“Whatever you say.” Lydia rolled her eyes and almost huffed at the phone.
“Well, I have some sleeping to do. We can talk about this more at the engagement party.”
Before Alick could get another word out, Lydia pressed the button to end the call.
The bastard had totally lost his mind!
On the other end of the line, Alick heard the dial tone and tossed his phone aside with a frustrated sigh.
“I already told you that she wouldn’t buy it! Are you satisfied now?”
“Didn’t she use to like you a lot before?” Carrie asked.
“Every time you got in trouble, she was the first to bail you out and bring you safely back home.”
Beside her, Adolf scoffed, “It’s his own fault that things have come to this. He was horrible to her, so it’s only expected that he would struggle to win back her affections.”
Alick didn’t want to hear this from them. He clicked his tongue and sneered, “We’re going to be married, anyway. Once she becomes a Shaw, I’ll make sure that she listens to every word I say and acts like a proper wife.
“Well, before anything else, you need to prioritize taking over her shares,” Carrie said in earnest.
“She’s changed. She barely pays attention to you now. After you get married, make sure you break up with all your flings. You can’t afford to risk her catching you with some other woman.”
Alick waved his hand dismissively, annoyed by his mother’s nagging.
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“ALL right, all right, Mom. I know already. I’m going to my room now.”
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As he trudged up the stairs, he heard his father say, “This is all your fault! You spoil him too much!”
“Why are you pinning all the blame on me? Aren’t you his parent, too?”
The couple continued to argue as Alick reached the second floor landing.
Meanwhile, over at the hotel, Hannah received a Dark Web message.
“Boss, I wasn’t able to find anything on Leviathan. But I manage to get some other information.”
He followed this up with several additional messages.
“Boss, your friend is about to marry into the Shaw family, right? It turns out that the Shaw family lost a huge amount of money through their overseas branches. I’m sending over the details.”
The report popped up in Hannah’s inbox.
“Although they managed to contain the situation domestically, they’re still in a bit of a bind. If they don’t amass enough liquid assets to cover up their losses abroad, the entire company might have to file for bankruptcy.”
Hannah read the report carefully, and found that the Shaw family had lost close to two billion in total. It certainly was no small amount.