Desperate Lovers novel Chapter 273

"You’ve still got your miserable life!" growled Lawson.

James took a step forward and drew closer to Lawson. "Are you willing to give me up, grandpa?"

Lawson’s face clouded over with anger.

"You were not willing in the past because you thought you were able to manipulate me, and you didn’t want to kill such a great money maker like me," James said, "Now you’re willing, but due to the existence of my aunts and Mr. Sutton, you can’t just ignore my miserable life, can you?"

Lawson stretched out his hand and slapped James across the face.

It was a hard slap, and Angela saw that James’ cheek grew swollen very soon. On his cheek there were a clear hand mark, and a nail scratch.

Angela stepped forward, but clenched her fists and stepped back when she noticed James’ wink.

But, she got… upset.

"Who taught you to talk to me like this?" Lawson roared in fury, "Kneel down!"

James looked down a little, restrained the emotion in his eyes and knelt down before Lawson flew into a rage.

"Who allowed you to spread the news about Jessica?" Lawson snarled, "Brother Smith came to the hospital today and told me about it, and I was too embarrassed to face him!"

After that, Lawson turned to look at Angela, his eyes blazing with anger.

Angela stiffened, her palms sweating.

If Lawson hadn’t had advanced cancer, he would never let off her and James. However, since Lawson didn’t have much time left, they only needed to get through this period of time…

"Why were you embarrassed, grandpa?" James said, "It’s the Smith family who are wrong, so they should be the ones to be embarrassed."

Lawson kicked James on the chest and cursed, "Bastard!"

James was kicked straight to the floor. Half of his handsome face was pale while the other half red and swollen, which looked so weird.

"Are you OK?" Angela walked up to James with a frown and helped him up. Her heart was beating faster than usual, and she couldn’t tell it was out of anger or anything else.

James shook his head and said, "I’m alright."

"If you have any trouble with Jessica, why wouldn’t you solve the problem in private? Why would you have to make a fuss about it in the media?" Lawson’s face grew red. "Do you know how much more the Smith Group’s stock price will drop since such negative news came out!"

"Brother Smith came over and told me face to face that he would cancel part of the cooperation with the Harvey Group. Do you have any idea how much this will affect the Harvey Group?!"

James knelt down upright on the floor, neither too humble nor too arrogant. He repeated the answer the third time today, "Neither am I the president of the Harvey Group, nor do I hold any shares in the Harvey Group. If anything happens to the Harvey Group, what does it have anything to do with me?"

"Are you so dissatisfied with me that you want to take advantage of the Harvey Group to bring me down?" Lawson raised his eyebrows and gasped, furious.

James said flatly, "I dare not."

"You dare not? What else dare you not do?" Lawson gave a sneer, "James, you’d better not provoke me, or I’ll send Angela to prison right now, and keep her there for the rest of her life!"

Angela frowned, extremely tired of playing the role of a burden. She opened her mouth and wanted to say something, but found that there was no use saying anything—

Any word was in vain in front of absolute power.

Angela swallowed. That sense of powerlessness engulfed her instantly like a swamp. The more she struggled, the sooner she would die.

"Why so tense, grandpa?" James’ look was the same as usual, if one ignored the sweat on both sides of his nose. "The Smith family has been developing faster these years, and they have already tried to step into the electrical appliance business. Do you know that?"

Lawson straightened his face, too angry to speak to James.

James didn’t push further and just stopped here.

"So?" Lawson sat down on the sofa and drank a cup of tea to calm down.

Kneeling on the floor with a swollen hand mark on his cheek, James should have been embarrassed. However, at this moment, he was staring at Lawson and spoke slowly, not embarrassed at all.

"Two years ago, the Smith family put out the word that they would make a connection with the Harvey family by marriage, and thus built relationships with a small part of the Harvey Group’s cooperative partners."

"Originally, the Smith Group’s main business included real estate and daily necessities, while we Harvey Group’s main business included hi-tech electronic products, electrical appliances and entertainment industry."

"The Smith Group has long yearned to step into hi-tech electronic product business and electrical appliance business, but hi-tech electronic product business was not something they could easily get into, so they focused on household appliances. Therefore, from two years ago, they have taken advantage of the news that they would make a connection with the Harvey Group by marriage to work with our cooperative partners, and meanwhile, get into the electrical appliance market."

"Not long after the Smith family entered the electrical appliance market, they found that their product developer failed to meet consumer demand, so the Smith family poached one main product developer from the Harvey Group at a high price, and copied three electrical appliances of the Harvey Group in a row," James said, "I…"

Lawson interrupted him with a frown, "So the reason you did that this time was to warn the Smith family?"

"Exactly," James answered, "but the plan was destroyed by you, and you were scolded by Grandpa Smith. Besides," James pointed at his own cheek, "you slapped me."

Staring at James, Angela couldn’t tell if he was telling the truth for a moment.

However, no matter James was telling the truth or not, it was undeniable that Angela’s existence put him into a more difficult situation in the Harvey family.

"Get up," Lawson pondered for a while and said to James, who was kneeling on the floor.

Angela stepped forward and helped James up. Then she frowned and went into the kitchen. Before long, she went back with a frozen duck wrapped in a towel and stuffed it into James’ hand.

"… Don’t bother," James refused at the sight of the dead duck’s open eyes.

Angela pursed her lips, pressed the duck wrapped in the towel against his swollen cheek, and grabbed his hand to have him hold it himself.

Intentionally or unintentionally, that frozen duck’s head was facing Lawson, as if it would revive the next second, pounce on and peck at him.

Lawson got uncomfortable being stared at by the dead duck, so he moved aside with a frown. Since he was sitting on the sofa opposite Angela and James, no matter how he moved, the dead duck kept staring at him.

"Nathen, throw away that fucking duck!" Lawson said fretfully.

The baldheaded man stepped forward, took over the dead duck from James’ hand and walked towards the door.

"The Smith family has indeed gone too far recently. In any case, Angela is pregnant with a Harvey, but how dare they bully her again and again!" Lawson gave a hard snort, "I’ll deal with this, and you don’t have to take care of it anymore."

James responded yes.

"And you!" Lawson glared at Angela. "Since you’re pregnant, don’t run about. Especially don’t go to see that girl of the Lewis family. What if she shoves you and thus you have a miscarriage?"

"That girl of the Lewis family." referred to Adeline.