An Understated Dominance

Chapter 709

“I see. But why did you get Hank to murder James, then? Isn’t that unnecessary?” Julian wondered why his grandmother would waste such effort to have James dead. James was an unimportant side character, and it was a waste of resources to even deal with him.

“James? I don’t even know who that is. Why would I want to kill him? I suppose Hank decided to take things into his own hands and just get rid of him. Anyway, that’s not important. It doesn’t affect us in the least what happened to him.” Alma waved her hand dismissively.

As she spoke, she suddenly shuddered, and her breathing became erratic. A piercing pain hit her and spread out across her entire body.

“Are you alright, Grandmother?” Julian immediately noticed that Alma didn’t look good.

“It’s nothing new. Go and get me my medicine from the car. Hurry,” Alma instructed.

even for a moment and quickly ran over to the Rolls- Royce parked in front of them before he started rummaging around. In no

quickly opened the bottle and poured out its contents, only to find it empty. “Where’s the medicine? Have I run out of them so soon?” She frowned as the pain in her body increased in intensity, and she began shivering uncontrollably. “Quick!

should have provided her with the medicine Previously, Hank had always been in charge of retrieving the medicine from them and then secretly sending it over to Glenstead and into her hands. Usually, the transaction should have already been completed by this

and hurried over to

came running back, drenched in sweat. “Grandmother, I’ve searched

be possible that he hasn’t gotten it yet?” Alma frowned and hastily urged Julian, “Call the Killians’ butler right away. Have him

was already having difficulties standing up and had

nobody answered.

can’t seem to reach the Killians’ butler!” Julian was at his

teeth as the pain got unbearable. “Call Mr. Killian immediately. Ask him what all this

call. He managed to get hold of Mr. Killian and asked him a series of questions to clarify the situation. His face fell. “Grandmother, Mr. Killian said that