1162 The Parkers’ Current Situation
Hearing what Lucas said, Kenneth looked extremely respectful, even a little in awe.
Back then, Kenneth’s cousin, Tristan, had offended Lucas, and Lucas originally wanted to destroy the Parkers.
But fortunately, Kenneth’s grandfather, Damon, made the right choice to become loyal to Lucas at the critical juncture, which saved the Parkers. He went on to show Lucas his loyalty and earned his trust, which gave the Parkers the opportunity to develop rapidly.
Lucas smiled and asked, “How is your grandfather now?”
He had a good impression of that smart old man Damon Parker.
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Kenneth smiled. “My grandfather is doing well. Just last month, he handed over the position of helmsman to my father. My father and I, together with the other members of the family, basically handle all the family affairs now. My grandfather mostly stays in his villa and leads a comfortable and carefree life of nursing flowers and rearing birds.
“But he often mentions you, and he always tells us to remember your great kindness to our family and that we are to obey your instructions whenever we meet you.”
Lucas laughed. He didn’t expect that Damon would tell his juniors this.
The two of them were sitting here and talking. Although Leila was sitting beside them, she didn’t know Kenneth or the past between Lucas and the Parkers, so she didn’t have the chance to speak at all and just sat quietly while listening.
But from their conversation, Leila could infer a lot of information, which caused waves in her heart.
Although she still didn’t know what kind of a family the Parkers were, the fact that Kenneth knew Nick and had even ordered someone to break his limbs was enough to show that the Parkers’ power was not to be underestimated.
But regarding this powerful family, Kenneth actually said that everything the Parkers had now was given to them by Lucas and that Lucas could take anything away as he pleased.
In that case, Lucas’s control over the Parkers was simply at a terrifying level.
After drinking a few cups of tea, Kenneth called a gorgeous woman over and introduced her, “Kayla, this is Mr. Gray.”
The woman named Kayla quickly greeted Lucas, “Hello, Mr. Gray. I’ve long heard about you, but I didn’t expect you to be younger than I imagined.”
While speaking, the woman had a very respectful expression on her face and even a tinge of surprise. She had clearly heard of Lucas’s name before.
Kenneth smiled. “Mr. Gray, Kayla is my fiancée.”
“Hello.” Lucas greeted Kayla politely, not expecting that she was Kenneth’s fiancée.
“Kayla, Mr. Gray and I still have some things to talk about, so please show Mrs. Gray around our jewelry gallery. Give her that diamond necklace I picked earlier as a meeting gift!” Kenneth said to Kayla while signaling to her with his eyes that he was referring to Leila.
“Alright. Wow, Mrs. Gray, you’re so young and beautiful!” Kayla was a rather enthusiastic person, and she immediately took Leila’s hand and pulled her away.
When Leila heard the words ‘Mrs. Gray’, she blushed, but she didn’t say anything and left with Kayla shyly.
Lucas didn’t explain either. After the two left, he asked, “How is the Parkers’ strength now?”
In fact, after he subdued the Parkers, he didn’t spend much time and effort on them, and he basically left it to them to develop on their own. Thus, if he hadn’t run into Kenneth here today, he would have probably almost forgotten about them.
But since they met in DC, Lucas wanted to ask how far the Parkers had developed.
Kenneth said, “Since you allowed us to take over the Brookes’ business in LA, our strength has increased by leaps and bounds.
“After you became the hegemon of California and Oregon later, the Parkers’ status rose even higher, and countless families and enterprises in both states extended cooperation offers to us. So in the past few months, our assets have increased by more than ten times.
“I’m afraid none of the families in California can measure up to us now, not even the Coles.”
What Kenneth said surprised Lucas.
He didn’t expect the Parkers to be able to improve so drastically within just a few months.
Kenneth hesitated for a moment before continuing, “Actually, to be honest with you, Mr. Gray, we’ve managed to achieve such great success and expanded beyond LA to all parts of the country, especially in DC, all thanks to you.”
“Oh? Why do you say so?” Lucas asked with a look of interest.
Kenneth smiled. “My grandfather told us that you’re not an ordinary person, and you definitely won’t stay in Orange County. One day, you’ll leap forward and become an incredible person that’s out of reach. He said that if the Parkers continued to stay in California, we would eventually be unable to keep pace with you and become your burden.
“Therefore, no matter what, the Parkers must try our best to expand our market and make our family stronger so that we wouldn’t be left behind by you.”
This reason surprised Lucas again.
He didn’t expect the Parkers to have expanded so extensively and were trying their best to cover the entire country so that they wouldn’t be left behind by him.
Lucas had an even better impression of Damon.
He was indeed a wise man!
Lucas’s current power and authority were far superior to before. If the Parkers were still just a powerful small family in LA, Lucas might have really ended up forgetting them.
This wasn’t because Lucas was mercenary and snobbish, but rather, he was already standing too high now. All he saw now were countless powerful enemies or allies. Those standing too low were easily obscured and ignored by him.
Damon had obviously already realized this, so he had not only instructed his family to follow Lucas’s footsteps closely but also made many changes to the Parkers’ development plan in order to prevent Lucas from ignoring them.