Early the next morning, Serena Sterling and Raine arrived at Aether Industries, that Black Horse Corp.
The car stopped in the parking lot, and Serena sent a ssage to Silas Hawthorne.
"I’ll be at Aether Industries this afternoon."
Aeon was very close to the Hawthorne Group, so Silas would often co over with a lunchbox to have lunch with her.
Although she had already told Silas yesterday that she would be at Aether Industries, she still needed to update him.
Because... there were too many people!
What she originally thought would be solved in the morning might take a long ti.
Raine, sitting in the passenger seat, also felt overwheld looking at the long row of cars over there.
"Why are there so many people?" Raine muttered and kept searching for her tablet, "I clearly made an appointnt with Aether yesterday!"
Serena glanced at the many cars over there.
"Maybe others made appointnts too," Serena said.
Raine was still quite upset: "If they can’t accommodate so many people, they shouldn’t agree to it. What’s the point of having so many people co over!"
Listening to Raine’s grumbling, Serena chuckled.
Serena was already aware that Mr. Huxley of Aether Industries had done this on purpose.
As for the other party’s intentions, she temporarily didn’t understand.
"Let’s find a place to park first," Serena said.
Raine nodded, and the driver and bodyguard in front drove around to find a parking space.
Just after getting out of the car, Serena spotted a familiar car.
With a thought, she told Raine to wait and walked over.
"...Who knows what he’s up to, clearly had an appointnt and now there’s a bunch of people!" A familiar voice ca from inside.
Serena chuckled, reaching out to knock on the car door.
The other side rolled down the window.
Serena smiled and greeted, "Mr. Quentin, what a coincidence, you’re here too."
This was Lucas Quentin, Matriarch Quentin’s grandson who attended the grand opening dinner that day.
Seeing Serena, Lucas Quentin got out of the car, shrugged, and said, "Mr. Sheridan is here for the sa thing?"
Serena didn’t avoid the topic, nodding.
"Hey, what a coincidence!" Lucas Quentin deliberately chuckled and said, "I just saw Thea Lloyd; she got tricked too."
"Is that so?" Serena said, glancing at Raine behind her. The two brought their secretaries to the building.
"I thought she was going to inherit the family business, looking into mutual funds and all that, not involved in this," Serena said with a laugh.
"I don’t get her," Lucas Quentin remarked, holding the elevator door for Serena, "You know, her family is different from the rest of us."
Serena just smiled nonchalantly.
As the elevator door dinged open, Serena saw another crowd of people.
Standing not far was Thea Lloyd, whom they had just ntioned; Serena greeted her, and Thea Lloyd smiled back.
"Morning," Serena said.
Thea Lloyd nodded, "Morning."
She gave Serena a deep look, smiling, "Serena, long ti no see."
"Indeed," Serena smiled, "long ti no see."
Actually, it hadn’t been that long.
After Evan Sheridan passed, their eting places were no longer social gatherings within the circle.
Plus, later, when she appeared, she was mostly known as Julian Lawson’s girlfriend or wife, so it was normal not to associate much.
It’s just...
Serena glanced at Thea Lloyd, who was also looking at her, and though they said nothing, there was a tacit understanding in their eyes.
Lucas Quentin had already run over to shout, and now the place was crowded with people everywhere.
They were all wholesale bosses, wholesale managers.
Finally, people from Aether Industries ca out.
They loudly said, "Sorry, sorry, too many people made appointnts, and in three days we’re having a eting. Mr. Huxley thought it might be better for everyone to understand together and now it’s like this."
"Everyone, please co in," the person said, leading the way inside.
Serena and Thea Lloyd exchanged a look, both nodding, and followed along.
Inside was a large hall filled with various achievents.
The person led everyone over to look.
Even though there were many people, once inside, Mr. Huxley personally ca over.
Mr. Huxley led other colleagues in the company, doing their best to explain and clarify for everyone.
This slightly eased everyone’s anger.
Aether did not drive anyone away either.
At this ti, Mr. Huxley ca to Serena and Thea Lloyd’s side.
"Sorry," Mr. Huxley said, guiding them aside, "It’s actually because of so issues that it turned out this way."
Serena asked curiously, "What’s going on?"
Mr. Huxley rolled his eyes and said, "I might not bother explaining to others, but for Mr. Lloyd... I’m really sorry, the new intern didn’t understand."
"I had told them there’d likely be a lot of people wanting to co recently. Ordinarily, just group them together, and for people like Mr. Sheridan and Mr. Lloyd, I would definitely host separately. Now it’s like this."
Mr. Huxley scratched his head, looking slightly troubled.
Lucas Quentin, who had been nearby, heard this and ca over.
"Honestly, Brandon, you didn’t handle this well," Lucas Quentin said irritably.
Brandon Huxley wiped the sweat off his forehead, continually apologizing, "Seeing a bunch of people blocking the door today, I realized, but it was too late, so I had everyone co in and then found you individually."
"Mr. Lloyd, Mr. Quentin, Mr. Sheridan, I’ve prepared a separate eting room, shall we go there now?" Brandon Huxley suggested, "You must believe , I wouldn’t handle things this way unless I didn’t want to work."
And that was true to say.
Serena and Thea Lloyd exchanged a look, and Lucas Quentin glanced at Thea Lloyd.
Finally, Thea Lloyd nodded.
The three followed Brandon Huxley to another eting room.
On the way, they happened to see soone scolding another person.
"Mr. Chaucer, I was wrong, I didn’t know..."
Inside the eting room, soone imdiately served tea.
Once Brandon closed the door, he breathed a sigh of relief.
He repeatedly bowed, very apologetic.
"Mr. Quentin, if the company can collaborate with the Quentin Family this ti, I’d be imnsely honored."
"Mr. Lloyd, if the company goes public later, we’d need your guidance."
"Mr. Sheridan, please send my regards to Mr. Hawthorne."
Those words made Serena feel a bit awkward.
But she didn’t say anything, rely looking over at Thea Lloyd.
"Alright, let’s skip the formalities," Lucas Quentin raised a hand to cut them off, "I think the three of us are here today to hear the truth from you."
Brandon nodded repeatedly, personally pouring tea for Lucas Quentin.
"What real capabilities do you have, hidden in the big eting before?"
Lucas Quentin glanced at Serena and Thea Lloyd, then turned to Brandon, leaning in with an air of pressure, "You need to understand, if the Quentin Family is to collaborate, you need to have sothing real."
Thea Lloyd also nodded from the side, "Brandon, I hope you won’t try to deceive the Lloyd Family."
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