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Paige waved her hand dismissively. “Don’t even get me started. Something happened, so I came back to ask for your help. Just give me 30 million dollars. I need it urgently. The Hart Corporation is doing pretty well under Sienna’s leadership, but that girl is so clueless. She’s almost thirty, practically an old maid already, and still not married. “A woman shouldn’t be out there showing her face every day. As her aunt, I really need to teach her a lesson and whip those girls into shape.
Hearing that she was planning to go against Sienna, Aiden was scared out of his wits. She wants to set Sienna straight! Aiden thought, his mind spinning.
Aiden hurried to persuade her. “Paige, since you’re back, just stay here and get some rest tonight. As for everything else, just let it go, alright?”
“What do you mean, Aiden? You really think I can’t handle Sienna? I’m her aunt—I even took care of her when she was a baby, you know? The main reason I came back this time is to introduce her to someone. I know a guy who’s a senior manager at SIE Corporation; he’s got real status there. If Sienna gets together with him, wouldn’t our family be able to work with SIE Corporation?” Paige said, sounding all fired up.
Aiden was speechless. If he didn’t know what Sienna was truly capable of, maybe he would have been shocked.
“That’s enough,” he said firmly. “You don’t need to meddle in our family’s business.”
Paige instantly snapped. “What’s that supposed to mean, Aiden? I’m just trying to help you. I heard Sienna kicked you out just so she could take over the Hart Corporation for herself. “Just look at the dump you’re living in now. I’m only doing this for your own good.”
Aiden didn’t bother arguing anymore and just went inside.
Paige was dead set on tracking down Sienna and getting 30 million dollars out of her. She needed the cash, and she needed it fast. With that in mind, Paige stormed over to Hart Corporation first thing the next morning.
Toom was sent back to Meridia, and as soon as he got home, his mother, Isabel Noir, slapped him across the face, furious. “What are you trying to do? You’re actually fighting with Hazel?
“Don’t you realize the Noir family is only where it is today because of her? Have you no shame at all? Why are you listening to Victor’s nonsense?
Thom kept his head down, saying nothing. What could I say? That it wasn’t him, but Hazel! he wondered. Hazel knew he’d never say her name, so she set him up to take the blame, making it look like it was all his ambition that brought him back.
Hah, Hazel, you really are as ruthless as ever, he thought bitterly. One second, you’re holding my hand, looking all concerned as you take me to the hospital, and the next, you’re pushing me straight into the abyss, he thought, his heart heavy with pain.
But hey, I brought this on myself. I was willing, after all. I’m just a damn fool, he thought, the self-loathing twisting in his gut. Fine, if
“Tell me, I want to take back the Noir family. It was mine to begin with. Hazel is just an outsider. Why should she get to fight me for it?” he said, his voice steady but laced with bitterness.
His father, Arthur Noir, was so furious that he ordered Thorn to be locked up. In the middle of the night, Thorn stared at the dour—
Finally, the door creaked open.
“Then it’s me, Victor. In here to get you out of here. Your parents are completely clueless, always siding with that Hazel. You’re the only one truly fit to inherit the Noir family trust. I’ll help you take it all back,” Victor whispered urgently.
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Hazel’s face was unreadable. He just gave a low grunt and followed him out.
When they reached Victor’s villa, Thorn had just finished taking a shower when there was suddenly someone else in the room.
“Thom, it’s been so long. I missed you so much,” a sweet voice called out.
A striking beauty with long, narrow eyes, delicate skin, and a curvy figure slowly walked toward him.
“Thorn, where have you been all this time? You didn’t even contact me. We grew up together, and you didn’t even get me a birthday present,” Eleanor Yeast pouted.