2026-04-30 12:03:23It took more than a passing minute for Logan to realise that Ava wasn't going to answer his question. He shook his head and blinked back the tears that were starting to form, “Keep an eye on Mia. I have to get back to Synergy.” He said in a low voice then left.
Ava watched him go. She was heartbroken but she realised that she didn't want him here, that alone answered the question Logan had asked her earlier.
Logan’s head was filled with thoughts as he stood at the side of the road, waiting for a taxi. He had decided to come out of hiding just for his daughter and his wife but what did he get in return? His wife saw him as a man who wasn't capable and it hurt more than ever.
His heart had been at its lowest since his sister's death. He decided he was going to end things and quit, then he met Ava, she took care of his heart for the longest time…only to shatter it again. It really was unexpected of her…
Logan arrived at Synergy Corp in a bad mood. He kept on replaying what had happened over and over in his head and couldn't help but feel sad that he had a fight with his wife.
He came to a conclusion after everything he had been through. It was time that he stopped pretending to be what he wasn't. He was not poor, in fact, he was the heir of one of the wealthiest men in the city and he needed to act like it and that was why he had decided to quit his job.
He was immediately confronted by his colleagues the minute he stepped in. He noticed they had a snooty look on their faces but he didn't care about that, after all, they had never liked him.
"Hey, do you guys know where Mr Scott is?" He calmly asked.
"Do we look like his keeper? You got some nerve…" One of them said in spite.
"If you want to see him, go look for him. We're not your errand boys." Another said.
His fellow janitors began mocking him but Logan was composed. He didn't allow anything they said to affect him. He could see that they were not going to help him so he ignored them and started searching for the supervisor.
A few minutes after searching, he found Mr Scott headed towards his office after leaving the tea room. "Sir, do you have a minute? I'd like to talk to you about something important." He quickly told the man before he could enter his office.
"Oh…" Mr Scott said with a hint of ridicule, then sighed. "Let's go to my office. We'll talk there."
"Alright, what do you want, boy?" Mr Scott asked the moment they got in, he didn't even ask Logan to take a seat.
"I'd like to formally quit my job as a janitor." Logan said and brought out an envelope containing a letter of resignation, he placed it on the table and slid it over.
"Hah!” The supervisor laughed and picked up the envelope, he then ripped it into pieces. "This is all rubbish. I do not need your stupid letter of resignation, because you were fired hours ago. You are no longer an employee of Synergy Corp."
Logan wasn't really shocked by what he heard. Whether he was fired or he quit, it really didn't matter as long as he was free from this establishment, but he couldn't shake off the curiosity that swelled inside of him. He wanted to know what could have warranted such a decision in his absence.
Mr Scott glared at him, "Consider this your bad luck for messing with a senior colleague who holds more power than you in the company."
“Oh…So that's how it is…” Logan said within him, he looked at Mr Scott, "Did Francis Lee have a hand in this?"
Logan somehow expected Francis to get back at him for what happened at the hospital, but he wasn't expecting to get fired because Francis was the type to keep his target around and frustrate them… Then it clicked, Francis wanted him to be away from Ava during working hours so he could spend more time with her… and make his move.
He tightened his fists, he made a mental note to himself that he was going to make that snake pay for everything he had done to him. "If you have decided to fire me, then, there's nothing I can do about it.” He said nonchalantly. "But what about my salary? It's the end of the month already." He held out his hand, “Hand it over. Now.”
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Chapter 152: The Perfect Son-in-Law
Kyle's throat moved.He pulled in a slow breath, and then he stepped forward and put both arms around Logan.It was a firm hug, the kind that said more than most sentences could, and he held it for a moment before releasing.Logan returned it, one hand on Kyle's back, steady and unhurried, letting the older man have the moment completely.When Kyle pulled back, his eyes were bright in a way he was clearly working to manage, the press of emotion held back through sheer effort of will, the way men of his generation often managed things that moved them too much to show fully in public.He shook his head once, looking at Logan."I always knew," Kyle said, his voice slightly rougher than usual. "From the beginning, even when everyone else was saying otherwise, I always knew you were a good man." He paused. "An excellent son-in-law."Logan held his gaze and said nothing, letting the words land.Then Kyle shook his head again, more firmly this time, and something in his expression shifted, b
Chapter 151: The Gift of Integrity
Kyle crossed the short distance between them with a chuckle that came from somewhere deep and genuine, the kind of laugh that carried relief and pride and something warmer underneath both of those things.He put his hand on Logan's shoulder, gripping it firmly, and looked at his son in law with the full, unguarded expression of a man who had stopped managing how much he showed.“Fifty million,” Kyle said, shaking his head slowly. “Logan. You just walked into this room and pulled fifty million dollars out of a painting nobody else in here could see properly.” He shook Logan’s shoulder once, still holding it. “Congratulations. That’s yours, you earned every cent of it.”Logan looked at him with a warm, steady expression.Then he shook his head.Kyle’s hand slowed on his shoulder. “What?”“It’s not mine,” Logan said.Kyle frowned. “What do you mean it’s not yours? You’re the one who found it. You’re the one who…”“You made the payment.” Logan kept his voice calm and unhurried. “Two hundr
Chapter 150: The Price of Decision
Logan was already looking back at him.They stood facing each other across the small distance, the noise of the room continuing around them, the murmuring crowd, the excited voices of the appraisers, Stacy quietly rearranging herself behind Kyle's shoulder, none of it touching the space between father and son in law directly.Kyle looked at Logan's face with the focused, searching attention of someone reading a document they needed to understand completely before moving on.“Logan,” Kyle said quietly. “You knew. From the very beginning. You knew what was inside that painting.”Logan met his eyes steadily. “Yes.”Kyle exhaled slowly. “The tapping. The agreement with Charles. The offer. All of it. You knew exactly what you were doing.”Logan nodded once. “I did.”Kyle glanced toward the painting, then back at Logan. “Why didn’t you say anything? Why not tell me what you suspected? Why let me risk almost everything I had left without giving me the full picture?”Logan’s voice stayed calm
Chapter 149: The Valuation of Trust
Alex looked at Logan with the quiet, brooding attention of someone revising a theory they had been certain about and finding the revision uncomfortable.At the front of the room, the experts had drawn together again, a brief, murmured exchange between Roman, Holt, and Charles Green, their voices too low to carry. Roman held the painting throughout, his grip steady and careful, and the three of them spoke with the focused efficiency of people who had done this before and knew what they were deciding.After a short while, Mr. Holt took a step forward and faced the room.“Based on our collective assessment,” he said, his voice carrying its usual weight, “and pending full authentication through appropriate channels, the current estimated value of this work is fifty million dollars.”For a fraction of a second the room held perfectly still.Then from somewhere to Kyle's left came a sound, sharp and involuntary, the exclamation of someone whose self control had simply not been fast enough t
Chapter 148: The Anatomy of a Discovery
Stacy stared at the emerging painting, her mind working backward through everything she had watched over the past twenty minutes.The tapping. The ear pressed against the canvas, listening to something nobody else in the room had thought to listen for. The careful, methodical way Logan had examined the piece before agreeing with Charles's appraisal, the agreement everyone had taken as proof he didn't know what he was doing.He had known."That's why he was tapping," she said, almost to herself, her voice quiet but carrying in the way quiet voices sometimes did when everything around them had gone tense and listening. "He was checking if there was something hollow behind it. He could hear it."Carlos turned his head toward her. “What did you just say?”Stacy repeated, louder this time, “He was listening for a hollow space. That’s why he tapped it like that. He knew there was something underneath the whole time.”Alex looked at her sharply. “You’re defending him now? After everything?”
Chapter 147: The Expert Consensus
Roman took the painting with both hands and stood with it for a moment, simply looking.He didn't reach for tools or lean in immediately. He just looked, the way someone looked at something when their instincts had already formed an opinion and they were giving their eyes a moment to confirm it before they said anything out loud.The two men who had accompanied him moved closer, flanking him, their attention dropping to the canvas as well. The three of them formed a quiet cluster around it while the rest of the room stayed where it was, nobody moving, nobody wanting to break whatever was happening.After a long moment, Roman spoke to the man on his left in a low voice. The man nodded and produced a small case from his jacket, similar to the kind Charles Green had used, and passed it to Roman. Roman accepted it without looking away from the painting.He examined the canvas closely now, moving through a brief but thorough inspection that covered the edges, the surface texture, the back
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