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Ava’s face turned pale Jake looked at her in surprise. Ethan wore a concealed smile. David and Chris were nodding in agreement with what Emily said. All the guests around who heard it were shocked. “You can't do that, Emily!” Ava exclaimed. “Yes, Ava, I can. I am not cancelling it or calling it off. But we have to talk. Listen, this empire was built by my grandfather with truth and honesty as the foundation. We have a lot of stakeholders now. I can't just introduce someone I can't trust to the board of directors as a new partner. Anything could go wrong. We need to address this whole issue between you and him.” Emily pointed at Ethan. “What?! No. There is nothing between him and me now. He is my ex-husband and nothing more. That should not be a reason to affect our partnership. It's a private issue….” Ava tried to explain. “Of course it is….” David interrupted. “Your personal life also plays a major role in your business life. How can we trust millions of dollars to someone who was cheating on her husband? . We have to investigate this matter to the core before we can do anything,” David said. All the other gentlemen seemed to agree with what David had said. “You. You are the cause of all this,” Jake said angrily as he pointed an accusing finger at Ethan. Ethan smiled mischievously as he looked at Jake. Emily walked away from there and mounted the stage in the hall after taking a microphone. The soft music that was playing in the background faded out. “Excuse me, ladies and Gentlemen…” Emily spoke through the microphone. Everyone stopped their business and turned around to the podium where Emily stood. They all stood eagerly waiting for what she had to say. To the other unsuspecting guests, the party was about to get started. But the few in the circle who had just witnessed the altercation between Ava, Ethan, Emily, and Mr David knew exactly what was going on. “Once again, good evening, and thank you all for showing up for this celebration. I appreciate your gesture, and on behalf of the whole Winsor family and the entire WINSOR GROUP, I say we are very grateful. Unfortunately, we will have to suspend the party this evening. The partnership with our prospective partner has been suspended, and further discussion has to be held with the board and members of the WINSOR GROUP to deliberate on whether or not we will be moving forward with the partnership…” There was a murmur from the crowd and the guests as Emily relayed the information. Emily continued addressing the guests. “We are very sorry for the inconvenience caused to you guys. However, in as much as the partnership has been suspended. The party still holds. Kindly treat yourself to the buffet available and the drinks in stock. I entreat you all to have fun. Thank you all for understanding,” Emily concluded. There were partial cheers and murmurs from the crowd after Emily’s address. Ava was angry. She nearly exploded. "You stupid fool. You are the cause of this. You will regret this, I promise you,” Ava said angrily as she walked away. “You, I will come for you. You will regret this, I promise.” Jake said angrily as she dashed away, following Ava Emily came back to the small circle after her address. Some of the gentlemen had left after the scene, and they were left with only Mr David, Mr Chris, and Ethan, who were conversing. “Hey, Ethan. Do you mind if I speak to you for a moment?” Emily said as she approached the three men. Ethan quickly excused himself and went to Emily. “Hey, I didn't mean to cause trouble. I didn't even know who you were until just a few moments ago. I am very sorry that you had to cancel all your plans because of me,” Ethan said apologetically. “There is no problem. I would like to speak to you about something, but not now. Kindly give me your contact so I can reach you.” Emily requested Ethan nodded. He took Emily’s phone from her and dialled his number on it, handing it back to her. Emily excused herself and left. Ethan went back to Chris and David, who were waiting for him. He joined them, and they motioned to go out. “Dr Ethan, we really need to speak, and it's about what just happened. Something caught my ear,” David said. “Very well then. Let's go to the car park then. I think we can talk there,” Ethan replied. When they arrived at the entrance of the hall, Ava and Jake were standing there angrily, as if waiting for them. Ethan knew at once that they were about to cause a scene outside and prepared himself for the insults and accusations that awaited him. Just before Ava could even raise or point an accusing finger. The loud sirens of an escort were heard, and almost immediately, two motorbike escorts arrived, followed by a black sedan. The sedan looked familiar to Ethan. There were a lot of guests outside as some of them were about to leave. When the door of the sedan was opened, a middle-aged man got out. As if by programming, everyone looked stunned as they looked at the man. Almost immediately, everyone took a slight bow as the man got out of the car. Ethan, who was the only new person in Babylon, could not understand what was going on. He looked at the man. The same man he had met on the very first day he was released. The man walked and stood right in front of Ethan. Everyone wondered what he was doing. He knelt down and took a black card in his hand. Everyone was utterly shocked to see this. “Dr Ethan. I need your help to heal me. Please help me. This black card is yours if you do. Have mercy on me and heal me from my ailment, lest I die," Mr Frost said as he knelt. Everyone around had their mouths wide agape in shock as they saw Mr Frost kneel down in front of Ethan. Everyone was shocked, including Ava and Jake alike
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Ethan raised an eyebrow, but Jay continued speaking"So, I simply told my men to track them. So, one set of men were tracking Mr Anderson from his side, and another set were tracking Abraham Lincoln on his side. Abraham Lincoln was on the highway, so generally, he was speeding, and Mr Anderson was also said to have been speeding through the estate road. Nobody knows why, but he seemed like something was wrong as he was driving the car haphazardly.In fact, my people reported that they believed something might be wrong with him. Nobody knew what happened, but right before the intersection where Mr Anderson was supposed to get onto the highway, there was a car crash involving him as he was speeding, and he hadn't slowed down before making the turn. He just literally drove right into the middle of the highway and crashed with another car.In fact, the impact was so hard that my people had to stop tailing and simply go to help and go to the rescue of Mr Anderson and whoever else was invo
CHAPTER 474
Abraham Lincoln sat in the car silently as he waited for clearance from his men before he would move out. He had just got off the phone with Mr Anderson, who was feigning ignorance of what was happening and how he had framed him. Unfortunately, Mr Anderson had hung up the phone in the middle of him talking, and all his efforts to try and reach him again had proven futile.He didn't know what was happening with Mr Anderson, but from the way he had been talking when he was speaking with him, it was clear that there was something wrong with him. He could not tell if he was just trying to act ignorant or if he was indeed sounding that way. Unfortunately, he did not get to know.He sat quietly in his car, waiting for his men to give him clearance that everywhere was safe before he went out. He was driving himself today, and he wanted to go on a cover mission, get to town, quickly check on something, and return before the sun rose. It was early in the morning, and it was a quick time to go
CHAPTER 473
Mr Anderson sat on the bare floor in his living room.He had an almost-finished bottle of whisky beside him as he stared blankly at the wall.He had drunk himself to stupor the whole night, from the whisky bottle, without even thinking of sleep.His wife had tried to stop him, but he had a fight with her, and she walked away, leaving him to his fate.He felt like his world was coming to an end.In just a single day, he had lost billions of dollars in assets, lost investors, and had had all his secret events out in the publicHe knew perfectly well that Abraham Lincoln was behind all of that, yet at this point, there was nothing he could even do about it.His plans to get back at Abraham Lincoln by letting his thugs go after him had proved futile.He was now powerless and could only watch as his entire empire crumbled down right in front of his eyes.It was already 6 am, and he had not even had any proper sleep the entire night.He had only drunk the contents of the scotch whiskey. Bu
CHAPTER 472
About two minutes later, another message dropped in on the phone. "Okay, sir, I already began working on this even before you asked. The report should be ready in a few minutes. I will get back to you as soon as I am able to get anything on any of them. For now, we are just keeping our tabs on all of them and we monitor them throughout. Whatever thing that comes next, we are going to give to you," the message read.Ethan smiled and put the phone back in his pocket as he focused on the television and what the panel was discussing about Mr Anderson. He engrossed himself in looking on the screen and immediately forgot about what he was doing. Then, he soon realised the phone beeped in his pocket. He took it out and checked the message. It was a message from Jay with details on the current scene at Mr Anderson's place and the number of investors who had withdrawn from his business.Ethan read the message carefully. "Mr Anderson has over thirty-five main investors who are, in total, ha
CHAPTER 471
Ethan sat down quietly as the TV came to life, and the contents began showing. He had come to see the news on the TV, expecting to catch the early morning updates from the media about Mr Anderson's incidents and know where to hit next.Fortunately, the TV station did not disappoint. In fact, they were ready for what he was thinking about even before he entered. The newsreader was talking about Mr Anderson's issue, beginning from his warehouse that exploded to his oil refinery that caught fire and down to the document that had been released about him.In fact, it was clear that they had carefully analysed the papers and the document that had been released about Mr Anderson already and were already making analysis on that. From the way they were discussing it, using the evidence provided in the document, it was clear that Mr Anderson was in trouble.In fact, the newsreader also mentioned that the police had already taken on the case and were acting on orders to investigate the matter a
CHAPTER 470
Ethan sat on the edge of his bed with his phone in his hand, staring silently at it as he read some information on it. He had engrossed himself in reading all of the documents that had been released, and he was trying to understand everything that was in there. For the past two hours, he had read about thirty pages already, and the more he went further, the more he felt like reading more because the next page was always revealing.He turned around to look at Keziah, who was fast asleep on the bed. It was already 11 p.m., and he was still not asleep. He was trying to make plans, working with Jay remotely, as he figured out what their next steps were going to be.When he was finally done with the work and his eyes were strained from reading excessively, he calmly dropped the phone and lay down. Just as he was about to tuck himself into bed, the dummy phone beeped. It was a message from Jay. For the past two hours, Jay had continuously been giving him enough information about what was
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