Edward Ford picked up the note, a string of unfamiliar mobile numbers written clearly on it, making him tighten his brow again.
Jacob swept him a glance and hooked his lips in a smile, “Mr Ford, as a sign of my intent to cooperate, I can also give you my word that I can solve all the problems the Ford Group is having right now, that’s not even a problem either, it just depends on whether that’s going to be accepted or not.”
With those last words and a meaningful wink, he left straight away.
Edward Ford looked at the distant back, the phone number still clenched in his hand.
He admitted that he had hesitated, that there was nothing he could do to solve all the problems himself, and that Jacob could!
More importantly, he didn’t have the energy to run the Ford Group at this time and he needed the right person to help him.
Jacob had left him with a copy of the document when he left, and he casually flipped it open and glanced at it, a flash of brilliant light too quick to catch.
If he could, he would have bet that Jacob was sincere in his allegiance and that he would leave Logan Brown willingly!
Jacob had only just left the restaurant when he received a message from Edward Ford with just four words, “Good cooperation.”
He hooked his lips in a smile and quickly replied back, “I’m waiting for Mr Ford to make an offer that will allow me to give up KL.”
“Greedy!”
That was Edward Ford’s first thought when he read the line, but he couldn’t deny that it was exactly what he liked about him.
The young man, if he did not have this ambition and just wanted to spend his life in an ordinary way, would not have made him willing to take this gamble.
Nor had it ever been his style to pin his hopes on someone who had no desire whatsoever!
“Duh.”
The assistant was a little surprised when he received the call and spoke up busily, “President Ford.”
Edward Ford lowered his eyes and swept the documents in his hand and said sternly, “Contact the shareholders immediately, I want to call a shareholders’ meeting!”
“Now, now?”
“Yes!”
The assistant snapped to attention and didn’t dare to delay, “Yes! I’ll arrange it now.”
“Good, I’ll go back now.”
Edward Ford nodded in response, got up, took the papers and left quickly!
Roger Scott sat in front of Logan Brown and kept gauging his reaction, but saw that he had no intention of speaking.
After a while, Roger Scott finally said, “Logan, what the hell are you trying to do? If you don’t talk, I’m in a hurry.”
At those words, the man opened his eyes slowly.
“Uncle Roger,” Logan Brown said, looking over at him.
The latter looked over in the same way, looking unhappy.
Logan Brown lowered his eyes and smiled, “You’ve been to see Edward Ford, haven’t you?”
“Yes.” He answered immediately, without concealment.
Logan Brown’s grip on the armrest of his seat tightened a few notches and his face grimaced, “And what did you tell him? Or did …… you tell him everything?”
“He knows Elena is my daughter now, and …… I’ve noticed something is wrong with him.”
“What’s wrong?”
“This ……”
Roger Scott was silent for a moment, he was speaking then to Edward Ford’s sore point and through his twisted love for Elena Bush, but he still didn’t have any semblance of wanting to say it when faced with Logan Brown.
He didn’t know how Logan Brown would react if he knew what he had said, and he didn’t know if …… he knew it either.
Logan Brown looked at him and easily saw what was going through his mind at that moment, and he couldn’t help but smile along with him, “Uncle Roger is thinking that Edward Ford’s feelings for Elena go beyond the ordinary concern of a father for his daughter?”
Roger Scott was a little surprised and blurted out, “You knew that!?”
The moment the words came out of his mouth, he snapped to attention that he was clearly being lied to and that Logan Brown wanted to hear the truth from him.
Logan Brown nodded in recognition, “As I thought, you already knew.”
Roger Scott squeezed his palms together, a little breathlessly, and then felt ridiculous on second thought.
Yes, how could a clever man like him not guess what he himself had already seen?
Logan Brown’s grip on the armrest loosened a little before he said slowly, “Uncle Roger, I know you know no less than I do now, but let me remind you that it’s better not to know many things you shouldn’t.”
Edward Ford had an eccentric nature and no one knew where his boundaries were, let alone what to say that wouldn’t anger him.
With Elena Bush and the baby in his hands, he didn’t dare act rashly.
“I know.” Roger Scott nodded, reassuring him.
Trailing off at the end as if remembering something, “What are you going to do about The Ford Group?”
The man narrowed his eyes dangerously, the cold colour underneath them sending shivers down the spine, “Invade from the inside and then wipe it all out afterwards!”
Roger Scott felt his heart stutter and he squeezed his palms together to suppress the momentary fear that rose up.
He gritted his teeth and spoke again, “Is there anything I can do for you? Or ……”
“No ……” Logan Brown was about to say no, but then he didn’t know what had occurred to him and stopped his sentence.
Roger Scott looked at him uncertainly, but saw the man slowly crook up a smile, “No, but there is one thing you will be happy to hear.”
Roger Scott immediately perked up and couldn’t wait to ask, “What is it?”
A light smile curled Logan Brown’s lips and he spoke slowly under his expectant gaze, “Elena gave birth to a boy yesterday, his name is Harvey, both mother and child are in hospital and I want you to go and look after them for a while.”
“Thud!”
The sound of a chair falling to the floor was extraordinarily crisp and Logan Brown jerked his face around to see the man fall out of his seat in his excitement.
Roger Scott quickly climbed to his feet and was shocked and delighted, “Really, really?
Looking at the middle-aged man in front of him, who was almost crying with joy, Logan Brown’s smile under his eyes deepened a bit and he also affirmed, “It’s true!”
“I …… Elena she ……”
Roger Scott was so excited that he didn’t know what to say.
Even so, the joy on his face could not fade, a man who was nearing the fifty mark at the moment was so elated that he kept repeating like a child, “I, I have a grandson, I have a grandson!”