“Marcel, calm down. We’re worried about Maisie’s health. Sierra suddenly appeared from nowhere. Roberts had disappeared for one year before that. She came back with Robert and swept him off his feet. Not only had they secretly registered for marriage, but this woman also abuses Maisie in private. How could this kind of woman deserve to be the daughter-in-law of the Simpson family?” Kenny immediately blamed Sierra. The only connection between them was that his grandfather was Robert’s great-grandfather. Right now, Kenny was quite far away from Robert when it came to bloodline. He could only live on a small number of stock dividends.
This time, taking the chance that Roberts had passed away, Kenny and Dora figured out a plan to target Maisie. Anyway, Maisie had a lot of assets.
Although they were greedy, they also knew that they didn’t have any right to inherit the most estate of the Simpson family. Anyway, as long as they could get even just some benefits, they would be satisfied.
“Exactly! Marcel, look at Maisie now. Can you truly rest assured to let Sierra Moon take care of Maisie? I suggest letting all family branches supervise her and take care of her together. No matter which family would take care of Maisie alone, I don’t think others wouldn’t rest assured.”
That was plan B from Dora and Kenny.
If each of their families could participate in supervising and taking care of Maisie, they believed that Maisie’s assets could be divided among the families, and the stock dividends belonging to Maisie could also be divided to them as they would supervise her.
Sierra inwardly sneered. How couldn’t she read those people’s minds?
In fact, Sierra didn’t care about Maisie’s assets at all. She just wanted to get the assets that belonged to her and then she would sell them and escape.
However, before getting the assets, she couldn’t show to them that she didn’t care about Maisie at all, and nor could she let those people snatch her guardianship.
If she didn’t care about Roberts’s mother and she still wanted his estate, her reputation would be completely ruined.
“Aunt Dora, Uncle Kenny, I agree with your suggestion. If you don’t believe me, each of your families could send a representative to supervise me. Also, Mom’s room will be covered by the surveillance. Can you rest assured now? It’s just an accident today. I need the family doctor to check up on Mom as soon as possible. She’s mentally unstable now. Please don’t stand here. We can talk in another place.”
Much to their surprise, Sierra took a retreat, so Dora and Kenny exchanged a glance with each other and didn’t continue troubling Sierra.
It seemed that their plan B could work. In that case, if all the families would supervise Maisie together, the dividend from Maisie’s assets could be divided averagely as well.
As others were thinking, Sierra cast a glance at Paul, who was the oldest and most respectful one in the Simpson family now.
“Grandpa Paul, Robert’s mother is also mine. Of course, I’ll try my best effort to take care of her. Since aunts and uncles don’t trust me, I agree with them on supervising Mom together. Let’s go to the living room and discuss the details. What do you think?”
Paul from the Simpson family was almost ninety-year-old. He nodded in agreement, turned away, and walked towards the living room with the help of his walking stick.
Sierra breathed a sigh of relief. It wouldn’t ruin her reputation if she gave up a tiny part of the estate. With just a piece of cake, those people would be satisfied, so she wouldn’t mind it at all. She didn’t want to lose the greater for the less.
Marcel and Joanna walked in front of the crowd.
Looking at each other, Joanna said worriedly, “All other family members have come here. Why hasn’t Ivan come yet? We’ve been calling him for such a long time, but he never answered the call. Would anything happen to Ivan?”
Although the couple was worry-free, always traveling around the world, and occasionally called their son, this was the very first time that they failed to contact Ivan for such a long time.
Marcel and Joanna couldn’t help but get panicked.
“After things are done today, let’s go find Jason. Both Jason and Jasper are looking for Ivan as well. I wonder if they have any clue. The estate of our family has been clearly divided after my father passed away. Anyway, even Ivan had come back, he wouldn’t fight with those people for Robert’s estate. We came here for taking a look and avoiding others from fighting too fiercely. I don’t think anyone of them would be afraid of Ivan. I just can’t understand.”
The couple walked to the living room. In the huge living room, all the relatives of the Simpson family sat down gradually.
Of course, not all members of each family branch had attended. Only the representatives had come. There were more than a dozen of them in total.
The oldest and most respectful man was Paul, who came here with his grandson.
When Paul was young, he took care of Robert’s grandfather. Hence, after Roberts had become the master of the family, he had been taking care of Paul and his family members in return.
As long as anyone from his branch wanted to work in the companies run by the Simpson family, Robert would employ and train them if they were capable.
Paul’s grandson, Randy, was the most capable man in his family branch now. Randy was taking care of the overseas businesses of the Simpson family in Europe. Since Robert passed away, Randy came back instantly to help with the aftermath.
Robert’s grandfather was the second son of his family. He also had another two younger brothers, Smith and Jenkins.
However, both Smith and Jenkins had passed away long time ago. Only his offspring were left. Neither of the branches are close to Robert, but Robert’s grandfather kept looking after them when he was alive.
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