Chapter 340 - Is There A Connection?
Lucas suddenly asked, "The Taylors own a large real estate development company, as well as a construction and renovation company, right?"
He still remembered that Scott Taylor, Preston's brother, had once brought two of his bodyguards to his villa and demanded that he let him have the villa because it was developed by a real estate development company owned by the Taylors.
Preston froze in shock, a little puzzled by what Lucas meant. But he answered conscientiously, "Yes, Moon Palace Realty and Milton Interior Design belong to our family."
Lucas smiled. "Since you own businesses in the real estate and renovation industries, and I have a logistics and transportation company, how about you consider cooperating with us, Mr. Taylor?"
Only then did Preston understand that Lucas didn't want anything from him except the opportunity to cooperate with the Taylors.
In fact, Lucas's request might mainly be meant for the development of his company, but it wouldn't cause any losses for the Taylors, and Preston might even be able to use this opportunity to try and get closer to Lucas. He might even get the Ocean Bathhouse back from Lucas rightfully.
Unfortunately, he couldn't agree to Lucas's request.
"Mr. Gray, I'm really very sorry, but I can't agree to your request." Preston shook his head regretfully.
Then Preston quickly added an explanation, for fear that Lucas might have misunderstood something. "It's not that I don't want to agree to your request, but the Taylors own many businesses that various members of the family manage. There are clear rules on which industries each person is in charge of, and I happen to not be the person in charge of the real estate and construction industry, so I can't interfere and agree to your request."
Seeing how sincere Preston seemed, Lucas finally believed that he wasn't just making up a random excuse but that there was indeed such a rule among the Taylors.
Given Scott Taylor's behavior previously, Lucas reckoned that he should be the one in charge of the real estate business of the Taylors.
In that case, Preston indeed couldn't agree to his request to cooperate.
So Lucas dropped the idea and said, "Forget it then. Since this person already has his limbs broken, I can't be bothered to pursue this anymore. You may take him away."
Seeing that Lucas didn't seem to be angry, Preston heaved a sigh of relief and hurriedly guaranteed, "Please rest assured that I'll definitely inform my subordinates not to get into a conflict with you again!"
"Okay." Lucas then turned to look at the former senior executives of the company, who were kneeling on the ground.
After Lucas glanced at them, Adrian, Jimmy, and the rest immediately shuddered and begged, "Mr. Gray, we were wrong! We won't make the same mistake again! Please spare us!"
"Yes, Mr. Gray. Please just forgive us this once!"
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They were panic-stricken. Had they known earlier that Lucas was so terrifying, they wouldn't have listened to Adrian and let him tempt them into coming here to threaten Lucas.
Lucas said coldly, "I've already given you a chance just now, but unfortunately, you chose to give it up yourselves."
Then he turned to look at William and ordered, "Mr. Carter, it's up to you to deal with these people. Go investigate them and find out clearly if they've embezzled company funds or committed some other illegal acts!"
"Yes, Mr. Gray!" William immediately acknowledged.
Adrian and the others almost fainted after hearing what Lucas said.
They had stayed in the company for the sake of making money, so of course they had committed illegal acts. If Lucas decided to investigate them, none of them would be able to escape the law, and they would definitely be put behind bars!
At the thought of the consequences, they immediately decided to forgo any dignity and prostrated to Lucas.
"Mr. Gray, we have families to feed, and if we… go to jail, our families will be ruined!"
Lucas sneered. "Why did you do it in the first place then? Why didn't you consider this consequence when you were being parasites to the company and making money without a care in the world?"
The seven of them were deathly pale, and they were about to defend themselves further, but Lucas lost his temper and hollered, "Whoever speaks another word will be silenced forever!"
Lucas's domineering aura surged out like a beast, making them shudder and too afraid to speak.
Soon, William lodged a police report and had people come to take all the former executives away for a proper investigation.
Wanting to take the opportunity to leave, Preston hurriedly asked, "In that case, Mr. Gray, I'll take my leave now, alright?"
Lucas glanced at him and suddenly asked, "How are you handling the task I gave you?"
Previously in the Ocean Bathhouse, Preston had promised Lucas to introduce him to the mysterious organization that supplied beauties to the Ocean Bathhouse. But Preston said that even the Taylors had no idea who constituted the organization and their contact info. So they could only wait passively for the organization to contact them. However, it had been a long time since then, but there was still no news.
In addition, there were no longer any more beauties being sent to the Ocean Bathhouse lately, so Lucas suspected that the Taylors might have already contacted them and perhaps even agreed to change the transaction location.
Suddenly questioned about this matter, Preston obviously became nervous as he hurriedly shook his head. "Well… they haven't contacted me, so there's nothing I can do!"
Lucas narrowed his eyes and stared at Preston without saying anything for a long time. His gaze was so intense that droplets of sweat appeared on the tip of Preston's nose.
Lucas then questioned slowly, "Preston Taylor, do you think that you can fool me because I'm a little too nice to you?"
As soon as Lucas said this, Preston immediately remembered the fear he felt when Lucas strangled him. But he nevertheless shook his head and said, "I'm telling the truth! Think about it. The Ocean Bathhouse is now in your hands, and I desperately want to get it back from you as soon as possible. How could I possibly deceive you? The truth is that no one knows the whereabouts of those people. I'm really anxious that they haven't contacted me, but there's nothing I can do except wait!"
With a sharp glint in his eyes, Lucas stared straight into Preston's eyes. "I'll ask you one last time. Have you really not been in contact with them?"