Can’t Win Me Back

It was a dark and windy night. The moon was casting a dim and cold glow on everything beneath it.

As agreed, Cornelius arrived at the study on the second floor of Primrose Manor. Preston was already waiting there, as expected. His lonely shadow on the floor was like a ghostly figure that had returned from hell to seek revenge.

“Dad, I am your son, after all. I really never thought that you’d be so cruel toward me.”

Preston sat languidly on the couch. He grinned sinisterly. “I have always been respectful toward you. I have toiled hard for the corporation too. Yet, you’re kicking me out because I have become handicapped? Aren’t you being too heartless?”

Cornelius suddenly sensed that something was wrong. He turned around to open the door but found that he couldn’t pull it open!

“Stop wasting your energy. Without my permission, you’re not taking a single step out of Primrose Manor.” Preston put a cigarette between his lips. However, he remembered that he no longer had a hand to light his cigarette. So, he clenched his teeth and stuffed the cigarette back into its case.

“Caspian… Caspian!” Cornelius shouted for his secretary. His back was covered in sweat.

Then, the door opened.

Cornelius, Caspian

shot Cornelius a sinister smile. Then, he flung Caspian’s body in front of him as if he were a piece of

was overwhelmed with fear and started to shiver all over. He

at Preston, “How dare you murder someone? Are you insane? What are you planning

doing. Even if I’ve gone insane, it’s all because

all that fuss about? I’m sure that you’ve gotten lots of blood on your hands to expand

for too long? Now that you’re old, have you

“Preston Harper!”

onto the tea table. “Sign these. I’m no longer interested in your shares. Harper Group has turned

your assets to me. If so, I will take

blood drained from Cornelius’ face. He gritted

true that he had aged. But all this

yielded to anyone for the sake of his own survival. He had never allowed himself to be humiliated by his competitors just so he

family business in this chaotic world? How could he have become