Winner Takes All novel Chapter 149

The wind was mellow and the sun was just the right glow.

On a path in the middle of the woods, the lush foliage was surrounding them.

After resting for two hours, Jack began his hellish training with Brent.

It was not that he wasn’t tired at all.

He was just very aware of the gap between those elites of the Hughes family and him. In order to be the triumphant one in the upcoming power struggle, he had no other choice other than put in one hundred percent of his hard work.

This was his motto ever since he was young.

He would look up at the peak of the mountain while also taking care of where he was stepping on. He knew that he only needed to work his hardest and leave the rest to God.

After his strenuous training, Jack who was now bathed in sweat was collapsed on a long bench in the park. He was heaving heavy breaths at the moment.

He was exhausted after his hellish training.

However, this was exactly the aim of his training. Only when he had pushed his body to its limits, his body was only able to elevate itself.

Brent was equally exhausted with sweat covering the entirety of his skin, but he was in a much better state compared to Jack.

He was naked from the waist up and his muscles were bulging with a brownish glow. They were practically shining under the glow of the sun.

“Young master…” Brent suddenly began.

Jack twisted up his brows and looked at Brent.

Brent was obviously struggling to spit out his words from the way he looked, but finally he said, “I want to help Daisy.”

Jack suddenly laughed.

“Haven’t you already helped her last night?”

Brent shook his head and said, “No, I mean, I want to give her a home. I want to give her a home where she can live freely without getting weighed down by familial ties.”

Familial ties?

Jack frowned and asked, “What does Daisy say about this?”

He never experienced what Daisy had gone through, so naturally he wouldn’t understand how it did feel to be bogged down by familial ties.

However, after learning of Daisy’s past, it was undisputable that Daisy was definitely adversely affected by his good-for-nothing father.

The best sensible solution to her problem was to sever the bond between her and her father. She should do that to protect herself.

However, familial ties always ran far and deep. No amount of rationality would be able to make giving up on one easier.

“She has already made up her mind.”

Brent replied with a determined look in his eyes.

“Anything I can help you with?”

Jack wasn’t surprised by Brent’s answer as he offered to help.

After all, as a father, he could do something like offering her daughter to his debtors as their plaything just to pay off his debt. Daisy was able to make up her mind to sever her bond with such a father, and for Jack, it was not surprising at all.

“Not at the moment. I just thought that I need to inform you of my decision.”

Jack nodded, “Then you should go ahead and help Daisy. Just tell me if you need anything. You don’t have to be polite with me considering that we are family.”

After getting sufficient rest, Jack got up and headed in the direction of his home.

Brent was being left behind and he was rooted to the spot while muttering, “Family…”

Under the shine of the twilight glow, Brent revealed a wide grin.

Then, he chased after Jack.

After breakfast, Jack immediately rushed to DT real estate agency.

Seeing that the housing prices of West Shantytown houses were rising steadily, what the DT real estate agency needed to do was to let things develop on its own and waited for the right moment to remove the limitations of the selling units and go all out on their sales.

This was why Jack had a lot of work to do.

In the coming week, the housing prices continued to rise steadily and the potential of the houses continued to be explored.

The QY International Group and the YK Group decided to establish their branches in the city almost at the same time, and this decision caused a frenzy among the citizens.

The trend of the prices didn’t falter and instead it was still rising steadily despite the fact that housing prices had seemed to stagnate.

All the employees of DT real estate agency were full of vigor and confidence in this period of rising housing prices.

Every day at work, all the employees would talk about how much housing prices had risen in the previous day!

Under Jack’s deliberate policy, the four housing areas only opened fifty units for sales every day which was a modest rate.

Everything seemed to be under control and proceeding smoothly towards his goal.

One day at night, Jack returned home after a busy day at work.

He was surprised that his mother wasn’t home at that time.

It was already past seven o’clock in the evening. Where could his mother have gone to?

After asking about this from Mr. Ward and Daisy, he still couldn’t get an answer.

Jack decided not to worry too much about this since his mother was an adult after all. Perhaps she had gone to have a walk somewhere nearby. There wouldn’t be any cause for concern if that was the case.

A fiasco such as one that recently happened to Daisy was unlikely to repeat itself in TM Villa District.

After dinner, Jack called on Brent and they both headed to the balcony of the villa.

While feeling the wind grazing their skin, Jack asked, “Has the matter with Daisy come to a conclusion?”

“You can say that.”

Brent answered with doubts in his tone, “I have given her father two million yuan with the condition of severing his bond with his daughter.”

Jack nodded and didn’t ask any more questions.

Although two million yuan wasn’t a lot, but it was enough for Daisy’s father to save himself from his current predicament!

He was someone who had reached the end of the road as a chronic gambler, so Jack wouldn’t put too much hope on him.

Nevertheless, Brent’s unsure tone told him that this wouldn’t simply end just like that. He knew that familial ties were not that easy to break.

All of a sudden, someone shouted, “Brent!”

It was Daisy. Both Jack and Brent turned around simultaneously.

Daisy had a pair of reddened eyes as she scurried over nervously. She clasped Brent’s hand and said, “Something has happened to my father!”

Jack couldn’t help frowning upon hearing that.

Brent answered with a hoarse voice, “Didn’t you severe your connection with him? If he continues to be indebted because of gambling, it won’t have anything to do with you anymore.”

His words were straightforward and he was reminding Daisy not to repeat her mistake.

The scenes from few days ago was still vivid in their minds. Brent really blew his head off because of that.

He had no doubt that if he were to be late at arriving at the scene, Daisy’s life would be completely different from that moment on.

“No, it’s not like that.”

Daisy was so anxious that tears were welling up in her eyes, “Not only my father has gambled away the money you have given him, he has another debit totaling to one million yuan too. Now that those debtors are asking for the return of their money, and in order to force me to see them, th—they said that they are going to dig my grandparents’ grave!”

Her words were like an atomic bomb exploding in their mind.

At the moment, Jack’s expression had darkened.

If they were to just kill someone, it would end when that person’s head rolled to the ground.

However, in order to lure Brent and Daisy out, they were now planning to dig their grandparents’ grave?

“Let’s go!”

Brent immediately wanted to depart as he pulled Daisy along.

While watching them leave, Jack smiled bitterly and murmured, “These unscrupulous people really come up with such despicable means. It is so unethical to dig someone else’s grave. Hadn’t they suffered enough in Brent’s hands last time?”

As he shook his head, he stood up and descended the stairs too.

When he reached the living room, he coincidentally met his mother who had just returned home.

“Mum, where have you gone to just now? It’s already getting late.” Jack asked with a smile.

He was simply asking out of concern, yet the moment he saw his mother’s face, he immediately froze.

Sophie was looking oddly forlorn and hopeless. It was as if she had given up on something important.

A trace of panic flashed across her face as she immediately shook her head and forced a smile, “I just went out to take as stroll. I need to sleep now, you should sleep earlier too, Jack. Don’t exhaust yourself.”

After saying that, Sophie brushed past Jack and went upstairs seemingly going to sleep.

Just taking a stroll?

Jack remained motionless while thinking that her mother was always smiling in the face of adversity throughout the twenty something years they were together.

However, from her expression, he could make a conjecture that something serious had happened!

After contemplating for a while, Jack turned around and went to Mr. Ward’s room to instruct him to take note of his mother’s whereabouts in the coming few days.

After returning to his room, Jack lied in bed but his mind was still focusing on her mother’s strange expression. He found it hard to fall asleep.

Suddenly, his phone rang.

It was Daisy.

Did something go wrong?

Jack checked the time and thought that Brent and Daisy should be reaching MT Village by now.

However, the moment he answered the call, there was an exasperated cry sounding at the other end which belonged to Daisy.

“M—Mr. Hughes, Brent has been stabbed!”