Chapter 70 How Can There Be Such Shameless People!
Brandon rubbed her temples, her voice colder than a polar bear's toenails, and said, "Oliver, right? Where you at now?"
"I'm at the hospital where Marcus is! My wife got hit by some reckless idiot! If you wanna see me, come over. I got a ton of stuff to spill!" Oliver shot back.
'I've never met someone who demands I show up in person. How can people be this shameless?' Brandon thought.
Oliver hung up, still lost in his daydreams of hitting it big.
'Brandon's gotta be interested in what I said. He'll come see me soon. Then I can call the shots, and the Smith family's problems won't mean squat!' Oliver thought as he dialed his secretary.
"Tell those companies if they don't wanna work with the Smith family, fine. We'll pay them off according to the contract!" he barked.
The secretary hesitated, "That'll cost a ton, like all our liquid assets."
Oliver, full of himself, didn't care. "Don't sweat it. I got a plan. Let them look down on us now. Soon, I'll be the one looking down on them! Once I sign with Mr. Windsor, I'll be the big shot in Serenitia City!"
The secretary quickly got to work on the compensation contracts.
After hanging up, Brandon was fuming, his heart aching.
"Damn the Smith family! I thought since they raised Catherine, I'd let it slide, but they're too much!" Brandon raged.
Aurora, hearing it was a call from the Smith family, quickly asked, "What did they say? Can't be anything good. Get rid of them fast. I heard they're at the hospital too. Make sure they don't run into Catherine. Those greedy jerks will definitely bug her if they see her."
Brandon nodded, "Should we send Catherine abroad for collage?"
Aurora shook her head, "The Windsor family's daughter doesn't need to hide. Catherine can go to school wherever she wants. She should be happy, and we'll make sure that family stays away from her! Plus, if we send her away, she and Alexander won't see each other much. That'd be bad for their relationship."
'Most importantly, we can't bear to be apart from her! We just found our daughter and want to see her every day!' Aurora thought.
"You're right. I'll get someone to rough up that damn Oliver! No, let's rough up his whole family!" Brandon quickly sent out the message.
Then he called Catherine, his voice dripping with flattery and love, with a hint of caution.
"Catherine, it's me. How you feeling today? What'd you do?"
"I'm good. Played chess with Marcus in the morning and I will go buy gifts for Samuel and Grace with George in the afternoon," Catherine replied.
"Buying gifts is awesome! I'll send you some money right now. Get something for yourself too!"
Catherine was silent.
Since she came home a couple of months ago, she had been getting a ton of pocket money. Now, looking at her bank balance, she felt kinda numb.
'I've started living off my parents.'
"No need, I still have money," Catherine said.
Brandon was almost in tears, "Do you think we're broke? Don't worry, I'll go to work tomorrow! You don't have to worry about us going bankrupt!"
Catherine was speechless.
'The Windsor family going bankrupt? What a joke! If the Windsor family ever went under, Imperia City's GDP would take a nosedive back twenty years. Not that they ever could go bankrupt, but even if they did, I'd find a way to bring them back.'
"Alright, I get it," Catherine said.
Brandon hung up, grinning, and instantly transferred $50 million to Catherine. Then his face turned icy.
"What the hell is Charles doing? Why hasn't he bankrupted those two families yet?" Brandon fumed.
'Our precious daughter has been through so much. If we don't ruin those families, I won't be able to sleep,' he thought.
Aurora thought for a moment and held Brandon back, "Find a time to ask Charles. Don't let Catherine know. She's so kind, and she'd be upset."
Brandon and Aurora, thinking about the life Catherine had lived before, hugged each other and cried. 'Damn the Smith family!'
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Moon Laboratory
The whole lab was decked out with the latest gear, even the sinks were fancy temperature-controlled ones, and they had a fresh batch of plants.
Catherine threw on a lab coat and walked in.
"Miss! Your fiancé is amazing! He even swapped our lab toilets for ones that automatically change the seat covers!" Mercury said.
"How did he know we've always wanted high-tech toilets? We were even planning to bet on who could hack the data to make a fully automatic one!"
For these geniuses, tweaking a toilet's data was a piece of cake.
Catherine glanced at Mercury, "Where's the experimental data?"
"Here it is. Eli has ten Dream grass plants, whereabouts of which still unknown, and they might've hit the black market."
"Find a way to track them down," she instructed.
Mercury groaned, "It doesn't work that way! Our lab's also growing Dream grass, but we haven't contacted the Tranquilwave Ocean lab yet! Who knows what Venus and the others are up to. And we're broke."
Medical experiments needed big bucks, and Moon Laboratory often ran low on funds, making Catherine design stuff and open stores to make money.
Catherine pulled out a few black cards, tossed them over, and said, "This should cover it. I'll figure out the rest."
Mercury's eyes widened, "So many black cards! Did you rob a bank?"
Uranus looked up from a pile of data, "Banks don't have this much cash. She must've hit a vault. That's illegal. If you get caught, don't drag us into it. We're not involved."
Catherine rubbed her temples and quickly tied her hair up with a hairband George had given her, showing off her slender neck, "It's pocket money from my family, all legal."
Members of the Galactic Aurora Collective, due to their pasts, didn't like dealing with the outside world much, rarely watched TV, or used the internet. They only knew Catherine had recently changed parents but didn't know whose family she had joined.
"Pocket money! You call an Evergreen Bank black card pocket money! Catherine, is your family in the mafia?" Mercury asked.
"Isn't Catherine's fiancé loaded? When can we marry into that kind of cash too?" Uranus joked.
'With so much money, why bother with experiments!' Mercury and Uranus thought.
Catherine picked up the experimental data and slapped it down, "Get out. I want new data in three minutes, or you two will be on toilet duty."
Mercury and Uranus bolted out of there in a flash.
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