The Woman From Hell

Back at Green Orange, I still had not snapped out of what happened earlier and sat in my seat in a daze.

Shannon's curses filled my ears. "Just what the hell did Marius do? It's much too contriving even for him to betray us temporarily to help the Yards.

"What do you think Marius was thinking? Could he be mad because of his one-sided love?"

"Shannon." I could not really listen to any more of it and opened my mouth to stop her.

Shannon looked at me. As if understanding what I was feeling, she just sighed and stopped.Têxt © NôvelDrama.Org.

I could not figure out why Marius would do this either.

"Let's put this matter aside for now. It's a foregone conclusion. Since we've now obtained the development rights to North Courts, we'll make the best use of it. The land is still very valuable despite it being higher than the market price. Fortunately, we stopped the loss in time since the Yards had no intention of continuing to raise the price."

Tyler was right. If the Yards had continued to bid, the consequences would have been disastrous.

"Come to think of it now, Silas is truly a sly fox." Slowly recovering, I started analyzing the situation as a whole. "He didn't care about North Courts. He wasn't even thinking about fulfilling my mother's last wish. It was all a lie."

He intentionally created the idea that he so badly the land in North Courts to implant the notion. Silas kept not only me but also the others in the dark so that our competitiveness for North Courts' land would naturally increase. He pushed me into thinking that he wanted that piece of land so that I would fall into his trap step by step.

Silas had Marius' help in all of this. Without Marius, Silas could not have possibly captured my thoughts every step of the way.

I trusted Marius too much. That was how Silas had gotten the opportunity.

That call from the night before was spot on.

"I'm looking for Wanda Lane. Don't stop me."

While my thoughts were racing, Brian's voice sounded outside the door. He sounded rather emotional.

I glanced at Shannon and Tyler, signaling for them to go out first.

When I opened the door, Brian trotted in. Shannon looked worried and refused to leave, but I nodded to her. She then closed the door.

Brian pointed at my nose,

expression furious. "I

underestimated you, Wanda Lane.

You tried every means to persuade me to give up North Courts'

development rights et

you

went and got them yourself How

impressive of you!"

I knew he coveted North Courts and that he would be reluctant to let the land go now that it had fallen into my hands.

Compared to his irascibility, I was

calm. "Chairman Wagner, don't worry. I just came out of the bidders meeting and haven't collected my thoughts yet. You have to know that

I was also made a fool. What do you

Buds

think?"

"I don't care about all that. The point is you ended up getting your hands on North Courts' development rights. Tell me how do we go about this?"

"We've discussed it already. I'm

aware you really want this plot of land, Chairman Wagner, and since it has now fallen into my hands, let's split it. Hyperspace has no intention of forking out the money, so it'll only be Green Orange, Schuman

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Corporation, and Wagner Corporation. You'll take 50% while Schuman Corporation will take 30% and I 20%. We'll divide it based on our ability. Are you satisfied with this, President Wagner?"

Seeing how courteous I was and how fair the division was, Brian Wagner was appeased. "How sensible of you. Although it's much more expensive, this piece of land is valuable. It's the Yards' loss." "You have a vision for long-term investment, Chairman Wagner. You might have spent more than the Yards, but I believe they'll come to regret it in the near future."