A Man with Nerves of Steel (Joseph Hart) novel Chapter 677

Chapter 677

Cora only wanted Joseph to come back, but she showed no real sincerity. She had no intention of apologizing or compensating him either. It was only natural that Joseph remained unmoved.

After speaking with Cora, Joseph became even more resentful over everything she’d done. When he returned to the Traditional Medicine Center, he went and tormented Skylar again.

Over the next few days, Cora stopped going to Katie’s clinic. Clearly, she believed Joseph was no longer in Jenton and had truly left everything behind. Her only option was to search the various monasteries herself, or perhaps access some religious database system to look for records related to Eberhard.

With the Lowell family embroiled in internal conflict and weakening, Joseph decided to launch a small attack on Emerald Mountain.

His men deployed smoke grenades and knockout agents, broke through the checkpoints, and pushed all the way into the middle of the Zahn family’s village. To their surprise, over a hundred fighters were stationed there. Joseph’s men were vastly outnumbered and were eventually forced to retreat.

Even during the retreat, however, Joseph remained calm. At a bend in the mountain road, he set up an ambush and caught the pursuing Zahn family members completely off guard, leaving them in a sorry state.

At the scene, some identifying items belonging to the Lowell and Roth families were deliberately left behind. It was an attempt to divert suspicion toward them. Whether the Zahn family believed it or not was another matter.

The lightly injured members of the Zahn family remained at Emerald Mountain to receive treatment from the medical sect. At the same time, those with more serious injuries were sent to the Traditional Medicine Center and placed under Joseph’s care.

Meanwhile, Joseph continued consolidating his influence over Jenton’s hospitals.

He met with Marvin Pierce from Jenton General Hospital a few times. Using a mixture of threats, incentives, and coercion, Joseph finally forced Marvin to compromise.

A week later, Joseph also brought the Women and Children’s Hospital under the influence of the medical sect, sending the medical sect to its peak in terms of power.

Then, before the leader of the medical sect even had a chance to approach him, Cora surprisingly contacted him first and invited him to dinner.

Inside a quiet and private room, after several rounds of drinks, Cora proposed a deal.

She finally reached the point where she could no longer tolerate things. She was ready to make a move against the Lowell family.

Joseph knew exactly what was going on. After all, Marlin’s constant provocations had been encouraged and orchestrated by him.

He said, “Do you really think Marlin is the root of your family’s problems? I don’t think so. I think the real problem is tradition. The longer a family’s history, the deeper its traditions run. Sons inherit, while daughters can’t. Legitimate heirs are favored over illegitimate ones. There are all sorts of rules.

“Ms. Lowell, just look at how things are now. You’ve spent years building the Lowell family up with your own hands, but in the end, you were just setting up the stage for someone else.”

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Cora frowned and said, “How can people still be so obsessed with tradition in this day and age?”

Joseph shook his head. “It doesn’t matter what era it is. Great families always care about succession and inheritance. In fact, you yourself clearly recognize the importance of the Lowell family. You put the family’s interests first in almost everything

“Otherwise, why didn’t you establish a company under your husband’s surname? Why not call it the Hart Group? You recognize the Lowell family. So now that the Lowell family wants you to hand over control of its wealth and assets, why won’t you?”

Cora replied, “What kind of nonsense is that? If I give up control, I’ll have nothing left. Do you really think those people outside will let me and my daughters go?”

Joseph asked, “What about Dr. Hart?”

Cora shook her head. “He’s dead. He died in some run-down monastery in the middle of nowhere.”

So now she was telling everyone he was dead?

He kept his thoughts to himself and simply said, “Then congratulations, Ms. Lowell. You’re a free woman. You can be with Skylar now.”

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