Reborn with Nothing but My Farm and Vengeance in the Apocalypse novel Chapter 479

Chapter 479: Chapter 479: A Deal

The "third brother" Mitchell Sheffield spoke of was his younger brother, Jim Sheffield.

"What?!" Lana Grant was utterly shocked. She stared at Mitchell Sheffield in disbelief, her face a mask of astonishment. "Marry Nina off to your brother? That... that’s ridiculous!"

"Nina is just in her early twenties, and your brother is over fifty! How can they possibly get married?!"

Seeing Mitchell Sheffield lower his head in silence, Lana Grant continued, "Besides, didn’t his new wife just die a few days ago? They haven’t even held a funeral yet. How can he already be plotting to remarry so soon?"

Mitchell Sheffield put down his book and pinched the bridge of his nose in frustration. The mere mention of his third brother gave him a headache.

His expression turned cold as he said in a low voice, "What’s the point of a funeral? Ivy Draper’s family came a few days ago. Jim gave them 600,000, and they just took her body away!"

Jim Sheffield told Ivy Draper’s family that she had frozen to death in the snow disaster. They didn’t question it—they just took the 600,000 and left with her body.

Hearing this, Lana Grant asked in surprise, "Their daughter died under mysterious circumstances, and the Drapers didn’t even investigate...?"

Mitchell Sheffield snorted with contempt. "Investigate what? They made a total of one million off of one daughter. The Draper family didn’t lose out."

At this, Mitchell Sheffield sighed again, his face a picture of resignation. "Our mother is worried about Jim. She’s afraid he’ll have no one to look after him, so she asked me to find him a new wife—someone young and obedient. As it happens, Caleb Summers was also looking to marry Nina off. When I mentioned it to him yesterday, he agreed on the spot."

Lana Grant was even more stunned. "He agreed?" she said in disbelief. "How could Caleb Summers agree to that? ...Doesn’t he know? Jim has already had four wives die!"

Including the recently deceased Ivy Draper, Jim Sheffield had now had four wives die, all under mysterious circumstances. How could Caleb Summers have the heart to marry Nina Summers off to him?

’This is too ridiculous!’

Mitchell Sheffield’s gaze returned to his book. He said gruffly, "Summers knows, of course. He was transferred from a backwater department to a core division last year, and now he wants to climb even higher. The city is about to start its reconstruction efforts. Our parents have also agreed—as soon as Nina marries into the family, they’ll pull some strings to get him promoted to a director position."

Lana Grant lowered her head, her expression a mix of helplessness and pity. "That poor girl, Nina... Mindy Walsh’s parents died young, and now that Mindy is gone too, Nina has no one left to depend on..."

Lana Grant had a daughter of her own. She thought to herself, if it were her Wendy Sheffield being married off to an old man whose four previous wives had died, she would never be able to accept it!

’Caleb Summers is just too much!’

Mitchell Sheffield, however, was indifferent. In his view, given Nina Summers’s current circumstances, marrying Jim Sheffield was a good option for her.

He turned another page in his book and said in a low voice, "A woman has to get married eventually... Besides, this is a matter of mutual consent. You shouldn’t worry about it."

******

Nina Summers had no idea that her father had already arranged for her to marry Jim Sheffield. After a steaming bowl of instant noodles, a sense of comfort washed over her, and she slept soundly until the next day.

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