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For personal and professional reasons, Duncan could not tell Lily to get out. “I guess you must not have breakfast yet, Duncan.” Lily drew close with a smile and put the food containers on Duncan’s desk. “Mrs. Lewis told me to bring them to you. She said you often sleep late and wake up late, so you don’t have time to eat. Mrs. Lewis told me to bring you breakfast when she found out that I was going to meet you.“I was driving behind you just now. I saw you going to a diner called All You Can Eat. Do you usually have breakfast there?” She should try the food there sometime. Was the food that good? Lily wondered whether Duncan was at the diner for the food or the operator. “Ms. Harmon, my schedule is full for the day, so I don’t have time to discuss a partnership today. I need to get to a meeting in a minute.” “I’ll book a time with the secretary later. We can talk business when you have time. What time is your meeting?” “Nine o’clock.” Lily looked at the time. Ten more
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Lily knew Duncan would say that. She uttered with a smile, “Duncan, Mrs. Lewis wants you to go with her. I can’t replace you. I’m only the daughter of Mrs. Lewis’s friend anyway. I’m not family.“I’m not keen on social events either, but we don’t have a choice most of the time. We have to fulfill our obligations.” Duncan had attended plenty of business parties to talk business. Before Lewis & Co. took off, he had to attend business engagements to drum in partnerships. Lewis and Co. was now a well-known company in Wiltspoon. Duncan would only discuss big contracts with other CEOs while the trades on a smaller scale were left to his management team. He started to attend fewer of these gatherings unless his two best friends were going. With company around, Duncan would turn up briefly. However, more often than not, Zachary would not show up. Hence, it fueled Duncan’s lack of presence at social events. “Who is the organizer? Where’s the party?” Duncan asked. Lily replied,
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Instead of going out, Mrs. Lewis stayed at home and waited for Lily’s return. She wanted to know if Duncan ate the breakfast Lily delivered. Picking up on the sound of an approaching vehicle, Mrs. Lewis walked out of the house. “Mrs. Lewis.” Lily got out of the car and approached Mrs. Lewis with empty food containers. Judging by the smile on Lily’s smile, Mrs. Lewis could tell that her son ate Lily’s homemade breakfast. The pair strolled back into the house in talk and laughter. Handing the food containers to the maid, Lily helped Mrs. Lewis to sit on the sofa. “Why didn’t you stay longer at Duncan’s office?” “Duncan has a meeting coming up. I didn’t want to take up too much of his time. Mrs. Lewis, I told Duncan that you told me to deliver the breakfast, and he ate it all up. He even asked me if you had a new chef. He thought well of my cooking.” Mrs. Lewis was all smiles as if Lily was about to become her daughter-in-law. “You should deliver Duncan packed breakfas
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Lily carried on talking. “You told me about this. Serenity and Liberty are sisters. Serenity lost her parents at the age of ten, and it was her sister who raised her. Her sister taught her everything she knew. Serenity’s character is the reflection of Liberty’s. “I believe Liberty isn’t that kind of woman. Maybe she’ll become my rival in love, but it won’t be her intention. The problem lies with Duncan.” Lily was not a sheltered princess. She held a high position at Harmon Corporation and was well-traveled. Her perspective of the world was likely broader than Mrs. Lewis’s. “But now that I know about this, it should be enough warning to keep me on my toes.” Lily was lost in her thoughts. She should pull Duncan to her corner before sparks started to ignite between Duncan and Liberty. That way, Duncan would be hers. If… She were to lose to Liberty… Lily stopped her thoughts from wandering further. She refused to imagine a potential loss. She was way superior to Liberty in
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Old Mr. and Mrs. Hunt needed to be there for the ownership transfer formalities too. Once the procedure was done, and Liberty’s name was on the title deed, Liberty and Serenity then paid the old folks for their share of the property. Serenity wanted to leave her part of the inheritance to Liberty as Liberty was the eldest daughter. Serenity had taken into consideration that her sister had it rougher in life. However, Serenity had not told her sister about it. Now all that was done and out of the way, the mayor said to the sisters, “Liberty, Serenity, are you renting your farmland out? We have someone who wants to contract our fields. I had a meeting with the rest of the townspeople. Everybody is on board. “You’ll get the rent from the contracted fields, and the money will depend on the square footage of your land. The rate per acre will be the same across all. You can leave your number with me if you’re interested. I’ll transfer you the money when we sign the contract and rec
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“Alright, that’s decided then. I enjoy seeing you drunk. You’ll be all over me!” Zachary kept his voice down at the end. Serenity was lost for words. The callous man had changed a lot. He could be such a flirt over the phone. “Are things going well? Did they kick up a fuss?” The extremes Old Mrs. Hunt would go to had not been forgotten. Zachary was worried Old Mrs. Hunt would cause a scene. Still, there was no cause for concern as Zachary assigned bodyguards to protect Serenity, She brought lawyers, and she could fight. “It’s going well. My granddad must have told my grandmom what his sons and grandson said. My grandmom did not act up this time. She was cooperative. I got my maternal grandparents to come. They said they didn’t want my mom’s share and wanted us to have it.”“Okay.”Zachary had not met the Howdens.The Howdens were cruel for what they did back then. Nevertheless, that fact could be overlooked since they raised Lisa. “My maternal grandparents apologiz
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“Liberty, I’ll go to Zachary’s office and wait for him to get off work.” Behind the wheel, Serenity told her sister and turned to ask her nephew, “Do you want to come with me to pick your uncle up, Sonny?” Before Sonny could answer, Liberty replied, “Zachary will think of him as a third wheel if you take him.” Sonny’s mind immediately flew to his Uncle Zack’s comment about him. Shaking his head, Sonny responded, “I don’t want to be a third wheel, Aunt Ser. I’m Sonny.” “Of course. Sonny is Sonny. Sonny is not a third wheel. Don’t take your uncle’s words to heart.” Liberty jumped in with a smile, “Just drop us at our rental place. I’m taking him to shop for ingredients for tomorrow.” “Alright then.” Serenity did not insist. She drove her sister and nephew back to their rental apartment and watched them take the elevator upstairs before driving away. Once at York Corporation, she ran into Camryn. Camryn came alone to York Corporation. Supported by her white cane, Camry
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Camryn quietly listened to what Serenity said. She had a very good memory, so she remembered everything after Serenity said it once.“Ms. Camryn, can you remember the route I told you about?” Serenity asked with concern.Camryn replied warmly, “Thank you, Mrs. York. I can remember it.”“Then, I’ll get going now.”Serenity had to go up to the top floor to find Zachary. She would be taking a different elevator.“Okay. I’ll walk slowly. Mr. Callum said I have to walk by myself and can’t let anyone lead me.” Serenity felt that her brother-in-law was courting death by causing trouble for Camryn.Camryn thought the same.She did not know when she had offended Callum.Callum wanted to make things difficult for her, so he threw a bait to lure her.The business of her flower shop had been average lately. Except for that one day when someone came to her store to buy all the roses, there were usually not many people who bought flowers.When Callum suggested that he would recommend the M
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