Standing Before Love (Myra and Sean) novel Chapter 484

In the morning, Matthias came back to life. Sweeping away yesterday’s gloom, he became cynical again. Meanwhile, Evan prepared a hearty breakfast for him. Looking at the table full of desserts, Matthias frowned slightly. He felt sick even just looking at them.

“Have some sweet food. It will improve your mood,” Evan said with conviction, causing Matthias to roll his eyes. Sometimes, he felt like Evan was androgynous, and occasionally he would act rather feminine.

“Don’t you know my preference?” he asked rather resignedly. He didn’t like strong flavors. Instead, he preferred if everything was in moderation.

Shrugging, Evan ordered a maid standing by, “Take all the desserts away.”

Matthias glared at him in response. What was he going to eat if the desserts were taken away? There was only congee left. This was clearly a form of revenge from Evan, but Evan ignored the vicious stare from him.

Then, Matthias had his breakfast and left for work. After the fuss with Evan this morning, his mood was actually much better.

Despite that, what caught him off guard was that he ran into the finance director from Tasnia City just after he arrived at the office. When in Tasnia City, the head of the family did not tell him about this, so he was taken aback. On top of that, what was even more unexpected was that the finance director was Regan.

When the two met, they sized each other up before Matthias reluctantly extended a hand, whereas Regan had a half-smile on his face.

After a simple handshake, Matthias tried to make his expression look natural. “Welcome to Bradfort City. The position of finance director has been vacant for some time, and I believe that with your talent, you will do a good job.” It was a false sentiment.

Previously, the position of finance director was Matthias’s part-time job. Although the position of finance director was two levels lower than that of the executive director, it was still an important position.

Now that the post of finance director had fallen into the hands of Regan, Matthias really didn’t know whether to cry or laugh. It seemed that his performance in Tasnia City had caused dissatisfaction and panic among the Locke Family, which was why Regan was here.

This was certainly not the head of the family’s intention. After all, Matthis saw early on that he wanted to train Regan to be the successor as the head of the family, which was why he refused to let Regan into Locke Group and had always brought him around to handle the Locke Family affairs.

It really was a botch and Matthias regretted what he did in Tasnia City. If he had not caused public anger, he would not have ended up in this situation now.

On the other hand, Regan was filled with energy. Of course, Matthias knew what Regan was thinking. He didn’t care at all about being head of the family. What he wanted was to be the leader of Locke Group.

Unfortunately, Matthias was already the leader of Locke Group. Although his seat was not secure, he would never let Regan snatch it from him. Before he achieved full control of Locke Group, Matthias had to keep a low profile as it was evident that the Locke Family wasn’t going to tolerate him being the slightest bit capricious.

“We’ll join forces as brothers and work together to make Locke Group in Bradfort City flourish.” Regan also pretended to be affectionate. They put on a show so that to an outsider, they would think that they were getting along really well.

Just then, Matthias revealed a polite smile. Since things had come to this, he could only take things one step at a time. He never thought he would pay such a big price for what he did.

Regan was the person he hated the most, yet he was now in front of him every single day. Even if he didn’t do anything, it was still enough to push Matthias over the edge.

However, there was more bad news. As Regan smiled cunningly, he whispered in Matthias’s ear, “My assistant will be here tomorrow, and the head of the family instructed me to make sure to drag you along to receive them.” He was deliberately keeping him guessing.

At once, Matthias had a bad feeling. It was just Regan’s assistant, yet he was asked to go and pick them up at the airport. It seemed like that person wasn’t just anyone.

“Who is it?” Matthias asked warily.

“You’ll know tomorrow.” Regan laughed and patted Matthias’ shoulder. He wondered why the Locke Family members liked to pat others’ shoulders so much.

“I’m very busy and I don’t have time,” Matthias directly refused. Unless the head of the family personally came over, otherwise, he would not pick anyone up at the airport.

Regan then took out his phone and waved it in front of Matthias. “This is our family’s Messenger group,” he said, pointing to his phone.

Matthias wasn’t added into the group, so he was a little baffled. Why did he bring up the family Messenger group out of nowhere? Regan then continued, “The head of the family is also in it, and he specifically instructed me to take a short video of your pickup tomorrow. So don’t make it difficult for me.”

Seeing his smug face, Matthias really wanted to punch his pretty teeth. It was annoying how Regan was using all kinds of means to threaten him.

“Then you have to tell me who exactly is this person.” Matthias glared angrily at Regan. He couldn’t not compromise at this point, and if he continued to be capricious, he was afraid that the Locke Family would put him in a difficult position using the number of shares they had.

“They are third generation officials with a distinguished identity. They’re coming to us for an internship,” Regan said lightly, still refusing to make it clear to Matthias.