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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
The Secret Successor CHAPTER 215
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
The Secret Successor CHAPTER 220
“Tuna Waves is hiring today for the manager post, and it’s Russell who’s going to personally conduct the interview,” Jessica was giving a heads-up to Irene.“Yeah, but I’m not at all close with him like you are,” Irene almost bickered. “And I remember scolding him once for stepping on my shoes once back in school. He wouldn’t remember that and get back at me during the interview, would he?”“C’mon, he’s not that cheap,” Jessica said while getting a facial. Even though she said she didn’t need one, Irene told her she should also get the make-up done along with her. “If you think things are getting a bit out of hand, tell the words ‘running home with rocks in pockets.’”“Huh? What does that mean?”Jessica chuckled. “Just say that, and the chances of you cracking the interview will soar.”“H-How can I say that without knowing what it means?” Irene demanded an answer. “Please tell me!”Jessica then whispered in her ears, making her burst into laughter.“Such a thing happened?” She laughed
The Secret Successor CHAPTER 221
Back in school days, Russell was coming home, riding Jessica’s bicycle, and his stomach started stirring madly all of a sudden. He couldn’t ride the vehicle anymore, and he couldn’t tell Jessica his situation, either. It was too embarrassing for him, but Jessica saw that he was clutching his stomach, and said, “I heard that if you carry weights in your pockets, you would be able to bear it better.”Russell was in quite a desperate situation, so he had to try it out. After all, he was not even in a position to sit on the back of the bicycle. So he loaded his pockets with rocks picked up from the side of the street and then started walking home, with Jessica accompanying him and smiling when he wasn’t looking at her.Russell was able to bear it until his home was within 200 meters but no more. That was when he reached his limit and ran for it.Jessica never laughed so hard as she had that evening. Although she didn’t tell others about it, she still teased Russell for weeks, using the ph