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Joel knocked on the desk. “Lyons Corporation has too many subsidiaries which need a lot of money to run. Actually, the microchip was a gamble taken on by Shaun. If he won, he would become among the richest men in the world, but if he lost, it would be like falling to the ground from heaven. Business is all about risks and opportunities coexisting.”
Cate was silent before saying, “I heard that Holt Corporation wants to buy Lyons Corporation.”
“Yeah, Holt Corporation is running wild now. You probably don’t know this but the daughter of Holt Corporation, Joanne Holt, is having an affair with Mason Campos. They even have an illegitimate child together.”
Joel said, “The Holt family is planning to buy Lyons Corporation for a song while the Campos family is secretly inciting the matter. Now, all the wealthy families in Canberra are just waiting to watch the drama unfold.”
As Cate listened to Joel, she was increasingly disgusted by those wealthy families in Canberra.
“Alas, poor Suzie. I shouldn’t have let her return to the Lyons family.” Joel sighed. “Anyway, don’t overthink it. Have a great life with Wesley in the future. Don’t let him down again.”
“Mm.” Cate lowered her head.
When it was time for dinner, Wesley drove over.
The minute Wesley saw Suzie, he held her up happily. “Suzie, why don’t you come to my house with your mommy tomorrow?”
“Oh, okay…” Suzie answered by stretching out her voice, neither happy nor sad. She just felt that Wesley’s house was not her home. “Mommy, are you going to move to Uncle Wesley’s place?”
“Suzie, go and have dinner with Lucas first.”
When Cate sent Suzie away, Wesley gazed at her with a gentle look. “What’s wrong?”
“Wesley, I might… have to move over only after some time.” Faced with a dilemma, Cate explained, “I could bring Suzie here today only because I promised Shaun not to bring her over to yours to stay. I’m sorry, but I can’t leave Suzie alone. A lot of things have been going on in the Lyons family recently, and she’s been lonely because nobody keeps her company.”
” I thought it was a serious issue.” Wesley touched her head with a smile. “Although you can’t move to my place, I can move here. It’s still the same, and you can move to my place once Suzie returns to the Lyons family.”
Cate froze and could not quite catch what he said.
“Don’t you welcome me?” Wesley raised his brows all of a sudden.
“…No, no.” Cate was rather confused. “But I have two children sleeping with me at night. The bed might not be able to fit…”
“It’s fine. I can sleep in the guest room.” Wesley did not make things difficult for her. Cate nodded.
“However… You can’t just accompany your kids all the time and ignore me.” Wesley extended his hands and wrapped them around her. With an affectionate tone, he added, “Cate, I’m also a normal man.”
“…Alright.”
Cate’s face flushed as she felt awkward.
Particularly when Wesley hugged her, she could smell a faint masculine scent from his body, which somehow reminded her of Shaun’s scent.
In fact, she was not averse to Wesley’s hugs before she got married.
However, she had been with Shaun every day of this month. Moreover, since Shaun enjoyed kissing her i n particular, she had slowly gotten used to his scent.
As this thought struck her, she suddenly shuddered. She could not behave like this anymore.
“By the way, when are you going to the police station, Cate?” Wesley asked abruptly. “The case of Shaun kidnapping you isn’t over yet.”
Cate’s head began to hurt. Only then did she experience how difficult it was to remarry while having two children.
“Wesley, I… I don’t plan to sue him. Suzie’s birth certificate is with the Lyons family. If Shaun goes to jail, Suzie will have no one to depend on. I don’t think you know that Liam has gone missing…”
This time, Wesley’s elegant and handsome face froze in spite of himself.
“Cate, have you thought about how the public will see us if you don’t file a lawsuit against Shaun?
They will criticize you for being indecent even though you’re married. They might even think that you haven’t gotten over Shaun. As for me, it clearly shows that I’ve been cuckolded. Can’t you just… consider things from my end?”
Given that Cate rarely saw Wesley getting so indignant, she was at her wits’ end. “But I need to think about it from Suzie’s end too.”
“But I don’t think you’ve even gotten over Shaun. ” A miserable look washed over Wesley’s face. ” Cate, when you went missing for the whole of last month, what worried me most was not whether you slept with Shaun but whether you fell for him again. No matter how much I’ve done for you, I’m always the lowest on your list of priorities. “
Wesley took two steps backward and gave a bitter laugh before he turned on his heel and left.
Lucas and Suzie ran to Cate. “Mommy, why did Uncle Wesley leave? Did both of you quarrel?”
“Go and have your dinner.” Cate bent over and replied gently.
There was a great sense of fatigue in the depths of her eyes.
In the next two days, Shaun asked all Liona members to search for Liam. However, it seemed as if he had vanished into thin air.
“Eldest Young Master, we’ve checked the records at the train stations, airports, and highways, but Liam didn’t leave from any of these places. Even the foreign hospitals don’t have Liam’s clinical record, ” Chance reported his findings with a frown.
“At present, there are only two possibilities. The first possibility is that Liam has been locked up.
Another one is that… He’s dead.”
Sitting on the leather chair, Shaun felt as if a bucket of cold water was poured over his tall figure.
“Dead?”
How could it be? How could someone as hard to defeat as Liam be dead?
His hands trembled as he took out a cigarette from the cigarette pack.
“Chance, you’re the last person who saw Liam. Try your best to recall carefully. When you left, was there anyone else around?” Shaun suddenly roared.
Chance quaked. The only thing he knew was that Yael was in the car too. Nevertheless, Yael had no reason to harm Liam since they did not have a grudge against each other.
“No, Eldest Young Master.”
As soon as Chance finished speaking, Lea rushed into the office.
“Shaun, Mason just called and told me that he couldn’t reach Liam. He found out that you took Liam to Liona. Did you imprison Liam there?”
Shaun froze. What worried him most had happened eventually.
“Mom, I punched Liam three days ago, but I sent him away right after that.”
Lea was dazed. “If he had betrayed Lyons Corporation, the punch would’ve served him right. But it’s strange that we can’t reach him.”
Shaun pursed his thin lips grimly and was silent for some time.
Looking at Shaun, Lea got increasingly anxious, so she shifted her eyes to Chance.
Chance kept his head down and said, “We abandoned him in a remote alley in the north of the city, but we couldn’t trace him after that. Eldest Young Master has been searching for him in the past few days, yet Liam is nowhere to be found…”
Lea took two ghastly steps backward. After all, Liam was her son with whom she was pregnant for ten months.
“If he’s still alive, why can’t anyone trace him? Shaun, are you lying simply because you want to kill Liam?”
“I’m not…”
Those words sent shivers down Shaun’s spine. However, Lea acted as if she did not hear what Shaun said as she dashed to him and slapped him straight away.
“I can understand that you hate Liam. I won’t stop you from punching him however you want, but you can’t kill him. After all, he’s your younger brother.”
Amid her speech, Lea broke into tears.
“Liam is still young. He went astray because I didn’t get him a good dad and educate him properly. Why did you have to kill him?”
“Madam, Eldest Young Master really didn’t kill Second Young Master,” Chance explained.
“Even if you didn’t do this, Liam’s disappearance surely has to do with you.” Lea was consumed with regret.
These days, she had been so muddleheaded and overwhelmed by Mason’s cheating and betrayal that she had neglected her two sons.
By the time she came to her senses, Liam had gone missing.