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On the same day.Russell came to Creed Zone to preorder the gaming gear and also record a vlog while he’s at it. Because he had money, he bought the most advanced gear with all the necessary accessories, which cost him about 12,000 dollars.His followers were shocked by his boldness and the risk he’s taking. And then there were those who kept teasing him by calling him rich.“I know this is risky because I’m not used to playing these games, but… I will be training for the next week in this place,” Russell told his followers. “I’ll learn as much as I can so that my streams won’t be boring.”After packing the gear in his car, he was exploring the place and visited the stores he didn’t before.When he went to a shop full of toys, he heard the shopkeeper talking on the phone, “I hope that Sir Regan will come back healthy. If he dies, my shop will be doomed. All of us invested a lot in these stores. His death will really break our backbones. I’ve been praying since last night that he shoul
The Secret Successor CHAPTER 537
At an open restaurant inside Creed Zone.“You want to join a technical support associate?” the HR manager was snorting at Denver. “With your resume?”“Sir, I don’t have job experience, but I’m good with integrating systems,” Denver desperately explained himself. “Just give me a task, and I’ll not disappoint you.”“The hardware assembly used for Dream Creed is much more complex than what you are taught in colleges or private workshops,” the HR manager blurted. “Even experienced technical support specialists will have to be very careful when handling our equipment, despite all the encapsulation done to make things easier to understand. If you are thinking of using our code to write your own scripts, then you forget about it because we hide that information under many levels of security that’s well-guarded by three supercomputers. Hacking even a little bit of code, be it an attribute or a method used in programming, is not possible even if you work at it for decades.”“I only came here f
The Secret Successor CHAPTER 538
“I told my situation to many of my friends,” Denver told Russell. “Though most of them expressed pity before me, they probably told others about my story and laughed about it. 99% of the friends I have aren’t really friends, and the person I didn’t really think of as a friend is now willing to help me. I’m not saying this to sugarcoat or anything, but you are a good soul. I was blinded by my love and lust for Natasha that I couldn’t see you as a friend before.”Russell didn’t say anything. Though he was willing to help Denver, can he really think of Denver as a friend now? Can he share his personal problems with him? Can he really trust him to never betray him? He didn’t think so. Can he really forgive him for killing his dog? So much bad stuff happened between these that it might never be possible for Russell to truly consider him as a friend and fully trust him.“Why exactly did your marriage go wrong with Kyra?” Denver asked, surprising Russell because he didn’t think that Denver w
The Secret Successor CHAPTER 539
Russell and Denver were almost two hundred feet away, and they were stunned just like everyone else.Denver was so shaken, he began to run away.The criminals continued to shoot until they emptied their magazines. At least two hundred bullets were shot. Though it was an armored car, many bullets still managed to break into the car.Other than Russell and a couple other people, everyone else ran away from the scene.The two people in the car were not moving.“Drag them out,” the boss of the criminals said. He was 6 feet 6 inches tall and was bulky. “We’ll behead them and put their heads for display.”Two criminals were walking toward the car, but then the doors opened. Both Liam and David stepped out, and they were completely unhurt.The criminals stepped back in utter puzzlement and confusion and shock.“What the fuck?” the boss of the criminals couldn’t comprehend what he was seeing.“Who do you want me to kill first?” David asked.“You can deal with everyone else except the boss,” L
The Secret Successor CHAPTER 540
Regan was getting ready to leave the hospital without the doctors’ permission. But then, a very unexpected guest visited him.It was Denise Egor, who was the face of the pharmaceutical industry around the world itself.She brought a bouquet that had both white and black flowers, which Regan didn’t like, but he still accepted it.“Are you feeling okay now, Mr. Regan?” Denise sat down comfortably and observed him.“By God’s grace, I’m doing good now,” Regan said. “Are you here to talk about the drugs I have been taking?”Denise forced out a smile. “You are very clever, sir. You easily figured out the reason I’m here. As expected of someone who’s feared even by the big politicians.”“Well, it’s widely known that I’ve been taking medicine and drugs given by your industry for a while,” Regan said. “So you don’t want me telling the world that the cause for the stroke might have been because of the drugs.”“Since you’ve guessed it, there’s nothing else for me to say,” Denise said. “But just
The Secret Successor CHAPTER 541
On the same night that Regan left the hospital, he sent a message to Jessica that he was leaving the hospital. “Already?” Jessica was shocked. “What’s he thinking? What are the doctors doing?” She wondered if she should call the doctors and warn them about Regan’s escape plans. “He should just be in bed for at least a couple of days, but he wants to stress himself some more at work. These old people can be so stubborn. If he gets another stroke, people will really start blaming me.” She already was feeling the heat because many of the company’s workers were already putting the blame on her, saying that she was careless, which really infuriated her. Jessica was currently returning home from an evening church. She didn’t stay there for long but only for fifteen minutes. She had to visit the church to find some peace, because her work life was getting rough lately and she needed some spiritual support. When she returned to her house, she could hear many voices coming from inside. Amon
The Secret Successor CHAPTER 542
When Regan came to his office in the middle of the night, he saw Liam waiting inside. It almost gave him a heart attack for a second.“W-What the hell are you doing here?” Regan quickly asked, raising his walking stick, just to fight if necessary.“I’m waiting for you,” Liam got up and offered a handshake.“Waiting for me?” There was nobody outside, so Regan couldn’t help but wonder just for how long Liam had been waiting for him. “How the heck did you know that I was coming? Nobody knew other than myself.”Liam smiled. “I know me enough, so obviously, I also know my rival just enough.”“That’s the most contrived logic I’ve heard in a while,” Regan remarked.“Haha,” Liam laughed out loud. It looked more like a stress reliever than him enjoying his own joke.“Normally, I can guess when someone comes to meet me,” Regan uttered. “But now, I can’t guess why you’re here, even though you are my rival.”“I’m not here to talk about the Payseur family.”“Oh…” Regan looked a little surprised. “
The Secret Successor CHAPTER 543
The next morning.Denise sent many doctors to go and advise Regan on his health condition, hoping he’d listen to them even though he didn’t listen to her.Regan, however, did not give time to any doctor, even if they were ones from his own hospital.With the hacking system, he hacked the mobiles of these doctors and realized that Denise was working behind the scenes. He felt angry when she said the words ‘Regan lost faith in our medicine industry, but we have to make him our repeat customer again.’What shocked him even more was that some of the doctors working under him, taking his money as salary, were actually listening to Denise’s words. She didn’t even need to hypnotize them because they were all in on it. They were willing to fuck Regan up as if it was a very normal thing to do.“Treating patients as repeat customers…” Regan was so frustrated he called the cleaner and made her take out all the drugs from his office and throw them in the trash. He turned his office drug-free.And
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THANK YOU:: The Secret Successor has found his family as well as his love! There’s no one more lucky in the world than one who has a family that loves them. They don’t say blood is thicker than water for no reason. But I’d say, love is even thicker than blood. So, Russell is lucky to have a loving mom, dad, grandfather, and a childhood girlfriend. How lucky are you in your life in terms of relationships? Do you have people who support you when you are down? I hope so. I started the novel with the thought of finishing it in 500 chapters, but it took this long. To all those who read every chapter and reached this page… you have my humble and grateful thanks. A big thanks to reader Oyewale Gabriel for your immense support. And then to Mickey Ritch for your votes as well as comment support. Next is Ricky, who is one of the earliest readers of this novel. Good to still see you around. To Charlie Mcmillen, who has a silent but strong presence, you have my Mcvery thanks. And then, we hav
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A few weeks later.Charlotte was at her home, eating peanuts, which didn’t taste good on her tongue right now. It wasn’t the peanuts that had the issue, but her tongue and her mind.“Even the food isn’t going inside,” Charlotte pitifully said. She called Kyra’s mobile, but Kyra didn’t answer.Seconds later, Kyra sent a text message: Don’t bother me.“Tsk, she’s completely cut herself off,” Charlotte tossed the mobile away at the wall. “But she’s sticking with Liam and Russell when they’re not even related to her by blood. It doesn’t make any sense!”“Do you want me to kidnap her and bring her here?” William asked.“Do you want Liam to kill both of us?” Charlotte asked him back.“N-No.”“Forget about Liam…” Charlotte looked at the file in her hand. “This bastard Russell came up with such a clever contract. If I sign this, I’ll basically be giving up my shares in the company, but in return, I’ll earn in the billions.”“Since he’s going to trouble you anyway, he’s giving you a profitable
CHAPTER 635
Jessica was never gifted so many chocolates by anybody before. She immediately hugged Russell with excitement. “You’re the best!”“Wait, they are not just for you,” Russell said. “You’ll be sharing these with everyone at the table.”“U-Uh, of course,” Jessica couldn’t smile as freely anymore because there weren’t multiples for some types of chocolates, and she didn’t want to give those away to others. “I-I will do it after we finish dinner,” she said. “I mean, if we eat chocolates before, then we won’t be able to eat the meal properly.”“You can just distribute them now,” Russell said.“U-Um,” Jessica reluctantly got up and began to distribute the chocolates to everyone at the table. But when she came to Russell, she didn’t put any chocolate on his plate.“Wait, you forgot me,” Russell said.She leaned in and whispered in his ear, “Didn’t you say that I AM your chocolate?”Russell blushed. “Ahem,” he quickly controlled his expression. “I see.”Jessica sat down. The waiters began to se
CHAPTER 634
A few nights later.At Tuna Waves restaurant.The entire top floor was booked by the Lynn family for the night.A large dining table was arranged in the center of the floor. Kyra was the first to attend, because she was the only one who arranged this dinner and invited the people she believed she should.As she waited a bit nervously, to her shock, Jessica was the first to arrive. She was dressed in her work attire and didn’t even have makeup on. Was she coming straight from work?Jessica sat down at a chair but didn’t speak to Kyra and just waited.There was an awkward atmosphere between these two.“I’m not going to eat you, so you can talk,” Kyra voiced her mind. “You came here early so that you can make sure nothing ‘strange’ happens, right?”“Well, I have to protect my guy,” Jessica replied, putting her mobile down, “so that I won’t lose him again.”“Don’t worry then. I think of Liam as my dad, so Russell becomes my brother now,” Kyra stated. “I can’t marry my brother now, can I?”
CHAPTER 633
Other than Arnold, nobody was told that Liam was Russell’s biological father, as Elora and Liam just didn’t feel the need to do so.They believed that revealing that truth now would only bring unnecessary complications.Elora felt like a lot of burden had been lifted off her heart after she told Arnold the truth.Russell also felt happy that Viola was talking to him. Though James was still clouded by his anger, Russell didn’t feel bad about it as James was known for his impulsive behavior.Russell believed that James would understand with time.Liam and Elora went away in a different car, whereas Russell left in his Boyen Redemption. Driving with an injured hand wasn’t easy, but he somehow managed it and got home.Regan was talking with Gage’s dad and introduced him to Russell. “This is the man I trust the most in the world. He’s your friend Gage’s father. His name is Steven.”Russell saw that Steven’s eyes were completely white. “Nice to meet you, Steven?” he looked at Regan. “Is he b
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“I don’t get it. Why do you want to marry her of all people?” Teresa asked quickly. “She’s been sick for decades, and no one knows when she might get sick again and die, not that I’m wishing for it, but I’m just stating the possibility. In addition to that, Russell is already your son-in-law, isn’t he? So, if you marry his mother now, what will the world think of it?”Liam smiled and asked her, “You think I didn’t consider all those things?”“U-Uh…” Teresa didn’t know what to say because he looked calm despite everything she had just said. She looked at Elora. “Are you not going to eat anything?”“No, I’m full,” Elora said, even though the real reason she refused was because she didn’t want to eat what was brought by Jennifer. Elora then glanced at Arnold. “Can we talk privately?”Arnold was not expecting that. Without even looking at Teresa or Jennifer, he said, “Sure. Why not?”Jennifer didn’t want them to talk, but all she could do was stand there and watch as Arnold and Elora walk
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Charlotte left the hospital, but on her way home, she received pictures from one of her friends.And these were pictures of Liam and Elora eating at a restaurant.“Stop the car,” Charlotte said.William quickly pressed the brake. He looked back, and Charlotte was fuming.She felt like her body was set on fire. She wasn’t able to stand it.“How can he…”Seeing Liam hold some other woman’s hand, she wasn't able to digest it and pulled her hair with one hand. “Fuck! This isn’t happening. Fuck! Fuck!”“What’s wrong, ma’am?” William quickly asked.“He’s getting away from me,” she said angrily as well as sadly. “He’s really getting away from me.”One mistake cost her everything.Her husband, her daughter, and even her sister, all of them moved away from her.The only person that was still with her was William.“Why won’t you also leave my side?” she asked him.“Does a dog ever leave the side of its master?” he said. “They may be manipulative, abusive, but the dog still loves its master.”Ch
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“Fuck off, bitch,” Natasha pressed the trigger.However, nothing happened.Jessica thought she died, but she didn’t. She quickly recovered from the mental shock and slapped Natasha’s hand, making the gun fall out of her hand. “That’s an autoloader. You should manually cock for the first shot for it to be fired.” She kicked Natasha in the gut as hard as she could.Jessica was a very powerful woman, and so her kick sent Natasha crashing back violently.Jessica then sat on Natasha and began to hit her.“W-Wait,” Natasha tried to speak. “That gun wasn’t loaded.”“You expect me to believe that?” Jessica began to punch her face repeatedly, making her lips rupture and bleed. Still, she didn’t stop and kept going.The other employees gathered around. One of them picked up the revolver and checked for the bullets. “Ma’am, this gun really is empty.”Jessica was a bit shocked to hear that. “What?”“I told you…you fucking bitch!” Natasha grabbed Jessica’s throat and squeezed it. “I’ll kill you fo
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“Aww,” Elora crashed on the floor and cringed in pain. Liam rushed over to help her and tried to help her get up, but she got up on her own, saying, “I’m not that old yet.”“I never said you were,” Liam put forward the bouquet of lilies.“What the… too white and bright,” she blurted. “Your taste sucks.”Liam was shocked because it was Russell’s suggestion.Elora plucked just one lily from the bouquet and smelled it. “Anyway, what brought the great Liam Lynn here. There’s no child in this house, you know.”Liam’s expression suddenly hardened. Whether she was trying to mock him or was purposely trying to tease him, it felt like a joke that went too far. However, he saw not a ounce of negativity in Elora’s eyes. It was as if she was testing him to see how he’d react. “My child, no, our child is in this house, is he not?” Liam replied.Elora somewhat smiled. “Yeah, he is upstairs. You can go and talk to him.” She sat back on the couch. “If you move out of the way, I’ll watch the TV. The c
