The Triplets My Ex Never Knew About novel Chapter 56

Chapter 56: Chapter 56: Are You Explaining to Me?

Noelle Lockwood beamed and walked over. "Nathaniel..."

"Since when are you an investor?" Nathaniel Sloan interrupted coolly.

Noelle Lockwood’s smile froze on her face. "I..."

"Honestly, Nathaniel, this was my decision!"

Laura Jennings was very displeased with her son’s attitude. "The Lockwood Group is a perfume company, after all. If you shut out the Lockwood family, you’ll just make us a laughingstock to outsiders, won’t you?"

"Besides, it’s not like you’re short on cash. What’s wrong with helping Noelle? You have no idea how arrogant that Yara Lockwood was just now, acting as if our Noelle wasn’t even worthy of speaking to her just because she’s not an investor... Nathaniel? Nathaniel?!"

Before Laura Jennings could finish, Nathaniel Sloan had already turned to catch up with Estelle Lockwood. Laura’s face flushed with anger. "What on earth does he think he’s doing? His fiancée is right here, and all he can do is run after that little tramp!"

Noelle Lockwood said gently, "Auntie, it’s alright. Nathaniel must be going to handle some business."

Laura Jennings had always been petty, and she could only judge others through her own narrow-minded lens. "Hmph. What kind of legitimate business could a man and a woman possibly be discussing alone together? She’s just a shameless flirt..."

"Oh, Grandma, so you’re saying it’s improper for a man and a woman to discuss business together?"

Zachery had just arrived and heard this. He was so infuriated he wanted to strangle someone.

Using Christian’s face, he put on a high-pitched voice and said sarcastically, "But I saw Grandpa and Chairman Sullivan talking for a really, really long time about the City Center Garden project."

"Going by what you said, does that mean Grandpa and Chairman Sullivan are having an affair too? Wow, I’m going to go ask them."

Chairman Sullivan was in her early fifties and one of the Sloan Group’s most important partners. The City Center Garden project was the only one in the Sloan Group that didn’t rely on Nathaniel Sloan, and the entire Sloan family considered it extremely important.

And Chairman Sullivan happened to be there today; she was standing right nearby when Zachery said this.

Laura Jennings’s cheek twitched. "How can those two things be compared..."

"I think President Lockwood was right earlier. No need to waste your breath on people like this." Chairman Sullivan smiled. "Perhaps women like Mrs. Sloan, who only know how to indulge in leisure, squabble jealously, and treat their husbands as their entire world, truly don’t understand the rest of us."

The largest consumer group in the perfume industry is women.

Many of the designers and distributors are also women.

Hearing the remarks from Laura Jennings and Noelle Lockwood, they were all rather speechless and found themselves nodding in agreement.

Rumor had it that Laura Jennings had been the mistress who clawed her way up to become Mrs. Sloan.

’Perhaps in the eyes of mistresses like her, men really are all that matters. Any woman who gets near her husband is immediately branded a seductress.’

Laura Jennings’s face flushed red, then went pale with anger. Rose Lowell, standing to the side, didn’t dare say a word, especially since she also thought Yara Lockwood was a shameless seductress.

Zachery trotted off, a silent hero leaving the scene.

...

Estelle Lockwood headed toward the equestrian club’s locker rooms.

Before she got there, she suddenly heard footsteps behind her, distant at first, but growing closer and quicker.

"I didn’t tell Noelle Lockwood to come. I have no idea how they even got here," Nathaniel Sloan explained.

Estelle Lockwood raised an eyebrow. "Are you explaining yourself to me, Mr. Sloan?"

Nathaniel Sloan paused for a moment. "We are, after all, very close partners. I don’t want other people to cause any unnecessary misunderstandings."

"Then you can relax, Mr. Sloan. I’m not one to argue with money."

Estelle Lockwood idly twirled a lock of hair around her finger. "The Lockwood Group’s finances go through your accounts," she said slowly. "You’re responsible for its profits and losses. It has absolutely nothing to do with me."

"However, President Sloan, let me give you a little reminder. I have plenty of ways to make the Lockwood Group lose money again and again. You might be able to protect it once, but can you really protect it every single time?"

’She had returned to the country to deal with the Lockwood family; why would she ever give the Lockwood Group a chance to make a comeback?’

Nathaniel Sloan’s gaze fell on her lips. "I won’t protect it," he said, his voice husky.

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