New obstacles rising

“Come in. There’s no need to freak out,” added Hughes. Julia came up to him and moved away some of the files that were sitting on the bed to make a spot for herself.

“Don’t they look like office files?” she comments, picking up one file and examining it.

“Yes.”

“Are you working?”.

“Not exactly.”

“I’m just……”.

“Trying to search for ways to beat Lucy. As we can’t do anything to get her into trouble, we have to work hard or do something else.”

“After all, everything has been arranged by grandpa. We have to be cautious enough for him not to find out anything.”

Julia puts down the file to look at him.

“You don’t have any other methods to kick Lucy out of this?”.

Hughes looked up at her with a puzzled face.

“Don’t even speak rubbish.”

“If you try to do something you’ll get blamed totally without any person to cover up for you.”

“Do you think grandpa is going to put up with these tricks of yours? You’ll be banned from the family forever without any connection to our business.”

“You are only