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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
The Secret Successor CHAPTER 222
The doctor came to inject Jessica with something poisonous, thinking she was asleep. However, Jessica was awake.As he was about to stick the needle, Jessica asked, “I wish your daughter good luck, doctor. You said she was giving her first ballet performance in theater. I hope she’ll do well.”After hearing those words, the doctor found it difficult to inject her. He changed his mind and sprayed the serum contents in a flower pot.“Weren’t you going to inject me?” Jessica asked.“Yes, but I think I got it a bit too diluted,” the doctor replied with a smile. “I’ll get another one for you.”“Oh, okay.” Jessica nodded without any suspicion.The doctor was leaving, but he walked back to the patient’s bed and told her in a low voice, “I think the issue was with not you but your makeup, so if I were you I’d question the beautician who probably used an expired product on you.”Jessica was visibly shocked to hear that. “B-But my friend also got her facial done together with me, and she didn’t
The Secret Successor CHAPTER 223
In room number 64.A tall golden blonde was sitting on the patient’s bed, with bruising and swelling on her bandaged face. A corner of her mouth was red from blood drying up.This woman was Natasha.Her brown eyes burned with rage right now.“Your broken teeth can be fixed,” Aran, the doctor said, while scribbling something on his pad. “However, it will take at least a month for your jaw to feel normal again.”Natasha was glaring at him. “You…” she wanted to scream at him and tell him to leave, but she couldn’t even open her mouth easily now. Her jaw hurt very painfully. She couldn’t even utter a simple sentence. Moreover, her face was bandaged up to support her jaw, so she was not in a position to freely talk, either.“Oh, and one more thing,” Aran added. “Ms. Jessica has already paid your bill in advance.”“No!” Natasha howled, and the strain on her muscles made her greatly cringe in pain. Clutching the bedsheet, she silently suffered.“We set your dislocated jaw back in place, but
The Secret Successor CHAPTER 224
In the evening, the police came to the farmhouse to arrest Jessica as per the complaint Skarlett had filed.Luckily, Sansa was still there. She called her mother and made her talk to the police, and then they apologized to Sansa and others for disturbing their peace before leaving just the way they came.Jessica, on the other hand, told Regan about her situation. She thought she would definitely lose her job, but Regan gave her a week off and told her to recover during that time. Jessica’s respect for Regan grew leaps and bounds after this phone call, and she ended up talking about Regan with Elora.Elora, however, had a completely different opinion about Regan’s actions. “He’s definitely keeping all the chess pieces close to himself so he can use them to his advantage whenever possible.”Still, Elora didn’t tell anything about Regan to Jessica because she didn’t want to spoil her career and confidence. Moreover, she wasn’t hundred percent sure why Regan appointed Jessica of all peopl
The Secret Successor CHAPTER 225
Regan was in the Creed Zone, busy overseeing the construction of the new headquarters of the Creed Tech company. It was being built with the ductile metals that could withstand earthquakes better. In appearance, this building was much grander than the current company building.This high-rise building also connected other tall buildings, dotting around the Creed Zone, with bridges built at different heights.For building these bridges as well as the buildings, Regan hired one of the three supreme families, the Arris family known for building structures using the ancient technology privy to their family.To build the bridges at the top of the buildings, they created a bird-bone-like material which was sturdy yet light.The construction work happened lightning fast during the day time and also night time with a different batch of workers, working on different things.Because of this the entire Creed Zone had become a place full of dirt. Sand, concrete, cement, chips, metal bits, wires, a