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.
time to head to the charity dinner. Your gown is ready
Madeline said in
……
charity dinner happening that night. After all, she was the philanthropic darling
Global Ambassador of Philanthropy award tonight, she was also going to announce the news of her engagement to Noah Quincy. The mere thought of it made her
think of my dress? Is it a little too plain?” Angie was posing in front of Suzanne, doing a little twirl
with beautiful pink pearls. It was
as she sipped a cup of tea. She snapped back to reality as
the empty flattery! There’s only half an hour until the dinner, I must be ready!” Angie was beginning to feel
here and sit down with me,”
The
Suzanne told her daughter while simultaneously signaling for the assistants and make-up artists to
left, leaving Suzanne and Angie alone
with a hint of
arm before she could leave. “Angie, didn’t we agree 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
around, it could very well mean there was a cash 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
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