Betrayed by the Father Reborn in His Rival's Arms novel Chapter 392

Besides, there was a lot of room for manipulation in her case.

A thought struck Madeline immediately. "Quentin, what confuses me the most is that Alastair is completely useless. Where does he get the confidence to claim he'll produce real results and prove everyone who looks down on him wrong?"

Quentin's gaze darkened, a thoughtful expression crossing his face.

A cold smirk suddenly touched his lips. "It just proves someone sold him a massive fantasy, and he's completely buying into it."

Madeline suddenly remembered the business proposition Tristan had approached Quentin with at the banquet.

The York family was about to win a bid for a massive engineering project, and they needed to import over twenty fully automated machines from Germany.

The Whitman family had originally built their fortune on foreign trade, and it was still their core business today, even though they had expanded into hotels, resort islands, tech companies, and shopping malls.

But their primary revenue still came from foreign trade.

Foreign trade meant they could easily handle this deal too.

Madeline's intuition was spot on. Quentin was thinking the exact same thing.

"The old crone probably found out about my partnership with the York family through some back channel," Quentin explained. "She must be desperate to steal this deal. Lucius is far harder to control than Alastair, so she found a way to kick Lucius to the curb. Now, all she has to do is manipulate Alastair to undercut my prices endlessly."

Madeline agreed that this was highly likely.

But one thing still didn't make sense. "Liliana is heavily pregnant, and Alastair is actually willing to be the fallback guy?"

Quentin laughed, sandwiching her hands between his large palms.

His adorable wife was so petite; everything about her was smaller than him.

Her delicate hands were beautiful, and he never grew tired of holding them.