Invincible Heir novel Chapter 16

Tracy felt her heart grow sour with indignation and resentment. She’d established the Samho Group with her own two hands, until the Perry Clan took that from her. Now she finally had an opportunity to take the company back, but her own grandfather was breaking his word just like that.

“You can’t accept it?”

Henry repeated icily and then went on. “If that trash husband of yours hadn’t made enemies of Connor, we would have been able to sign a contract with the Johnson Clan as well. If we could have achieved that along with our collaboration with the Brone Group, the Perry Clan could have ascended to an elite family this very year. And now, you have the gall to tell me you find your plight unacceptable?”

Like a bayonet, Henry’s words stabbed deep into Tracy’s heart.

‘So if Tracy gains the collaboration of the Johnson Clan, you can pass the seat of Chairman to her, then?’

Standing beside Tracy, Baron studied Henry calmly, almost peaceably – but if Charles had been there with them, he would have known that in this state, Baron was at his most terrifying.

“Who do you think you are? The likes of you, negotiating with me?”

Henry looked at Baron with derision and turned his gaze on Tracy. “Even if you secure collaboration with a hundred Johnson Clans, the position of Chairman will never find its way to you.”

With that Parthian shot, the old man turned and left.

And so the tides turned once again, and the fair-weather friends flocked their way back to Phillip’s side.

“Come now, Tracy, did you really think you’d be received as some sort of hero just for bringing back one measly contract?”

“Exactly. All you’ve done was make up for your own mistake.”

“Mr. Perry knows best after all – keeping the company out of the hands of this shameless woman.”

“Phillip is Mr. Perry’s rightful heir. Where exactly do you think you come in locking horns with him?”

The people who had been busy kissing up to Tracy but less than a minute ago all switched sides in an instant.

Tracy was heartbroken with everything Henry had said, but on top of that, she’d lost the Samho Group all over again. The injustice of it all weighed heavy on her chest. To regain control of the company, she’d offered up her blood, sweat and tears for five arduous years. And this was her reward.

“From now on, Tracy, the Samho Group belongs to me. In the future, I’ll be taking over the Perry Clan as well.”

Phillip gloated as he swaggered over, his gaze sweeping contemptuously over Baron before landing once more on Tracy. “Were I you, I’d divorce this garbage. With him here, you’ll always be beneath me.”

Moving suddenly, Baron began marching off, his footsteps long strides. Phillip sneered at the sight. “What? You’d like to hit me, is that it? Go on, try it. Lay a single finger on me, and you can watch your wife’s exile from the clan!”

The temperature of the corridor fell drastically as Baron turned an expressionless stare on Phillip. “You can’t hide behind closed doors forever. Sooner or later, you reap what you sow.”

Phillip covered his sudden surge of apprehension with bluster. “What are you blathering about now, trash? I swear, talking to garbage like you is an insult to my person.”

With that, he hurried off.

“Let’s go, Tracy.”

Looking at his devastated wife, Baron’s own heart ached.

“Why is it you again? Why did you come back? What on earth do I owe you for? You’ve dragged me down to fail again and again and again! Do you even know how much the Samho Group means to me?”

The resentment in Tracy’s eyes curdled into a hateful grudge as she glared at Baron. Then she crumbled and wept out loud.

After a long while, Tracy’s emotions settled, and she stared at Baron, a complicated expression on her face. Then she bit her lip and said - “Sorry.”

Baron never expected Tracy to apologize to him of all people. Taken aback, he shook his head lightly, then asked solemnly, “Would you like to take the Samho Group back?”