Bullied and Dumped, But She Won in the End (Adriana) novel Chapter 336

Chapter 336 Heavy Is the Head that Wears the Crown

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Back then, Curtis had had no choice. As his uncle, Gary would definitely understand him.

The ones who’d truly pushed his mother to her death were Michael and those rigid, suffocating rules. about marriage alliances.

“It’s not just because of that,” Curtis said, clearing his throat awkwardly.

Clearly, there were still a lot of things about him that Adriana didn’t know.

Since Curtis wasn’t willing to talk about his bad blood with Gary, Adriana didn’t press him.

After Denton and Lily finished their little performance, Savannah and Ernest stopped keeping such a close eye on him.

In their minds, Denton was now completely under control.

After all, he’d handed over all authority and let Savannah and Ernest run Lincoln Group.

And thanks to Denton’s careful stirring, Savannah was now fully consumed with digging into Ernest’s secrets and had no time left to keep managing Denton’s side of things.

“Curtis, do you trust me?”

Under the night sky, the two brothers sat alone on a bench for the first time, just talking.

Denton had downed some red wine and was a little tipsy.

He had no idea whether Curtis would support or understand everything he’d been doing.

After all, he’d propped Savannah and Ernest up, fired the old employees Curtis had left behind, and stirred. up a huge storm across the business world.

People were saying he was carrying out a grand purge, clearing out every last person Curtis had left in the

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Using it as an excuse to give Lincoln Group a total blood change.

Denton didn’t care what everyone else said. He only wanted to know what his brother thought of him.

“I do,” Curtis said, patting him on the shoulder and getting to his feet, ready to go.

Right now, he was just anxious to get back upstairs, crawl into bed, and hold his wife. This kid had zero sense of timing–have a little wine, and suddenly he wanted some deep heart–to–heart on a bench outside.

What was there to talk about?

“Curtis, even if I’m turning the company into a complete dumpster fire, you still trust me?” Denton was annoyingly hard to soothe.

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He latched onto Curtis’s arm and wouldn’t let him leave.

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Curtis looked utterly helpless and stayed quiet for a long time before finally speaking. “Grandpa handed Lincoln Group to you. Do whatever you think you should do.”

As long as he didn’t blow it up beyond saving.

Besides, Curtis’s real focus now was on the Ainsworth Group. Ainsworth already had a solid foothold in Haldoria’s market, so even if Denton did run Lincoln Group into the ground, Curtis still had enough capital to pull everything back up.

Denton wanted to keep talking, but Curtis spotted Yolanda coming out of the living room and latched onto her like a lifeline. “Yolanda, Denton’s had too much to drink–give him a hand back to his room so he can sleep it off.”

With that, Curtis shoved Denton’s arm away and bolted.

Denton sat there in aggrieved silence, watching Yolanda stroll over to see what was going on. “Yolanda … does my brother not really like me that much?”

Yolanda offered no reply. She was starting to see it clearly now: because Denton had grown up starved of affection, his sense of security was a mess. The moment anyone’s mood shifted even a little, he magnified it a thousand times.

“You’re overthinking it. Your brother only likes Adriana. That’s the one person he’s willing to spend time on. The fact that he still has any leftover patience to show you a decent face means he already likes you a lot–for a little brother,” Yolanda said, sitting down beside him to keep the kid company.

She figured Denton was at the age where he needed the right values and a healthy mindset more than anything.

Denton tipped the bottle back for another swig, then slumped sideways against her.

Yolanda was stunned. Kid’s pulling a stunt now?

But when she heard him still quietly sniffling even in his drunken haze, that damned maternal instinct of hers kicked in, and she couldn’t bring herself to shove him away.

“Yolanda… I think I’m kind of tired…” he mumbled.

Growing up really was exhausting.

From the day he was born, his two useless parents had never given him much love at all.

From as early as he could remember, he’d had to cry himself hoarse from hunger, going door to door, putting on a pitiful act just to get something to cat.

Later, he started picking up firewood for people, collecting shellfish, and minding shops–doing whatever odd jobs he could to earn snacks on the side.

After that, he went on to do hard labor to pay his tuition and living expenses, and he even had to earn

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pocket money for Michael and that unreliable mother of his.

Back then, he’d never really felt this kind of tired.

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Physical exhaustion and the weariness in your heart were two completely different kinds of fatigue.

Even though he’d been planning things step by step, the moment he turned Lincoln Group into a mess and heard all those old employees cursing him as an idiot and an ungrateful brat behind his back, he couldn’t help feeling worn down.

His chest felt heavy, and he had no idea who he could talk to about it.

“When I was little, my grandpa told me a story. An eagle can become the top predator in the sky because it has powerful wings to carry it high above the clouds. But those wings aren’t strong from the day a baby eagle is born. It gets thrown off cliffs again and again–its wings break, then heal–until they’re finally strong enough to bear the weight of its ambition.”

Yolanda looked at him quietly.

Denton was Curtis’s heir. Sooner or later, he was going to be standing at the very top.

Heavy is the head that wears the crown.

There was no running away from that.

Denton sat there in a daze for a long time, then slowly closed his eyes and pretended to fall asleep.

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