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The Secret Successor CHAPTER 493
Regan and Russell’s eyes met. Russell had bigger eyes compared to his grandfather.Russell obviously remembered who he was. Did the bouquet belong to him? He wondered. He then put the bouquet on a table and quickly rushed up the stairs. “Let me help you, sir.”If someone offered help, Regan would have yelled at them saying he’s not that old yet, but because it was Russell, he did not say anything.Russell held Regan’s left arm with both of his hands and helped him climb down the stairs slowly.After coming down, Regan decided to sit at the table Russell had kept the bouquet at. He put the walking stick on the same table and exhaled audibly. “Only ten years ago, I could run up and down the stairs like a king, but now… my knees feel stiff. And my back feels like it might give up any second. Using the stairs becomes not just tiring but also a scary thing to pull off. The only good thing about it is that I’m sure I won’t live another five years, so I don’t have to suffer this old life for
The Secret Successor CHAPTER 494
“I was born into a rich family,” Regan said, “but of course, we weren’t rich enough to not be able to keep track of everything we own. I used to spend money on buying everything I wanted when I was young. On my thirteenth birthday, however, my dad gave me a gift with nothing in the gift box. I told him that there was no gift inside. You know what he said?” Russell slowly shook his head. “He told me to figure that out myself,” Regan added. “Since that year, he hasn't given me a dollar, not to the day he died. But he did let me work in his company. However, I didn’t take any salary for my work, either.” “Mm? Then how did you eat?” Russell couldn’t help but ask. “I was still staying at my dad’s house, so I ate whatever the maids cooked,” Regan said. “It was on my thirtieth birthday, I was able to get an investment from a friend and professor, and I used that to build a tech company called ‘Gift.’ I built a game, which somehow worked out, and I bought my first credit card that year. On
The Secret Successor CHAPTER 495
Elora was muttering something angrily to herself as Russell entered the room. She stopped talking suddenly and looked at him. To her shock, he was holding a bouquet. “W-What’s that?”For a second, her heart trembled.“Someone I know gave it to me,” Russell said and put the bouquet on the table. But he plucked one rose. “Though I don’t understand why his daughter seemed to have rejected it. Maybe she doesn’t like red roses like you?”Elora’s heart started beating faster. She didn’t like red roses because they reminded her of blood, but she loved blush pink roses. Russell knew that. However, Regan didn’t.“How did you know that old man? What did he tell you?” Elora asked, sitting frozenly as Russell came up to her.“He’s someone I met through a friend. We didn’t talk much. He told me his past and his regrets,” Russell raised his hand and put the rose forward toward her.Elora didn’t know what to do. Was she supposed to take it, knowing that it was bought by Regan? But Russell would get
The Secret Successor CHAPTER 496
At Lynn Trills, an open restaurant owned by the Lynn family.Teresa was waiting at the table, observing the birds that were put in cages for display. Their chirping noises made the atmosphere pleasant to her ears.“Did I keep you waiting for long?” Kyra came and sat across the table.“This is a good place, so I don’t mind it,” Teresa said. “How are you doing?”This sort of friendly attitude was not what Kyra expected from this old lady. She understood that Teresa must want something from her. “I’m doing fine. Do you need some sort of help from me?”Teresa smiled a little. “Actually, it’s the opposite.”“Opposite?”Teresa took a file out of her handbag and put it before Kyra. After seeing the pictures in that file, Kyra couldn’t help but frown. Those were pictures of Amelie and Roddick meeting in some animal park. What was even more shocking was that Natasha also seemed to be somewhere in the picture.“It’s not a quality image because these people were in the background,” Teresa said.
The Secret Successor CHAPTER 497
The woman who taught her how to walk;The woman who made her smile;The woman whose smile she believed was brighter than a rainbow;The woman she grew up thinking to be more beautiful than any flower in the world;The woman she put before any treasure ever existed in the world or in her imaginations;The woman whose husband she believed to be part of the bones that made her spine;The woman whose husband’s blood she believed also flowed in her;This woman named Charlotte now became a big thorn in Kyra’s heart.As much as Kyra tried to forgive and forget the biggest of lies that Charlotte made, for the sake of their bond, Kyra now had another reason to feel hatred toward her mother now.She was driving home very fast in her Alpha Wolfe car, which was in auto-pilot mode because she was so upset she was not in the right condition to be driving now, definitely not at this speed.Despite traveling at a high speed, the car did not make a single mistake. It was able to bring Kyra home in opt
The Secret Successor CHAPTER 498
In a beauty parlor in the evening.“Have you seen this?” Skarlett showed her sister the new video that Russell uploaded.“He doesn’t even have 50,000 subscribers,” Natasha snorted. “I have 250,000 now. My makeup tutorial video was seen by over 42 million people. What’s his highest viewed video? I doubt it even has a million views. He’s not even my competition, sis. I utterly crushed him without even really trying. Even if he makes a thousand videos, he’ll not get a hundredth of the attention that I received. That’s just how useless he is.”“Haha, you’re right. You have a lot of male as well as female subscribers, but his content is so bad that he’s struggling to have subscribers,” Skarlett remarked. “I thought he was going to succeed when he started making videos with Kyra with her face hidden, but that didn’t last long. So, now, I’m sure his subscribers will demand videos with her, or at least ask him the reason behind divorce. ”“Even if he doesn’t tell them, I’ll leak some informat
The Secret Successor CHAPTER 499
After checking his weight in the weighing machine, Russell used the foot massager mat for a minute and found it very stimulating as well as relaxing.He left the car there and began to explore the place on foot. He came across a tripartite shop where one could choose to shoot in three ways: Bows, guns, and darts.Russell chose the bows because the quality of the bows were quite good, and he never held a bow before. The arrows had blunt tips, which was expected. He only had to pay only one dollar for every attempt. A deer hologram was made to run around in the square room right before his eyes, and he had to shoot it.Russell quickly shot at the deer when it briefly stopped and looked at him, but the arrow grazed past its back. “Ah! Just missed it!”“You can try again, sir,” the worker, who was a pretty young lady, said. “You can use the VR goggles if you want.”“VR goggles?” Russell looked at her a bit confusedly. But then she gave him a pair of goggles.“It helps you focus on the dee
The Secret Successor CHAPTER 500
In a huge hangar-like tent, many professional gamers were test-playing the game in their zones. At one end, there was a big table where twenty people could sit around it, but only Charlotte and Regan were sitting there. The others were busy observing the professional gamers use the VR gear to play the game. “This neural gear is working much better than I expected,” Charlotte was smiling very much. “The professional gamers who played the game for 20 hours yesterday had their brain functions checked, and their vitals were better than those who work at a desk for eight hours.” “That’s because we fed them all a proper diet in the morning,” Regan said. “A glass of lemon water which helps create white blood cells, a banana for energy and improving cholesterol, a guava for fiber and for keeping hunger in check. These three must be included in breakfast. On top of those three, we’ll then allow them to eat the fourth item of their choice. This is the rule I put for all the gamers. I’ve used i