Chapter 26
Madeline Grant was in a daze. Did her son really just gift her a helicopter? She had to admit it was a rather sweet gesture on his part, but she could not help but wonder where he got the money from.
She thanked the pilot before returning to her room and contacting her son.
“You little punk, where did you get the money to buy a helicopter?!” she scolded Thomas through the phone.
“I see you’ve received your present, Mommy. What do you think? Are you impressed with your son yet?” Thomas said cheekily on the other line.
“I’ll decide whether or not I’m impressed once you tell me where the money came from,” Madeline said sternly.
“Oh, it was a gift from my dear Auntie Angie,” Thomas chuckled.
“Well, your dear Auntie Angie is about to realize that she’s been fooled very soon. You’d better watch out,” she warned her son whilst rubbing her temple. How was her young son such a genius conman?
“Well, Mommy, are you impressed now?”
Thomas asked once again.
“Yes, yes. Very impressed…,” Madeline trailed off as her cellphone indicated an incoming phone call from Albert. She wished her son a quick goodbye before she picking up Albert’s call.
it’s almost time to head to the charity dinner. Your gown is ready and placed just
said in
……
with her mother, Suzanne. She was ahead of schedule, well excited for the charity dinner happening that night. After all, she was the philanthropic darling of Imperia. She would not let the citizens of Imperia
was also going to announce the news of her engagement to Noah Quincy. The mere
plain?” Angie was posing
pink pearls. It was elegant
on the sofa, seemingly distracted as she sipped a cup of tea. She snapped back to reality as she saw her daughter approaching. “Darling, you’d look beautiful even
only half an hour until the dinner,
you are. Come here and sit down with me,”
sit down. The
to ask you,” Suzanne told her daughter
up and left, leaving Suzanne and Angie alone in the
my hair’s not done yet! Why did you ask them to leave?” Angie asked with
on using only 400 million dollars? James told me yesterday you took 600 million dollars. What are you doing with all that money? That was meant be the start-up capital for Shallow Bay.
flow problem. Grant Corporation spent too much effort on this project for it to fail now because of a cash flow issue. A disaster of that magnitude would shake Grant
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