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âClarence, donât say yes to herâ¦â Jeremy hurriedly butted in.
Slap!
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Helena fiercely slapped Jeremy. âShut up if you donât want to go to jail!â
âWhat do you think, Clarence?â Jackson looked at him indifferently.
Clarence smirked and retorted, âWhat do you think I think?â
100 million?
Fifteen years in prison!
He couldnât believe that the Hayes family had the gall to even suggest such a thing in the first place.
Jackson frowned. âIf you think itâs not enough, I can offer you another 100 million.â
Clarence smiled, keeping quiet.
Helena was flabbergasted. âClarence, youâre way too much!
âIs 200 million not good enough for you?
âWith your monthly salary of 3,000 dollars, you couldnât ever make 200 million even if you worked for 3,000 years!â
âMom, thatâs enough. Donât try to bargain with him anymore. Clarence isnât that sort of person,â Jeremy defended Clarence once more.
Jeremy might have seemed like an immoral asshole who did everything from drinking excessively, to banging prostitutes, to gamblingâbut deep inside, he was a righteous man.
âYou shut up! Someone, take the young master to his room!â Helena shouted in a shrill voice.
Several bodyguards in black suits immediately rushed in and dragged Jeremy out of the hall.
Helena glared at Clarence. âYou shouldnât be too greedy. A man who is never content is like a snake trying to swallow an elephant, and youâll choke in the end!
âThink about this carefully. Weâre offering you 200 million!
âFine, you drive a hard bargain. Weâll give you 300 million. Thatâs our final offer!â
Helena kept increasing the payment.
Her disgust toward Clarence grew more and more.
She could tell at a glance what kind of person he was.
Heâs the Murphy familyâs son-in-law. He was literally a nobody. He must have married into the family for money.
Clarence refused to give in. In Helenaâs mind, she believed it was because the money was not enough.
Jackson coldly threatened, âKid, youâre too na?ve.
â300 million is more than enough. Even if you asked for more, I donât think youâd be able to spend it all within your lifetime.â
The entire time, Joshua Hayes just sat by quietly and calmly drank his tea.
Zander, on the other hand, was quietly watching Clarence, wanting to see what the young man would say. Would he agree to their terms, or would he tell them no?
Using Jeremy to bring down the Hayes family had not been Zanderâs plan anyway. He only hoped to use this matter to give the Hayes family some trouble, out of spite for the injustice they had treated his son with in the past.
As for Clarence� Haha!
He was simply a sacrificial lamb, an insignificant ant, a sprinkle of seasoning in the fight between Zander Goldman and Joshua Hayes.
Clarence shook his head. âSorry, Iâm not at all interested in your money.â
âYouâve thought it over?â Jacksonâs heart sank.
Helena laughed coldly, âThink clearly, Clarence. We already know who you are.
âYou might not be afraid of us, but have you thought about what we could do to the Murphy family?â
She was making a threat!
Clarence stifled a laugh. They knew who he was?
If the Hayes family had found out his true identity, then surely they would know that he was the only legitimate heir of the worldâs number one consortium, right?
Never did Clarence expect that his good intentions to save an old man would force him into such a situation.
Clarence learned something new about human nature at that moment.
He vowed to himself to never again save lives for no good reason. Good things did not always happen to those who performed good deeds. It was a sobering thought.
Clarence ignored Helena and Jackson. His gaze fell on Zander Goldman instead. âMr. Zander, I know youâre a big shot from the capital.
âJackson and Helenaâs words have no weight.
âI know that whether or not Iâll go to jail, that completely depends on you.â
âOh? Interesting, so youâre choosing to come straight to the source and find out where the problem lies. Not bad.â Zander nodded briefly, looking at Clarence with more than a hint of appreciation.
âTell me, why should I not continue to pursue this matter?â
Clarence decided to not beat around the bush. âYou toss and turn every night during the early hours of the morning. Youâre having trouble sleeping.
âThe sharp pain in your chest pierces through your bones!
âOnce it strikes, itâs like a billion ants biting you!
âYou canât get emotional, because when you do, you start to cough violently!
âYou canât eat spicy food, and you even quit smoking and drinking for years.
âItâs not that you donât want to smoke or drink, but itâs that you canât.
âThe doctors have told you that you will die if you continue your bad habits!
âYouâre afraid to die!â
âHow do you know?â Zanderâs gaze was full of surprise.
Jackson looked at Clarence in amazement.
Helena was equally surprised.
Joshua Hayes frowned. He had a bad feeling about what was going to happen next!
Johnson Goldingâs eyes lit up. Was Master Howard going to cure Zander?
Clarence Howard continued, âYouâve been taking painkillers for a long time now.
âUnfortunately, because youâve taken too many painkillers over the years, theyâre no longer effective.
âNow every week, you have to eat a thirty-year-old mountain ginseng from Paektu Mountain.
âStrangely, on the nights you take the old mountain ginseng, youâre in even more pain!
âEspecially around two in the morning, your whole body will burn like itâs on fire!
âAn hour later, you start to feel like youâre falling into an ice cave!
âYouâve gone through this for more than three years now.
âWhen the pain is too much, you even consider killing yourself!â
âYou⦠How did you know?â Zander was completely stunned.
He stood up from his chair and stared at Clarence in horror.
Only a few people from the Goldman family knew about his condition. No more than five people, and all of them were close family. No one else knew anything.
How did Clarence find out?
âYou are sick, so of course I know,â Clarence said indifferently.
Zander was completely convinced. âMaster Howard, please save me!â