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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
The Secret Successor CHAPTER 226
Gage and Irene were in the elevator, with him standing behind her. He still had his hand over his cheek, so she said, “Stop over-acting. I only slapped you lightly, so why do you still have your hand on your cheek?”“I’m feeling honored that you touched my cheek,” Gage responded. “I still can’t believe it.”Irene rolled her eyes. “Do you want me to hit you again?”“That’d be an even greater honor,” Gage said, removing his hand and showing her his cheek, inviting her to hit him. But as he expected, she didn’t slap him this time.“I’m not the kind of woman who dates for weeks or months and then breaks up with the guy, then cries and suffers for months,” Irene spoke from her heart. “I’ll leave my marriage up to my father. If you’re really interested in me, then don’t get down on your knees before me like Russell did before Natasha. Instead, go and talk to my father. If you can convince him, then I will be convinced, too.”Gage went absolutely silent.Irene didn’t look back at him but won
The Secret Successor CHAPTER 227
Gage secretly paid a chef and made him pack some of the dishes, and THEN he returned to Regan who was waiting to fill his belly.After sniffing the dishes like a hungry old hound, he looked at Gage, “You don’t want to eat?”“I already did, sir,” Gage said, remembering how he forced Irene to sit and eat with him even though she told him she should work as she was the receptionist. Still, he said he would pay for her, and so she hurriedly ate with him, or so he thought. What Gage didn’t know was that the staff members could freely eat once a day at the hotel.Without waiting, Regan tasted one dish after another, though he couldn’t eat more than a little bit of every dish because he was an old man with not so much digestive power anymore.“Kale pasta with lemony beans… Warm and delicious.” Regan began to talk out loud. “I once ate this type of dish when I went out to picnic in the past. And this baked sweet potato with cheese leaking out of them is quite flavorful. And the spiced caulifl
The Secret Successor CHAPTER 228
On the same night.After a long day, the staff members were all gathered on the ground floor. They kept murmuring about why the CEO wanted to talk with them.Irene could hear what people were talking about. Most of those were negative talks as they were all anxious, wondering if they were now going to lose their jobs because they were only told this morning that they would be paid minimum wages. Those present right now were the ones that had agreed to work for minimum wages. Irene was among them.And Irene didn’t look happy.She had a bachelor degree certificate, so she was wondering why she found herself working as a receptionist while her friend who stopped studying after high school was now the personal assistant of a company that was worth billions.Irene felt as if all the dollars she had spent on getting a degree so she could get a job that will make her and her family happy were completely and utterly wasted.When she was a child, she began to dream of a magical job where she c