Quincy was speechless. Their response almost killed her!
“Why don’t you tell him yourself, Kathy? Are you really chaste?” she demanded, having lost all composure and propriety.
It was difficult to do the right thing when a person was not calm, just like the current situation: Greg was clearly on Kathy’s side and not interested with what Quincy had to say, but Quincy stayed there stubborn, trying to humiliate her.
If Quincy had actually calmed down, she might have noticed Kathy was actually being smart unlike before. However, with her anger getting the better of her, Quincy was not going to cool off and actually think.
“Please don’t be so mean… And Greg knows if I’m chaste, Kathy purred from Greg’s arms, appearing delicate and afraid.
However, she was also leveling Quincy a provoking glare.
Quincy knew very well how Kathy lost her chastity, and Kathy is now feeling cathartic of getting her payback!
Also, thank goodness Stan took her for hymenorrhaphy. Greg was now dead sure that he had deflowered her!
Now, Quincy’s questioning Kathy’s chastity therefore simply sounds like she was spitting slander, which only disgusted Greg further.
At the same time, Kathy’s vulnerability and dependency invoked Greg’s protectiveness, and he was glaring at Quincy in response.
She had never ever lost this thoroughly, and it felt like she could blow up!
“Would you swear to it?” she growled nonetheless.
In reality, Kathy did not fear her at all now that Greg had her back.
In fact, he was going to do her bidding now, because she was really pregnant!
“Why do I have to swear?” she asked, keeping up her delicate, innocent act.
And Greg bought her act–hook, line, and sinker!
“Leave already. Don’t bother Kathy–the doctor insisted that her baby must have a stress–free environment.”
Quincy wobbled. “She’s pregnant?!”
If Greg’s affair was already a bolt from the blue, Kathy’s pregnancy was a million times worse!
lan, losing all control right then, suddenly punched Greg in the face.
Greg grunted dully and dropped to a crouch in pain!
Quincy froze for two seconds before quickly moving to stop her son, snapping, “What are you doing?!”
They should not come to blows no matter how upset they were!
Moreover, Greg was his father, lan should not have raised his hand against him no matter what happened!
Masculine pride was at stake, and she did not want Greg to start despising their son.
Pulling lan away from them in fear that things would escalate further, Quincy told lan, “Only your grandfather can talk sense into him now.”
Now, she could finally see that there was no saving Greg now.
Even lan’s cheeks were twitching with rage.
“I kill her,” he growled.
Quincy did not say anything in protest, because she had the same idea.
Nonetheless, she pulled him along, worried that he would lose control while Greg was still watching.” Let’s just go back to the car,”
They had just sat down in the car when lan’s phone rang.
He took it out to see that it was James, and answered it.
“We have a problem.”
lan was already furious, and those words left him scowling even harder. “What?!”
“We have a problem,” James repeated with perfect clarity. “I was swindled–I purchased a specific microchip with the capital you provided, but the seller went missing!”
lan thought he would suffer a heart attack right then, and stopped short of yelling at James, ‘Are you an idiot?”
It was as if Murphy’s law was in full effect with everything with him!
Seething, he kicked the seat in front so hard that the seat lurched forward, while the entire car shook.
Quick asked, “What’s wrong? Is there trouble?”
Why else would he be so upset?!
lan was left starting at Quincy for a while, but he decided to stay quiet.
She was already suffering in heart and mind because of Greg, and she would suffer more stress if he told her that the investment on Eastdawn has gone awry.
“It’s nothing. I think you should go talk to Granddad on your own–don’t worry, I’ll be fine here,” lan told her, trying to keep his voice as steady as possible.”
Quincy therefore did not dwell on it, while lan got out of the car, walking as he asked James, “Can we meet right now?”
“Of course,” James replied.
“Where are you? I’ll come to you.”
“My office.”
lan stopped a taxi, gave the driver the address, and hung up.
On the other end, James was smiling faintly.
He could sense that lan was furious as he hung up–in fact, the angrier he was, the more successful their plan would be!
He sat on his chair as he waited, leisurely spinning around and looking not at all indignant or in grief that he had been swindled.
When lan arrived outside, he kicked the door wide open!
Striding toward James, lan asked sharply, “Tell me. What is going on here?”
James’s expression had instantly switched from leisurely to sulking.
“Like I said, my component was in the final phase of development, and we just needed this microchip. We would have to divert much of our resources if we want to make that microchip ourselves, so that’s not going to happen quickly. That’s why I decided to order it from a foreign company, and we even signed an agreement so that they would sell us that patent of microchip. It’s basically a monopoly, but I found out today that they’re a dummy corporation! The samples they gave us were from another company–I’ve called the cops, though, so we just might stop them…”
“Stop them? A foreign company?” lan breathed through clenched teeth even as he shook with rage. “You paid them millions without doing a background check on them?”
“I did! But their setup was so elaborate, it fooled even me…”
“And do you really believe we can get our money back after all that?”
It was now very clear to lan that it was all a set–up.
James had been swindled, and by a foreign company at that. There was no way they could apprehend them, not to mention that any previously known identities must be fake!
Where would they even start searching?
“It was all because of my oversight,” James admitted.
“Did you really think that saying that would let you off the hook?” lan growled–James caused this mess, and lan was not about to shoulder his responsibility.
Taking a seat opposite the other man, lan said, “Tell me. How would you make up for this?”
James hung his head for a moment and was smiling fawningly when he looked up again. “You see, I didn’t mean for this to happen…”
“I don’t want excuses.” lan cut him short impatiently.
James made an awkward look in turn. “I’ve already bet my bottom dollar on this project. I can’t return the injection you provided either…”
New Book: Back Home to Marry Off Myself
Loredana’s father left the family for his mistress, leaving them to fend for themselves abroad. When life was at its toughest, her father showed up with “good news” after 8 years of absence: To marry off Loredana to a paralyzed son of the wealthy Mendelsohn family.