Supreme Mars novel Chapter 140

The death of Thomas in the bedlam spread quickly like wildfire.

Folding the newspaper, with the expression on his face turned increasingly agitated, he understood the feeling of being at risk for the first time.

Since the day when the HT Pharmaceutical Group(HTPG) fell, Thomas had been sent into the bedlam, and was killed that evening.

If his death was not due to suicide, then the identity of the murder would then be clear enough — Leo was the only one who had the motives to do so.

“The things you want are here, Mr. Lawson.” At this moment, a man with a plain look strode into the living room, and delivered a sealed package to Peter.

“Any news?” Peter asked after a pause.

The man nodded, “I’m profession, Mr. Lawson.”

“Very good!” Peter said with joy, and gave the man a bank card.

He was a private detective hired by Peter with a huge sum of money, and his duty was to spy on each single movement of Leo.

He had to figure out why Leo, a pathetic good-for-nothing from the Ford family, was able to wield so much power.

In haste, Peter unwrapped the package, and there were a few photographs drifted down from the inside.

In the photograph, there was the image of Leo, who was having dinner with her daughter Emilia and her wife Lydia in a restaurant.

Looking at the pictures, Peter was dumbfounded, and wondered how the two got together.

Standing aside, the detective said, “According to their behavior and facial expressions, I think they are a couple, and as for Leo, I think the reason why he could bring you so many troubles is that there is someone behind supporting him.”

With the photograph in hand, Peter’s face was distorted with anger.

“It’s you, Lydia! You are the one behind that little shit, you wanton bitch covered with a skin of delicacy and dignity!”

Peter had once attended the wedding ceremony of Lydia, and knew that her husband was a bigwig supported by a strong military background. However, she chose to stay with Leo, and thus many of his bewilderment would then be resolved.

Peter laughed with a fiendish smile, “Now, I’ve got something on you, Lydia! How dare you ever play with another boy when your husband is not around? If a man as poor as Leo could ever stand by your side, then every single man around the world will be qualified enough to do so!”

Giggling for the rapid progress of the thing, he came up with a vicious plan in his mind.

“Greetings, Mr. Lawson. Old Mr. Lawson is looking for you.” Suddenly, the butler came in and said to Peter.

“OK.” Peter nodded, telling the detective to leave and then stepping inside the study.

“I heard that you were looking for me, father.” Looking at a middle-aged man sitting on the sofa and reading newspaper, Peter said.

Although he was in his fifties, his skin was kept tightened and smooth.

With dashing eyebrows, bright eyes and a delicate gold-rimmed glass, he looked cultivated and literate.

“I have heard about everything.” The man, whose name was Grayson Lawson, said plainly, “Once, I thought I can still have hopes of you. However, it seems that you are still inferior to Kate.”

Hearing that, Peter looked ahead open-eyed, with a shadow of hostility and wrath hid inside of his eyes.

“However, she is a woman after all.” Looking at Peter, Grayson said, “And she don’t pump the same blood as we do, so she shall never be the one leading the whole family.”

“Yes, exactly!” With a wrathful expression on his face, Peter shouted, “She is not one of us! She is only someone entrusted to grandpa by his friend! But why did grandpa hand over the leading position to her?”

“Is that really what your grandpa wanted?“ Grayson looked at Peter seriously, and then sighed, “Kate, this little girl is even smarter than some of the mature men in our family.” 

“When she was old enough to know that she was nothing more than an outsider to us, she changed her second name to ‘Lawson’ in order to please us. And as for the car accident when she was fifteen, it was merely a show scripted play directed by herself in order to convey the information that she would never put her hands in the business of the Grayson family. Just think about it — will a girl who dared to murder herself ever conceal her own ambition?”

“We have never considered her as one of our family, and, in turn, she was also watchful and alert in the face of us. The old man had long realized her essence, and tried everything he could to drive her out of the family. The best way, was to marry her off to a small family, and the most ideal candidate would be Leo of the Ford family.”

“However, she had long seen through the plan of the old man as well, and said she would only accept the proposal if the man she was marrying was going to be adopted into the Grayson family. As a result, the whole plan has actually accomplished her on the contrary.”

Saying so, Grayson offered a helpless sigh.

If Leo were here, he would be most likely to be shocked, since it was exactly the truth behind his marriage with Kate.

As for the rest of the story, it had been clear for everyone. Kate took advantage of Leo and obtained the business secrets of the Ford family. After the disappearance of Leo at his wedding ceremony with Kate, Kate then rampantly put her hands to devour the Ford family’s business and annexed more than half of the family’s property. From then on, she thus became stronger and stronger.

As her strength and influence grew day by day, Kate soon exposed no more of her ambition, and dominated the whole family at the end.

Grayson sighed to Peter, “What makes the disparity between you and Kate is experience and sophistication. You are too haughty, my son, and you still need some real challenges to make yourself grow, only by which you can narrow the gap between you and the woman.”

Hearing the truth from his dad and looking at him blankly for a long period, Peter found himself dumbfounded.

“It would be beneficial for you to learn from your previous failure.”Grayson casted Peter a meaningful eye, and continued, “Whether you are going to succeed or not is totally up to your further actions.”

“I shall not let you down, dad.” Answered Peter.

Then, Peter left the study, with a sullen and ill-affected face. 

He was completely irritated by his loss of Kate and the unpredictable attitude of Lydia.

He couldn’t wait anymore to implement the scheme in his mind.

At that moment, the butler stepped inside again and said, “There a a guest who wants to see you, Mr. Lawson.”

Knitting his brows, he remembered that no one had been appointed to visit today.

“No, I don’t want to see him.” He rejected directly.

“But the guest said his second name was Reyes.” Answered the butler.

With the expression on her face changed, he said after a while of hesitation, “Let him in.”

Soon, a nice-looking man dressed in a white suite came in with a smiling face.

Looking at the face of the man, Peter was stunned, “You are…”

He thought the man was Cedric, but he was not.

“It’s my honor to be able to see you, Mr. Lawson. My name is Eddie.” Bending down a little, the man made an elegant bow and said.

“Eddie?” 

The familiar name of the man seemed to occur to Peter about something. Soon, as his face turned pale, Peter yelled, “You are the psychopath who molested my cousin Kate!”

“Ah, your sister, a beautiful and delicate lady. However, I have never molested her, and I was just, you know, appreciating her beauty.” Without being irritated by his words, Eddie looked ahead with unvarnished adoration in his eyes, “However, I’m here looking for you today, not Miss. Lawson.”

“And what brings you to me?” Asked Peter.

“I believe that you have already heard the news of my father’s death, and it seems that we have a common enemy,” Said Eddie, “which means that we are all thinking about the same thing.”

“But can you bring me?” Peter stared at him with sharp eyes and asked.

Eddie grinned, and took out a photograph of Lydia, “Do you want her, Mr. Lawson?”

In a sudden, as Peter caught sight of the picture, the look on his face then turned panic as if his mind was read.

At the next moment, with a harsh hissing sound, Eddie teared that picture apart, and then made a phone call in front of Peter.

“I want her, now!” Eddie said to the phone.