Chapter 0240

“Come in!” said Maximus when he heard his eldest son’s voice.

“Father… how have you been?” Lucius asked as he entered the study.

There was no doubt about it–Lucius was his spitting image. He always carried himself with pride, walking upright and paying meticulous attention to his appearance. Maximus looked at him and couldn’t help but sigh. He wanted a better fate for his son than his own, but when he thought about how influenced Lucius was by the Levett family, he set those thoughts aside. Deep down, he knew his son wasn’t a good person, and he blamed himself for that.

“Take a seat,” Maximus said, gesturing to the chair in front of his desk.

“Father… what’s going on with the company? Mother called me in a panic. She said Bartz is back and wants to take over the company. Is that true?”

you fly all the way from London just because your mother told you that?” Maximus asked, irritation

decisions, and someone has to bring order to this

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respect for him. But what he still didn’t know was how far Lucius would go if given full control. Between leaving the company in Lucius’s hands or Bartz’s, Maximus would choose the latter a thousand times over. After all, the company was his.

decide to pass it on to you, and that won’t

hell are you talking

Uncle Peter’s daughter–has returned. She’s somewhere in Valentia now. I’ve already met her. She’s the spitting image of your uncle and bears a striking resemblance to her mother too.”

be sure she’s his daughter? What if she was just given the surname?” Lucius said, trying to

hers, a paternity test would need to

as a child and imagined he was a son he could have had with Mary. He had often wondered what it would have been like to have a child with her and which traits would have prevailed. He had always hoped they’d be hers–his

that happens, I want to be present,” Lucius demanded

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