Chapter 377: Lousy Tea Leaves
Lucas’s aura was not something that ordinary people could withstand.
Even Flynn, who had been working for Lucas for a long time, felt a sudden chill down his spine. He frantically lowered his head and said, “Lucas, don’t worry. I will let my actions do the talking!”
Lucas had merely given Flynn a hint. Seeing that he had caught it, Lucas stood up and walked toward the door. “In the next ten days, complete the handover of your duties in the Solar Corporation and take care of your remaining affairs. I’m leaving now.”
When he walked to the door, Lucas suddenly remembered that the front end of his Jaguar was badly damaged and deformed. Although it was still drivable, it was quite an eyesore that didn’t fit well with the scenery of the city.
“Get someone to send my car in for repairs and find me a temporary replacement car.” Lucas tossed the key of his Jaguar onto the table.
Flynn hurriedly took out a Porsche car key from his pocket and handed it to Lucas. “You can use my car for the time being! There are other cars available for use in the office’s garage. I’ll just use one of them.”
Without further ado, Lucas grabbed the Porsche car key and left the general manager’s office.
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In the Turners’ farmhouse villa…
After Lucas and William left, Eddie called his children to his room and flew into a rage. He lashed out at Karen harshly because the confession she had made had put Alex and Gretchen to great shame in front of their relatives.
Of course, Eddie was just being biased toward Alex and Gretchen. He kept lamenting about how hard their lives were compared to hers, as she had been living in the lap of luxury after marrying into the Carter family. He also said that since Karen was the oldest child, she should help her younger siblings instead of asking them to return the money they had borrowed from her. He also criticized Karen for turning her back against them and said that she was disregarding their familial ties by doing so.
In the end, Eddie decided that all the loans that Alex and Gretchen had taken from Karen were to be written off. In addition, the two villas, which Karen had contributed a large amount of money to build, would no longer have anything to do with her. Even after Eddie passed away, Karen and her daughters would not get a single cent of the inheritance.
Karen naturally felt extremely aggrieved, but they were her biological father and siblings after all. Besides, she had taken the initiative to give them that money. Now that Eddie had just had a hypertensive crisis, Karen didn’t dare to argue with them at this moment because she was afraid of provoking Eddie to the point of collapse. Thus, she had no choice but to acquiesce.
Suddenly, Nikki ran in from outside and happily announced, “Grandpa, my paternal grandfather is here, and he’s brought the helmsman of the Morgan family!”
All the Turners were astounded, and Eddie was overjoyed. He hurriedly said, “Quick, follow me outside to greet the honored guests!”
The two guests who arrived indeed had a higher status than the Turners.
The first was Nikki’s paternal grandfather, Robert Heron, an entrepreneur in LA who had founded the Heron Corp more than two decades ago. It was now developing extremely well, and he had handed the company over to Nikki’s father, Justin Heron, because he was advanced in his years.
This time, he had brought Sam Morgan, the helmsman of the Morgan family, with him. Although the Morgans were not a top family in LA, they were the top among the second-rate ones and were not to be belittled.
Sam and Robert met in the military when they were younger, and back in the day, they were comrades of the same squad. Sam had even saved Robert’s life during one of the battles they fought. So they had been very close to each other over the years.
This time, Robert visited the Turners to congratulate them as Gretchen’s father-in-law. On the other hand, Sam was just accompanying Robert.
Eddie immediately felt honored and flattered to have such distinguished guests over at his place to congratulate his grandson on his wedding.
He led the Turners to the door and personally welcomed the two distinguished guests to the living room of the villa.
Meanwhile, the Turners’ relatives originally in the living room had the self-awareness to move to the other villa to make room for the distinguished guests.
“Congratulations, Eddie. Your grandson is getting married!”
“Yeah, congratulations, my dear in-law!”
After the two guests sat down on the large sofa in the living room, they both congratulated Eddie.
“Thank you, thank you. It’s a blessing for my grandson to receive your well wishes!” Eddie hurriedly thanked them politely.
“Hahaha, we’re all family. There’s no need to be so polite!” Robert chuckled loudly.
Sam said amicably, “Robert and I have been close friends for decades, and his in-laws are mine too. It just so happens that he wanted to come over to your place today, so I decided to join him for the fun. Eddie, I hope you don’t mind me coming uninvited!”
Eddie hurriedly said, “Why would I? I’m more than happy to have you here!”
After the few old men laughed and exchanged pleasantries, Sam ordered his bodyguard to bring over the wedding gifts he and Robert had prepared.
“We were planning to attend the wedding ceremony tomorrow, but an old friend we haven’t seen for many years is coming to LA tomorrow, so we won’t have time to attend it. So we decided to send the wedding gifts here in advance,” Sam explained smilingly.
Robert chimed in, “That’s right. The old friend that’s coming over tomorrow is the former head of the military squad that we used to belong to. Sam and I are going to go meet him, so we’ll have to miss the wedding!”
In fact, given their high status, Eddie wouldn’t blame them for missing his grandson’s wedding. Besides, the two of them had already come to give them some wedding gifts before the wedding, which was enough respect for the Turners!
Eddie was grinning widely from ear to ear as he politely told them it was okay.
“Hey, I smell tea. Where is this aroma coming from?” Sam suddenly sniffled and looked around curiously.
Eddie was instructing Nikki to pour some tea for Robert and Sam. When he heard what Same said, he said conceitedly, “Ah, it’s some premium Silver Tips Imperial tea that I’ve specially bought. It tastes pretty good. Since you two like tea, please have some.”
Sam shook his head. “No, I’m not referring to that. The aroma smells like Da Hong Pao.”
As he spoke, he stood up and looked around, only to see the bag of tea leaves that had been tossed into the trash can near him.
“What are such fine tea leaves doing in the trash? What’s going on here?” Sam asked in puzzlement.
Nikki said, “Mr. Morgan, those are just some lousy tea leaves that a good-for-nothing bought to fool my grandfather. He even claimed that it costs a few million dollars, but my grandfather exposed him immediately.”
“What? Lousy tea leaves?” Sam widened his eyes in shock.
As soon as he smelled the aroma that seemed a little faint and far away, he knew at once that it was from premium tea leaves that were far better quality than the tea they were drinking now. Besides, the exquisite packaging was also proof that it was expensive and of superior grade. How could it be considered lousy?
Sam was in disbelief and confusion, so he simply reached out to grab the bag of tea leaves from the trash can!