very much of it for him in his profession. He wasn't poor or anything—of course he had stuff to be grateful for. But he sensed it could be more. So he tried to get more.Wen he had got the call from Hamish's aide to get a lethal solution ready, he, as any rational person, did not like it. But what choice did he have? His wife was a compulsive shopper and his children sometimes forgot he wasn't a billionaire. So he asked himself what he had to lose and the answer was not much. He didn't know if he had a strong or weak conscience. He only knew he could use the money they were offering. He took the offer. He had hoped it would be a one-off thing. Prepare the solution, have it delivered, get his money, forget any of it ever happened. Now it was staring him on the face. That was the problem with crime. It made for str
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Impatiently, the Chairman waited for Rey to arrive. More than clarity, he needed to prove to his son-in-law—and himself—that he was mistaken. If they hadn't been from Rey, he would have paid the messages no heed. He found it rather confusing under the given circumstances. He waited in his topfloor office in the conglomerate that morning, when he should have been busy with other concerns. Reynolds needed to explain. It was not that the strings had no connection whatsoever. No, the Chairman wasn't imprudent. It was the way they connected. And the who they connected to. Those were the things he could not accept. At least, not without hard, infallible proof.His desk phone beeped and he picked it up. It was Rezei, asking if he wanted to see Reynolds."Yes, let him come," he said. Then he glanced sharply at the central air conditioner, feeling like the temperature in the room had fallen by a hinedered degrees Celsius in one second. The door opened almost immediately to reveal Reynolds
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Hamish was painstaking meticulous at planning. He knew when things could go slow, when they could go fast, and when they needed to go fast. Killing Rey was a fast game. It had to be if it would be played, as it was also a cagey game. Not that he was not a cagey man, or that he doubted his own genius. His master-mind. Rather, because he knew that perfection was not cheap, and if you were going to kill your next-door neighbour without taking a dent, you required perfection.He had two usable routes. One was direct: strike Rey. This required precision and care, seeing as the man had become his father's favourite. The other was a bit more accommodating: Strike Rey through Kayla. That is, strike Kayla, and when it impacted and exposed Reynolds, he’d then put the man to rest permanently.Being the genius that he was, Hamish kept both routes open. It would be like a double barrel, a kill-both-birds-with-one-stone formula. He was almost enjoying the prospect. All his track would be clean.
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The police never got around to finding Riker. He was ghost, they said. Came and went as he pleased. In truth, he was aboard the next flight out of the country after the Johns foiled his coup. With his absence came peace. The Chairman gave Reynolds a position in the company to work alongside Hamish. Kayla's baby continued to grow, her belly ballooned, pushing against her buttons. For the couple and the Johns, the world seemed a kindlier place.All except Hamish.He was angered by the turn of events, especially with Reynolds' new position as his managerial superior. Bloody Reynolds? His Superior! They had no inkling what he was capable of. Maybe he would have to show them. By himself this time. He would restore his honor by taking out all his enemies and their accomplices, in any form they manifested. Including those who directly limited him, and those who did so indirectly, by being dumb and sluggish, by playing with his goals.The first, perfect victim would be Grant.Luckily, a d
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The tracker vanished all of a sudden and Jovian's head jerked with a start. He had been watching his wearable monitor almost boredly up till it happened. “What the--?" He spat."What?" asked Ceneau who had also been observant."Do we move?" one of the aides asked. Jovian nodded. He dd not want to say that the tracker had been lost. They'd just drive to where it was last seen.Everybody prepared hastily. Even Ceneau fiddled with a rifle he probably couldn't use. They piled in and hit the gas, hard.****The first thing Reizei did was strike the overhead sensor. He guessed that damaging it could shut the mantap on one end (for both doors) and lock half the guards out momentarily. And it worked. The only people to cross were the three of them, Riker, and about half the escort party.Once Reynolds grabbed the nearest guard's gun, he had acted, ramming his fist into the circular sensor above his head. There were screams, including his.The Chairman scrambled. The guard behind Reizei gra
