Chapter 197: Tactics Behind Closed Doors
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
The bodyguard in black hurriedly caught up with Lewis.
Right after Lewis arrived home, he took out the envelope and was about to see how much money was on the check when two strong arms suddenly held him back. Afterward, they pinched his jaws to pry his mouth open and tossed a pill into it.
“Argh! You… Who the h.e.l.l are you! Quick, let go of me…” Lewis exclaimed in horror.
But before he could finish, he felt a pain in his chest so excruciating that it felt like it was getting torn apart. The pain was so intense that it robbed him of his ability to speak!
At the same time, Lewis’s heart thumped rapidly like a drum as blood flowed in reverse within his body. He immediately fell to his knees, and his limbs convulsed violently while the green veins on his face bulged. His face was twisted into a grimace, and he looked extremely terrifying! But he soon foamed at the mouth and became motionless.
With a straight face, the bodyguard in black took the envelope from underneath Lewis. After removing any traces he left, he returned to the villa to report to Edward.
Edward took out the check in the envelope and casually gave it to the bodyguard as a reward. He then picked up the flight ticket and tore it into pieces.
“You’ll truly lay low only when you die. Don’t worry. I’ll take care of your funeral.”
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Lucas was sitting in his black Jaguar, which was stopped in front of the kindergarten, waiting to pick Amelia up. At this juncture, his phone suddenly rang. It was Jordan.
“Lucas, I’ve sent someone to investigate. The last call Oliver Harvey received before he jumped off the building was from DC. After checking, I found out that the phone number is registered under Dave Lewis. But…”
“Keep going.”
“Yes! But my subordinates in DC told me that just over ten minutes ago, he died in his home from a heart attack. After the police’s preliminary investigation, they ruled out the possibility of homicide and eventually deduced it to be an accidental death,” Jordan said.
Lucas wasn’t surprised to hear this, but he narrowed his eyes slightly.
It seemed that the other party was even more ruthless than he had imagined as he resolutely cut off all leads.
“Lucas, do we continue investigating the cause of Dave Lewis’s death?”
Lucas tapped his finger twice on his phone. “No, tell those in DC to be careful and pay attention to Dave Lewis’s funeral. Don’t worry about the others for now, lest you alarm them.”
After ending the call, Lucas looked out of the window in the direction of DC with a sharp gaze in his eyes.
In fact, he could already guess something without detailed investigation.
He had left the Huttons for nearly twenty years, and many people in the Huttons had simply forgotten about him, the former scion.
But the patriarch of the Huttons suddenly behaved out of the ordinary and asked him to return to the family. He even wanted to hand over the family to him. In the eyes of many Huttons, Lucas would damage their interests tremendously, so they absolutely didn’t want him back.
So even if Lucas didn’t have any plans to take over the Huttons, those people were worried and wanted to use some tactics to suppress the Stardust Corporation he had just obtained.
But the fact that an employee had been fired and jumped to his death was obviously not enough. He was certain that there would be more to the matter of Oliver Harvey!
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Lucas asked Jordan to pay attention to the situation secretly, but he didn’t want to intervene at this moment. He decided to leave those matters to Charlotte to handle, thinking that it would be good training for her.
At this moment, the doors of the kindergarten opened, and a teacher led the children out. Lucas got out of the car, walked over, and quickly brought Amelia back to the car.
Immediately afterward, the two of them went to the Brilliance Corporation to pick up Cheyenne, who just got off work.
Lucas then drove to the villa in Pearl Lake with his wife and daughter.
Amelia, who was playing with Cheyenne affectionately in the back seat, suddenly looked at the scenery outside the window and asked in bewilderment, “Daddy, aren’t we going home? Where are you going?”
Lucas smiled. “Amelia, from today onward, we’re moving to a new place!”
“New place?” Amelia was stunned, but she soon exclaimed in excitement, “Wow! That’s great! We’re moving to a new place! Daddy, Mommy, where’s our new house? Is it big? Is it nice?” Amelia raised her little head and bombarded him with lots of questions.
Cheyenne stroked Amelia’s little head and said with a smile, “The new house Daddy bought is huge and beautiful, just like a castle from a fairytale! You’ll definitely like it when you see it!”
“Wow, a castle! Does that mean I can be a little princess?” Amelia was so excited that she leaped up in the backseat. She suddenly exclaimed at Lucas, “Daddy, you’re awesome! You’re so much better than Fatty’s Daddy!”
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Amelia’s puerile voice was full of pride.
Seeing how gleeful his daughter was, Lucas was pleased, but he also felt a little melancholic.
Ever since she was born, Amelia had lived with Cheyenne and the Carters in that shabby house nearly three decades old. It was run-down and situated in an old residential district.
Although the interior had been renovated and the yellowed and cracked walls had been repainted, there were still lots of peeling and spots on the exterior walls.
Amelia had invited her kindergarten cla.s.smate home once, but when she saw the exterior walls of the Carter home, she blurted, “Amelia, your house is so ugly!”
Later on, Amelia also told Cheyenne and Lucas that when she grew up and could earn her own money, she would buy a big house for them.
Of course, it was just the mindless words of a child, but Lucas was heartened yet heartbroken to hear them.
When Lucas saw his daughter smiling joyously because of the new house, his heart was full of contentment.
Soon, the three of them drove back to the Pearl Lake villa.
When Amelia saw the beautiful villas and manors in front of her, which looked like palaces from fairytales, she leaped up in elation. “Wow! It’s really a big beautiful house! I’m so happy!”
Watching Amelia running into the dreamy and gorgeous house like a pretty fairy, Lucas and Cheyenne looked at each other in contentment.
Lucas accompanied Amelia on a tour around the new house while Cheyenne prepared dinner.
By the time dinner was ready, Charlotte still hadn’t returned home yet.
“Strange, why hasn’t Charlotte come home yet?” Cheyenne muttered to herself. She grabbed her phone to call Charlotte.
But as soon as she unlocked her phone, she saw countless notifications.
“A huge scandal broke out in the Stardust Corporation. The general manager of the Stardust Corporation abused his authority to promote a female employee in exchange for s.e.xual favors!”
“The Stardust Corporation forces a veteran employee to confess in public and drives him to jump to his death in order to clear his name!”
“Female employee successfully rise! The general manager of the Stardust Corporation has been arrested while lover Charlotte Carter rises to the position of acting general manager, sparking public debate!”
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The countless pieces of news were all negative news about the Stardust Corporation.
Cheyenne naturally knew that the Stardust Corporation belonged to Lucas, so her heart dropped as she began to get nervous after seeing the negative news.
But when she saw Charlotte’s name, her vision blurred, and her face immediately paled!