After his lunch with Ciara, Javier took a shower and napped on his bed. At night, the butler visited them and told him Zephiel had returned.Javier rose, bade his sister good evening, and followed the butler to the large, cement-and-tile house on the center of the island.Zephiel never liked staying in mansions and high-rise buildings. He loved his cement-cast, red-tile roof cottage too much. He’d even constructed a fence around it, where reefs and rocks had taken up residence, and changed the soil to plant crops. Javier had never understood how his grandfather managed to grow crops on the back of reefs and the saltwater trapped deep within, but then again…he had money. Money could buy anything, and that old sly fox had so much money that he could build his own nuclear bomb.Javier entered his courtyard and found his nearly 80-year-old grandfather shadow-fencing. Despite his advanced age, he was still bursting with health and brio, even though his hair and beard had turned snowy-whi
Zephiel had once said to Javier a long time ago, when his parents had disappeared, that he would tell him what had happened when he came of age and got married. Now, although Javier was still single, his wedding was only a few days away, which was why he wanted to know what had happened. However, Zephiel still gently shook his head. “A promise is a promise. I told you that I would only tell you what happened after you got married. That was the deal.”‘A promise is a promise? Come on, it’s obvious that this cunning old fox is just trying to stall for as long as he can.’Feeling slightly anxious, Javier said, “My wedding is only a few days away, so it wouldn’t make a difference if you told me now or later, would it?” Zephiel seemed very dignified and had a serious expression on his face as he said, “It would.”Zephiel refused to explain the reason even when Javier asked him about it. After failing to get an answer out of him after a few attempts, Javier angrily got up and said
Javier lay in bed when he returned home. He kept on rolling around, unable to fall asleep. However, it was not because he was thinking about Marjorie’s body. Instead, he was thinking about his parents and the old fox’s information. On top of that, he was slightly worried that he might run into Angelina very soon. Angelina was the woman the old fox had wanted to set Javier up with, but he had refused. He did not despise Angelina per se. He just disliked the idea of having his marriage controlled by others, which was why he had chosen to leave home. Meanwhile, his actions in the past had probably caused a huge problem in Angelina’s life. There were rumors being spread that Javier did not like Angelina, thought that she was not worthy of the Kerseys, and so on. Thus, Javier still felt very guilty about Angelina and did not know how to face those feelings. Someone silently opened Javier’s door as he was rolling around in bed…Quietly, Javier reached under his pillow and gr
It was Angelina. The person who came was Angelina.Javier’s biggest worry last night had been meeting her, only for this worry to come true this morning.Angelina was the heiress of Thalarcsus. She was 27 years old, the same age as Jade, but she was much more successful than the latter, as she was already growing into the person who called the shots in her family.Even though she had male siblings and cousins, none of them was a worthy rival. The firearms business, specifically, lay tightly in her grasp. Like people said, anyone who controlled the firearms would be the one calling the shots. This was especially true when it came to Angelina.Ciara was a little scared of this woman. When she had been younger and less sensible, she had once provoked Angelina and been taught several lessons. Javier had, of course, gotten even with Angelina after that, but she had been attracted to him romantically instead.“Javier, I’m busy. Got to go! I won’t be meeting the guest with you!”Ciara
Javier did not want to be with Angelina, who was almost psychotic. He equally did not want the two families to go into an unnecessary war, as the consequences of such a war would be devastating.A small consequence would be other families taking advantage of the situation and acquiring both families after they suffered through the damages of the war, while a more serious consequence could be wars among countries, which could cause people to suffer. All in all, the severity of the consequences would be higher than one could imagine if the two families were to actually fight.The sly old fox would never allow something like this to happen, but it was hard to say about Angelina, who actually already had power over the Thalarcsus. Who could expect a woman who had turned all the men in her family into eunuchs to stay calm?As Javier thought about it, he hoped that he could find a win-win solution, but he unfortunately failed to think of any.At the same time, a servant came over. “Mr. J
Of course, Javier had not meant to trap Yoel. He had just wanted to use him to take Angelina away. Based on what he knew about Angelina, the woman did not like trash like Yoel, but he believed that she would be too embarrassed to stay in his room alone after Yoel ran into her.It was a surprise that Angelina had trapped him, purposely taking off all her clothes until all she was wearing was her underwear. Who could have known that she had already expected Yoel to be sent in by Javier but had still thought of enticing the latter anyway?The current outcome was already a done deal, though. Yoel Hachison had peeped on Angelina Thalarcsus, so the Hachisons would pay a devastating price.There was no doubt that Javier was happy to see this happen too, as he personally did not have a very positive impression of Yuzuia. Even though he had slept with women from Yuzuia, he did not like the nation. He just liked the process of sleeping with them.Yoel left with a pale face, lost in a trance.
After Javier left, the entire Kersey Family found out about his argument with Zephiel. In fact, Zephiel even cut all the bonuses Javier should have received as the former’s direct grandson, turning Javier into a poor miser in the blink of an eye. Before he left, Javier ran into William, who had just arrived to visit his grandfather. William hurriedly went over to stop Javier when he saw how furious he was. He even asked Javier to apologize to Zephiel and admit his mistakes.However, Javier merely stormed off without answering William. Seeing him walking away into the distance, William found it difficult to conceal the sneer he had on his face. Meanwhile, Zephiel’s eyes remained cold as he watched. When William turned around, Zephiel revealed his furious expression.At that moment, he truly was furious because he had seen his jade pipe on the wooden table. ‘This one’s genuine…The one Javier broke last time was a fake…’Zephiel was so furious that he grunted as he looked a
Javier and Ciel boarded an ordinary commercial flight after they met up. Ciel was sleeping very soundly on the plane, probably because she was tired after having fun for so many days. However, Javier did not get much sleep because there was a question bugging his mind the entire time… ‘Why didn’t the old fox send Mackenzie out to investigate if he already knew where Dad and my stepmother were long ago?‘Mackenzie clearly doesn’t know about this piece of information. Otherwise, he would have said that he couldn’t tell me about it rather than that he hadn't been able to find anything.’This made Javier find the entire thing very strange, and he felt as though there was something that not even the old fox could tell him. After pondering this for a while longer and still failing to make any sense of it, Javier gave up and decided to look into the matter instead. He sent Ciel home after they got off the plane and called Mackenzie, who said right after the call was connected, “Mr