Kendall's Sacrifice novel Chapter 213

Chapter 212

"What's wrong, Dad?"

Adam asked, "Kendall, your mother-in-law called me this morning, saying that you want to quit your job. What happened?" He had wanted to call Kendall and ask her about it after getting the phone call from Tilly. However, considering his daughter's situation, he held back the urge to do so, intending to ask her for the details when she came back to the Parker Residence. Now that they'd run into each other, he thought he had better ask her about it right away.

"Dad, I'm not gonna quit my job," Kendall quickly explained. "I have no intention of doing so. They asked me to quit my job and stay at home as a qualified housewife of the family according to the Coleman Family's rules. I'm not supposed to go to work or show myself in public, so my grandmother-in-law acted on her own and resigned on my behalf. Dad, just ignore whatever she says to you. I'm married to Dylan, so it's okay as long as he likes me."

Adam cared more about his son-in-law's stance on this, though. "What does Master Dylan say about her wanting you to quit your job?"

Recalling how Dylan had defended her, Kendall became attractively bashful. She replied, "Dylan defended me and lets me do whatever I want."

"That's great." Adam was relieved.

"Dad, are you here for dinner?"

"I had an appointment with a client… One of the projects I'd been following up on in person has gone to someone else."

After hearing this, Kendall knitted her fine eyebrows and asked, "Dad, could it be the doing of Zorn Holdings?" She had offended Yasmine, after all.

"Uh-huh," Adam mumbled. "I also figured that Zorn Holdings was behind this. Few companies have the ability to make Mr. Gleeson change his mind and decide not to collaborate with the Parker Corporation at the last moment, but Zorn Holdings is the most likely one among them." The Mendelson Group wants to collaborate with the Parker Corporation, so there's no way it'd take the project away from us, not to mention Coleman Empire Holdings. However merciless Master Dylan is, he won't take business away from his father-in-law, right?

"Yasmine is too detestable," Kendall couldn't help but swear. "I didn't do anything wrong, but she found fault with me for no reason. Now that she didn't manage to gain advantage at my expense, she takes the business away from us instead."

Adam replied meaningfully, "Kendall, this is what the business world and society is like."

She was startled for a moment. Realizing what he meant, she fell silent for a while. Then, she replied, "I got it, Dad."

He patted her on the shoulder. "I'm not blaming you for this. Yasmine has gone too far. Even if we swallow the insult, we may not get peace in return." He had asked Kelly to go to Yasmine, but Zorn Holdings struck nonetheless. Yasmine is really angry, I guess, he thought.

Kendall replied, "I know that, Dad. Our company will get better and better!" She said that to tell herself that in a predatory society, the slightest carelessness would cause them to be devoured by the strong.

"What brings you here, Kendall?"

Kendall told him her purpose in coming here, saying, "Dad, I'll definitely secure an order from Prestige Electronics." The Parker Corporation had just lost an important project, causing its early investments to go up in smoke. If she were able to secure an order from Prestige Electronics, the Parker Corporation's losses would be minimized.

"Do your best!" Adam merely gave her an encouraging gesture without saying too many words of encouragement.

Kendall nodded vigorously.

He said, "Go ahead with what you're doing. I'm going back to my office to get some rest." He was in a terrible mood since the effort he had put in for such a long time ended up coming to naught. All he wanted to do was return to his room and get a good sleep. After all, he couldn't jeopardize his health while losing the project.

"Let me see you off, Dad." She saw him out of the hotel.

"Oh, by the way, I heard you saying that Mrs. Woods will be discharged today. Has she left the hospital?"

"Yes, she has. Dylan arranged for her and Nell to be sent home by car."

"Uh-huh," Adam mumbled. "It's our fault that your mom and I never visited her in person. Let's go and visit them after this busy period is over." He could understand his wife's concern about Kendall being close to the Woodses.

After all, Kendall grew up in the Woods Family. Neither she nor the Woodses had suspected that she wasn't the Woodses' child until she was 25 years old. Come to think of it, we're too merciless when it comes to this matter.

"Mrs. Woods won't blame you two for that. She knows that you are busy," Kendall replied, though Charlotte would go red in the face if she were to hear this. "She's happy that Mom is able to persuade Kelly into keeping her company for a few days."

Adam nodded. "The Woodses are sincere and good-natured."

The father and daughter stepped out of the hotel together.

Adam called his chauffeur. Soon after that, his chauffeur arrived in his car.

He entered his car while telling Kendall to go about her business. "Go ahead with your business, Kendall."

Kendall watched him disappear from her sight. After that, she turned around and went back into the hotel.

…

Meanwhile, at Coleman Empire Holdings…

As soon as it was time to knock off, Dylan, who had just returned to his office, left the company without having even read a document. "Go to Dynasty Hotel," he ordered in a cold and deep voice.

"Yes, sir," the chauffeur replied respectfully.

After Dylan gave orders to the chauffeur, Ronnie said respectfully, "Young Master Dylan, Zorn Holdings has attacked the Parker Corporation. Benjamin Zorn took a project away from President Parker. The Gleeson Corporation was supposed to sign the agreement with the Parker Corporation, but the company copped out of it today."

Dylan replied coldly without even knitting his brows, "He'll regret it." Such words were said with reference to the Gleeson Corporation.

Ronnie thought that he would give further instructions, but he didn't hear any word from Dylan after waiting for a long time. Not daring to speak out of turn by asking him about it, he had no choice but to continue waiting.

Dylan merely took out his cell phone and sent WhatsApp messages to someone without saying a word.

Meanwhile, Frank also learned of this.

It had to be said that the bigwigs in Orapolis were especially well-informed. It was only a while ago that the Gleeson Corporation copped out of the agreement and chose to collaborate with Zorn Holdings instead; Adam had yet to even return to his office, but both Dylan and Frank had already learned of the news.

Frank went to the hospital today to visit his psychiatrist as usual. Despite having met Kendall in person, he'd still have that kind of dream. Apart from visiting his psychiatrist, he also had his brain examined. Although he had asked Dr. Yellow to confirm Kendall's chastity, he still suspected that he was suffering from amnesia and had forgotten about his relationship with her. He suspected that the dream that he had almost every single night at the moment was memories of their past.

Hearing that Benjamin had snatched the project from Adam, Frank immediately called his special assistant with the order to launch an all-around attack on Zorn Holdings.

When Chris Urban, Frank's special assistant, heard his instructions on the phone, he was stunned. He couldn't help but ask, "President Mendelson, did you drink or something?" He sincerely suspected that Frank had gotten drunk and lost his marbles. The Mendelson Group and Zorn Holdings usually didn't interfere with each other's affairs. Not only that, but they had done business together several times in private. By suddenly giving instructions to launch an all-around attack on Zorn Holdings without any conflict occurring between them, Frank would stir up a dispute between the two companies. If Zorn Holdings were to team up with Coleman Empire Holdings, the Mendelson Group wouldn't be able to resist the two companies' attack.

"I'm not drinking."

"Are you not feeling well, President Mendelson?"

Frank replied, "Chris, just do whatever I ask you to do. Even if the world comes to an end, you won't be affected whatsoever." How dare Zorn Holdings take business away from my future father-in-law! If I don't make Benjamin suffer, he'll think that he's the top gun in Orapolis!