A week after Kevin moved out of the house, Patrick and his wife arrived at the beach house. The three of them sat face to face when Kevin gloomily opened his mouth, “Tell me, what do you want from me?”
“Do you really plan to stay here all the time and never set foot in the Cloud Mansion?”
“I’m not sure, but at least now I don’t plan to go back.”
Patrick snapped angrily, “Even if your mother and I did something wrong, you shouldn’t have left us behind. What do you take that family for? Is it a hotel? Can you leave and come back when you want?”
“Then I just never go back.”
“Are you sure?”
“Yes.”
Patrick was furious, “Well, if you don’t go back, you won’t go back. This is the first time I came to bow and ask you to go back, and there won’t be a second time. I’ll make it clear if you don’t go back I won’t leave you a single cent of the family fortune. When I die, I’ll donate it all.”
Kevin scoffed and smiled, “Whatever. It just so happens that I also plan to set up my own business.”
“You …”
Patrick was so angry that his chest ached, while Blanche didn’t say a word from start to finish, only weeping gloomily at the side.
“From tomorrow onwards you’ll be back in charge of the Jones-Sharp Group so that you don’t have to think about having a grandchild all day long and don’t lose the most basic principles of being a human being.”
“I’ll ask you one last time, are you serious?”
“Yes.”
Kevin’s affirmation completely infuriated his father, who was also stubborn when he was young. Kevin was more or less similar to his father in some ways.
“Okay. Don’t think that I’ve been out of the world for five years, so I’m rusty on the business and don’t think that the Jones-Sharp Group can’t do without you. You are not as important as you think!”
“That will be fine. I hope that when you come back to the business field, you’ll be able to carry forward the Jones-Sharp Group and duplicate your success.”
They had fallen out completely by now, with Blanche caught in the middle, unable to change anything but being sad.
Kevin summoned Alvin that night and asked him, “How is the new company registered?”
“It’s already registered.”
Alvin then sighed, “Mr. Jones-Sharp, are you really planning to start another business?”
“Yeah.”
“What about me? I’m grateful for Master’s appreciation and you have been kind to me in cultivating me. Aren’t you making it difficult for me?”
“You’ll stay in the Jones-Sharp Group.”
“Why?”
“My father hasn’t meddled in the company’s affairs for five years, and he needs the help of a man of exceptional ability.”
Alvin was startled and smiled meaningfully, “I thought you were really going to draw a line in the sand with the Jones-Sharp Group. In the end, you’re actually just angry with your father.”
A month later, Kevin’s new company was officially established, named LoveBella. Those who knew him well understood the deep meaning behind the name LoveBella.
Lily joined his company and became his secretary. She had a petite figure but was particularly clever. At first, Kevin met her in a nightclub when Lily was still a third-year college student who sold beer in the nightclub because her family was poor. Once she was molested by a few lecherous people. Kevin promptly came to the rescue her only to let her out of danger, and from then on they were acquaintances. When Freya moved to his family in those days, Lily accompanied Kevin to act and gained his great trust.
Days passed like this. Bella lived Bella’s life while Kevin lived Kevin’s life. Even though they couldn’t forget each other, they never had any contact …
Two years have passed. The LoveBella company had grown from a small company with dozens of people to the LoveBella Group with nearly a thousand employees while the Jones-Sharp Group, which was in the charge of Kevin, was declining, not because of Patrick’s unscrupulous management, but because someone was secretly messing with it, uniting some small companies to launch an offensive against the Jones-Sharp Group. Celeste bought a large number of shares of the Jones-Sharp Group in an attempt to swallow it up bit by bit.
Under these circumstances, Patrick’s pressure was very great but unwilling to seek support from his son, and even Kevin wanted to help him several times, he stubbornly refused.
On this day, Celeste came to Jones-Sharp Group, and Patrick asked her in a cold voice, “What are you doing here?”
“I heard that you’ve been quite cash-strapped lately. The Happy Forever Resort costs tens of billions of dollars and is about to be completed, but now the villagers are selling off their land. Your resort will soon be worthless. You should be very anxious right now, right?”
“Does this have anything to do with you?”
“Patrick, I just want to help you. Even though you abandoned me back then, I’ve never held a grudge against you all these years, so let’s make a deal, shall we?”
“What kind of deal?”
“How about you divorce Blanche and I provide funds to help you buy that island land so that all your problems can be solved?”
Patrick was furious, “It’s ridiculous. Haven’t you still not given up after more than twenty years?”
“I’m not asking you to divorce her and then marry me. You just can’t let it go. After you divorce her, the grudge between us will be wiped out, and from now on we will be the best partner in business. All fifteen percent of the group shares I hold in my hands will be also given back to you.”
“In your dream! I won’t let you won even if I declare bankruptcy. You want to humiliate Blanche. Give up that idea as soon as possible!”
Celeste saw Patrick refuse her, so she got angry and said, “Then you’ll be waiting for bankruptcy.”
She turned to leave but thought for a while and went back to add, “Oh yes, I heard that your son’s business is now doing particularly well. You can go to beg him to help you. Although back then you did some things that made him resentful, he’s your son. If you beg him, he will not stand idly by.”
Celeste’s words cut Patrick to the quick, and he growled angrily, “You get out of here.”
He covered his chest and fell into a chair, thinking that what he said harshly that he was not that important. If he went to beg his son now, that would make him lose face.
Patrick was irritated and his health finally collapsed. Alvin came to the LoveBella Group, and said to the cold man in the office, “The Master is already sick because of the stress. Should you go back?”
“He likes to be more nice than wise, and then he just continues to suffer.”
Kevin became silent these two years as if there was some hidden danger. He kept a poker face and was cold as a block of ice. He moved very quickly in an unscrupulous manner in business. So in just two years, he had developed a small and unknown enterprise into the leading company of B City, and his temperament completely overshadowed the Jones-Sharp Group back then.
“Now several banks are pushing for loans. If this continues, within a week, the company will be in danger of bankruptcy after all.”
“I know. You can go back.”
Kevin was still indifferent, and Alvin felt a little sad in his heart. What had changed him and made him such a stranger?
Three days later, Kevin finally stepped into the gates of the Cloud Mansion. In two years, he hadn’t been home once. The maids at home almost screamed with excitement when they saw him. Blanche even couldn’t believe her eyes, hugged her son, and wailed, “Kevin, is it really you? Are you really back?”
“Where’s Dad?”
Kevin calmly questioned his mother, not showing his affection.
“He’s upstairs and has been very sick lately.”
“I’ll go to see him.”
He went to his father’s bedroom, pushed open the door, and heard a violent cough. Looking at the white hair on his father’s head, he breathed a long sigh of relief and spoke, “Don’t worry about the land dispute at the Happy Forever Resort. I’m already working on it.”
Patrick suddenly heard his son’s voice, thought that he was dreaming, suddenly turned over and looked at him in shock, wanted to speak but couldn’t say a word. They just stared at each other like that for a long time …
“For the time being, you just focus on getting well. The company has Alvin, so you don’t have to worry. I will occasionally go over there.”
After Kevin said that, he turned to leave. Patrick finally said in a hoarse voice weakly, “Don’t leave again, okay? Come back to me. I’m old. I need you.”
Age was the most ruthless thing, which could smooth all the pride and stubbornness. Patrick at this moment, completely realized that he couldn’t do without his son, and also completely realized that he shouldn’t have made some wrong choices back then while tearing a good family to pieces.