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The Secret Successor CHAPTER 209
Russell’s phone rang. It was Kyra calling.“I’ll be outside,” William said and left.Russell’s eyes lit up initially, but then he remembered just how many times he had called but received no response from Kyra. His ego told him to not answer, but his responsibility as her husband told him otherwise.In the end, he answered the call. A few seconds of silence passed.“Did you cry?” Kyra asked.“No,” Russell softly but quickly responded. “I would be lying if I said I wasn’t frustrated, but I didn’t cry.”“Your sister called me a few days back and told me how your father has treated you, and how you used to suffer a lot,” Kyra said, startling him. “She told me to not make you cry, but I was angry. That’s why I didn’t answer your calls. You know why I didn’t answer, right?”“Yeah, I think I do.”Kyra exhaled audibly. “I heard that you leased Tuna Waves?”Russell’s eyes slightly widened. (How did she know about it already? Did William tell her?) “I did. I thought it’s something I should do.
The Secret Successor CHAPTER 210
In the Lynn estate.Charlotte and her sister Stacy were having a lavish dinner together.“Is Roddick still talking about Kyra?” Charlotte asked, ripping meat from the roasted chicken like a brute. There were no maids around but only her sister. There was no need for her to maintain etiquette right now, so even freely made chewing noises.“Yeah. He’s become like a child. He throws tantrums every time we meet at the table,” Stacy was shaking her head. “I knew he liked Kyra, but this is too much. She’s already married, for f*ck sake. And he has sex ten different women every week, and he still wants your daughter.”“That’s because he’s way too ambitious. He wants to own the Lynn family,” Charlotte remarked.Stacy forced out a smile. “He thinks he can still marry Kyra and turn her name to Kyra Heller. I told him that’s not going to happen, but he doesn’t listen to me.”“Liam wouldn’t allow his wealth to be buried under the name of the Heller family,” Charlotte sounded certain. “If only Rod
The Secret Successor CHAPTER 211
Roddick was touring a zoo park in an open bus. Many of his rich male friends were with him. Some of them tried to hit on Natasha, but Roddick pulled her to his side and made it clear for them that she was his woman.This made Roddick’s friends wonder if he had sex with Natasha yet because he wasn’t the type to worry about a woman once he was done with her.Roddick and Natasha sat next to each other, and she was excited to see the gorillas and the lions. There were even elephants, rhinos, and leopards.“Look at that. It’s a white tiger!” Natasha exclaimed. “This zoo really has all kinds of animals.” She looked at Roddick. “Why don’t you just buy it?”Hosting thousands of animals of different breeds, and with 111 square miles in area, Hinterpark was the largest zoo park in the world.“It’s owned by the Conreid family,” Roddick told her. “They are richer than my family, so buying this from them would be impossible. Besides, this park is built outside the city, so I’m not interested in bu
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Amelie was a curly-haired girl who appeared naive at first sight. Even her dressing style was modest, and so it was likely for her to be mistaken for a village girl.“What are you doing here?” Roddick asked her, a hint of intimidation flowing through his voice. “I’m sure you are supposed to be in school, but you’re having fun in the park.”Amelie couldn’t look into Roddick's eyes. Her mother worked as a maid at Roddick’s house, so she was very afraid of him telling her mother about seeing her in the zoo park.“I-I wasn’t having fun, sir. I came here to see animals,” Amelie responded, sweat forming on her neck.“Are you telling me that you came alone to roam this big-ass zoo all by yourself?” Roddick’s voice grew rough. “That’s highly unlikely. Your boyfriend is probably around here somewhere, so you can tell him to get on the bus. I wouldn’t tell your mom, so tell him to come over.”Amelie pressed her lips into a thin line.Natasha then signaled to Roddick that she would handle the gi
The Secret Successor CHAPTER 213
The black limousine arrived at the Lynn estate.Liam helped Russell get out of the car, and the head maid Wendy was waiting outside to receive him.Russell’s eyes naturally looked for his wife, but she wasn’t anywhere to be found. His mother-in-law wasn’t here to receive him, either. Other than Wendy, both Dolly and Molly were also present. And they were smiling a bit weirdly. Russell wasn’t sure if they were excited or disappointed to see him. Either way, he couldn’t care about them right now.“I can walk by myself,” he told Wendy, and so she moved to the side and gave room for Russell to walk freely and on his own.Taking every single step carefully, Russell entered the estate, and the first thing he noticed was the flooring. There was a welcome sign arranged with flowers, and the tiles looked white again like they had in the past. It seemed like Charlotte had gotten the tiles treated.After Russell entered the hall and looked around, Liam smiled and patted his back gently. “Think o
The Secret Successor CHAPTER 214
Now, Russell was not a devastatingly handsome man like Trevor or a lady charmer like Roddick, but the words he had said to Kyra just now touched her heart and made a good impression.So, when Russell closed his eyes and came toward her, she also closed her eyes and reciprocated in a similar fashion.“Russell Bennett,” just as their lips were about to touch, Charlotte’s voice reached their ears and stopped both of them. “Or Should I call you Russell Lynn?” A second later, Charlotte arrived at the doorstep and took a look at Russell in a slightly angry and condescending manner. “Instead of coming to my room first, you chose to come to your room so you could hide in here.”Russell couldn’t believe what Charlotte was saying. Shouldn’t she be waiting for him at the entrance when he comes home after many days? Then why was she turning that back on him as if it was his fault that he didn’t come to meet her?“He probably didn’t want to disturb you, Mom,” Kyra uttered.“You don’t say a word, K
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Molly, the second maid in the estate, cleaned the house pretty quickly. By the time Charlotte came downstairs for lunch, she could tell that the floor looked extra clean.“He mopped the floor by himself, right?” she cast a glance at Wendy.Wendy looked at Molly.“Y-Yes, Ma’am!” Molly, who was feeling tired, had to reply with extra energy. “I was with him throughout.”“Are you telling me he cleaned all the floors in two to three hours?” Charlotte raised her brow. “Who are you trying to fool?”Molly flinched. “H-He’s not as weak or hurt as you think, ma’am. He was able to clean pretty fast. He’s experienced with it.”Charlotte paused for a second and said, “He has cleaning experience, you say. Do you think your words make any sense? If he had that, why would he make a mess out of the flooring in the first place?”“M-Maybe, he’s not used to cleaning marble floors, ma’am,” Molly quickly replied.Charlotte bought those words. “That does make a little sense. He comes from a low background,
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At four in the evening.As per the schedule Sansa had given Russell, he should be sleeping right now. However, he was eating lunch together with Kyra.He consumed only liquid food even though there were half-dozen varieties before his eyes.“Tell me how you convinced Regan,” Kyra asked, eating fruits and boiled vegetables only because she was also following her own diet, “into giving Tuna Waves to us for such a low price? We may not get much profit with that hotel, but our prestige has been restored. In five years, people will forget about it. We will make them.”“I didn’t say any magical words with him, Kyra,” Russell spoke in a low voice because the maids were around. “He saw how the hotel was taken away from us, and then I got stabbed at the hotel, too, so, maybe, that’s why he thought of giving us the hotel for five years?”“Hmph, you think that old man has such a soft heart?” Kyra snorted. “The chances of seeing stars in the morning are higher than Regan being sympathetic.”“How