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The Secret Successor CHAPTER 452
RUSSELL’S POV::It’s amazing how difficult speaking nothing throughout the day can be.After hearing Karensa talk and talk and talk words into his ears for a long time, I’ve decided to walk away from her and give her the task to catch up to me in her car. It was a test I started on a little serious note because I was frustrated, but as I kept crossing roads and alleys to avoid getting caught by her, it gave me a lot of fun.Then again, this task wasn’t for people who hated sweating because running away just did that.I walked whenever I believed I was in Karensa’s sight, and when she would move out of my sight, I started running. This way, I knew it’d frustrate her a lot more.This went on for almost thirty minutes, but that time flew by very fast.Thirty minutes of being silent while running on busy roads and alleys was dangerous on many levels, but it was also very thrilling.In the end, I stopped by the medium-sized Drake's restaurant because I saw a familiar face. And it completel
The Secret Successor CHAPTER 453
“I chased cars and jet planes before, but I never chased a man before, whether it’s on foot or by driving in a car,” Karensa said. “This was a fun and frustrating forty minutes, I must say.”“You chased jets before?” Russell sounded more shocked than surprised.“Ah, yeah, I know how to fly the planes,” Karensa said, flipping her hair back. “It’s very easy. If you want, I can take you for a ride.”“Ah, not really,” Russell replied. He didn’t want to tell her that he was someone who was afraid of heights. It wasn’t as bad for him to call it a phobia, but he’d rather avoid looking down from the top of a building as it’d always give his body a weird discomfort that was beyond description.“Fight travel gets really boring really fast, though,” Karensa said. “Unlike on the ground level, you don’t have any traffic up there. So, I prefer journeying in cars and partying on flights. I cut my last birthday cake at 50,000 feet high,” she proudly said, “though I had to bug my dad to prepare a spec
The Secret Successor CHAPTER 454
“What makes you think I’ll work with you?” Charlotte snorted at Teresa while talking on mobile. “Your Jones family is nothing compared to my Heller family. My ancestors have done great things and accomplished a lot. What did your ancestors do? Nothing. You think you’re in a position to tell me what to do?”“I know, ma’am. Your grandfather was among those who planned the sinking of the biggest ship the world has ever made,” Teresa said, her voice neither rude nor polite. “I even know that a bomb was placed in the engine room in case the iceberg collision wasn’t as effective. Because of what happened that day, many of your enemies died, and you profited a lot from it. The Heller family also established the Supreme Bank soon after that, and now it’s one of the best banks with a market capitalization of over half a trillion dollars. I know all that.”“Then what makes you think you have the audacity to talk to me like this?” Charlotte growled. “You may think you’re some hot shit, but you h
The Secret Successor CHAPTER 455
Karensa and Russell were returning to the Gator hotel. Seeing the red light at the junction, Russell quickly said, “You should stop.” Even so, it didn’t seem like Karensa was going to squeeze the brake pedal, so Russell said again, “Stop!”“Alright,” Karensa half-rolled her eyes. “You’re so conventional. I can easily maneuver myself through this traffic. That’s what this babe is here for.”Russell was silent.“By babe, I meant the car.”“I know,” Russell calmly replied.“You need to live a little. Mm?” Just then Karensa saw someone walking down the zebra crossing while talking on a mobile. But after seeing the pagani car, he ended the call and started taking pictures. “Who’s this clown? Should I just hit and dash away?”“No,” Russell quickly said.“Haha, I was joking, dude. You’re too funny,” she chortled. “But…” She pressed her foot on the accelerator and drove past the man and snatched the mobile from him and left too fast for that man to do anything about it. After going some dista
The Secret Successor CHAPTER 456
Russell came to his hotel room.“You’ve been gone for hours,” Elora asked. “Where were you? I came downstairs, but you weren’t there.”“I had to go out with a woman,” Russell said. “I mean, not as a date but just a casual trip.”“Okay. Who’s that woman?”“She’s the one who sent food to our room early in the morning,” Russell sat down on the bed. “She’s the daughter of Ross Raer.”“Ross Raer?” Elora’s expression changed. “The guy that owns multiple extraction industries?”“And he’s also a senator on top of that,” Russell said. “He’s filthy rich, just like the Hellers and the Lynns.”“Why are you roaming with Ross’ daughter?” Elora quickly sat next to him. “You do know how these extractive industries work, don’t you? They steal everything valuable that is in the earth in remote places, and yet they do not give any single benefit to the locals there. On top of that, they make sure to make the lives of the locals miserable by ruining the environment around them. Every penny they earn is b
The Secret Successor CHAPTER 457
“It didn’t work, ma’am,” Nancy lowered her head in front of Charlotte. “I think he’s gotten too old to feel the touch of a woman.”“Tsk, I thought we could get something on him,” Charlotte bit her lower lip. “You can go. I’ll deal with him some other way.”“About my loan debt…”“I’ll look into it.”“Thank you,” Nancy quickly left with a happy face.Charlotte glanced at William who was sitting on the couch in the guest room nearby. She sent a message to him, and he came to her room.“What do you think about kidnapping the old bastard?” Charlotte asked.“He has a bodyguard who’s guarding him all the time,” William said. “But that bodyguard is nothing for me. So, kidnapping the old man shouldn’t be hard, but if it backfires, then you’ll have a lot to worry about. You can’t go back after this.”“Yeah,” Charlotte bit on her nails. “That’s what I’m worried about. The SHADOWS have been developing AI programs and nano chips that are going to be introduced to the population through the virtual
The Secret Successor CHAPTER 458
In the evening, Russell was sitting on the rooftop of Gator hotel, staring at the homeless woman walking down the road in the distance.It made him remember the couple of days he spent on the streets, when he gained a completely different perspective on life.It was only for two days that he was on the streets, which were very dangerous to sleep at, but the most important thing he realized was how much harder it would be for a homeless person to get a job.From home address and clean clothes to ID and mobile, without these things it would be near impossible to get a job. During those two days, Russell did not have a home or a mobile, or even an ID that he could use. All he had were his costly suit, but would that alone have been enough for him to get some kind of a job? Probably not.“After all that happened in my life, I still don’t know how to get a proper job,” Russell thought. He never attended interviews before, so he didn’t have that experience, either.Because he had been worki
The Secret Successor CHAPTER 459
A couple of minutes earlier.“Why are you heading to my hotel, Dad?” Karensa asked her dad in shock while talking to him on mobile.“It’s not your hotel. It’s ‘our’ hotel. I bought you that so you’ll do something good,” Ross said. “If I see good things during this surprise visit, then I’ll reward you appropriately. Bye bye.” He abruptly ended the call.“Do you wish to eat at the hotel, sir?” the driver asked.“Of course. I like convenience, even though it costs more,” Ross replied.Soon, his Rolls Royce stopped at the hotel. He put his suit on, adjusted his wig, and then stepped out. He had no bodyguards with him except for the driver.“The parking space is clean. Surprising,” Ross uttered, “considering how Karensa likes to throw things around in her room. But what matters more is how the food and accommodation are.”He entered the hotel, and the first thing he saw was an old woman in dirty clothes sitting at a table. “What the… who allowed that woman inside?”“Let me deal with her, s