“Heh! Yes, cousin!” Ernie laughed. “Was there any meaning in doing so? You were willing to sacrifice your love life for the Hughes family, what about Jemima? Don’t you want her anymore? Then again, are you really in love with Sylvie?”
“What is the reason for you to come here today?” Marley was patient and did not allow himself to get angry.
“Me?” Ernie laughed softly. “I’m here to see you and wanted to talk some serious business with you! Just tell me, do you want Jemima, or Sylvie? If you want Sylvie, I can chase after Jemima, right? If you want Jemima, then I’ll chase after Sylvie!”
Marley began to frown and his handsome face was starting to look tense. The corners of his lips were also showing a sharp curve. His overall expression looked as if he wanted to eat Ernie alive.
“See what I mean, you are feeling guilty, right?” Ernie still yelled out without fear of death. “Marley, my dear brother, this is not good for you. You want to have both women by you side, don’t you think you are getting too greedy?”
“If you have no serious business to discuss, please leave immediately!” Marley ignored everything that Ernie had just said. He knew that Ernie wanted to provoke himself, and he would not be provoked.
“Heh! I really feel pity for Sylvie, she stood by your side and saved the Hughes family. She even gave away money to help but she still could not get your full attention; do you think it’s pathetic?” Ernie completely ignored him and continued speaking to himself. “However, since Jemima did not want to be with you anymore, I think I’d better chase after Jemima! She doesn’t want you anymore, maybe she wants me! She’s such a beautiful woman! Since she is highly educated and has studied abroad, she might be a good catch for me!”
“Ernie Hughes!” Marley roared in a deep voice while still holding back.
Ernie had said something that made Marley felt very irritated, and at that moment, Marley wanted to punch him to death.
Ernie looked at Marley whose expression was changing. The murderous aura on his face was starting to get more and more clearer. Seeing that he might pounce at him at the next moment, he snorted with joy. “Brother, you still have not trained enough, your emotions are too easily being manipulated. How can you protect the Hughes family in this condition? We should not show out our emotions. Come on, just take a deep breath. Try following me and take a deep breath, concealing your emotions in the process!”
“Cousin, you worry too much! The Hughes family will pull itself together, and the Hughes family will go back to its former glory. If you like Jemima, just go and chase after her!” Miraculously, Marley’s burgeoning anger was instantly restrained by his words, the tense atmosphere around them disintegrated after he said that sentence, and his voice suddenly became surprisingly calm. “However, even if you really manage to have a relationship with her, so what? She was also once by my side before, what you want is what I had already obtained before! Ernie, eating my leftover, it is not very decent, is it?”
After listening to what he said, Ernie gave a harsh glance at him. A light could be seen flashing under his eyes at an extremely fast speed. He then laughed again. “Seeing brothers like us wearing the same clothes, it makes us more united, doesn’t it? The Hughes family has always been united, I don’t mind wearing what you have worn before, brother!”
“Your preference is really unique!” Marley remained very disdainful. “I’m busy, you should go away!”
“Wait, so you’re not going to care about Jemima anymore?”
“My current wife is Sylvie!”
“So, Sylvie is more important than Jemima?”
Marley only smiled without saying anything. His black eyes glowed with a dark blue light as he stared at Ernie. “This has nothing to do with you in the slightest. So, you better not anger me!”
Ernie seemed to really like seeing Marley’s gloomy expressions, and he always had a smile on his face when this happens, “I have been a rebel since I was a child, if you did not say it, I might not try to provoke you. However, once you said it, it made me have the urge to provoke back, what should I do?”
“This only means that you are just a bastard, my dear cousin!” Marley remained indifferent.
Ernie laughed, “Are you angry? I’m so scared, my cousin actually cursed at me! Oh! Isn’t it fun to learn how to curse like a lady? Cousin, please try not to curse, cursing is bad!”
Marley suddenly rushed towards him, lowered his eyes and glared at him angrily. As their eyes were locked on to each other, the bottom of Ernie’s eyes could be seen full of provocation.
As Marley’s eyes slightly flickered, he tried calming down. Finally, his emotions went back to normal as if nothing had happened. His then said with a gloomy face, “Do you want leave by yourself, or do you want me to tell the security guards to take you away!”
“Heh, next up, we should start talking about some serious business!” Ernie was still leaning lazily on the president’s chair, not minding at all that he was given an order to leave.
Marley stood in front of the table and looked at him with cold eyes, “Talk!”
“They have agreed to hand over their shares!”
Marley was shocked.
“The agreement was drafted and they will come over right away. They don’t want your three hundred million, they had accepted the conditions that you have proposed before. Brother, aren’t you very happy? In one fell swoop, your uncles, even Teddie had accepted your conditions and was willing to hand over their shares! From now on, the Hughes Group is all yours! You can do whatever you want! No one can influence your decision anymore!”
“Now you guys cannot take me down anymore!” Marley smiled gently. “I still hold most of the shares!”
“That’s true, your father is so shameless!” Ernie snorted coldly. “He got all the shares to your family, and he still act like a gentleman!”
“Ernie! The one who is shameless is you, if it wasn’t for my dad, would you be here today?”
“That’s right, I’m here today because of him! I really have to thank my… great uncle for that!” Ernie’s tone of voice was so disdainful and so irritating.
Sure enough, both Kasper and Teddie came. They even brought a few shareholders along with them. They had the agreement on their hands and was willing to give out their shares as long as the payment was reasonable!
Marley really did not expect them to actually agree. Although there were some minor issues in the early stages, watching them just simply handing over their shares like this, he still muttered in his head, they were not trying to trick him, right?
He called his lawyer to discuss the details together, and after determining that there was nothing wrong with the agreement, both of them signed the agreement.
Marley then gathered everyone from the finance department and gave them a transfer.
Other than that, he had already commission someone to help sell his shares. The money he received had also been transferred.
When Marley signed the agreement with his uncles, Ernie was at the secretariat, sitting on Sylvie’s desk, looking down at Sylvie who was typing and working.
Alila, Maisy and Daria all took a gaze at them from time to time.
Sylvie remained silent and continued to bury herself in her own work.
Suddenly, with a slam, a photo was shown in front of her.
Sylvie froze, looked up and met up with Ernie’s eyes. As she looked up at him with confusion, she was suddenly in a trance for a moment. This face of his, really had some similarities with Marley’s. However, his eyes looked much eviler, his handsome face gave off a mysterious aura, with both the feeling of good and evil. When he bent over towards her, his breath was like a feather densely spreading on her face. She quickly focused back, frowned and looked at this photo!
It was a girl, wearing plain white clothes and a skirt. Her body was very slim and she had long black hair which spread down covering her chest area. Her hair was very long.
Sylvie took a closer look at the photo of the woman, only to find that the woman’s skin was very pale and white. Her eyes were very large and very attractive. She looked nice and beautiful. The more she looked at her, the harder it was to stop. She was really breathtakingly beautiful.
Just, who was this? What was Ernie doing showing this to herself?
However, this woman was really beautiful, there was actually such a beautiful woman in the world! She had a unworldly beauty. Even she, a woman, could not help but be attracted to her, let alone a man!
She looked up at Ernie and met up with his smiling face. “What is the meaning of this?”
“Is seeing someone so beautiful making you sad of yourself?” Ernie asked with a playful smile.
Sylvie looked away, not willing to pay attention to him.
“Do you feel that you are a rotten vegetable when compared to her? At first, you might think you are more of a pretty flower. However, after making a comparison, you feel like you are a rotten vegetable, right?! This is what a real woman looks like, making men have the desire to protect her at first glance, right?”
Sylvie coldly replied, “Ernie, then please go and protect this beautiful woman! Don’t delay my work, thank you!”
“Huh! Are you jealous?” Ernie was not angry, and continued, “This is Marley’s ex-girlfriend! Isn’t she pretty?”
Sylvie heart thumped, so that’s who she was, what a beauty! This was the girlfriend he lived with for five years before, huh?
“Beautiful!” Sylvie smiled.
Ernie was a bit shocked by her reaction, he never predicted that she would admit that the woman in the photo was beautiful, he thought that women would always be jealous of other women who were prettier than them. Sylvie really gave him an unexpected surprise.
“If she comes back, what will you do?”
Sylvie calmly looked at Ernie, “Ernie, I have nothing to do with her whether she returns or not, you are talking to the wrong person about this matter. If you want to watch something happen, wouldn’t it be better to tell Marley about this?”
“Your man will be snatched away immediately!”
“If my man is easily snatched away, then he’s not a good man, is he?” Sylvie shrugged her shoulders and continued typing. Her papers were not yet organized so work had to come first.
“They have been living together for five years!”
“Really? So, what if they have been living together for five years? Five years, more than one thousand and eight hundred days and nights. Even if they were busy, they should have time to propose, right? The cost of a marriage license is less than ten dollars, since there is no marriage between them, that means there must be a problem between the two!”
“Haha, you are so good at comforting yourself, the spirit of self-consolation!” Ernie was shocked by Sylvie’s reply.
“Mr. Ernie, if it’s okay, please go away, I’m really busy!” Sylvie’s phone rang at this time. She was busy answering the phone, and when she saw that it was Ryan calling, she unconsciously showed a smile at the corner of her lips as she answered the phone, “Hello? Ryan, is your cold better?”
“I was just about to tell you, I’m fine, don’t worry about it!” Ryan’s refreshing voice came from the other end.
“That’s good!” Sylvie obviously let out a sigh of relief. She then inadvertently saw Ernie looking at herself with a profoundly inexplicable face. So, she stood up and walked towards the side of the corridor. She was walking and talking at the same time, “Do not forget to take your medicine, if you get reinfected, it will be even more hard to bear with!”
She intentionally avoided Ernie, but he had nothing better to do than to follow her.
As Sylvie was holding her phone, she saw Ernie walking towards her. Her expression immediately changed. Her eyes looked at Ernie feeling a bit annoyed. Moreover, he had a smile on the corner of his mouth as he kept smiling at her.
Sylvie was a little angry, but it was not the time to vent it out.
On the phone, Ryan said, “Sylvie, have you read the material?”
“Uh!” Sylvie suddenly remembered, “Not yet, I don’t have the time!”.
Last night, she went back and had sex with Marley, and after that a matter concerning Sadie happened. So, no matter what, she had to read the materials tonight. Sadie needed to give up drugs, and to do that she needed money. She did not make much, and there was no way she will have enough money to let Sadie give up drugs only with her pay.
“Please take the time to give it a look, time is short!”
“Got it, I’ll hang up and let’s get in touch some other time!” Sylvie took another look at Ernie. Then, in front of him, she hung up the phone and glared at him. “Do you have any manners at all? I’m on the phone, do you know it’s rude to eavesdrop when someone is making a call?”