“Bring me my personal seal.” Jasper didn’t pay any attention to them and just said his own.
The butler had long stood aside, holding a tray in his hand, on which Jasper’s private seal and personal seal, as well as some legal documents, the Folsom family accounts had already been placed.
“Master, it’s all here.” The butler said softly.
Jasper glanced over, his withered hand propped up to sit up, and Beinice rushed to help him.
Jasper braced himself to sit up.
Paige only felt a coldness in her hand, Jasper had taken her hand and placed it towards the tray.
“…”
Paige was stunned and hastily drew her hand back.
Jasper’s hand dropped heavily, his shoulders collapsing as he looked at her with a pair of bitter eyes.
Paige didn’t feel very good about being gazed at with such eyes, “Master, if you really feel that the fall was wrong in the beginning, you shouldn’t have kept it wrong.”
Jasper laughed, “Paige, I’ve never been so sure as I am right now at this moment that I didn’t land the wrong tzu.”
After saying that, Jasper turns his head and slowly looks at the crowd.
Beinice slowly takes two steps to the side, and together with the crowd of THE Folsom family, they bow their heads toward Paige and shout in unison, “Greetings to the new head of the family.”
The shouts shook the heavens.
The aura was majestic.
“…”
Enrico’s face sank.
Nick and a few of them stood in the periphery, seeing this formation were surprised, this … ran a trip to D country and collected a family?
“Paige, this position you want or don’t want, whether to develop or scatter it, it’s up to you, anyway THE Folsom family I leave it to you.” Jasper said as he sat down.
“…”
Paige didn’t expect the old man to pull a stunt when he was about to die, it was a brilliant maneuver.
She stood up from her chair and was about to speak when Blanca, who was beside her, suddenly stood up straight and looked at Jasper and said in an exasperated voice, “You can’t force her, she doesn’t want it, she has a life of her own.”
Jasper, however, didn’t listen at all and only said, “I’ve finished what I have to say, you all go down and let Enrico stay.”
Paige was still about to refuse when she suddenly heard this sentence and was once again stunned.
Enrico stays?
She turned her eyes to Enrico, who stood there with wrinkled eyebrows, annoyance etched in his eyes.
“Cough-” Jasper suddenly coughed violently, coughing his face even worse, the light in his eyes fading away.
Seeing this, the crowd didn’t dare to say anything else and busily retreated.
Paige looked on, and had no choice but to swallow her words of rejection for now, turning to leave.
“You don’t have to worry, no one can force you to do what you don’t want to do, THE Folsom family I will take care of myself, no one will bother you.” Paige turned around to see Blanca’s frail face.
As if she was afraid that she would be annoyed, Blanca covered her wounds and left after she finished speaking.
Paige stood still, a little annoyed.
She and this the Folsom family can’t be pulled apart, can’t be torn apart relationship is really …
Paige, along with Nick, Cynthia and a few others, sat in the sunshine on a row of railings against the lake.
The sunlight fell, not warm, with a coolness.
The lake shimmered beneath their feet.
“Sister Paige, I just looked at the books, such a thick stack of general ledgers, imagine how much money THE Folsom family has.” Cynthia sat beside her, deliberately enlivening the atmosphere, “I don’t think you need to worry about anything, just accept it, why bother with money.”
“That’s right, you led THE Folsom family, it’s also another sense of taking complete revenge for Mira and the others.” Lamont chimed in.
David and Derrick nodded their heads like chickens.
Paige understood what they meant, they didn’t want her to think about that battle in River Town anymore, so that she could compromise with her family before she struggled too much emotionally.
Paige sat on the stone fence and looked over at them and said lightly, “I understand where you guys are coming from, thanks, I did decide to compromise some, but that was with people, and didn’t include leading THE FOLSOM FAMILY, my version of the world is still Temple in Heaven.”
Her saving THE Folsom family, her going into surgery to be with Blanca, and her not refuting the old man’s last words were all compromises she made with her loved ones.
Because she doesn’t want Blanca to die, she doesn’t want the old man to pass away without peace of mind.
But she won’t compromise to the point of even taking in THE Folsom family.
I just wonder, what is Jasper keeping Enrico for, it’s not like Brangelina is trying to persuade her by starting with that aspect of Enrico, is it?
This one and all, they know what her weakness is.
…
Under the fake vines, the people dispersed, leaving Jasper and Enrico alone.
Enrico pulled out his chair and sat down with a cocky look, sneering, “It’s also strange that this one and all have to leave their last words at me.”
He looked like a last words reaper?
Hearing this, Jasper coughed and laughed, probably only he, Enrico, would say the word last words so recklessly.
“Who else has left them?” Jasper asked, bracing himself in his rocking chair.
“An old lady from Wind Island.” Enrico said giving him a look, “She loves Paige more than you do.”
At that, Jasper’s eyes dimmed, “Really?”
“Alright, say what you have to say, it’s up to her if she recognizes you as her grandpa or mom, it’s just a matter of screaming twice, but leave this THE Folsom family alone, she has to stay with me and I have plenty of money for her to spend.”
Enrico spoke unassailable.
Jasper coughed twice, his withered hand resting on the arm of the rocking chair, his cloudy, lightless eyes gazing up at him, “Enrico, I know what you’re capable of, but can you really guarantee that you’ll be able to protect her for the rest of her life, safe and well?”
Enrico’s face sank, “What do you mean?”
“I know Paige has welcomed back the people of Wind Island, she’s smart and kind and peacefully rebuilt the slums, and A is now peaceful with equal classes up and down the country.”
Jasper said slowly, “can your eyesight how can’t you see, this kind of behavior of hers is also walking a tightrope ah, the plutocrats ate the loss, the slum people’s unwillingness, the civilian class repression, each of them is the dark surge under the peace and harmony, once the dark surge is ignited, triggered by the cataclysmic disaster.”
“With me, it can’t ignite.” Enrico said coldly.
“And what if it does?” Jasper asked rhetorically.
“…”
Enrico’s gaze turned bitter for a moment and sank to the old man’s sunken eyes.
“Let me leave her a way out.” Jasper looked at him and said, “It’s the only thing I can do for her, please make sure you persuade her to take on THE Folsom family, even if it doesn’t matter, to take the position of head of the family.”
That way she could always come back and have a say at any time.
“I persuade?” Enrico sneered, “You guys are really more shrewd than one another, who am I, Enrico, to advise her for you?”
“Just by the fact that Paige, she has her eye on you, and she would risk her life for you.” Jasper coughed twice more, “If you cared for her as much, you wouldn’t mind this retreat being redundant.”
“…”
“If you still think I have ulterior motives, how about you take in THE Folsom family and you save this fallback for Paige?” Jasper looked at him deeply, backing away once more.
“…”
Even the words of handing over THE Folsom family to an outsider were spoken, and Enrico had to believe this sincerity of his.
He couldn’t help but sneer, “You’re just now getting this attitude, what did you do earlier?”