The Fake Heiress and Her Purrfect Partner novel Chapter 210

Chapter 210 A Clue In The Manuscript

Chapter 210 A Clue In The Manuscript

Tabby King had already strapped on his tiny noise-canceling helmet.

The wind whipped up by the helicopter’s rotor blades made the fur around his neck flutter, but it stood with his chest puffed out, looking every bit the king, his gaze fierce and determined.

“From today on, call me the Flying Tabby King!” Tabby King announced.

Behind it, Shadow sat steady and composed, sporting a big noise-canceling helmet.

The cat and the dog, one agile, one imposing, looked like the ultimate flying team beneath the roaring rotors.

The helicopter took off smoothly, its rotors slicing through the air with a roar as it made its way toward Jelasburg. The next day, the big zoo expansion got started. Blanche, the designer, and the construction crew were all right on schedule, ready to roll.

Nina, grinning from ear to ear, handed out lucky red envelopes to everyone. With laughter and cheers filling the air, the expansion work officially began!

With Mr. Karim’s 2 million-dollar reward in her pocket, Nina threw herself into her work without a second thought. Every day, she was zipping between the zoo and the lab of Jelasburg University, barely slowing down for a break. Nina poured her heart and soul into the new vaccine project, so busy that she barely had a moment to sit still. The back gate of the zoo, wrecked by the fire, had already been repaired, and naturally, the culprit behind it all, Charles, was stuck with the bill.

Nina had Quentin hook her up with a killer lawyer, ready to bleed Charles dry.

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When the trial rolled around, she was set on making sure Charles wouldn’t even have his underwear left!

After all, the Summer Group was drowning in scandals, their vaccine was a total bust, and the whole company was on the verge of collapse.

Nina thought, ‘He really thinks he can pull a fast one at my zoo?

‘Strike while he is weak and make him pay!’

At noon that day, Nina was chilling in the lab’s break room, digging into her lunch from Goodwin Hospital while catching the midday news.

The anchor announced, “It’s been two weeks since Charles, chairman of the Summer Group, landed in prison.

“The Summer Group is now facing an unprecedented crisis, with its stock price in free fall.

“Breaking news. Investment giant Summerview Capital just finished acquiring the Summer Group’s core assets and has officially taken control.

“The Summer Group’s flagship nationwide pet hospital chain is being folded into Summerview Capital and will be completely restructured. This move has put the brakes on the Summer Group’s total meltdown, for now.

“Joanna, the chairwoman of Summerview Capital, attended today’s restructuring meeting…”

The screen switched to Joanna, Charles’s older sister.

Joanna had delicate, willow-leaf eyebrows and an oval face that looked flawless, clearly well-maintained. She smiled at the camera with warmth and poise.

Nina stared at that smiling face on the screen, her hand frozen with the fork still in the air.

Joanna, the woman she used to call “Aunt”, had always been stationed in Juniper, only coming to Jelasburg for the occasional business trip, so they hardly ever got to spend time together.

In Nina’s memories, Aunt Joanna would gently teach her how to care for sick hamsters, patiently explaining veterinary knowledge, and was one of the rare rays of warmth in her otherwise shadowed childhood.

But now, every word in the news was full of shrewd calculation.”

The Summer Group’s stock had tanked, and Summerview Capital swooped in to grab the core pet hospital business at a bargain-basement price.

On the surface, it looked like a rescue, but really, it was buying low.

The Summer Group’s brand and market share, by Successfully unlocked! industry, ended up in Joanna’s lap without her

even breaking a sweat.

The gentle aunt from Nina’s memories was far more formidable than she had ever imagined.

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Chapter 210 A Clue In The Manuscript

Nima stared at Joanna’s face on the screen for a while, and suddenly, a thought flashed through her mind.

She thought, ‘Simon once showed me a photo of my mother, Tanya, and the way her eyes looked was strangely similar to Joanna’s on TV’

Nina was so shocked by that idea. She just sat there, unable to snap out of it for ages.

‘Was it just a coincidence?’ Nina wondered. ‘After all, I’m only the fake heiress in the Summer family, not Charles and Susan’ s real daughter. That’s Claire.’

The phone vibrated on the table, yanking Nina out of her daze.

Simon was calling.

“Simon? What’s up?” Nina said. She picked up immediately.

Nina teased, “Don’t tell me there’s another case?”

On the other end, Simon, normally cool as ice, now sounded noticeably tense. “Nina, do you remember the guy who started that fire with a kite?”

Nina paused for a moment before answering, “Yeah, Kason, Charles’s loyal henchman. The one who nearly got taken out for good.

“What’s up?” she asked.

Simon’s words made Nina tense up instantly. “I’ve dug up something new.

“I found out Kason opened a restaurant near a paint factory in a small town outside Jelasburg about three years ago,” Simon said.

‘Seriously? First a restaurant, now a pet shop. Kason really has his fingers in a lot of pies, Nina thought.

“He wasn’t just running that restaurant for the money, was he?” Nina asked.

Simon asked, “Didn’t you say Charles gave you those manuscripts to work on the vaccine back then?

“Turns out, Kason shut down that restaurant just five days before Charles handed you those manuscript fragments!” Simon sounded tense as he dropped another bombshell.

Nina’s grip on her fork tightened.

Nina thought, ‘Could it be that Kason was the one who got those manuscripts for Charles?

‘Did those manuscripts come from some company or factory near that restaurant?’ she wondered, suspicion growing.

Simon continued, “Once he closed up the store, he moved back to Jelasburg and set up a pet supply shop.”

Simon said, “I pointed out the overlap in the timelines and asked him straight up if he had ever helped Charles acquire a manuscript on biological research.

“Kason’s reaction was just what I expected. The moment I brought up the manuscript, he was stunned, totally in disbelief and really suspicious, clearly wondering how I had found out,” Simon added.

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