Chapter 13

Over at Southlake Resort Island.

It was a privately-owned vacation spot located west of Seechertown, and was around a thousand acres wide.

Its land was surrounded by a pristine natural lake with an island in the middle. It had over ten billion dollars invested into the construction of five-star hotels and various entertainment facilities. It even had a variety of exotic plants transplanted there, making the island one of Seechertown’s most famous vacation sites.

On that very day, Blake had the entire resort island reserved for only those who were invited.

The resort was transformed into a large event space after a few days of decorating. There were tables and chairs adorned with fresh flowers, as well as all kinds of snacks and champagne.

Wilbur parked outside Southlake and walked over to the island. Right at its front was the guests’ check-in table, as well as the gift collection counter.

Wilbur walked up to the table and tossed the five hundred dollars that he had prepared on it. “Here’s my gift.”

The people at the table were all members of the Willow family. One of them saw that it was Wilbur and cast a disdainful glare at the money on the table. “Gosh, are you really this broke? Look at everyone else. Their gifts are worth tens of thousands of dollars! Don’t you feel ashamed for giving such a paltry sum?”

Wilbur chuckled and responded, “I had five million dollars, but someone took it away and still refuses to pay me back to this day. Five hundred is all I have now.”

The event supervisor’s expression darkened upon hearing those words, and roared, “You bastard! Are you trying to cause a scene?”

Wilbur replied with a deep voice, “Me? Cause a scene? That’s what the Willow family’s been doing.”

The supervisor sneered coldly, “Listen up, young man. If it hadn’t been for Mister Woods and Miss Yvonne’s instructions, I would’ve beaten you to a pulp.”

“I don’t quite believe that,” Wilbur responded calmly.

The few members of the Willow family next to the supervisor heard this and were about to get physical.

the supervisor stopped them and said, “Today’s Miss Yvonne’s big day. Let him go for now. We’ll get him when this is

drink. You should get back

heed and walked in confidently. The

got himself a glass of champagne before finding himself a

were still coming in. Some of them were people of power, and the check-in table announced their arrivals as a gesture of

rather famous in Seechertown, being considered one of the bigger establishments in the

and Yvonne approached Wilbur not long after he took his

deep red suit with his shiny hair slicked back. Meanwhile, Yvonne, who was clad in a skintight white dress, clutched onto

to Wilbur, and Blake spoke up with a smile, “I didn’t think you’d have the guts to

had to come and congratulate you two. After all, Yvonne and I

piped up at once, “Drop the disgusting stuff already. I invited you so you could see where you stand.

that since I left the Willows,”

yourself what it means to have

I won’t be disappointed,” Wilbur replied with

chuckled and said, “We won’t let you down for sure. Everyone here is someone

pair exchanged a smile and walked off

a sip of champagne, tasting nothing but bitterness.

in

announcement made the crowd burst out into

even the CEO of a certain branch was a pretty big deal. She was representing the Cape

Yvonne stood by the check-in table, waiting for

at once and

tables, catching Wilbur’s

showing Faye her seat, Blake and Yvonne returned to the check-in table again to

tall and broad man came up to the check-in table with a few other men

man glanced at Blake and Yvonne and

not really know this man, so he hurried up to the guy at once. “Sir,

looking for Wilbur Penn,” the man

and Yvonne

then, one of the man’s subordinates shouted, “This is the person in charge of Kardon Province’s military, Gordon Grayson. Do I need to report to you what

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