Edward’s hands, which were flipping through the newspaper, stopped moving, and he frowned.
"Why are you asking this?"
As Elaine chewed, she asked bluntly, "If the man I want to marry is his son, what will you do?"
Edward was astonished and then slammed the newspaper on the table.
"Have you lost your mind!?" Jenna was frightened.
She did not understand much about her husband's industry, so she did not interrupt.
Still, she was a little surprised that Elaine took the initiative to bring up the word "marriage".
Elaine knew that her father did not like Mr.Saldana, s o this marriage was an almost impossible task.
Nonetheless, she thought about Ian’s words.
‘I really don’t want to get married.If Dad were to arrange for me to marry a man that I’ve never met
before or something, I might as well choose Ian over that fate"
"Dad, he said that he would give me 5% of the Synergy Group’s shares if I were to marry him.Are you
not interested in that?" Edward’s expression became quite excited but also indescribable at the same
time.
"Who told you that?" She shrugged.
"Young Master Saldana." Edward took a deep breath.
If he were not strong and healthy enough for the news, he would have kicked the bucket at this
moment.
He stared at his daughter and said earnestly, "Elaine, are you messing with m e?"
"No.”
"A-Are you sure that the man that you’ve seen all this while is the genuine young master of the
Saldanas?" Elaine did not understand what her father meant,
" What do you mean?"
‘I heard someone address Ian as "Young Master Saldana", and Ian promised that he would give me 5%
of the Synergy Group’s shares.If he has nothing to do with the Saldanas, why would he mention the
shares?’ Edward calmed down and explained earnestly, " Elaine, Juan has only one son, and you can’t
possibly have met him.
"As far as I know, Juan’s son, Marco Saldana, has a serious mental illness.So, no one from the outside
world has ever seen him.Elaine, you must’ve been deceived by some b*stard." Elaine was shocked.
At the same time, at the Saldanas...
"You useless piece of sh*t! I asked you to bring him back, yet you can’t accomplish even such a simple
task!" Juan kicked the bodyguard.
The bodyguard took a few steps backward, fell, and hit the floor heavily.
He then lowered his head.
"Mr.Saldana...We didn’t expect him to make a move on us.” Juan snorted, walked to the leather chair,
sat down, lit a cigarette, and took a puff.
"That brat, he’s been left i n the outside world for a long time and has grown too bold.Since the easy
way won’t work, we can only hit him hard." He dusted off the ash, and his eyes looked merciless.
" No matter what, you are to bring him back even if it means using some ruthless means."
The man in black responded timidly, "Yes, sir."
When the man left the study, Juan gloomily extinguished half of the cigarette in the ashtray.
‘The cooperation in Hewston has been interrupted.
Once someone discovers that Hydra Lake Eastern District’s tax fraud has something to do with me, I
won't be able to get out of this mess unscathed.
“ I’ve finally climbed to where I am today after so many years.I mustn’t give up so easily.I must find
someone to take the fall for me"
The next day...
Elaine came to look for Ian in order to settle the accounts between them exasperatedly, and the store
manager told her that Ian was in a separate office upstairs.She went upstairs and pushed open the
door of the office.
Ian’s back was facing her as he was just taking his shirt off.
The collar had been loosened, and it was hanging on his elbows.
His complexion was not fair, but it looked healthily tanned.He had a perfectly built body, as expected
from a graduate of the police academy who had joined the army.He looked robust, strong, and well-
proportioned.
It was only then that Elaine noticed there was an old scar on his waist.
Even his back was covered in scars of different sizes and lengths, which he had accumulated over the
years.
Thinking of his former occupation, Elaine began to understand him in an instant.
Ian turned around and saw her standing at the door, but he calmly changed into the shirt and buttoned
it u p slowly.
"Ms.Xavier, have you thought it through?"
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