Chapter 130: Alia Encounters a Mishap
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
Lucas could tell clearly that the Brookes were only agreeing to submit to him on the surface, but in reality, they were just out to use his influence and power to strengthen themselves.
In fact, it wasn’t difficult to guess their mindset. They rely thought that Lucas’s current ability was not enough for him to compete with a big family like the Huttons.
In their eyes, the Stardust Corporation was rely doing well in Orange County because of the prestige of the Huttons. Once Lucas chose to go against the Huttons in the future, he wouldn’t have the slightest advantage or chance of winning at all. They felt that he was just being delusional by thinking that he could win against a family that was far stronger than him.
Lucas’s other identity could not be easily exposed, so there was no way he could use it as deterrence either.
However, Lucas wasn’t worried. He still had enough ti to make both the Stardust Corporation and the Brilliance Corporation quickly expand into astonishing enterprises. By then, he would have greater chips.
At five in the afternoon, Lucas went to the entrance of the Brilliance Corporation as usual to pick Cheyenne up after work. But at this mont, he received a text from Cheyenne. “Lucas, I’m very busy today. I have to work overti until late at night. Please go and pick Alia up first.”
Lucas imagined the scene of Cheyenne being busy in the general manager’s office attentively and couldn’t help but shake his head helplessly. He tapped away on his phone to reply. “Okay, got it. I’ll send Alia ho and pick you up again at night. Take care of your health. Don’t tire yourself out.”
By the ti Lucas drove to the kindergarten, it was the peak hour for parents to pick their children up after school.
He looked at the entrance of the kindergarten for a while but didn’t see Alia, so he asked a teacher at the door, “Hello, is Alia still inside?”
During this period of ti, Lucas had been fetching Alia ho from the kindergarten every day, so the teacher knew who he was. Hearing his question, the teacher couldn’t help but ask in bewildernt, “Huh? Alia’s aunt ca to pick her up ten minutes ago. Haven’t you guys discussed it?”
“So her aunt ca to pick her up today. I really didn’t know. Sorry to trouble you!”
Lucas turned around and walked back to his black Jaguar. He was about to open the door to get in and go ho, but he suddenly felt that sothing was amiss.
Logically speaking, he and Cheyenne had been going to pick Alia up every day, and he knew that Charlotte wouldn’t pick her up without telling him. Besides, Cheyenne had texted him to tell him to pick Alia up, so he reckoned that she wouldn’t have told Charlotte to pick her up instead.
At the thought of this, Lucas imdiately picked up his phone and called Charlotte. “Did you pick Alia up at the kindergarten just now?”
Charlotte was a little stunned. “No, I’m busy with so things in the office now, and I haven’t gotten off work yet. Lucas, do you want to go pick up Alia? I’ll be there as soon as I finish packing up.” On the other end, there was the sound of soone typing on the keyboard. Clearly, she was still in the office.
Lucas’s heart stopped for a mont. He felt as though he had fallen into an ice cellar. An icy-cold aura abruptly emanated from his body, and there was also a terrifying glint in his eyes.
“Lucas?” Charlotte asked when she didn’t hear him reply.
Lucas took a deep breath, clenched his fists, and tried to calm himself down. Trying to sound as calm as possible, he said, “Oh, since you’re still busy, go ahead and continue with what you’re doing. I’ll go pick Alia up.”
Lucas turned around and took a big step toward the teacher just now. “Miss Moore, did you just say that Alia was picked up by her aunt? Are you sure it was her aunt?”
Miss Moore thought about it. “Yes, it was Alia’s aunt. Alia even addressed her that way. But it wasn’t Miss Charlotte Carter. I even verified with her, and she made a phone call right on the spot. Your wife indeed sent that lady to pick Alia up. That’s why we let her take Alia away.”
Lucas’s face got gloomier, and Miss Moore couldn’t help but feel a little unsettled. “Mr. Gray, is... is there sothing wrong?”
Lucas clenched his jaw and asked, “Does that woman have long, curly hair and so abrasions on her face? Is there a mole on her right eyebrow too?”
Miss Moore nodded. “Yes. She was wearing a mask at first, but she took it off later. The corners of her lips and her face were red and swollen, but she claid that it was because of a food allergy. But the mole on her eyebrow was rather striking, so I still rember it very clearly.”
Lucas was instantly overwheld with fury as his face beca enraged.
The person who had co to take Alia away was undoubtedly Scarlet Wright!
Scarlet was extrely hostile and malicious toward him and Cheyenne. Previously, at the Opulence, she even got slapped and abandoned by Aston Brooke because of Lucas. Since then, she hated Lucas to the core. She definitely had evil intentions for taking Alia away from the kindergarten!
At this point, even Miss Moore sensed that sothing was wrong. She hurriedly asked, “Is... there sothing wrong with that woman’s identity?”
Lucas didn’t have the ti to explain anything to her. He turned around right away and strode toward his car. At the sa ti, he took out his phone and made a call. “Go and find out where Scarlet Wright is right now! Deploy everyone at all costs!”
Lucas was extrely furious, and he was full of a terrifying and murderous aura. It was the first ti since he returned to Orange County that he wanted to get soone killed so badly!
If sothing really happened to Alia, he would definitely make Scarlet Wright’s life a living hell!
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At this mont, Scarlet had no idea about Lucas’s fury. She was currently sitting in a private room of a bar and glancing at a young man in his thirties sultrily while leaning against him flirtatiously.
“Mr. Hale, you promised that you’d help take revenge! I almost got disfigured!” Scarlet’s face was coated with a thick layer of foundation and concealer to hide the swelling of her face.
When she thought of how she had been hit and abandoned rcilessly by Aston in the Opulence, resentnt and anger filled her eyes. She hated Lucas trendously!
Furthermore, after being slapped by Jordan, she even got slapped and kicked by Aston.
However, Scarlet dared not look for trouble with Jordan now and simply pinned all the bla on Lucas!
The young man next to Scarlet put his arm around her and groped her a few tis. “Scarlet, rest assured. Anyone who bullies my woman is insulting too! I will definitely take revenge for you!”
This man was Logan Hale, the owner of the Cocktail Bar who tried to drug Charlotte previously!
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