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After pondering for a while, Frank said, “Mom, trees need help to grow upright, right? I am a man. I should work hard to learn so that I can contribute to the country and society like some of my predecessors. That is a meaningful life.”
I patted him on the shoulder. He was surely the son of a great expert. Genetics was amazing.
With the cultivation of me, Karen, and Roy, Frank grew up a hard–working and outgoing young man who outshone his peers among other wealthy families.
At the age of eighteen, he successfully matriculated in the best engineering college in this country.
Roy’s father, Teddy Morrison, held high expectations for Frank and gifted him twenty percent of the Morrison Group’s shares as encouragement.
The funny thing was that neither Hank’s daughter nor son gained even one percent, not to mention he himself only held twenty percent of the shares.
During the last eighteen years, Roy had established his status due to the investment from the cooperation of the Hawkins Group, enabling him to surpass his elder brother.
Teddy nodded at every decision Roy made without blinking his
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eyes because he knew Roy got me behind his back. Even if there were something, wrong, I would dean his ass with my own
money.
Those shrewd senior managers in the Morrison Group had already stood on Roy’s side and made Hank a figurehead of this company,
Three years later, Frank graduated and returned home.
On that very day, I showed him a four–hour video of the shit between his real father and real mother.
Frank, staying mute for like a century, finally managed to utter, “Mom, what do you want to do?”
I asked him really calmly, “Are you sure you can put aside their love and devotion to you for twenty years and turn to my side?”
Thinking for a while, Frank said, “Mom, I know what I am doing. If he still has the slightest bit of conscience, I will do it softer.”
I patted my son on the shoulder and smiled with relief.
My little boy had grown up and become more sophisticated than
e in some aspects.
I knew he wouldn’t let me down.
According to my suggestion, Frank soon interned at the
Morrison Group.
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With the support and guidance of his father and grandfather, Frank tripled the corporate stock price.
Facing such a big achievement, Teddy began to think about handing the Morrison Group directly to Frank.
A couple of days before Frank’s twenty–fifth birthday, we had a family meeting.
I proposed that I wanted to transfer all my shares to Frank and let him take over the Hawkins Group to enjoy my retirement.
“I’m just a woman, after all, and I’m tired after working so strenuously for twenty years,” I said.
Roy’s face was brimming with joy after hearing my decision.
Then, I glanced at Karen, who sat in a corner.
Her eyebrows raised as she was probably trying her best to suppress the grin on the corner of her mouth. Nevertheless, the excitement in her eyes betrayed her.
Meanwhile, Teddy tapped his cane in deep thought.
If Frank controlled the Hawkins Group, he would absolutely not be able to serve the Morrison Group anymore.
After all, the Hawkins Group and the Morrison Group hadn’t been merged together.
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Teddy was very reluctant to see his grandson make another corporation thrive.
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Suddenly, he took my hint that I meant to merge the Hawkins and the Morrison Group into one and form a company mainly led by the old Morrison Group named the ZenithPlex Group.
With Frank as its CEO, the ZenithPlex Group would rank first among all the companies in Zephyria.
Teddy was thrilled at this conception. The Morrison Group would still be itself as Frank, his grandfather, took it over, while the Hawkins Group was totally wiped off in the business field.
The Morrison Group would still thrive in Zephyria after merging with the Hawkins Group.
Hank, however, opposed this idea, and I just acquired all his shares at a higher price to erase this trouble of my plan.
Facing Teddy’s pressure, Hank finally surrendered and left in a rage with the money.
Karen represented her deceased husband and approved my plan without hesitation. She said generously, “Alan passed away, and I don’t have any children. I always treat Frank as my own flesh and blood. I will count on him when I am old, so let this young chap have everything.”
After discussion, we planned to hold a press conference on
e to as
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Frank’s twenty–fifth birthday to announce the merger of the Morrison and the Hawkins Group with Frank taking over this
new company.
People flooded into the press conference, and all the upper circle of Zephyria attended it, too.
The whole place was brimmed with jealous exclaims and congratulations.
From now on, the ZenithPlex Group would earn their admiration and be the most optional choice of their business partner.
In the presence of lawyers, Frank walked onto the stage with all the shareholders‘ trust and signed the contract of share transfer. Then, he gave an inaugural address.
The moment he finished his speech, applause broke out in the crowd.
Right after his speech, Roy wheeled Karen, who was rugged out at her best, to the stage.
With Roy’s help, she managed to stand up with her feeble legs trembling and hugged Frank.
She said excitedly, “My son, you finally grow up. May days of being forced to separate my child finally come to an end!”
Then, she pulled out a DNA test she conducted twenty years ago and handed it to me in front of the cameras.
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“Gloria, you hated me because Roy cared about me, so you cooked up a car accident to kill Alan and disable me. You even took my son away!”
Glaring at Karen, who was engrossed in a revenge drama, I was kind of surprised to know that she could still reduce her moral bottom line when it was already so low.
Maybe that was why she was not religious because she wasn’t afraid to be punished by God when making those things up.
Everyone was attracted to Karen’s story with sobs and couldn’t help looking back and forth at Roy, Frank, and me.
Then, whispers quietly broke out.
“What’s this all about?” said a person.
Another murmured, “Frank is not Ms. Hawkins‘ son?”
“She robbed motherhood of the widow of Mr. Morrison’s younger brother?” someone chimed in.
“But that young man is an adult now. If Karen reclaims her motherhood right now, Ms. Hawkins‘ years of raising Frank will be in vain!”
“Hold on. If Ms. Hawkins transfers her company to Frank now, she will have nothing left if Karen’s claim is true.”
Meanwhile, Roy just said to me in disappointment, “Gloria, I
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know it was the shock of giving birth to a dead infant that drove you mad, making you regard Frank as your own flesh and blood. For two decades, Karen didn’t reclaim her son for you. Now, Frank has grown up, and he deserves to know who his mother really is.”
I just stared at Roy, who seemed to be moved by his own lie. He and Karen must be the best work of Cupid as they were all gifted
liars.
Then, I glanced at Teddy, who awkwardly cleaned his throat and averted my gaze with his face turning to another side.
Now, everything was crystal clear. The whole family tacitly approved Roy’s plan to borrow my uterus and even helped with
- it.
No wonder none of them doubted why the widow of an illegitimate son of Teddy could still stay in the family.
They used me to cultivate a qualified heir and boost their family business.
What a nice plan.
Unfortunately, it would have been even nicer if I hadn’t keenly discerned it years ago. I could have had every drop of blood drained by those vampires and been kicked out of the Morrison family, suffering bullying and insults every day.
Showering in people’s astonished eyes, I smiled at Frank and asked, “Frank, what about your opinion? Recognize Karen as
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your real mother and kick me out of this family, or treat me as your mother, considering my effort for your achievement. Which one will you choose?”
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