Atrophy of Love: Mr. Harris, Stop Fooling Around! novel Chapter 386

“Whether Dad wakes up or not, you can’t just stay here forever and wait for him. Ms. Leadman told me that she can cover for you and deal with the senior executives for the next few days but you have to go back soon.”

Many of the company’s shareholders and senior executives were initially upset with a good-for-nothing rich man’s son as the company president, but they were pleasantly surprised when he joined forces with Charles this time to set up a trap for Leah.

As for the Russell family, they did not end up buying the 25% shares. Instead, they lent White Industries some money so that the White family was able to repurchase the shares.

Hence, they ended up as White Industries’ creditor, not a shareholder.

The shares the two White siblings had altogether now was 65%, which meant that they had absolute control over the company. This was the only good news White Industries had for the time being.

After all, ever since the whole James and Jenny incident that had happened recently, the company shareholders had not been united. There was always the possibility that they might be instigated by other parties to make choices that were not beneficial to White Industries.

“Just give me one more day. If Dad still doesn’t wake up, I’ll go back.” Sterling’s voice was as hoarse as a broken gong, and in addition to the overgrown stubble on his chin, he looked nothing like a young man in his twenties.

Sophia did not say anything after that. She headed over to Ward 1236 but she was told that Nicole had already left.

“When did she leave? Where did she go?”

“Mrs. White left not long after you left but she didn’t mention where to.”

Sophia thanked the nurse. As she walked back to the corridor, she called Nicole, but after several tries, nobody picked up. However, she received a call from Sylvia instead.

“How about it, little girl, have you thought about my offer?” Sylvia seemed to be in a good mood.

Sophia gripped the corner of her sleeves and forced a calm voice as she replied, “What do you mean?”

“What? Your sister-in-law lost an arm and Charles is now in prison, are these factors not enough for you to consider?” Sylvia exclaimed in shock.

“!”

As she had thought, Sylvia was in fact related to both incidents!

Sophia tightened her grip around her phone so hard her knuckles turned white. Her blood was boiling with rage, and the anger that surged through her chest was so great it was close to reducing whatever rationality she had left to ashes.

“I suggest you stop now. Although you may find the White family easy to pick on now because our elders aren’t around, the Harris and Cox family are not as easy to provoke.”

She thought this would make Sylvia feel a bit of fear but instead, she laughed out loud as if she had just heard a funny joke.

“Children will always be children, you’re too naive. Sophia, do you think a woman my age wouldn’t consider the consequences of my actions?”

Sophia’s heart raced against her chest. “What do you mean? … Are you working with Leah?”

The only people who wanted to split her and Charles apart were Leah and Master Harris, but seeing how the current situation was disadvantageous toward the Harris family, she eliminated the possibility of Master Harris being behind this.

However, Leah was just exiled from the Jones family recently, it would not make sense that Sylvia was this confident having Leah on her side.

“You don’t have to guess who I’m working with because you’ll never have the answer. However, one thing I can surely tell you is that it isn’t that silly little girl called Leah. I admit she’s quite good for someone your age, but she’s still not good enough to work with me.”

Now that Leah was ruled out, Sophia was even more confused. “Who’s the one working with you to separate me and Charles then? Were you the one who forced my sister-in-law to frame Charles?”

“It’s very simple. If you want answers, you just have to come to see me. Alright, I have a facial appointment now. Goodbye, silly little girl.”

With that, she hung up before Sophia could ask any more questions.

Sophia frowned at her phone. She tried to call Sylvia after that but her call went unanswered.

She went on about a lot of things but nothing went into Sophia’s mind. Charles was the only person on her mind, as well as how she was going to get him out.

Somewhere along, she heard Zachary talking to Clara. “Ms. White isn’t in a good mood now, you shouldn’t talk to her about these little things now. Let’s focus on more formal matters, shall we?”

“Exactly! I’m talking to her about little things to destress her and distract her from all the bad things happening now! You shouldn’t say such things when you don’t understand what I’m trying to do! Hmph!”

Clara refuted him in an annoyed tone. Then, she softened her tone as she continued talking to Sophia. “About that, Sophia, I have not-so-good news to tell you.”

“... Okay.” From the moment her father had been hit by a car, she had been bombarded by a series of unfortunate events. The only difference was how bad each piece of news was.

“I told my dad about Big Iceberg thinking he could help out. We can all agree that although Big Iceberg has a pretty bad attitude and he can be intimidating at times, but I don’t think he’s extreme enough to be running human experiments,” Clara said in a dejected tone.

Sophia could not tell whether she was praising or criticizing Charles, but she was more concerned about something else. “What did he say?”

Mr. Robertson was the municipal party committee secretary, he must have heard something since Harris Corporation was one of the biggest companies in the city.

“And… my dad asked me not to interfere in this matter. He says the person who ordered Big Iceberg to be arrested is a powerful and influential figure, well, at least the person is someone my dad can’t afford to provoke. Anyway, even talking about it seems taboo, he wouldn’t even give me a name. Besides, I think Harris Corporation might have really violated the rules this time…” Clara’s voice became softer and softer toward the end of the sentence.

She continued rambling for a while but Sophia could no longer hear anything.

If the person was someone Mr. Roberson was afraid of mentioning, what kind of position could this person possibly hold?

By the time Sophia ended the call, her palms and feet were covered with sweat, and she felt so weak she could no longer maintain her balance.

Her arm reached for the wall for support as her mind went blank. She stood there frozen for a while before her phone suddenly buzzed.