Revenge is best served cold

Chapter 1232

Sophie froze when she saw Angelo's name flash on her phone screen.

"Why haven't you guys come back yet?!" Angelo's voice was frantic on the other end. "It's been ages! I've called a million times, and no one answered! I thought something terrible happened!"

"Mr. Angelo, what's going on?" Sophie asked, trying to keep her voice steady.

"Don't you know? The Mintons have a new successor! Overnight, this guy convinced all of The Mintons' shareholders to make him the new CEO!!"

Sophie's heart skipped a beat.

The Mintons?

She immediately locked eyes with Colby, who seemed just as startled as she was.

Colby wasted no time in waking up Adler and Jenna. "Something's up. We need to get back, now."

Jenna and Adler, still half-asleep, stumbled into a taxi with the others back to the Burke Estate.

in, the TV was blaring news

of it all, asked,

the person pulling the strings," Sophie muttered,

But... why so fast?

chimed in, "Odie's incapacitation news just broke, and already someone is replacing him. Could this puppet

turned to

don't know. He's been out cold, and I can't tell

descended from upstairs, his eyes locking onto the

who this

hush-hush. The person's not even

Sophie glanced at Colby.

news about Odie's critical condition to bait the mastermind. And now, it looked

confirmed that the mastermind had deep ties with The Mintons, enough to pull

new CEO was the

if the CEO wasn't the mastermind, they

was a breakthrough in