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“I'll take the risk, I don't care.” Cam says. Helen and Leon are at the other side of the table, looking at him with worry. “Cam, you really don't have to do this. I don't want to drive a wedge between you and your dad.” She sighs. “He drove the wedge himself, and I am not going to let you go through this alone. I give you my word, I will be by your side all through.” Leon immediately feels less tense. This could work for them. The Kane empire wouldn't be able to take them down completely if they are attached to the Jones company. This will give them time to prepare and protect themselves. Helen reaches out and holds Cam’s hand. He holds hers too, and without saying a single word, their eyes speak to each other. Leon notices this, but concentrates on scribbling things down. He doesn't know if he should ask his sister if there is something going on between her and Cam. In front of everyone else, they are always at each other's neck, but when they are alone with him, they have
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When they get to the house, Cameron wastes no time in confronting his father. For the first time in his life, he is disappointed in his father and the strangeness of his behavior. He waits for his father to burst through the doors, angrily banging the door of his home office shut. “Father, this is very unlike you! You promised to protect the Shankly siblings, and when they need you the most, you are abandoning them?” Mister Jones is so mad that he grabs a figurine that his children gave to him for father's day when they were young, and he throws it at Cameron. “Have you forgotten that this is my company?! I built it from the ground up, and you had no right to put my life's work in jeopardy.” Cameron's eyes blink with shock. “Jeopardy, dad, you are just being paranoid. Helen just needs the attention to be off her. Her family has too many enemies–” “And we have enemies of our own.” Mister Jones yells. “I give you two days to cancel your contract with her, or else I will cease to
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Mister Jones has a very gigantic secret, and it's one that he is very ashamed of. He hasn't told anyone about it. Now, that smart pants, Leon Shankly, is pulling him out into exposure. You see, the Kane family has been in the medical business for many years, and unlike many other families in the other businesses, there are no medical practitioners in that family. They are business people who are all about money to be made, and they hardly care about the people consuming their products. Years ago, they rolled out a pain reliever into the market hurriedly without sufficient trial, and soon people who took the medicine started to suffer from acute depression. Doctor Arthur Shankly tried to inform them of the side effects of their drugs, but because he was a competitor, they thought he was trying to stop their profits. Not until 20% of the people who used the bad medicine committed suicide, that's when Doctor Arthur Shankly couldn't take it anymore. He and his wife went public wi
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Another meeting with the ordo medicorum, and Helen stands up to address all of them. She has been looking forward to this moment for days now. She has a heavy burden on her chest, and she is going to take it off here. “Thank you to Senex and my fellow sages. I know all of you heard the big news about the Shankly empire a few days ago.” “Yes, Sage Helen, what happened?” Senex asks. “I thought you said it wasn't safe to release the drug into the market.” “Yes, sir, nothing has changed. It was Damien Shankly, my stupid brother, who announced it without my consent.” Helen laments. “This caused a heavy turbulence for me, because of the dangers that I fear will come upon me.” “And what is it that you are going to do about this?” She is asked. Helen folds her hands in front of her. “I have decided to release the drug anyways, but I won't be doing it alone. I will be producing it with the Jones company, as my partner.” Everyone else turns around to Mister Jones. Who looks confused and
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Victoria Smith has been a happy woman of late. Her daughter is married to Damien Shankly, and she is pregnant with twin boys. She doesn't have to worry about money anymore, and very soon, she will teach her husband's bastard son a lesson and take back his companies. Today, she has driven herself to the farmer's market at a small town in the outskirts of the city. Although she is an awful woman, she loves to pick out fresh farm produce and go on to prepare healthy meals for herself and her pregnant daughter. She wants her precious grandsons to be strong and intelligent. They will need that to take over from their father when the time comes. Many people know who she is, and they swarm around her all the time to get her to buy their things! “Look at these tomatoes, Madam!” “I picked these corn specially for you!” “These peppers came all the way from the north for you!” She loves all the attention, and how the people sometimes ask her to find favour for them in the Shankly empir
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Selina has come to the hospital for her routine checkup with Leon. It has become less awkward, and they both rarely say much to each other. Leon places his thumb and index fingers against her exposed belly. He is examining her babies, and she is looking at him as if he can suddenly bring out a knife and stab her in the belly. “The boys are fine.” Leon says to her. “Just keep exercising, eating well, and taking your supplements.” “I want a planned CS.” She looks at him. “I don't want to go the natural route.” Leon has a surprise. He didn't take Selina to be one to fear pain so much like this. “Selina, you have nothing to worry about. It's okay to be scared, but I can assure you that you are not in any danger. If you are scared of the pain, we can always have an epidural–” “Do you think that I haven't done my research?” She cuts him off. “Having a single child is hard enough, I'm expected to push out two! It's safer to go back that way, because the lives of my boys are very import
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