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The Secret Successor CHAPTER 212
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,
The Secret Successor CHAPTER 216
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
The Secret Successor CHAPTER 217
Natasha was hoping to have a great day after posting the selfie taken with Russell on social media and then shortly deleting it afterward.However, she received a completely opposite response to what she had been expecting. Throughout the day, Kyra kept uploading pictures taken with Russell during their honeymoon.There were only a few women in the entire city that Natasha would feel inferior to, even when she wasn’t wearing makeup. One of those women would be Kyra Lynn.The fact that Kyra was posting pictures of her kissing Russell was something she couldn’t digest. Moreover, it seemed like she was taking care of him while he was wounded and lying in bed? This was utterly unexpected.To add salt to the wound, she also saw on the news channel that Ambigas was officially bought by the Lynn family, and its name was changed to Russell Gas.Natasha currently had a few million dollars in her bank as per her deal with Roddick, but what was her money worth compared to what Russell now owned?
The Secret Successor CHAPTER 218
Russell slowly sucked in a deep breath and then knocked on the door.“Come in,” Charlotte’s voice reached him. He pushed the door open and entered.Charlotte was behind her working desk, typing something in her laptop using only one hand. “You said you can’t climb the stairs, and yet you’re here. What for?”“My job that Kyra called me here for is over, ma’am,” Russell nervously said. “I want to go back to the farmhouse until I fully recover. Kyra and I had already talked about this.”“Sure, you can go to your mom,” Charlotte replied in an icy tone, “but then you’ll need to forget about ever coming to this estate or talking with my daughter.”“W-What?” Russell’s face turned pale.“The reason you became Russell ‘Lynn’ is so that you’ll put Lynns above everyone else,” Charlotte bluntly said while keeping him standing. “As a husband, you should act like you have no one else but Kyra in your heart. As a son-in-law, you should act like Liam and I are above everyone else in the world. Your m
The Secret Successor CHAPTER 219
The next morning.Russell’s timetable here changed completely, though Sansa wasn’t yet told about it.William began to teach more about business. “What Young Lady does mostly is invest in things that earn her higher returns. Two to five times on average.”“Yeah. I already figured that out. When we were traveling, she bought a house near the beach for a few hours and then sold it for a higher price while leaving,” Russell replied, “though I don’t think she sold it for twice the price.”“Well, that’s a short term deal, but if you take Tuna Waves as an example,” William explained, “it could have sold for at least fifty million dollars.”“She bought it for 31 million, so she’d have earned at least 19 million dollars. That’s not much profit as per your standards,” Russell opined.“Yes, but it’s close. That’s the profit margin you’ll get with the real estate business. One to three times profit is what you get most of the time, so if you want higher margins, you should go for companies, espe