The Real Heiress Rules the World

Chapter 194 The Leak

Tessa stood rigid, watching as Aubrey was taken away by the bodyguards. Her fury had yet to subside. She turned back toward Lucas’s bed, her hand trembling as she gently touched his pale cheek. Her eyes welled with grief.

“Lucas, my sweet grandson, you have to hold on… Grandma won’t let anyone hurt you.”

But no matter how tight their precautions were, the news still got out.

Lucas was in a coma, his life hanging by a thread.

When Mason saw the headline, he shot up from his chair. Both fists clenched at his sides as he threw his head back and laughed maniacally, the sound echoing wildly through the empty office.

“Ha! Ha ha ha! Lucas, you’re finally dying! You’re finally dying!”

There was a crazed gleam in Mason’s eyes, the kind of madness born from years of resentment and envy erupting all at once.

He walked to the window and looked down at the city below, his lips curling into a twisted grin.

“Everything you built with your own hands, Lucas… it’s all mine now.”

he’d suffered after being crippled by Sloane. The

precious fiancée, Sloane… I’ll take her too. I’ll crush her under

wait another second. He grabbed his phone and dialed his assistant, his

notice. Use the list I gave you. Fire every single person on it. No exceptions. And another thing–shut down

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Chapter 194 The Leak

regeneration program.”

“Mr. Hawthorne, the organ regeneration project is still in the experimental phase. The risk is

sneered, his tone

said anything about approval? The Hawthorne Group answers to me now. Anyone who

dared not push back. “Understood, Mr. Hawthorne.

soon as he hung up, Mason’s smug expression

waited so long for this moment. Now it had

gone, the Hawthorne Group would fall neatly into his lap. There would

chaos erupted

one. Every project he had painstakingly pushed forward was dismantled. The funds were rapidly rerouted to Mason’s pet

the next board meeting, the senior members could