"Dad..."
Rainie Hawthorne still wanted to intervene, but Marvin Hawthorne had already tuned out everyone else.
"Let him be, Rainie." Susan Jagger sighed, pulling her daughter, "Your father’s biggest emotional knot this lifeti might never be untied."
"Why did Dad and Uncle end up like this? Who is this woman nad rcy that they can’t seem to forget?"
"Don’t ask , I don’t really know. All I know is that woman is dead, and after she passed, your father’s spirit died too. He’s been living like a walking corpse for years, even sleeping next to , I can’t feel any warmth from him. Who would’ve thought the talk of ghosts would revive him." Susan Jagger let out a bitter laugh.
It’s truly miserable; a living person like her couldn’t compare to a ghost.
But after so many years of marriage, she should have gotten used to it by now.
Upon hearing this, Rainie Hawthorne scoffed disdainfully, "If he’s so deeply in love, why didn’t he act sooner?"
Rainie’s character isn’t like her father’s, nor her mother’s.
Honestly, she detests n like her father. Ignoring the person beside you, obsessing over a woman who’s been gone for over twenty years.
Ignoring his wife and child, can such a person even be called a father?
And her mother, if it were Rainie, she wouldn’t willingly stay by a man whose heart isn’t with her, wasting her youth, ending up as a resentful wife in despair.
That’s why Rainie is attracted to n like Conrad Sterling.
Even if she can’t gain love, she can at least benefit from him.
Unfortunately, the Hawthorne Family has been hitting nurous setbacks recently, and last night she had made her intentions clear when sending President Sterling ho, but Conrad Sterling rejected her.
He didn’t take the bait even when thrown into his arms!
Rainie knows President Sterling has his pick of exceptional won, perhaps he just doesn’t see her as worthy.
But initially, Conrad Sterling didn’t seem repelled by her advances.
At least, outwardly, he never showed deliberate dislike.
However, last night, Conrad Sterling was very resolute.
Rainie was at her wit’s end, she had tried everything. She even sacrificed her dignity, willing to grovel at Conrad’s feet like those won she used to look down on, doing all she could to pique this man’s interest.
She even went so far as to light a stimulant incense in the car, designed to make one’s blood boil uncontrollably.
Rainie vividly rembered Conrad’s eyes at that mont; they held no desire, only coldness!
Cold enough that she couldn’t help but shiver involuntarily.
Conrad’s hands were cold too, his fingers clamped on Rainie’s chin like iron, stopping her hand trying to move towards his suit pants seam with disdain: "Foolish!"
Rainie’s dignity was thus handed over by herself and then trampled beneath a man’s feet.
She knew that after such a foolish seduction attempt, the collaboration between the Hawthorne and Sterling Groups was over.
Sure enough, this morning, she couldn’t reach President Sterling by phone anymore.
Rainie knew she was discarded, just like Ethan Hawthorne was by Conrad Sterling.
...
"Aunt Murray, you want to watch Conrad Sterling, but you have to tell what he wants, right? Otherwise, how can I stop him if I’m not prepared at all?"
These days, Anna Thornton kept trying to dig information from Aunt Murray.
Regarding the past, Jade Sterling knew Conrad didn’t want it brought up again.
But Anna, after all, is Conrad’s wife, shouldn’t couples face things together and share them?
With this principle in mind, Jade shared her guess with Anna Thornton: "Conrad probably wants those from the Hawthorne Family who wronged the Sterling Family back then to suffer a miserable fate!"
Given the current status of the Sterling Group in Aethelgard, swallowing the Hawthorne Family now wouldn’t be difficult.
After all, Anna had heard that even the other families among the Four Great Families had been targeting the Hawthorne Family lately.
Ah, talk of shared prosperity and cooperation in business is unreliable.
If even marriage is unreliable, then a network sustained by it is even more so.
It’s said the multi-legged insect doesn’t stiffen even once dead, but since it’s a delicious large bug, even when dead, it has quite a lot of at, attracting other carnivorous insects to co and devour it.
What Conrad Sterling aims to see isn’t just the bankruptcy of the Hawthorne Family.
He wants their ruin and misery; the only standard for ’miserable end’ is probably what’s happened to Mason Hawthorne and Ethan Hawthorne.
Anna Thornton had previously read a follow-up report on Mason Hawthorne’s life in prison; it’s said he gets beaten half to death every day. Once so bloated, he’s now as thin as a ghost.
But it’s impossible to find out who’s behind this, because when Mason Hawthorne was wealthy and powerful, he slept with so many starlets, gods to those in prison, it’s no wonder he is hated.
As for Ethan Hawthorne, he’s fared even worse, the pity is that he’s actually good looking.
According to rumors, Ethan Hawthorne has been both bullied in prison and contracted AIDS.
According to Aunt Murray, Conrad Sterling’s twenty-year-old revenge on the Hawthorne Family chiefly targets Mason Hawthorne’s generation.
As for Ethan Hawthorne, he was always just a pawn.
His fate was due only to his own actions that inadvertently involved Anna Thornton.
The two that ended up in prison deserved what ca to them.
But seeing that Conrad Sterling hasn’t stopped, is he planning to continue with Marvin Hawthorne and Miles Hawthorne?
Marvin Hawthorne hasn’t been involved in the company for over twenty years, and there’s no law against Miles Hawthorne’s spiritual journey.
What does Conrad Sterling plan to do with them?
Aunt Murray hopes Anna Thornton can stop Conrad from taking blood-stained actions.
Does it an, unable to find a breakthrough, Conrad plans to take matters into his own hands?
Well, Anna Thornton should be more mindful. If she sees any such tendency in Conrad, she wouldn’t stop him.
Or perhaps just report to the police?
Then getting this man arrested, Anna Thornton herself could take the children and inherit the family fortune, reaching the pinnacle of life.
Thinking about it, it might not be a bad idea!
Conrad Sterling doesn’t know what Aunt Murray said, but he senses recently that Anna Thornton is filled with a ’trouble-making’ aura.
Even with reduced filming commitnts, Anna has managed to shadow Conrad several tis recently.
She wants to follow him, let her follow, and President Sterling feigned ignorance, turning a blind eye.
Even secretly delighting inside, at last, Anna’s attention was on him.
However, if Conrad knew that Anna’s increased attention was with the thought of catching sothing to send him to jail, who knows how colorful his expression would be.
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