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The Secret Successor CHAPTER 82
Russell was able to keep on reading, until he froze after reading the clause: The husband admits that he impregnated his wife before marriage, and that he’s the biological father of the baby growing inside the to-be wife.“What the hell is this?” Russell gave the file back to his father. “This is utter bullshit. Just because they’re rich, they think they can force me to say that I’m the biological father of the baby growing inside Kyra?” He got up.“Russell,” Arnold pulled him down. “Calm down. I know this seems bizarre at first, but you shouldn’t forget that the reason they are marrying Kyra into our family is because they don’t want the marriage to happen before the world knows Kyra is pregnant. So of course, when she gives birth later on, you are going to say to the world that the baby is yours.”“I understood that, but why must it be written in this damn document? If they want to keep it secret, why write it in this agreement?”“It’s not like they are going to make this document
The Secret Successor CHAPTER 83
When Russell came to his mother’s home, the neighborhood boys were stealing fruits and vegetables in the garden.Russell chased them and threw stones at them. “If I ever see you here again, I’ll break your legs!”The money earned from selling the fruits and vegetables growing in this garden would be barely enough for his mother’s dietary expenses, so everytime something like this happened, Russell easily lost his patience.When he entered the house, Elora asked, “Are the kids stealing again?”“Where’s the maid? What’s she doing?” Russell looked for the newly hired maid but couldn’t find her.“She went to her kid’s school.”“On sunday?”“Yeah, there was some meeting, she said.”“Then what about you? She’s supposed to stay here from six to six. We’re paying her 3000 dollars per month.”“It’s okay, Russell. Sit down,” Elora spoke in a weak voice, but with a smile on her face. “You can’t expect your workers to work like robots. If you don’t cut them some slack every now and then, they’ll
The Secret Successor CHAPTER 84
Thanks to Elora’s words, Russell understood that even though his marriage with Kyra seemed nothing more than a marriage proposal right now, he could just make the contract seem irrelevant with his love toward Kyra and receive a similar level of love in return. This way, he could also prove Natasha wrong when she said, ‘love is either sexual arousal or business proposal.’With this thought process, he was willing to sign the marriage contract now.“If everything goes well, then I might make Kyra tear the marriage contract with her own hands, Mom,” Russell told Elora.“Your love isn’t easy to ignore, so I’m positive that day will eventually come,” Elora boosted his confidence.Russell then took his mother back into the home. He applied oil to her legs and began massaging.“Russell, don’t expect your path to be all flowery after you become the son-in-law of the Lynn family,” Elora said, startling him. “Even those who have great success backing them will still be insulted and mocked by th
The Secret Successor CHAPTER 85
“W-Why did you come to my house to talk about Russell, Uncle?” Jessica couldn’t hide her tension all that much anymore. “Did he say something?”“Luckily, he didn’t say anything, but I don’t want him to say any stupid statements right before his marriage with Kyra,” Arnold said, “if you know what I mean.”“U-Unnecessary statements?”Arnold’s gaze sharpened just a little. “You’ve worked in as many as fifty different jobs, so I’m sure you’re not as dumb as you’re trying to look right now.”Jessica pursed her lips. “U-Uncle, I’m genuinely confused. What exactly are you talking about?”Arnold went silent. (It seems as if their relationship has never gotten to that stage, yet. Did I come here unnecessarily?) His gaze met with her once again. “If you really don’t know what I’m talking about, then it’s good, but if you do know what I’m talking about, then don’t even think about succeeding because I’ll stand in your way. If it means I’ll have to beat Russell to keep in check, I’ll do it.”“B-B
The Secret Successor CHAPTER 86
Ethan might have fired Natasha, but he let her take the 5000 dollar tip that Russell had given her. William didn’t object, either, because he believed that the streets were going to get that money from her soon enough.And William was right.Natasha bought a cheap handbag and walked out of the store, thinking about renting a small room for 500 dollars per month. Including the advance payment, she would need to give 1000 dollars. So set the thousand dollars aside.Two guys riding motorbikes snatched her bag and pulled her along. She miserably crashed on the round and got dragged a few meters until the bag slipped out of her hand. She got up very quickly, but she couldn’t catch up with the motorbike. They left pretty fast. 4000 dollars were gone just like that.Luckily, she had just put 1000 dollars in her pocket. Otherwise, she would have been left with nothing.Both of her elbows were bruised badly, but there was nobody to treat her, and that brought tears to her eyes.Moreover, the l
The Secret Successor CHAPTER 87
After the massage, Elora was able to sleep peacefully. Russell was outside in the garden, wondering how he should make his vlogging videos famous.“Crisis. Opportunity.”Remembering what his mother had said, Russell listed out all the crises he was going through right now. The issues with Natasha and Denver and how Perro died, all these things came to his mind, but… would making a video of what happened to him attract an audience? He didn’t think so. Would talking about his marriage with a billionaire’s daughter help? He couldn’t call something like that a crisis, and also he didn’t think Kyra and her family would appreciate it if he were to make vlogging videos regarding their marriage because Kyra’s pregnancy and many other things needed to be kept secret.Elora’s health condition could be called a crisis, but if he were to keep talking about that, it’d seem like he was asking money from his subscribers, so he didn’t want to do that.“Nothing useful is coming to my mind. In the cont
The Secret Successor CHAPTER 88
Russell didn’t edit the recorded video much and just posted it in his online account with the title ‘Thieves in my garden.’He then slept in the same house as Elora.The next morning, he woke up and turned off the ‘airplane mode’ on his mobile, and he began receiving a lot of messages on his email and social media account. More than 40 unread emails and 20 text messages to his mobile number. The subscriber count also increased by 4000 overnight. Something like this never happened to him before.They weren’t messages from his friends but from his online followers. Most of them kept asking for him to reveal the faces of the three teenagers because he had blurred them in the video, but there were some who asked about his mother’s health and told him to stay strong.He quickly visited the website and checked his video. There were 31,000 views and counting.Russell covered his mouth in shock. This is his highest viewed video. The previous highest was only around 26,000 views.He refreshed
The Secret Successor CHAPTER 89
Russell quickly typed in a mobile app the coordinates he received from William. The app popped a beauty salon’s name: Sweet Salon.“Huh? He wants me to come to a salon?” Russell couldn’t understand why, but he still hurriedly drove to the destination. He reached there in forty minutes. After getting out of the car, he felt good because he liked the car. “As expected, costly cars really are something. Be it the steering or the brakes, they are so responsive.”Without waiting, he was about to rush into the salon, but the slender, tall guard stopped him.“Only those with the customer cards can enter,” the guard blurted. Because Russell was wearing plain clothes, he didn’t put Russell in his eyes.“Customer cards?”“Yeah. Once you buy them, you can freely get the services for an entire year. The cards only cost 11,000 dollars per year.”“What?” Russell’s jaw slackened.“Hmph, clearly you’re not someone who can ever buy a customer card of this salon,” the guard raised his stick up to Russe