Chapter 659

“Hahaha! My girl! Hurry up, fetch our finest wine from the cellar, I need a good swig to celebrate!”

Bevis had witnessed a spectacular turn of events today, leaving him in high spirits. He burst through the door, laughter booming through the house, startling the parrot perched nearby into flapping its wings.

“Why hasn’t he died yet? Why hasn’t he died yet?”

The parrot squawked, mimicking Bevis‘ tone to perfection.

“Haha! Darling, has your beak been blessed? That old coot is truly on his last legs now, this time it’s for real, hahaha!” Bevis puckered his lips, teasing the bird with a big smile on his face.

“Dad, who hollers like that in the afternoon? You’ve woken me from my nap,” Dolores Ashbourne, with her long hair loose, descended the stairs yawning, her voice dripping with lethargy, “What’s got you in such high spirits?”

Bevis contently settled back on the couch, a sly grin curving his lips, “This afternoon, at the board meeting, Emeric had an episode right in front of everyone!”

“Really?!” Dolores’s face brightened up instantly.

amidst her father’s constant grumbling and grievances.

heard, the family’s arch enemy, in her eyes, was none other than her father’s

leveraging his position as the heir to the Ashbourne family, had always suppressed him out of jealousy

Dolores was thoroughly

cousin Evadne, who had always seemed unattainably graceful and noble, like a swan since

He wet himself in front of all the directors!

grimaced, but couldn’t

pulled his daughter close, planting an excited kiss on her cheek, “My dear girl, you have no idea how exhilarating it was for your old man! All those years of frustration finally vented out! Even Emeric himself never imagined he would fall into such a pathetic state, did he? If he can’t even manage his own bladder,

a shadow of malevolence flitted across his gaze, “No, I don’t just want him to step down; I want the whole world to

he’s socially dead,

venomous and fierce, that even Dolores felt a chill run

been domineering and tyrannical since childhood. Anything good, he wanted; any good woman, he had to possess. His downfall today is nobody’s fault but his own, a direct

“Dad,

clenched his molars tightly, offering

mentioned was Emeric’s wife, Evadne’s mother–Silvana Waverley.

graceful woman he had ever encountered. One

angelic beauty in distress, despite him being

master of the Ashbourne family just like his brother, why should he forever live

heart

do you plan to do next?” Dolores

contained the situation at the meeting and I’m out of moves? They

hand into his, his eyes glinting with excitement, “Just you wait and see, my girl, our good days are

taken control of K Group, could you perhaps find a way to snatch Thaddeus from Evadne for me?”

him out of here!”

had caused him twice over, not to mention the smartphone incident, was enough to knot

supportive of me being with

father–in–law to the CEO of the Abernathy Group isn’t good enough for

want, any rich bachelor or nobleman from Skyrim or

power, I’ll find you a match that’s second to none. Rest assured, Dolores. The future husband I pick for you will be no less than Thaddeus. I won’t

Evadne had predicted, there were no secrets that could be kept

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