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The Secret Successor CHAPTER 443
“What’s your name?” Karensa asked him, flipping her hair back.“Why is my name necessary?” he asked back. “Didn’t you tell me to eat and get the hell out of your sight?”“I did, but…” Karensa maintained a straight face, “it’s just a name. Why are you playing tough to get? Usually, I’m the one that does that to the guys that approach me.”Russell somewhat smiled. “My name is, unfortunately, named after a snake.”“A snake?” Karensa thought for a second. “Is your name Viper? Racer? Draco?”He kept shaking his head. “Damn, I didn’t know there were so many names that are also used for snakes.”“You can just tell me your name.”“Aren’t you quite impatient?”“Huh,” Karensa smiled a bit angrily. “You’re the one making me impatient. You’re eating my food. Don’t you think you should at least have the courtesy to tell me your name?”“Then what about your courtesy? Isn’t it rude to ask someone’s name without telling yours first?” Russell retorted.The left eyebrow of Karensa jerked a little. “My
The Secret Successor CHAPTER 444
Russell had eaten his fill and then asked the waiter to pack the rest of the dishes.“You don’t have to take the rest,” Karensa said.“It’s for my mom,” he replied. “She’s upstairs.”“Oh, then we’ll send her fresh dishes because these would have gone a bit cold,” Karensa suggested.“Well…” Russell couldn’t say no because his mother loved eating hot food, especially spicy food. She wasn’t able to eat spicy foods when she was sick, but now, she started eating in moderation. “Thank you.”“It’s okay. I can do this much for someone who ‘slapped’ me,” she cheekily smiled.“You just had to say that…” Russell exhaled audibly. “Fine. If it’s an apology that you want… I’m sorry.”“An apology isn’t enough,” Karensa folded her arms and sat back confidently. “I want your number.”Russell was surprised. “My number?” he thought for a second.“What?” Karensa’s voice turned rough. “Why the heck are you thinking about it? Am I not worthy enough to even get your number?”“T-That’s not it,” Russell quick
The Secret Successor CHAPTER 445
Karensa was traveling in a car, while reading a file that had information about a particular someone. “Russell Bennett… as expected, he’s from a mediocre family. Only these poor people complain about how society works, but he’s not all wrong, though. My dad’s salary as a senate member wouldn’t exceed 200,000 dollars a year, but he earns tens of millions illegally every year just by using his position as a senate member. And 99.9% percent politicians are just like him, busy making money and filling their pockets deep with everything they can.” She kept reading the file with interest. “He’s not that good at studies, either, huh,” she smirked. “At least there’s one thing we have in common. He’s dated someone called Natasha for a few months until she rejected his proposal because he didn’t have a job. Can’t blame her for that. Mm?” Just then, she noticed a name. “Kyra Lynn?” she rubbed her eyes once and looked again. Her eyes slowly but surely widened. “W-What the hell? He married Kyra
The Secret Successor CHAPTER 446
Charlotte finished reading the new seasonal report made on her bank, and it was going very well. So she was all smiles.“Ma’am,” William entered her room. “Young Lady Kyra bought an apartment and a villa near the eastern shore.”“Yeah, what about it?”“She didn’t buy with debt,” William said.“What?” Charlotte put the file down and frowned. “Where did she get the money from then?”“I believe… It's from Sir Liam.”“Tsk, what’s she thinking? I would have given her interest-free money, which she didn’t even need to pay tax for,” Charlotte couldn’t hide her mild frustration. “And what is Liam thinking? Is this his way of getting back at me? I can’t let him grow distance between me and my daughter.” “Do you want me to arrange a meeting with him, ma’am?” William politely asked.“No…” Charlotte didn’t have enough heart to face him right now. “If I go to him right now, he’ll definitely make me beg to come to him. If I obey all his demands, he’ll make me lose all my freedoms and live the rest
The Secret Successor CHAPTER 447
William came to Tom’s house. He knocked multiple times on the door, but nobody opened it.“I know someone’s inside,” William said. “Either you open the door, or I’ll break it open for you.”“Who are you?” Tom shouted from the inside. “Did my shitty son send you?”“No. Why don’t you open the door?”“Unless you tell me what you want, I won’t open anything, mate,” Tom confidently said. “I advise you to not force me to put my guns to use.”William didn’t flinch even at the mention of guns. “Where’s Russell?”Tom’s expression changed. “Russell? Who’s that?”William forced out a smile. “I’m a good friend of Russell, sir. I mean no harm.”“Didn’t you just say you might break open the door for me?” Tom snorted. “Your words clearly don’t add up, mate. Why don’t you turn your sour little ass and get the hell out of my property? Unless, you want me to call the cops, of course.”William looked everywhere on the floor. “I don’t see any footwear other than a pair of old shoes. Can I take it tha Rus
The Secret Successor CHAPTER 448
The attendant turned around in fear of getting slapped in the face. Sure enough, Karensa’s hand came flying at his cheek.However, Russell caught her hand just in time, surprising not just the attendant but also the woman who had her hair styling done just an hour ago.“Why are you stopping me from teaching him some manners?” Karensa coldly asked. “He’s clearly about to talk back about me, or are you saying it’s okay for him to badmouth me when I’m employing him?”“You’re free to fire him if you don’t like him,” Russell calmly replied, “but I don’t think you should hit him just because you pay him salary. Besides, he’s a grown man. It’s not good for him to receive a slap.”“Are you saying that from experience?” Karensa raised one of her eyebrows.“You can take it however you want, Ms. Karensa,” Russell let go of her hand. “By the way, why did you send so much food to my room? My mom was shocked by it. She thought I ordered all that food.”“It’s just a bit of food. What’s there to be s
The Secret Successor CHAPTER 449
The verbal battle between Ross and Liam continued for a long time, longer than the time they were allowed to.Both of them kept shooting arrows at each other.What Russell noticed was that Ross was targeting mostly personal things related to Liam, whereas Liam was targeting the business and professional career of Ross and how he was receiving millions of dollars of funds from the foreign country every year, especially the current year as the elections were nearing.Even though it was Ross who was mostly asking questions, he didn’t get many answers as Liam replied to him with another question most of the time.Normally, one wouldn’t be allowed to speak this way in the senate because most people who would get interrogated would be guilty and so struggle to answer, but Liam was an exception. He was giving straightforward answers when it was necessary. At other times, he showed the audience who he was by asking them questions they had no answers to.In the end, Ross once again targeted Li
The Secret Successor CHAPTER 450
A minute earlier.“What do you think? Will he come to our side?” a voice from the other side of the phone call asked Ross.“He’s very stubborn, but if the juices in his brain haven’t rotten, then he’s going to bend himself to serve our interests,” Ross said. “After all, the media channels he owns are nothing compared to what we owe. In fact, we can make every channel in the world do our bidding by paying them money. We control the money supply. We create cash out of thin air. We only need to credit an account to make others listen to us.”“But we already tried that,” the officer from the Federal agency replied. “We put over a billion dollars as advance in his bank account. We even sent gold bullions to his estate, but he sent the money and the gold back. He’s clearly not hungry for more money. He also doesn’t fear us, probably because he has backing from the Aeson family. Because one of the supreme families is involved in this, even we can’t act recklessly. But how are we going to dea