Entangled With The CEO Brothers

Holly stayed where she was like a log, her face growing paler and paler.

Her hands balled into fists, clenching and unclenching them tightly, her body trembling slightly, and for a long time a wry smile appeared on her lips.

“That’s so … good,” she looked at me and said softly, “Then congratulations.”

After saying that she turned to leave.

The moment before she turned around, I clearly saw unusual hatred in her eyes.

My heart trembled.

It was only when I came back to my senses that I grabbed Patrick and asked him, “Why did you say that? What made you think that? When did I promise you I would go to Canada?”

“Hold your horses for a second …”

“Patrick!”, I did get a little agitated, “You can’t interfere with my future!”

“Laura, this isn’t something I take personally!”

Patrick looked at me, with a look of some urgency and innocence. “It was Mrs. Mellisa who said so.”

“What?”

Mrs. Mellisa? Mellisa?

My own mother, to be exact.

My heart hangs in my chest as I continue to ask him, “She approached you? When? Why didn’t you ever tell me!”

“I was going to tell you, but didn’t want to so soon.” He said, “Mrs. Mellisa actually approached me when you first moved over here. She said that she wanted me to take good care of you, and that it would be best if I could bring you back to Canada.”

“I didn’t really know what she intended,” he whispered, “but I really wanted to take you back to Canada.”

“What else did she say?”

“Nothing else.” He shook his head.

“And you don’t want to ask?” I was taken aback.

Patrick just laughed softly, “It’s in the past anyway, I’m not interested in what happened before.”

“Laura,” he gently shook my hand, “Since Mrs. Mellisa gave such a word, I guess … The Lynch Family you can’t go back? You’ll just come back to Canada with me, okay?”

My mind went blank and I pulled my hand out of his palm.

What else could I say? It turned out that even my own mother had tried to send me away because my presence would threaten his son. I am, after all, a daughter that I haven’t seen in more than twenty years, or a daughter that she abandoned back then, but that son of hers, he was the one who accompanied him through thick and thin all the way here!

Heh, and said something about how he would protect me and make it up to me.

All lies!

Selfishness is human nature, as long as the threat of personal interests, all of them will not recognize the six relatives.

I laughed coldly, remembering when Cameron insisted on sending me to New Avalon because he was afraid that I would ruin his wedding with Queenie, suddenly my heart felt like a knife.

“Laura …,” Patrick called to me.

I forced a smile at him and told him truthfully, “I’m sorry Patrick, I can’t promise you that.”

“I know you’re a good man.” I look him in the eyes, “But I don’t deserve you. I told you a long time ago, you deserve a better girl … I’m sorry, if you still think of me as a friend, no matter what happens to you in the future, just say the word, and I’ll definitely go through fire and water for you. But if you don’t want to be friends with me anymore, forget about me completely. You deserve a whole new life.”

“Laura!” he said with a start.

The sadness in his eyes was too much for me to bear to look at him.

“I still have some things that I have to take care of myself.” I said, “That’s when I realized that no one can take my place, no one can take care of anyone for the rest of their life.”

My savior, could only be myself.

I gave him a hug, patted him on the shoulder, and whispered to him, “I will bless you wherever you are, Brother Patrick.”

I knew I had been so unfair to him. After Patrick left, I cried bitterly in the house.

After crying I packed my bags and took Sunny back to The Lynch Family the next day.

Cameron used to send me away and I’d accept it coyly. But now I didn’t want to be at anyone’s mercy.

Yasmin was so surprised and happy to see me, she carried my boxes and packed my room, and she couldn’t let go of Sunny.

“Children at this age really look different every day! Our Sunny is beautiful again, her eyebrows are clear, she’s going to be a big beauty in the future for sure!”

I smiled and took out the milk powder and bottle.

“It’s time for Sunny to drink her milk,” I said, “Is everyone at home?”

Yasmin nodded and gave a wink.

That’s when I heard the sound of a car at the front door, followed by footsteps in the living room downstairs and someone whispering.

“All back?” I asked.

“Yes.” Yasmin whispered, “These days even the Master comes back every day. Or now this wife has the means, in the past when that person was here, the master came back once a month is not bad …”

Saying that she was self-conscious of her slip of the tongue, she awkwardly said to me, “Miss, I’m sorry ah … I forgot that Mrs. Mellisa is you …”

“It’s okay.” I laugh lightly, “Yasmin, take care of Sunny for me, I’m going downstairs.”

In the living room, all three of their family were there.

Actually, with me, it should be a family of four.

I sometimes think that if it wasn’t for those things back then, we might really be a peaceful and beautiful family of four now!

I can see that Ethan loves Mellisa very much, and even though they fought a lot when they were young, they will still be the most faithful companions to each other in their old age.

Carter will also be a well-bred flamboyant man, a good brother and a support to the family, not the treacherous mouth he is now.

And I …

Wouldn’t have been uprooted before the age of eight, and in the wrong hands afterward, and with a human life on my back.

If Stella hadn’t climbed into Ethan’s bed back then …

None of what is happening today would have happened.

When I think of it that way, I do hate Stella a little bit. She always thinks that I’m the one who usurped Anne’s seat and enjoyed everything that Anne deserves, but she doesn’t realize that it was actually supposed to be me!

And yet she also raised me for fifteen years.

What a circle of karma.

I settled down, retrieved my thoughts, and walked downstairs with firm steps.

The discussion in the living room came to a screeching halt, and several beams of gazes coincidentally hit me with surprise, astonishment, and disbelief.

I laughed, “What, didn’t think I’d be here? Is this not my house?”

Carter’s face is the first to grimace as he deliberately avoids my gaze, his lips pursed tight.

Mellisa walks over and takes my hand.

Her fingertips are slightly cold and seem to be trembling, and there’s a vague plea in her eyes as she glances behind her again.

Ethan looks at me and his lips move, but says nothing.

I took a deep breath, “I know I’m kind of embarrassing, but it’s not my fault.”

“Laura …”

“I know that too!” I interrupted her, “You guys may be my parents, but you don’t have that much emotional attachment to me. As for Carter, I should call you my brother now … Heh, I’m afraid you think of me as an enemy even more.”

“You’re right.” Carter stood up, hands in his pockets, “Do you think you should be standing here? You think it’s a good idea for this to get out? Mom has made the best arrangements for you, why don’t you go with Patrick?”

“Why would I leave?” I looked at him, “Carter, your true colors are finally showing. So impatient to kick me out, you’re not looking too good!”

“You …”

He was just about to speak when Ethan stopped him.

Ethan signaled us to go to the study.

We sat around the coffee table in the study, the door to which was closed, and the atmosphere was heavy and depressing.

I hadn’t spoken to Ethan in the ten years I had been in The Lynch Family, I thought of him as a patriarch, and I rarely saw him, so I didn’t realize that this man was my real father.

His gaze was deep, his timbre a little husky, sizing me up for a moment, not saying anything else, instead asking me, “How’s your health?”

I was stunned and nodded my head.

“When you gave birth to the child, it was premature, and you had surgery, and you consumed a lot, and you didn’t properly replenish your body after giving birth … Now try not to labor, and you have to take care of yourself more.”

I laughed coldly at this, “Dad means that I should go to Canada to spend the rest of my life?”

His eyes condensed, “I mean, you protect yourself so that you can bring up your child!”

“You guys are doing everything you can to drive me away because you want to tamper with that will, right? After all, the will says that whoever marries me will inherit that multi-billion dollar inheritance. But Carter and Cameron, which one of them can marry me?”

“So the best thing to do is for me to disappear.” I looked at them and a wave of hatred steeped through me.

“I can’t believe you guys are doing this to me.” I laugh, “I’m family with you guys, you’re my dad, mom, and brother! But you guys did this to me!”

“Laura!” Mellisa throws her arms around me in a hug, she’s a little panicked, probably afraid that I’m making too much noise and these words will be heard by others.

The only one of The Lynch Family servants who knows my identity is Yasmin, and she’s tight-lipped and doesn’t say much, so naturally she won’t reveal it.

If this were to leak out, it would be a huge scandal for The Lynch Family.

If killing is not a crime, they might have killed Sunny and me on the spot, we are both tied to The Lynch Family’s pillar of shame.

But now they had to send us both away, just in time to find another obsessed Patrick.

I taunted them, “What’s the matter? Afraid I’ll yell it out and make you lose face?”

“It really isn’t something to be ashamed of.” Ethan looked at me.

He waved his hand signaling me to sit down.

He refilled my tea himself.

Then without slowing down, he spoke, “What exactly do you want? Why don’t you just say it?”

I took a deep breath, a few moments of triumph, and a small sadness rippled through my heart. I’m afraid The Lynch Family is the only people in the world who have to talk in a negotiating tone between parents and children.

“I don’t want much,” I said, “I just want what I deserve.”

“What do you mean you deserve it?” Carter lurched to his feet, Ethan coughed heavily and glared at him, and he sat down resentfully.

“The will does need to be changed, but you’ll have to use your brains as to how.” I looked around the room, “I’m your daughter, there’s no way I’m marrying my own brother, but if word gets out about who I am, The Lynch Family is sure to be laughed at.”

“What’s your opinion?”

“Not yet.” I smiled, “The estate is in the tens of billions, but The Lynch Group’s market capitalization isn’t too shabby, and I deserve a stake in The Lynch Group.”

Ethan lit a cigarette, his shrewd, narrow eyes, sparkling with a shimmer.

“You want a share?”

“Yes.” I looked at him, “I have a child to raise, and even for her sake, I’m going to fight for my rightful share.”

“Anything else?”

“Of course.” I pursed my lips, “I want a media company.”

“You’re crazy Laura!” said Carter, sulking again, “The Lynch Group has never been involved in media, and no one at The Lynch Group has any idea how deep the waters run in this business. You come up here and ask for a company and dive in head first, what do you want?”

“You don’t know how deep the water is?” I laughed softly, “Don’t forget you have a company, didn’t Holly tell you about the risks of this business?”

“You …”

“All of you cut the crap!” Ethan snapped, he looked over at me, “Laura, can you tell us about your plans for wanting this company?”

Plans? Of course there is.

It would be to use it against Holly.

She betrayed me, put on an act in front of me, lied to me for so long, and conspired with Carter to hurt me.

Didn’t she say that Gnote Magazine was her brainchild?

I’ll let her heart and soul fall to pieces!

“Could be.” I coughed softly, “The plan is simple, since I studied journalism and love the business, I want my major to be put to use. I’ve written editorials and gone to war in my country, so I have enough experience in the news media. I believe I will be able to run a good business.”

“In media, the investment is not that big.” Mellisa said, “Laura is also trying to fulfill an ambition, which is good!”

My heart fluttered.

Mellisa always looked at me with an apologetic look.

“Although The Lynch Group has a public relations department and a news department within it, I always feel that it’s an overlapping organization that’s difficult to manage. Why don’t we just carve out these two departments and set up a separate media company under The Lynch Group, so that we have our own company for speaking and publicizing to the outside world or for media relations. I think this is good!”

Ethan didn’t say anything, but Mellisa was very eager.

I felt a little bad in my heart.

She is a mom after all.

Her feelings towards me are just like my feelings towards Sunny, she was the one who abandoned me in the first place, and now she’s the one who wants to make it up to me, although I can’t forgive her, I can’t bear to criticize her either.

“Ethan!” urged Mellisa.

Ethan crushed his cigarette out and looked up at me, his gaze softer than it had been.

After a long time, he said softly, “You can’t have too many shares.” He then looked at Carter, “After all, your brother … has put in a lot of effort for the company, and you don’t have any credit.”

“Carter gets 10% and you can just give me 5%.” I said, “I don’t need to invest in the media company, you give me the start-up capital, and I’ll be on my own as to how to develop it later.”

“That’s the biggest concession I can make,” I looked at him and gently bit out the title, “Dad.”

“Heh, ridiculous!” Carter snorted softly, “Why should Dad agree to such terms? You don’t do anything, you take a dry run at The Lynch Group, and then you put all your energy into your media company? I’d like that too!”

I ignored him, “Dad, Mom, what do you think?”

“Of course, I don’t want all this for nothing.” I grinned, “All I’m promising you is that I’ll keep my mouth shut.”

“I don’t think you guys want everyone to know that I’m the daughter of The Lynch Family, and likewise, I don’t want to. As long as I get what I deserve, I’ll still be an adopted daughter of The Lynch Family and my last name will be Campbell for the rest of my life!”

“Laura!” glared Carter at me, “How dare you threaten us?”

“I’m making a deal!” I raised my voice and glared back hard, “You don’t want to dishonor The Lynch Group, do you? Then fulfill my terms!”ConTEent bel0ngs to Nôv(e)lD/rama(.)Org .

“And you, big brother!” I looked at Carter and sneered, “Watch how you talk to me from now on! Your attitude just now made me angry, and as soon as I get angry, my words and behavior are all out of control!”