My Dreamy Old Husband novel Chapter 396

Upon hearing that there would be a feast, Harry turned up as well, and with him, Daniel came along. The house which had been quiet for a few days suddenly turned livelier than ever.

After dinner and while it was still bright, Sophia said that she wanted to buy some pet food for the cat and tortoise. Thus, she left for the supermarket together with Stanley and Sean.

On their way out, Stanley complained, “Why is the Old Master so kind to you? He was even so generous as to give you the cat which he won’t even let me touch! Did you tell him that you’re married to Uncle Michael?

But that doesn’t seem right because he just told me today to court you as soon as possible and even got me such a dumb excuse to send you home.” It was clear as day to Stanley that Mark was especially enthusiastic to Sophia and it even made him a little jealous.

After they left the area, Stanley and Sean went in the direction of the military compound, taking the dog out for a walk after dinner to aid their digestion, while Sophia went the opposite direction where the supermarket was. Before parting ways, Sean couldn’t help but assure her, “Don’t be stressed out because of the amulet. I’ll try to persuade the Mitchells to give up on it.”

Nodding her head, she watched as they left, their arms on each other’s shoulders. Smiling, she realized why she had always felt close with Sean; it was because he was her cousin.

Sean’s grandfather was Woody’s youngest brother and his descendants had always followed Woody and Cooper around, making them one of the pillars of strength in the Mitchells. Unfortunately, after Cooper’s death, Alex came into power and the influence from Sean’s branch of the family gradually weakened, but it still carried a certain authority within the family.

After they parted ways, Stanley was still happily reminiscing about the bottle of wine from the cellar on the way back to the military camp. It was so good that just a sip of it was enough to satisfy him for half a lifetime! How wonderful it would be if Michael opens a bottle of his wine from his cellar collection every day!

On the other hand, Sean was in much deeper thought. After today, he would have to face Alex’s wrath when he returned to the Mitchells, where Alex might make things difficult for his grandfather and uncles.

The last time after he obtained Cooper’s USB drive, he brought it home to show it to his grandfather and uncles, who all agreed that the information on it should be destroyed after going through it.

The information which it held was simply too shocking and involved some sensitive incidents which could possibly destroy the Mitchells or place them in serious trouble if it was leaked. Besides the part where Cooper made a confession, the rest of the information was destroyed immediately to eliminate any future problems.

In the aftermath of Cooper’s confession, Alex’s branch of the family didn’t believe it and suspected it was Sean’s branch of the family who had secretly kept the token to Cooper’s inheritance.

Nevertheless, it had been more than two decades and Cooper never intended for the Mitchells to receive that property because there was no way to put the tokens together. In addition, nobody could decipher the thousand-digit code and the Mitchells couldn’t bring forward the tokens required by the bank in Kuwait.

All the Mitchells knew about was that Woody got the amulet for Cooper, which he had worn since young, but they didn’t know that there was actually another half to it. As Woody was old with dementia, they couldn’t find out anything from him while the priest whom he went to for the amulet had passed away years ago.

As for Cooper’s beloved woman, there was no way to start searching for her at all. Since he was the front of the Mitchells and their pride, anything which tainted his name would not be published and the situation back then was handled in secrecy.

Twenty years had passed, and the people involved were either dead or demented, so there was no way anyone could find out where that woman was buried. With all of their leads coming to a dead end, the Mitchells could only watch in vain as such an enormous treasure dangled before their eyes but they couldn’t reach it at all!