Nina nodded. “Helios has to thank Mr. Goldmann for this. Helios has been working in the entertainment industry, so he's inexperienced when it comes to business. If it hadn't been for Mr. Goldmann, he would've fallen for the scam. The other party wanted Helios to invest $7,500,000. However, Helios wouldn't get any profit at the beginning, and even the contract was shady.”Sipping on her fruit juice, Maisie said calmly, “The hot spring tourism in Winston Island is a big piece of pie, and it attracts many businessmen to come here and invest in it. Those well-seasoned businessmen wouldn't jump straight into it. They would act according to the circumstances since it's a big investment. However, Helios is different. As you said, he's inexperienced in doing business, and I guess that's why they target him.”Since they had the audacity to demand Helios to put $7,500,000 in their hands as an investor, it showed that they were going to rip off Helios.If Helios really had invested in it, alth
Suddenly, the bell rang.Nolan got up and went to the living room. He opened up the door, and Nina was standing outside. She seemed rather flustered as she asked, “Mr. Goldmann, can… Can you get hold of Helios? I can't reach him ever since he went out today.”Nolan squinted his eyes and asked, “When did he go out?”Nina’s face was pale as she replied, “About 9:00 a.m. He said he had to go out and drove off on his own. I called him, but the call never got through.”“You can’t get hold of Helios?” A voice rang out.It was Maisie. She came out of the room when she heard the conversation between Nina and Nolan.Nina nodded flusteredly. “Yeah. I’m worried… I’m worried that he might go to look for those people. After all, we’re on Winston Island, and Helios hasn't come back yet after going out.”Nolan tried to call Helios, but it showed that his phone was turned off.Frowning, he asked, “That guy, he can't be serious, right?”Maisie’s face sank slightly. “Has it something to do with
The middle-aged man went forward to the man. He bowed forward and said, “Quintin, he’s here.”Holding a cigarette between his lips, Quintin took a drag and blew out smoke that clouded his gaze. He squinted his eyes and looked at Nolan. “Just when I was still thinking when I should go look for you two, you presented yourself before me.”Nolan smiled and asked, “Where is my friend?”Quintin glanced at the middle-aged man. Receiving his cues, the middle-aged man gestured to his men with his eyes to bring Helios out.Helios was brought to Nolan's side. Nolan turned his head to check him. Other than some extra bruises on his face, he was fine, and his arms were still intact.“This celebrity friend of yours has a fiery temper. He refused to talk to us nicely, so we could only teach him a lesson,” Quintin said as he lifted up a glass and finished the remaining wine in it in one sitting.Smiling, Nolan said, “It would be a problem if you accidentally disfigured him.”“Hmph! There’s noth
$15,000,000 was very tempting.Who would not be tempted by that amount of money?Quintin did all this for the money. He might have lost $7,500,000 in the process, but getting $15,000,000 in return made everything worthwhile.Nolan took out his cell phone, contacted Quincy, and got him to inform the bank to prepare $15,000,000 in cash.Quincy knew that something must have happened to Nolan, so he dispatched some men to Winston Island while getting the bank to prepare the money.Quintin was by Nolan’s side while he was on the phone. Seeing that he did not play any tricks, he said with a smirk, “You’re prepared to give out $15,000,000 like it’s nothing. You’re really something, aren’t you? By the way, I haven’t asked you for your name.”Nolan smiled. “I’m from Bassburgh, and I own a company in Bassburgh. You can call me Mr. Yates.”“So it’s Mr. Yates then. I’m sorry for my lack of manners.” Quintin turned his head to the middle-aged man and said, “Why are you still standing here? G
The middle-aged man thought it made sense. “Mr. Quintin, $15,000,000 isn’t a small amount.”However, Quintin ignored him and glared at Nolan. “I’m curious. Since you can come up with $15,000,000, why don’t you transfer it directly instead of bringing it to us in cash?”Nolan’s eyelids twitched. “I told you that I’ll be paying you the $15,000,000 in cash, and you’ve agreed to it too, haven’t you?”Quintin thought of something all of a sudden and got up abruptly with a gloomy expression. “Are you trying to buy time?”Nolan neither denied nor admitted it.At that moment, someone hurried in from outside and shouted, “Mr. Quintin!”He approached Quintin, leaned over, and whispered something into his ear. Quintin then smashed the wine glass in his hand to the ground.“You’ve played me again!”Quintin’s subordinates approached the exit in an orderly manner and blocked it.Helios and Nolan were being held in the bathing area on the fifth floor and were unable to escape no matter what.
The police broke in through the door at this moment, and those who reacted to it fled, while those who got shot fell to the ground and were subdued. The scene was chaotic for a couple of minutes.Quintin was pressed against the ground, detained, and then taken away in handcuffs by two police officers.Nolan’s vision turned blurry, and he vaguely heard someone shouting at him.‘It sounds like Helios, and…’“Nolan!” Maisie burst into tears, knelt beside him, and hugged him in her arms as warm tears dripped onto his blood-stained cheeks.Nolan saw Maisie, who was weeping before his eyes, and moved his lips before completely losing consciousness.Nolan was carried onto the ambulance and taken to the hospital. Maisie was always by his side, grabbing onto his hand, which was getting colder and colder.The doctor put a mask onto Nolan’s face to supply him with oxygen and performed cardiopulmonary resuscitation on him.Upon arriving at the hospital, a group of hospital staff members ru
Nolan had been in a coma for four days when Nicholas sent a private jet to Winston Island to transport him back to Bassburgh Hospital.Quincy stayed back on the island to deal with the developers and Quintin. It was obvious that the incident had enraged Nicholas.And because of the injury that Helios had suffered, Yael did everything in his power to impeach the upper management of the Winston Island jurisdiction.All the hot spring businesses on Winston Island involved in violent crime and investment frauds were closed down. Even the directors of the development companies had to abandon their right-hand men to protect their reputations as they tried their best to cut ties with any hot spring businesses that Quintin owned.They even submitted a list of Quintin’s accomplices to the police anonymously and the evidence of illegal activities he was involved in over the years.Even though the Goldmanns and the Bouchers could not infiltrate Winston Island with their influence, this was t
The elders of the Bouchers had never taken a liking to Nolan as a kid, and neither did Helios’ grandfather.Still, Helios knew very clearly that it was because he had met Nolan when he was a child that he knew what kind of person he wanted to be, what kind of life he wanted to live, and how he could choose a path in life that would not make him regret.He then added. “I wouldn't have grown up to be the Helios that you know today if I hadn’t met Nolan back then.”Richard’s expression looked cold and stern. He got up and left with a sullen face in the end.Yael stopped in front of his son, raised his hand, and placed it on his shoulder. “Just do whatever that you want to do.”Helios froze in place and looked up. “Father...”Yael’s grasp intensified before he retracted his hand, turned around, and went upstairs.Helios walked out of the villa while Francisco was leaning against the wall, with his arms crossed. “Helios, I’ve regarded you as an idol ever since I was a boy because you