The Girlboss Begs For Remarriage

Arcus shrugged. "Don't worry. I'm just discussing the prospect of a partnership with Mr. Derek. All we want to do is make money, and we have no interest in anything else.

"Moreover, if Mr. Frankton wanted to act, he would already have. Why wait until now?"

While Arcus already had a plan on what to do against warhawks like the geezer, he decided to be reasonable for the time being-it was never too late to move against him later.

And the geezer was a sly old fox who would never believe Arcus either. He pretended to buy it nonetheless, as the purpose was to distract.

Nonetheless, as Arcus returned to the mansion, he quickly had his people look into the geezer and other people of interest in the Costner family.

In a day, a full stack of data was in front of him.

As it turned out, several elders of the Costner family carried considerable influence in the family-one of whom was Walt Costner, the geezer who showed up to warn Arcus. He was a strong martial artist and used to be the head of the family but overestimated his importance and made too many enemies.

The family ended up in shambles because of that, and Walt was forced to step down. Even so, he never deferred to Derek since he was younger and was constantly sabotaging Derek, even once planning to leave and establish his own family.

not against the rules, it was a family doctrine to not put all their eggs in a single basket. While the Costner family retained overall control, they had other adopted members and vassals. In fact, certain small factions who were concerned about

new family head must establish a similar foundation of outsiders beforehand. Not even the new family head would be allowed to violate that rule and must invest all

accessing the base of the family's power and

he should do to deal with that geezer, a BM Group member suddenly ran in his room and exclaimed, "We have a

frowned, as he already had a

attack them, he would not draw attention to himself, though he would not want to make enemies of

this was that Walt was responsible and tried to pin the blame on Derek. Hence, after the Costners went to war against Frank,

Arcus snorted. "We can retaliate-but make sure

"Alright!"

was simple.

who really was responsible and what the true culprit's purpose was. Moreover, Arcus would not embarrass Frank, while he would also get Walt to understand what

a day later, Walt arranged a meeting with