Chapter 963 – His Second Chance Love: The Freezing Silence

Chapter 963 – His Second Chance Love: The Freezing Silence

In Gregory’s viewpoint, Mommy’s words were to be obeyed immediately. Furthermore, he was fiercely devoted to Audrey. With a determined nod, he trailed after Summer and went upstairs.

When they finally vanished from sight, Nathaniel made a move to enter. “I’m here to congratulate my brother for his splendid victory. Aren’t you going to let me in?” he smirked without any ounce of shame.

In response, Anthony raised his hand to halt Nathaniel’s path. Anthony had a stormy look on his face.

Despite the stony silence, it was clear that he would not entertain Nathaniel’s visit.

The two brothers locked gazes for a long moment as tension filled the air. Finally, Nathaniel backed down.

Nathaniel took a step back. At the same time, he gave his henchmen a look. Immediately, his henchmen yanked Tiffany forward and shoved her to the ground.

“Ah!” Tiffany fell to the floor with a loud thud. The pain caused her to inhale sharply as she struggled against her restraints. “Nathaniel, I am your sister! How could you mistreat me this way! All I did was take what I deserved in hopes of spending my future with my lover! What have I done to you?” she yelled.

Nathaniel remained unruffled despite her outburst. He acted as if he hadn’t even heard her. “In the few days that you left the company, Tiffany has taken advantage of the company’s interests countless times through embezzlement. She even tried to sell the company’s equity and attempted to transfer the properties for herself. Seeing that you were busy, I decided to step in and clean things up on your behalf. Now that I brought her here, I’ll let you decide her punishment.”

His words sent a chill skittering down my spine.

Nathaniel’s wickedness had no bounds. Even after sabotaging Nicolas and his wife, he still harbored such evil intentions towards his own sister.

Catching Tiffany red-handed must have been a scheme that he plotted for a long time. After all, it was impossible that he managed to expose her on a whim.

Despite her cautiousness, her own brother was the one who stabbed her in the back.

This must be Tiffany’s worst nightmare. She finally managed to elude Anthony and had a chance to achieve her goals. Yet, her path to success was blocked by her meek and gentle-mannered younger brother. It was no wonder that she seethed with resentment and reluctance from the moment she stepped foot inside the house.

Anthony glanced downwards; he seemed to disregard Tiffany’s existence entirely. Instead, he locked gazes with Nathaniel. “At this point, we should learn to get along with each other. If we don’t, the consequences of our falling out will be severe.”

“What are you talking about? I can’t seem to understand what you’re saying,” Nathaniel laughed despite Anthony’s cold gaze.

“Oh, I get it now!” he exclaimed after a brief pause, “From now on, we should support our family business to the best of our abilities! After all, we are brothers; we should watch each other’s backs. Am I right? You can relax. Blood is thicker than water. We will never be separated.” Sarcasm dripped off his every word.

Not only was he unashamed of his actions. Nathaniel even dared to blow his own horn.

Despite his goals to obtain revenge, Anthony had not acted out of the line by harming innocents. On the other hand, Nathaniel was willing to sacrifice his family and friends without mercy. Not to mention, he might have even dabbled in human experimentation.

How could such a revolting person like him hold a candle to Anthony?

Although Anthony’s broad back was facing me, the gloomy atmosphere that hung around his figure was easy to read. He must have a troubled expression on his face.

Nathaniel was aware that he wouldn’t be able to enter by force. With that, he decided to take the initiative and retreat. “Since I’m not welcomed here, I’ll take my leave.”

“Anthony, you should appreciate both of my gifts. You shouldn’t hold back on behalf of me, alright? I believe that you’ll show me satisfactory results,” Nathaniel recached out his hand and straightened Anthony’s suit.

After giving me a knowing look, he turned around and left.

Now that a huge crowd had disappeared from the magnificent living room, it seemed much emptier than before. The sudden emptiness amplified Tiffany’s presence.

Just as Anthony took a step away, he paused and turned around again. “Give me a reason to forgive you,” he uttered with restrained patience.

After several years of experience, Anthony had become more cautious when he was faced with picking a choice.

Although Tiffany had nearly lost her life to Anthony in the past, she seemed to hold no regard for it. “There’s nothing much for me to say. If you and Nathaniel wield the same ideals, you must see me as nothing more but a woman who isn’t worthy of receiving my share of the property. Why don’t you report me to the police? I have contributed to the Hall family countless times. Thus, I don’t see why there’s anything wrong with me taking away what belongs to me,” she replied stubbornly.

“Your parents have been kidnapped. Even until now, there is no trace of them. Despite their disappearance, you have been busy transferring money into your own account. Your greedy actions have revealed your true colors. It seems like you’ve inherited the wonderful trait that the Hall family shares,” Anthony said nonchalantly as his eyes narrowed.

“They are missing?” There was a trace of surprise evident in her tone. Yet, she refused to believe his words. “There’s no way that’s true. No one is smart enough to defeat Dad’s tricky schemes and sly wit.”

She shook her head in an attempt to clear her thoughts. “Are you saying the truth? Is father never coming back?” she questioned Anthony again.

Anthony’s sharp gaze narrowed as he remained rooted firmly in the spot. An aura of fury seemed to emanate from his figure when he took a deep breath to regain his composure.

Although he did not comment any further, the tense silence that filled the air confirmed her question.

Tiffany seemed to have a clue after scrutinizing him for quite a while. The next second, she burst into laughter and yelled gleefully, “Hahaha! It must be retribution! Retribution indeed! See how he ends up paying the price for his heinous deed!”

The smile of schadenfreude on her face seemed to indicate that she had been expecting this moment long ago.

As a member of a prominent family with higher social status, Nicholas had his nose in the air. He was very particular about the excellence of the Halls’ new generation in order to maintain the prestige of the family. Ever since he discovered that Anthony had a genetic defect, he straight away treated him as an inferior who would be a stain for the Halls. Somehow things had turned the other way round. The so- called descendants of the excellent genes had betrayed him by adding insult to injury. I wonder how he feels being betrayed by his outstanding children whom he had nurtured throughout all these years!

This was indeed the typical materialistic phenomenon as observed in most of the well-to-do families. Clinking glasses with each other jovially at the feasts did not really mean anything. It was common that whenever any of their family members encountered financial crisis or other issues, the others who were self-centered would choose to ignore them and even cut their ties with them so they would not be affected.

Anthony looked at her with complex emotions in his eyes. After a while, he instructed Joseph, “Head straight for the Hall family’s villa in the western district.”

Upon hearing his words, there was a change in Tiffany’s expression. Her complacency was utterly erased by her agitation all of a sudden. ”What’s your intention? How did you find out about the place?”

She seemed to have lost her mind and shrieked hysterically. There was even a ferocious look on her face.

On the other hand, Anthony remained nonchalant at all the time. He turned calmly and gave Joseph a meaningful glance, hinting him to take her away immediately.

The next moment, Joseph gestured to his subordinates in order to drag Tiffany who was still rebuking non-stop out at once.

After they had left, the living room was finally back to peacefulness again. Anthony turned and glanced at me before shifting his gaze away hastily. As we locked gazes momentarily a while ago, I could sense that he was troubled by something at the moment. However, he was pretending as if there was nothing amiss and moved back to sit beside me.

Throughout years of striving hard for survival under crucial situations, he was sort of well-trained to act indifferently under any type of circumstances. Hence, he could easily hide his feelings from me most of the time. Yet if I could still sense something awry at the moment, it indicated that he was actually not intending to hide it from me. It was just not the time for him to pour out everything to me yet.

I bet it was something related to Tiffany, and Anthony would surely share it with me when it was time. Thus, I decided not to pressurize him into telling me at the moment.

As for Louis and the others, Tiffany was a nobody for them. They were more curious about the motive behind Nathaniel’s sudden emergence.

“Nathaniel is indeed a chip off the old block. In fact, he seems to be more scheming and ruthless than Nicholas Hall. It still makes sense for him to set his parents up due to his abhorrence toward them. Yet it’s really too much since he has the heart to put his own sister at risk. Even beasts don’t inflict harm on their own flesh and blood. Imagine how cold-blooded he is,” Louis commented. Staring off into the distance, he suddenly felt down.

He really had a point on this. So far Nathaniel did not express his hostility toward us or provoke us in any way. Nevertheless, it is undeniable that he was a pain in the neck. It was as if he was a fishbone stuck in our throats, invisible yet causing great discomfort to us. At the same time, we could not easily let our guards down, fearing that he might strike and put us in deep water at any moment.

As long as Nathaniel did not initiate any provocative act, it was inappropriate for us to make the first move. We could only continue to stay alert so we could retaliate at once when he struck the first blow.

To my surprise, Zachary was really confident and commented casually, “Anyway, K City is still our turf and we know every corner well. No matter how mighty he is, he’s solely on his own. I bet it’s a piece of cake for us to bring him down at any time.”

Cameron chimed in, “I truly agree with your Dad. Talking about Nathaniel, it’s just like holding a hand grenade which will go off at any time. I really feel uneasy whenever I think about that. Why don’t we just make use of this chance to get rid of this fellow once and for all?”

I shook my head as I disagreed with their point of view. “I see it in a different way. I suspect that Nathaniel was the one manipulating the previous explosion case. If he’s really the one, he’s definitely not a simple person whom we can easily deal with. We would only put ourselves at risk if we act recklessly.”

I had talked to Anthony about this earlier. Even though he did not comment on anything, he actually saw eye to eye with me that Nathaniel was no ordinary man whom we could easily get rid of. It was really risky if we acted impulsively without proper planning.

Upon hearing my words, Louis was infuriated and raised his voice, “So do you mean that there’s nothing we can do to him now? I can’t accept that! Even those high-ranking son of b*tches like Ezra Grant and the others were managed to be pulled down. Anyway, Nathaniel hall is just a greenhorn and can’t be as mighty as them, right?”

Unable to hold in his temper, he paused and unleashed his frustration by striking the table. “After all, I still have the connection with the department. I’ll pay them a visit tomorrow and seek their help to investigate Nathaniel Hall. I don’t think Nicholas Hall’s children can turn out to be any better than him!” he scoffed.

There was a momentary silence. After a while, Louis finally realized that he had unintentionally offended Anthony as well when he criticized Nicholas Hall’s children. He stuttered in embarrassment, “I- I’m sorry. I don’t mean that…”

“No issue,” Anthony cut him off and held me up. “Let’s eat first. Letty has gastric problem and needs to have meals on time.”

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