“Listen to it, listen to it!”
Old Mr. Alston pointed to the people in the living room and said to Peter in a serious voice: “What have you done? Peter, usually grandpa is too indulgent, but this is something you must do, hurry up and get Luis back to me.”
After saying that, the pair of cloudy and shining eyes stared deadly at Peter, and added: “If you insist on your position, don’t blame me for removing you from the post of president. You should know that the Alston Group is a family business, how can your uncles and grandfather feel at ease to give the business to someone like you who does not think about the family?”
He was threatening Peter.
“Peter, you stop fooling around and listen to your grandfather.”
Mrs. Alston was so anxious that she got up and walked over to Peter, reached out and poked him in the chest, “What’s wrong with you, you can’t be bothered, can you?”
Then whispered, “You have to think of me and your sister even if you don’t think of yourself.”
Was it easy to bring up their two children all these years?
It was hard to secure the position in The Alston family, and if Peter came down from the position of president of the Alston Group, I am afraid that their mothers would have a hard time.
“Mom, you’ve worked hard all these years, but I have my own principles for doing things. There’s no negotiation.”
For his birth mother, Peter is a filial son in the end, although his attitude is slightly cold in the day.
Seeing her like this, and thinking that Adrianahad said that Sloane and his mother had gone to beg Adriana to let him go, at that moment, he felt quite uncomfortable.
“Peter, although I am your Uncle, but also not much older than you. You are young and don’t take things to heart, I can understand that. But Luis is the child you raised for nine years, and you just give him away? How can we trust you with the Alston Group? What if one day you have the whim to hand over the Alston Group to someone else, where would you leave us?”
Brenden’s three words provoked the crowd and made all of them angry with Peter.
“Yeah, Brenden’s got a point.”
“I heard that the last Clear Bay Project is also Peter let water to Adriana, I guess at that time he knew that Adriana is Lawson, for a woman to give up the project.”
“So he’s really difficult to work with.”
“Dad, Peter is really not fit to be the CEO of Alston Group.”
“Yeah, I think so too.”
…
When one of the 20 or 30 people questioned Peter, everyone began to question him.
Listening to the words of the people, Old Mr. Alston knitted his brows and shook his head with a sigh, “Peter, although I am the head of The Alston family, but The Alston family still has to listen to everyone’s opinion. I still say, if you don’t get Luis back, then the position of Alston Group CEO will have to change hands.”
A look of hatred that seems to really care about Peter.
But when he inclined his head to look at the other side, his sight coincidentally met Brenden, and their eyes collided, each with a slight flash of light, but their hearts were not clear.
“O Peter, answer your grandfather when you think about it.”
Mrs. Alston wiped her tears with a handkerchief, looking heartbroken and desperate.
Even Sloane can’t help but advise, “Brother, the child is the mother single-handedly brought up, you even if you do not care about him should also think about the mother ah.”
For a while, all eyes fell on Peter, waiting for his answer.
“I’ll say it again.”
His thin lips lightly opened, the words with a few cold, “I will have decided not to change.”
“You, you you …”
Mrs. Alston, shaking with anger, raised her hand and slapped him hard across the face, “You’re confused, you’re so confused!”
Her eyes were red, she cursed, and walked right around Peter.
It seems that since birth, this is the first time Mrs. Alston has struck Peter, and Peter has not fought back.
Because there is guilt in the heart.
As Sloane said, Luis was brought up by his mother, and now he is handing over the child to Adriana without considering her old man’s feelings, so disappointment is inevitable.
Leaving aside this matter, the problem of his own body alone, Peter has no way to explain to his mother, and how can he resist her slap?
Not cowardly, but he was full of guilt and remorse for his mother.
“Brother, you’re such a jerk, look how angry you’ve made Mom.”
Sloane stomped his feet in anger and immediately ran out after Mrs. Alston and left together.
Old Mr. Alston’s eyes fell on Peter and said in a deep voice, “You are given one last chance to think about it, and I won’t see any action from you until 9:00 tomorrow morning. Then you don’t have to go to Alston Group tomorrow, I will consider letting you Uncle to take over Alston Group.”
He waved his hand, “It’s late, let’s all disperse.”
Old Mr. Alston was the first to rise and leave the parlor with his cane.
The elders sitting in the parlor left with sighs of relief, and some even pointed at Peter’s face, not forgetting to spit on him.
If it was in the old days, Peter certainly will not be this silent, but now, he felt quite good.
Everyone left, except Peter and Brenden, who were still in the parlor.
He gave Brenden a look and turned around leisurely, only to hear a voice from behind him, “You still like Adriana?”
Although it is a question, it is an affirmative tone.
Peter paced and looked back at him, “Uncle had everything laid out the day he came back, and it was only a matter of time before I stepped down. After all, the two children in my hands, I can not guarantee their safety, rather than let the Soto family to protect them better.”
The thin and thick lips raised an arc, smiling wickedly, “Uncle and Harlee are very close personal friends, would you dare to lay hands on two children?”
Regardless of who is more capable now, the Soto family or The Alston family, Brenden cannot lay hands on both children as long as they are in the Soto family.
Of course, this is just Peter’s perfunctory remark to Brenden.
“This is not like your way of doing things. Casually admitting defeat and surrendering, could it be that … you have a bigger layout behind you?”
Having known Peter for many years, how could Brenden not know Peter’s temperament?
It is because of the very understanding, so Brenden is suspicious of Peter’s perverse actions, vaguely some scruples, fearing that he will have some bigger layout, will be a net to kill him.
“Your grandfather gave you the opportunity, if you bring the baby back from Adriana by tomorrow morning, you’ll still be the CEO of the Alston Group.”
Brenden reminded, afraid that Peter would not know the same.
A cold smile emerged on the man’s cold face, “What does Uncle think I should do to make it better?”
“That … is naturally your business and I cannot interfere.”
He spoke with a beat, rose leisurely, walked to Peter’s side with an elegant pace, and the two faced each other with four eyes, the atmosphere was stagnant.
Then he added, “But if Peter you don’t want to do it yourself, Uncle would like to do it for you.”
“Oh?”
A trace of cunning flashed under Peter’s eyes, “So … very good. Then Peter thanked Uncle.”