Chapter 244 - More Plans (1)

4 April, Warren Gong's Villa, City K

Sitting in his study, reading doc.u.ments for his legitimate business ventures, Warren Gong heard his study door slam open, forcing him to look us. He observed his sister storming into the room. How dare she interrupt his work. His wife, daughter, staff and all his subordinates knew not to enter his study unless they were bid to, but his sister believed restrictions did not apply to her. He so wanted to teach her a lesson for disturbing him, but with that thought he immediately remembered the promise their parents had extracted from him before their deaths in that he would always ensure that she was treated as the princess they always saw her to be.

Princess, that was a joke. She was simply the money grabbing woman she always was. While he inherited the legitimate businesses, she was left plenty of money but that did not stop her from constantly coming and demanding money from him, playing on their parents request for how he was to treat her. Their parents has spoilt her rotten and whenever she asked for something she was simply given it, whereas, he not only had to earn the right to take over the legitimate businesses but had to fight to take over as head of the cartel, where the majority of the money he had came from.

Neither was easy to achieve, but he did. Then when she forced Richard to marry Lexi Yao attempting to get a share of the Yao family wealth that she and that loser of a husband both believed they had been cheated out of, that almost brought him to his knees. He had been grooming Richard from a young age to inherit both his legitimate businesses but to take over his role as head of the cartel. Richard constantly loved the freedom he had with him and had fallen deeply in love with the daughter of one of his key lieutenants Jasmine, and Jasmine was as in love with him as he was with her.

Unbeknown to the witch across from him, they had become engaged and even set a wedding date. Then she and his loser brother-in-law agreed to and then forced him into marrying Lexi Yao. That disaster almost tore the cartel apart and destroyed his legitimate businesses. It deeply divided him and his key lieutenants, until Richard and Jasmine came and spoke to them about the whole situation, and what their intention was. It was a real pity that Richard was on his way home from the lawyers he had put him in contact with for applying for his divorce and the efforts he was going get custody of Dominic, even though he was not his son.

The discussion when Richard told him that was full of shocks. Until that moment he had believed Richard and Lexi had slept together in a drunken encounter, and Richard has simply taken responsibility. But as Richard and Jasmine had explained his parents, using the limited power of attorney he had given them for two weeks while he was overseas on cartel business signed the pre-nuptial agreement with Lexi's parents for him to marry her. If he pulled out of the marriage the financial penalties were so significant that they would cripple him for years to come.

As Jasmine then explained, they had found out through various means that Lexi was pregnant with some unknown person's child and her parents wanted her married before that became known. As she said it was a blessing for them, because after the child was born Richard would seek a divorce from Lexi, and custody of the child, using the basis he was the legally recognised father. That child, he would make sure she could adopt as a childhood injury has left her unable to fall pregnant. It would mean that they would have an heir for the Gong Cartel and whatever legitimate businesses Richard had, without having to look for a surrogate, and all the issues that taking that part would cause.

When they laid it all out, it made sense, as the child was distantly related to Richard, and as Jasmine would be its legally recognised mother, it could take the role within the cartel when it was old enough. It was just such a pity that Richard and Jasmine were killed as they were in that traffic accident.

Looking at his sister, Warren spat out "What do you want."

Talking a seat, the immediate response was "What a way to talk to your sister brother."

"I know you too well sister. You want something, most likely money from me. I do not have the time for your games today, so spit it out."

"You are cruel. I have been here helping to organise your daughter's wedding…"

"At if it was about that, you would do what you and my wife have been doing all along and incurred the expense without consulting me. I would pay that without question. I have a meeting with a business colleague in less than an hour, and I need to finish what I am doing before it. So, before I get too annoyed tell me what you want."

Angrily the response came "You are so mean. I just wanted to talk to you about what you have arranged to help me get custody of my grandson. He is the only thing we have left of Richard."

"Do not get me started on that, dear sister" came the sarcastic response. "Richard's death can be traced to what you and your husband did while he was overseas for a couple of weeks. I know you want to snatch him and using the passport you obtained for him get him out of the country. We had plans, to get him alone and quickly whisk him over the border, but that is now an issue because my sources have found out Dominic's passports including the passport you obtained have been cancelled. Trying to use that will have us found out as he has been issued with a passport by the military due to Lexi's new husband. The only way that we will get him out of the country is through smuggling him out, hiding his identity."

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