Mia returned to her office and asked Harrison to meet her there. When Harrison arrived at Torres Enterprise, Lily escorted him to the executive floor and informed Mia of Harrison’s presence.Lily brought them two cups of coffee and left the office.“How did it go?” Harrison asked as Mia sipped her coffee slowly.“Strange,” she lowered the mug. “It was very strange.”“What does she want?” Harrison raised the corner of his brows.Mia took a deep breath and set her mug down on the table. “She started with family. She kept saying we’re related and shouldn’t keep fighting. She made it sound like she wanted peace after all these years.”“Did you believe her?”“No,” Mia answered, she shook her head. “I’d be a fool to believe what Janet said. I told her the reasons we’ve never come to terms. I brought up the past and all she has done to me, and that I’m currently dating her ex boyfriend which is you. You brushed it all aside. She said none of those reasons were enough to stay enemies forever.

A man from one of the client groups spoke loud enough for nearby tables to hear. “So the partnership talk was only because Torres Enterprise is growing?”Another voice followed. “Interesting timing…”Janet forced herself to turn and face them. “This is a misunderstanding,” she shouted. “ I reached out to Torres Enterprise because Mia is my family, the growth was only one part of it!”No one answered, their eyes stayed on her, David felt it was embarrassing that they were staring at her, and Janet was creating more drama to be hated.He put his hand on her arm. “We are leaving, now.” He took her hand and she did not resist as they both walked toward the door.At the door, Janet glanced back once at Mia who still stood beside Harrison. Their eyes met for a second, then Mia looked at the next guest who approached her.Outside the hall, Janet stopped walking and pressed one hand against the wall, fuming in anger.“She planned this,” she said, her voice shook. “She let me walk in there thi

After the meeting with David, Carl spent a few days digging in on what Harrison has been up to for the past few months. He spoke to old staff who still remembered the early agreements when their grandfather cast Harrison out of the house.He asked for reports on Harrison’s involvement with Diamond Global, and checked reports of the inside activities of Harrison’s involvements.He also asked questions with people who owed him favors, and by the time the investigations were done, Carl realized that the bet between him and Harrison was never going to be honored even if won.The rules were only made to push his focus away from the clear picture. In reality the final decision still sat with their grandfather, and their grandfather had already made up his mind long ago. Even if Carl completed every task and stood as the clear winner, the inheritance would still move to Harrison. The bet was a test, not a promise.Carl paced back and forth in his room, fuming in anger. Confronting his grand

A couple of days after Mr. Colin meeting with Harrison and his father, Carl learnt of it.He found out from one of servants that worked at his grandfather’s mansion that his own father had met with Harrison and his grandfather and that every plans he shared with his father, his father had told them, the names he also listed had been disclosed to his grandfather.He had hoped his father had gone to make claim of what should rightly be his, but all his hope he had placed in his father’s sudden focus had been handed over like a gift to the other side.Out of anger, Carl pushed down the things on his table and they all fell down with a clatter, he grabbed a lock of his hair in fury.“That weakling of a father!” he spat.His hands curled into fist as he gripped his phone tight, his eyes bloodshot. “I will kill them, I will kill all of them!” He screamed.His father, his grandfather, and Harrison, he wanted them all gone, but public image still mattered. One wrong move in the open and every

David stood by his window with a glass of wine after his meeting with Carl. Carl’s words kept turning in his head.Carl had pushed him hard for one thing, to remove Harrison completely. He had repeated it over and over again. He had made it sound like Harrison was the one blocking his rise as the heir of the Hayes family, but that kind of focus doesn’t come from simple rivalry because Harrison is not related to the Hayes in anyway.“He is just as servant so what is Carl so angry about?” David muttered, sipping his wine slowly.He shook his head. “Why does he need a servant gone so badly?” David spoke his thought out loud. “What is Harrison holding over him?”David walked back and forth in thoughts, but nothing made any sense, not even the fact that someone Carl trusted took information to Harrison. A mare servant isn’t suppose to have so much power even if he has a backing from Old Mr. Hayes.“If Carl is willing to hand the dirty work to someone else, then the threat must be real.” Da