“Dad, did you hear what Raymond just said?” Valeria was unhappy. “How can I give him my child that I was pregnant with for 10 months? Is that possible? William will kill him if he dares to steal my child.”
Archer did not even scold Raymond. “Valeria, your brother is right. You don’t have experience in raising children and we’ll be worried even if we hire a nanny. It’s better for you to let us take care of one of the twins to relieve your burden.”
“Dad, I won’t feel like it’s a burden. Hayden and the servants in the house are all reliable people. I’m just having a pair of twins, so I can take care of them. Besides, Hayden and William will be the first to refuse your idea!”
“Even if Hayden doesn’t agree with both your mother and me, we can discuss it slowly. William will listen to you. You can persuade him first so he can help you to convince Hayden. Isn’t it okay?”
“Did you bring me back here today just for this? You just want me to hand over my son?” Valeria widened her eyes.
“How can you be so rude? We are not scheming, we just want to help you. You and William are still young. We will take care of one twin and William’s father can take care of the other. You and William can have two more children.”
Archer said it so gently that Valeria almost jumped up. “Two more? Do you think that I’m a machine? Two children will be more than enough!”
“William and your father-in-law like girls. Your mother and I feel the same as well. You and William have such good genes. It’ll be perfect if you have two beautiful little girls! When the time comes, your mother and I can help you take care of your daughter as well.”
Valeria pushed the grapes aside and said, “Dad, aren’t you being too much? I thought you loved me, but I didn’t expect that you would plot against me like this. I may fall for it, but do you think my husband is so easy to fool?”
Raymond laughed and said, “Dad, what’s wrong with you and Mom? Valeria is silly, but William is not. We’ll be in trouble if we can’t get along with him. Besides, Hayden is eying you guys as well because you want to take away his grandchildren. He’ll definitely fight you. For the sake of living a comfortable life in the future, I advise you not to think about it.”
“Alright, under one condition. You have to get a girlfriend and have a baby!” Archer glared at Raymond.
“I don’t even have a girlfriend, so why would I have children? Since you and Mom love each other so much, why don’t you give birth to a younger sibling for me and Valeria?”
Valeria’s eyes lit u when she heard this. “That’s a good idea. Why don’t you guys work it out?”
“How old are you and your mom?”
“Mom looks like she’s in her early thirties and you’re also very young. Besides, there are countless women that could get pregnant even when they’re older, so why can’t Mom do it?”
Valeria retorted, “I think Raymond is right. You should hurry up and think about it. Maybe you can have twins. At that time, both of you will have more children and you can also experience the fun of being parents. That’ll be perfect.”
“You’re being outrageous! Take it easy, or your mother will teach you a lesson when she heard this.” Archer smiled and stuffed a grape into Valeria’s mouth.
Meanwhile, Paisley angrily looked at the financial report at Acma Corporation. “The shares were monopolized? When did this happen?”
“We just found out…”
“What did you do before this? Why did you find out that there was something wrong with the materials after so long? As a manager, shouldn’t you predict the crisis in advance?”
The manager was silent for a few seconds when he was faced with Paisley’s questioning. “Mrs. Anthony, I have reminded you of this before, but you said that I was overthinking.”
Paisley’s face became even darker. “You were just suspecting without any evidence. If you really predicted it, you should have been paying attention to this matter all the time. You should have found a way to deal with it before this happened, instead of waiting for the worst to happen and reporting it to me.”
The manager held his breath and said, “There are no materials in the market now. How do you think this thing should be handled?”
“You can leave now. Let me think about it!”
The manager left immediately as if he was pardoned. Paisley did not have time to think about this problem, so she needed to tell Ornard the whole story. Paisley immediately dialled his number.
No one answered just like before and Paisley scolded, “Old geezer! What the hell are you doing?! I’ll kill you if you don’t answer the phone!”
She quickly typed the message and sent it, “The price of materials in B City is now three times higher than before and the price is still rising. What should we do now?”
Ornard saw that it was Paisley’s call and did not pick it up, but he was stunned when he saw the message. How could the price of materials suddenly rise in less than a week?
Ornard immediately called Gurmisran. “Paisley has sent me a message informing me about the price inflation of materials, especially the rolled steel. What’s going on?”
Gurmisran replied after a while and said, “Mr. Laban, I just got the news. It is said that the price inflation of rolled steel is caused by the rising price of raw materials and the steel plant production was cut off. All the materials in stock were monopolized and some neighbouring cities followed suit. The price keeps fluctuating. I just called an insider and they said that if it increased by three-fold today, it may increase even more tomorrow because everything is in short supply.”
“What the hell is going on?” Ornard realized how serious the situation was after a short while.
He took advantage of the opportunity to place a higher bid than the Floyd family, so the money he earned was naturally less. Now that the price of the materials increased three times more than before, he was just going to break even. He may even suffer losses. Moreover, it was a large amount of money. Not only did his scheme against the Floyd family fail, but he had to suffer losses as well.
Ornard’s heart was aching. He could not move now, so he could only tell Gurmisran, “You must find another way to solve this matter now.”
Gurmisran had no solutions at the moment, so he promised first, “I’ll try and call you if I think of anything.”
Meanwhile, Angel let out a sigh of relief and slept for two hours in the hospital. She woke up when she felt excruciating pain from her wounds and she screamed in pain. Madelyn then immediately called a doctor to check on Angel when she heard that.
After the doctor came over to examine her, he helped to apply medicine on the wounds and fed Angel painkillers so she could feel a little better.
She gnashed her teeth and cursed Braelynn a few times before she picked up her cell phone and looked at it. She found that Pierre actually sent her a message, “Ms. Floyd, I have prepared the medicine that you asked for. When can take it?”