The Girlboss Begs for Remarriage novel Chapter 2379

Arcus shrugged. "Don't worry. I'm just discussing the prospect of a partnership with Mr. Derek. All we want to do is make money, and we have no interest in anything else.

"Moreover, if Mr. Frankton wanted to act, he would already have. Why wait until now?"

While Arcus already had a plan on what to do against warhawks like the geezer, he decided to be reasonable for the time being—it was never too late to move against him later.

And the geezer was a sly old fox who would never believe Arcus either. He pretended to buy it nonetheless, as the purpose was to distract.

Nonetheless, as Arcus returned to the mansion, he quickly had his people look into the geezer and other people of interest in the Costner family.

In a day, a full stack of data was in front of him.

As it turned out, several elders of the Costner family carried considerable influence in the family—one of whom was Walt Costner, the geezer who showed up to warn Arcus. He was a strong martial artist and used to be the head of the family but overestimated his importance and made too many enemies.

The family ended up in shambles because of that, and Walt was forced to step down. Even so, he never deferred to Derek since he was younger and was constantly sabotaging Derek, even once planning to leave and establish his own family.

However, while that was not against the rules, it was a family doctrine to not put all their eggs in a single basket. While the Costner family retained overall control, they had other adopted members and vassals. In fact, certain small factions who were concerned about being bullied or lone martial artists would swear fealty to them, even marrying into the family.

As such, if one wanted to establish another branch of the family, the new family head must establish a similar foundation of outsiders beforehand. Not even the new family head would be allowed to violate that rule and must invest all their resources into helping those outsiders.

On top of that, leaving the main family also meant no chance of accessing the base of the family's power and wealth, so Walt quickly gave up on the idea.

Now, even as Arcus wondered what he should do to deal with that geezer, a BM Group member suddenly ran in his room and exclaimed, "We have a problem! Someone attacked one of our safehouses and wrote in blood that it was Derek Costner's doing!"

Arcus frowned, as he already had a good read on Derek.

Even if the kid wanted to attack them, he would not draw attention to himself, though he would not want to make enemies of Frank in the first place!