Family on Their Knees Heart Turned to Ice novel Chapter 1501

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The sheer magnitude of this wealth was absolutely terrifying.

Neither the Mercer family nor Sebastian Blake had Lillian Mercer added on their social media.

But that didn't stop the screenshots from flooding their phones, forwarded by mutual acquaintances.

Brandon Mercer had barely returned to the office when he saw the screenshots. He was dumbfounded.

Colin Mercer received the same images at almost the exact same time. When he read the caption and processed what he was looking at, his brain short-circuited.

What was this? What on earth was going on?

"Brandon... did you get this too?"

Brandon swallowed hard. "Ah? Yeah... Yeah, I did."

The two brothers turned their phone screens toward each other.

Within the span of a few minutes, several different people had forwarded them the exact same screenshots.

It felt like the entire world knew they had been blocked from Lillian's social media.

It was humiliating. Utterly humiliating.

Colin gaped at the screen. "You've got to be kidding me. Lillian owns this many properties? When did she buy all this? How did we not know about any of it?

We didn't even hear a whisper of a rumor!"

Brandon rubbed his temples. "I know. When did she quietly buy a literal mountain of real estate? There have to be at least a hundred or two hundred estates here, right?"

The individual photos of the premium villas were unmistakable. Anyone in their elite circle knew exactly how astronomical the market value of those specific properties was.

Colin's voice cracked. "I mean, it's one thing for Lillian to quietly build her own empire, but... if she became this insanely filthy rich, why didn't she take us with her?"

Brandon grimaced. "Exactly. Why couldn't she let us get rich with her? We share the same parents! Who could possibly be closer to her than us?

Oh, and tonight at dinner with the Winthrops, I found out she's not renting Halfridge Villas anymore. She bought it. The estate is officially hers."

Staring at the towering stack of title deeds that was taller than a human being, Colin wasn't even surprised that Lillian owned Halfridge Villas anymore.