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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
The Secret Successor CHAPTER 90
“That I… don’t want to marry your daughter.”“WHAT?” Liam ground his teeth and controlled his anger. “Are you drunk?”“Sorry, sir, this is just a pr—” as Russell was saying, Kyra plucked the mobile and ended the call, shocking Russell. “W-What are you doing? We must tell your father that it’s a prank.”“Yes, we will, but not on the phone,” Kyra smiled. “You’re going to meet him and tell him to his face.”“W-What?” Russell couldn’t believe how Kyra was toying with him. He was already doing his best to not jump at her and take his mobile back. “Are you serious? Y-You’re kidding, right?”The phone in Kyra’s hand rang. It was Liam calling. Kyra smiled and cut the call. “The quicker you go and tell him, the better it is for you. Otherwise, my dad might just do something to your family out of anger.”Russell got up from his seat. “Give me my mobile.”“Uh-huh,” Kyra put the mobile in her pocket. “I’ll give it to you after you meet my father, but before that, you should get your facial done.”
The Secret Successor CHAPTER 91
Natasha visited a hundred different places, looking for a job, but most of them said the same words: we have no vacancy. There were some who asked her to come to the backside of their building, but she didn’t oblige. She didn’t want to lose her virginity to some random stranger to get a job. Even if she were to get a job this way, there was no guarantee that the job would last long, either.She was hungry, but she could only drink tap water because she didn’t have money. She had slept the previous night with 1000 dollars hidden in her dress, but the money was gone when she woke up this morning. It was surely the biggest shock of her life.She first doubted the Lynn and the Bennett families, thinking they were still targeting her to make her life all the more miserable.Because she had no money to even eat, she wanted to eat something as well as travel to her next destination. So she stood by the road and asked for a lift. A taxi stopped first, but she told the driver to leave. He kept
The Secret Successor CHAPTER 92
Russell came to the Lynn estate, but to his shock, the guards didn’t let him inside. He called Liam’s number, but Liam didn’t answer. He told the guards that he’s going to marry Kyra soon, and they initially laughed but then got angry.“Your car is good, but it’s not good enough to fool us,” they coldly said. “If you don’t get away from our sight in five seconds, we’ll break five of your fingers each.”Russell felt genuinely threatened as it seemed like the two guards really meant what they said. These guys were tall and big, and they were equipped with guns as well.“Please just go inside and tell Sir Liam that Russell is here,” he tried to reason with them. “If he says he doesn’t know me, then I’ll do a hundred, no, fifty squats here, and then go my way.”The guards looked at each other once before saying, “Hundred. If he says he doesn’t know you, and if you’re not who you said you were, then you’ll do a hundred squats. Full squats where your butt goes below the knee.”“Yes,” Russel
The Secret Successor CHAPTER 93
“P-Preliminary test?” Russell looked confused. “What do you mean, sir?”“The main test starts now,” Liam said. “You’ll have until sunrise to pull a prank on Kyra so that she realizes her mistakes and apologizes to you.”Russell’s jaw dropped. He should make Kyra apologize to him? He thought Kyra and her mother were crazy, but Liam Lynn just proved that he wasn’t the head of the Lynn family for no reason. “What if she hates me for pulling a prank on her?”“Then you’ll call her for what she is. A hypocrite.”“T-That’s…” Russell still couldn’t tell whether Liam was just kidding with him or not.“Your time has already started, but remember this,” Liam warned. “You are allowed to do anything without resorting to violence.”This was when Russell realized that Liam wasn’t joking.“I-It’s already evening, sir,” Russell asked what he believed was a valid question. “She’ll soon come and won’t come out until morning, so how am I going to prank her?”“You’re not that bright, are you? Did I ever t
The Secret Successor CHAPTER 94
Russell was still under the bed, waiting for Kyra to finish her bath.“I’m just an ordinary guy, but compared to Kyra, I’m nothing. And it seems she still doubts me. I hope I’ll erase that doubt from her heart sooner rather than later.”A few seconds passed, and he couldn’t help but wonder how she would think of him if he were to suddenly come out and scare her. He didn’t know her enough to come to any conclusion.Time passed, and Kyra eventually came out of the bathroom, fully dressed.Russell would be lying if he said he wasn’t disappointed by seeing her fully-clothed, as he had been expecting her to come in a towel.Kyra sat down on the bed.Russell sneaked up from the other side and climbed onto the bed. As she dried her hair, her scent carried over to him and mesmerized him. Just as she was done, Russell steeled his heart and suddenly grabbed her neck from behind.The hair dryer dropped from Kyra’s hand.“Hello, Kyra…” he spoke in a hoarse voice, bringing his face closer from beh