Chapter 1402 - 1396: Premeditation
"No, I didn’t mean that, it was a slip of the tongue, completely a slip of the tongue."
Violet Zimmerman hurriedly explained, if her son’s child was a bastard, her own son would be insulted too.
Joseph Lancaster was about to say something else when Mrs. Xu and Aunt Zhang came in with freshly picked vegetables, nodding politely at the two of them, "Madam, Second Master."
"Sister Zhang, make dinner lighter," Violet Zimmerman regained her composure and instructed, just to cover up her earlier panic.
"Yes, madam." Aunt Zhang responded and walked towards the kitchen with Mrs. Xu.
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Vanessa Quinn cursed angrily while driving, the old woman pretending to call Nathan Moore to plead, all just to make herself back off!
If she really wanted to help, would she need to call someone else? Billions, to the Lancaster Family, are just a drop in the bucket!
Forcing their Quinn Family to call off the engagement, huh! Dream on!
Cursing all the way, Vanessa Quinn drove back to the company and recounted Violet Zimmerman’s actions to her father. After hearing his daughter’s account, Dominic Quinn angrily slammed the table!
"This is really too much to endure!
It was the Lancaster Family who proposed it initially, and now they want to force us to relent, wishful thinking!"
It was rare for the father and daughter to be in agreement.
Even if they couldn’t cling to the Lancaster Family, they would get something out of it, or this connection would truly have been for nothing.
"Dad, I heard the Lancaster Family’s maid say that Violet Zimmerman and her uncle don’t have an ordinary relationship."
Vanessa Quinn said mysteriously, her eyes sparkling as she spoke.
"Oh? What’s going on? Quickly tell me more!" Dominic Quinn eagerly turned to his daughter, his small eyes glinting with gossip.
Although the father and daughter were sitting very close, separated by just an office desk, Vanessa Quinn leaned in a bit more and deliberately lowered her voice, saying, "I heard a maid gossiping with another, saying she saw Violet Zimmerman and the Second Master of the Lancaster Family joking around.
Dad, don’t you think that’s unusual? By right, Violet Zimmerman should avoid suspicion, since she has no husband and the Second Master of the Lancaster Family is her uncle, but the maid said she saw it with her own eyes, and the other warned her not to spread it, fearing it’d reach someone else’s ears."
Listening to his daughter’s account, Dominic Quinn’s eyes slowly narrowed.
"Who else knows about this?"
Vanessa Quinn paused, "No one, I only heard the latter part, I don’t really know what they said earlier."
Dominic Quinn’s lips slowly curled into a smile, his narrowed eyes suddenly opened wide, gleaming, and he slapped the desk again, saying, "Good! Second Master, since you’re unkind, then don’t blame me for being unrighteous!"
"Dad, what do you mean?" Vanessa Quinn asked suspiciously, Dominic Quinn also turned towards his daughter, "I heard that Daemon Lancaster, a collateral branch of the Lancaster Family, has always coveted the position of Family Head. Back when Daxton Lancaster was still young, he volunteered to manage the family but was rejected by the old master.
Later, when Daxton Lancaster took over as Family Head, he made things difficult for him, and to prevent the brothers from coveting the Lancaster Family’s assets, he gave each of them a sum of money to start their own businesses, which caused dissatisfaction among many within the family... "
Although now they all still live in the Lancaster Family, but the main industries of the Lancaster Family are in the hands of Violet Zimmerman and Joseph Lancaster, in other words, the several brothers from the collateral branches of the Lancaster Family have essentially been driven out!"
"Dad, what should we do?"
"What should we do? Contact Daemon Lancaster, and leak this news to him."
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