“Sebastian, it’s your Uncle Patrick.”The voice of the Poole family’s old man could be heard coming from the other end of the line. Sebastian was speechless. Ever since Alex was promoted frequently and became a powerful figure in Kidon City at a young age, the Old Master Poole had been living a secluded life for the past ten years.Another reason for him to be living a secluded life was his second young brother, Axel Poole. Patrick and Axel were half-brothers and the age gap between them was more than ten years. Patrick was seventy-six years old this year, while Axel had just turned sixty. Back then, Patrick’s eldest son, Austin Poole, had no intention of manipulating power and Alex was still very young at that time, so Patrick had been promoting his brother, Axel, whenever possible. However, he never would have expected that after Axel was promoted, he’d turned against Patrick and bit the hands that fed him. Axel said that Patrick was the traitor to the country back then or somethin
Sebastina asked calmly, “What happened to Alex?”He truly was worried about his blood brother. Because of the matters at home and the chaos caused by Jennie and Lori during this weekend, Sebastian had no time to think about Alex. Now that he heard Old Master Poole mentioning him, Sebastian could not help but worry about Alex. The old man sighed. “Sebastian, go and check Alex’s summer house and see what happened to him. I’m worried that…”Towards the end of his sentence, the old man’s voice was already trembling. Sebastian immediately said, “Alright, alright. I will go and have a look now.”After he hung up the call, he and Sabrina looked at each other. Sabrina knew Sebastian the best, so she said, “Your father and stepmother went to Kidon City and at best was to seek medical treatment. They are all grownups, so I don’t think they would do anything out of the line. We’ll first go to Alex’s and take a look.”To be honest, Sabrina was also worried that something might happen to
Lily was staying at the Poole’s for a little while. She had an intense fight with her parents recently because she insisted on marrying Alex. Lily’s parents had tried to talk to her, but in the end, she simply had a fall out with her parents and moved to the Poole’s.The Parker family and the Poole family had been friends for generations. Originally, the Parker family was closer to Patrick and had hardly any interactions with Axel. It was because the matter of Alex dumping Lily spread like wildfire throughout the entire Kidon City, and many people in the high society defended Lily against the injustice. Among them, the person who defended Lily the most was Emma, so much so that Emma and Lily’s relationship grew stronger and they became very close.They treated each other like sisters. Therefore, even though Emma had been in South City recently to keep her sister and brother-in-law accompanied while they dealt with the Smith Group’s matters, Lily was still staying at the Poole’s.
In the end, Lily unexpectedly bumped into him today here at the Poole’s. Since they had met, Lily must make him pay for the humiliation she had suffered that day! She must let this man kneel before her. After he had knelt and submitted to her, then only she would have him killed! This man certainly could not live. Otherwise, there would not even be the slightest hope for her to marry Alex anymore. “Look at you. You’ve got your hands tied up. You d*mned man. Who have you offended in South City that you’ve actually been taken to Kidon City?” Lily asked in a delightful manner.Holden’s expression suddenly became gloomy. “Get lost!”Lily said, “Hmph! You’re already on the brink of dying, and yet, you can still be so arrogant! Such a man like you truly is very interesting! If I was still travelling abroad, I would certainly be interested in you! However, now, since you've been sent here to the Poole’s in Kidon City being all tied up, you must die!”Holden said, “I know I must die.
Lily covered her face. “You…what did you say?”“That’s my son!” Rose looked at this woman before her eyes with a cold and stern gaze. Rose did not know this woman who had a ferocious and seductive look. On the other hand, Holden has just gotten here and his hands were tied, so how could he have offended this woman? To the extent that she actually wanted to blow up Holden’s brains?Lily said, “You…you...who are you?”Rose said, “Get lost!”Lily was speechless, she felt so wronged that she was almost going to cry! She was usually the person scolding others and throwing people out. Recently, since she had returned, she truly had been extremely unlucky! She had been dumped by her boyfriend once she came back! Not long after she came back, she had been taken advantage of by a rude man at the bar and she had even been beaten up by that man. Now, she was slapped by this old lady. Why was she so unlucky?Just as she was about to explode, Axel called out behind her, “Lily, don’t be re
Sean raised his hand and touched Holden’s cheeks that had greenish black stubbles. “It’s…my fault.”Holden said, “What…what did you say?”Sean repeated seriously. “I said, you are my son. I already know that you are my son!”Holden raised his leg and kicked him. “Get lost!”Sean winced. “My son, you can’t be so emotional and act on your impulse. I am your father. I will not harm you…”“Sean Ford! You will not harm me? I didn’t even have the right to be born! My mother had to secretly give birth to me on Star Island and give me away to the Payne family! Now, more than thirty years had passed, she had already passed away, and yet, I didn’t even know she was my mother, let alone that I have a father who is one of the richest men in South City. Now, you’re telling me that you will not harm me? Old geezer! If you hadn’t taken advantage of me being drunk at her grave and had me tied up, do you think you can still be alive now? I would’ve killed you at her grave!” Holden yelled.S
Although Holden resented Sean and Rose, he knew that Sean was right. He had already experienced how vicious and mighty his elder twin brother was when Holden was on Star Island. Star Island was not huge or developed, and Harry’s defense measures were not very good. However, Holden did a very good job.Even so, Holden was not able to defend Sebastian from conquering the city. It only took three days for Sebastian to take over the entire Star Island. After that, Holden found out that the reason that Sebastian only used three days to conquer the island was because he was waiting. He had been waiting for a few local people in power on Star Island to report the real estate and financial situation of the island to him. The main thing was the liquidation of the batch of weapons Axel had financed. The weapons were originally financed by Axel for the island, but the entirety of the weapons was taken by Sebastian without much effort. Sebastian had taken off a portion of the weapons for his
“I was so young and ambitious back then. Our Ford Group has been around in the South City for more than a hundred years, but unfortunately, the group encountered an unprecedented crisis in those few years back then. That caused the group to collapse gradually. I could only weather the storm with your father. When we had our back up against the wall, I chose to let your father seduce your mother. That was for the purpose of establishing a steady position on Star Island. From the standpoint of the Ford Group, what’s ruining a person if the whole company could be revived? That would still be better than ruining the lives of more than ten thousand employees of the company, and causing them to be jobless, homeless and destitute, right?”Holden was speechless. “To your mother, I was vicious and absolutely inhumane, but to the Ford Group? Your father and I had brought the Ford Group out of the crisis! I was vicious to your mother, but from another perspective, I deserved all the credit f