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“Beat him to death? I’d worry more about dirtying the floor!” Leo fumed, staring down at Parker, who had collapsed into a heap.
“Back then, when your mother and I asked you to break off your engagement to Michelle, you refused. And now you’ve gotten involved with her younger sister! Parker, what exactly are you trying to do?”
Leo clutched his chest, trying to quell the rage that made his heart ache and slumped onto the couch. It took him a long while to catch
his breath.
Yet Parker, seemingly consumed by madness, knelt before him and pleaded, “Dad! You’re so resourceful, you must have a way to help me
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find Michelle, don’t you? Please, I beg you! Help me find her!”
Parker crawled on his knees to Leo’s feet and when he received no response, he began to kowtow heavily. Blood oozed from his forehead, yet he didn’t stop.
Mariska, unable to bear watching her son’s torment, spoke up in his defense, “Leo, just help him this once! Our son was just momentarily led astray. Maybe it was that O Janet seducing him!”
Leo, nearly spitting blood from anger, bellowed, “Flies don’t buzz around a closed egg! If he truly loved Michelle, how could he be so spineless, letting another woman seduce him? And now, with this whole scandal blown wide open, he’s still fixated on
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find Michelle, don’t you? Please, I Chyou! Help me find her!”
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Michelle! If you’re not ashamed, the
Browning Family still has its pride to consider!”
Parker sat dejectedly on the floor, lost in thought.
After a long while, Leo could no longer stand to look at his disheveled son and let out a slow sigh, “There’s only one solution now, you marry Janet and let her give birth to the child. At least that’ll give everyone an explanation.”
Not just an explanation to the Smith Family but also to the public. The Browning Family, with its three generations of commercial success, couldn’t afford to crumble under public scrutiny!
Leo, ready for Parker to resist, had already prepared his arguments. To his surprise,
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Michelle had cultivated over the past decade. Janet was merely a pretty vase hiding behind the label of a Smith Family heiress.
Mariska made no attempt to hide her dissatisfaction. If not for this little wretch, her son wouldn’t have fallen to such a pitiful
state!
Sensing Mariska’s disdainful gaze, Janet
wavered but drew courage from the child in her womb, “Mrs. Browning, you might dislike me, but the baby in my belly is still your grandchild. You can’t possibly want to reject your grandchild, can you?”
Before arriving, the Smith couple had laid out the stakes for Janet. They were confident the Browning Family would yield under the weight of public opinion, ensuring Parker
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would marry Janet. It was with this certainty that they acted so high and mighty.
Mariska turned away in disgust, not wanting to look at the shameless Smith Family any longer.
Leo, however, maintained a calm and calculating expression, “Alright then, tell me. What does Smith Family want?”
Straight to the point, Samuel declared, “We’ll need 5% of Browning Group’s shares as the bride price. Of course, as a dowry, we’ll also grant Janet 5% of Smith Group’s shares.”
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