Finn Grant suddenly appeared, startling Anna Thornton.
"Big shot, haven’t you gone to find your sister yet?"
"Almost got fooled by you! Took my money and decided not to work, and now you just want to leave?"
"Well... how about I return the money to you? I’ve realized I can’t do this, you should find soone else."
Anna Thornton said as she prepared to take out her card, but at the mont, one of her hands... was occupied.
Finn Grant also refused to let her return the money: "It’s too late to say you won’t do it now! If you can’t et my demands, don’t even think about leaving tonight!"
His threat was obvious, and Anna Thornton couldn’t handle it, so she could only look to Conrad Sterling for help.
Conrad Sterling was already displeased with Finn Grant’s conversation with Anna Thornton, treating it as if he didn’t exist, although he had been ignoring Finn Grant himself earlier.
People familiar with Aethelgard’s elite circles all knew that President Sterling and Young Master Grant never got along. Except for the mandatory nods and handshakes at social events, they wouldn’t even spare a glance at each other in private settings.
Finn Grant relied on his status in one of the four great families and always looked down on outsiders like Conrad Sterling with unknown backgrounds, and he despised others in Aethelgard who tried to cling to Conrad Sterling, thinking they were lowering themselves.
Conrad Sterling also looked down on him, probably thinking that Finn Grant was only able to consolidate the Grant Family’s entire fortune under his command because he benefited from being an only child, making him, at best, a nouveau riche among the wealthy second generation.
But compared to those rich heirs who live off their families, Finn Grant still had so capability. It was evident to all that the title of the four great families in Aethelgard was just for show and that they were already like the afternoon sun.
Only the Grant Family, under Finn Grant’s leadership, was not declining but rather prospering.
"Conrad Sterling, it was this person who intercepted my car halfway and abducted today. He made miss my appointnt on ti and kept you waiting for so long, so you must teach him a lesson!"
Anna Thornton saw that Conrad Sterling hadn’t caught her pleading glance, so she directly used the strategy of "diverting trouble."
Since Conrad Sterling ca here, he was obviously ready to help Anna Thornton.
However, being so openly used by her, the man awkwardly glanced at her first: "Why haven’t you already let go of that hand?"
Conrad Sterling couldn’t stand seeing Finn Grant holding Anna Thornton’s hand. If looks could kill, the hand Finn Grant touched her with would be riddled with holes by now.
"Oh."
Upon hearing this, Anna Thornton quickly took action.
But Finn Grant’s grip was strong, and Anna Thornton couldn’t shake him off.
She could only bend her head and use her teeth to bite, but before she actually bit, the other party had already let go.
It was like shaking off a hot potato, and Anna Thornton thought to herself, was her mouth that dirty?
But even if Finn Grant hadn’t let go, Conrad Sterling had already exerted his strength and pulled her to his side before she really bit. He warned her with a glance, telling her to control her sweet little mouth and to see what would happen if she dared to get it dirty with soone else’s filth?
Anna Thornton didn’t dare to move anymore; she obediently stood behind Conrad Sterling, watching the two similarly tall and built n confront each other.
"Oh, President Sterling, I didn’t expect to et you here." Finn Grant acted as if he had just noticed Conrad Sterling, smiling with disbelief and sarcasm, "Seems like you’re not busy today, no need to put on that fake affection around Marilyn Ford?"
Listening to the sarcasm, Conrad Sterling didn’t seem embarrassed; he responded with a sarcastic smile and retorted, "And you? Have you run out of dication and couldn’t control yourself from causing trouble? If so, you can co to the hospital I opened."
"No need for your concern." Finn Grant snorted coldly, looking at Anna Thornton behind Conrad Sterling, "Is he the ’big pig trotter’ you were talking about?"
"..." What could Anna Thornton say? She could only pretend she hadn’t heard, neither responding to Finn Grant’s words nor his gaze.
But from her reaction, Finn Grant could already tell it was a confirmation.
He looked at Conrad Sterling with even more disdain: "Can’t see it, President Sterling, you love portraying yourself as a model entrepreneur, busy performing the persona of being infatuated with Marilyn Ford for the public, and yet you’re having this kind of fun secretly. Truly full of energy."
Conrad Sterling had no idea what Finn Grant was talking about, but he suspected it was probably the little woman Anna Thornton spouting nonsense again; he’d deal with it once they got back.
"But sorry, she happens to be the person I want tonight, and I’ve already paid her, so you can’t take her away."
Hearing Finn Grant say she took money, Anna Thornton imdiately searched herself to throw the card back at him.
But the card fell to the ground, and Finn Grant didn’t even blink. In his rules, taking money without doing the job wasn’t just about returning it in full.
"How much did she take from you? I’ll give you ten tis that." Conrad Sterling asked.
"Even ten tis is just a tiny bit; I won’t give you the chance to insult like that. However much you’ve spent on booking her for a night, I can pay you back tenfold too... because I don’t want money, I want the person!"
Listening to their conversation, Anna Thornton wanted so desperately to jump in and seize the opportunity to be insulted, five million!
That was five million! They were talking as if it were five bucks.
And Anna Thornton couldn’t understand how they were going on about not wanting money and wanting the person, as Finn Grant clearly didn’t an it that way; this made things sound quite ambiguous, pushing her into the role of a fem fatale.
When the bar quieted down afterwards, everyone around was watching them silently, eating popcorn.
After all, the confrontation between two of Aethelgard’s big shots was rare, with even so daring to take out their phones for sneaky photos.
Neither Conrad Sterling nor Finn Grant was willing to yield, and the scene fell into a stalemate.
At the mont, it seed Conrad Sterling had the upper hand, as those he brought in were with him, while Finn Grant was alone.
No matter how harsh Finn Grant’s words were, Conrad Sterling couldn’t be stopped from taking Anna Thornton away.
However, just when everyone thought Finn Grant would surely lose first, suddenly another group of n in black burst in from outside the bar. Fully ard, each confronted the n Conrad Sterling brought, with both sides almost equal in number.
With his reinforcents, Finn Grant stood with his back straighter, looking unusually excited, even with bloodlust in his eyes: "President Sterling, we’ve both been fed up with each other for quite so ti. How about a fight today?"
"I don’t have ti to spar with you!"
"Bringing so many people and not planning to fight, just bluffing ?"
Finn Grant seed eager to fight; he had been advancing alongside the Sterling Group these years and wasn’t satisfied with the status quo of non-interference.
Although the rest of the Grant Family advised him not to provoke Conrad Sterling, Finn Grant simply wanted to prove he was far superior.
"Trying to steal my woman and not daring to fight! President Sterling, I didn’t expect you to be such a wimp?" Finn Grant even tried using provocation tactics.
But Conrad Sterling didn’t take the bait, coldly laughing in response: "Fighting you would always look like I’m bullying you, as you don’t even have basic self-control. What if a ntal health evaluation abnormal result cos out, and you try to scam ?"
President Sterling was actually a master of sarcasm; except when tangled with Anna Thornton’s nonsense, he never lost in verbal sparring with others.
Hearing him reveal his most confidential matter in public, Finn Grant was instantly infuriated.
He stepped forward and grabbed Conrad Sterling’s collar: "What did you say?!!"
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