SWNOVELS chapter 496
Chapter 496 The change in the Adams family
A few days have passed since they arrived at Bram's hospital. Since the day they arrived at the hospital, Bram had led his experts to set up the medical team and quickly formulated the recovery plan
Because the recovery process was professional and confidential, Lucia and Paul almost had no chance to meet Paula. They stayed in a five-star hotel near the hospital. In addition to going to the hospital to see doctors, they spent most of their time wandering around the city.
Speaking of which, this should be the most leisurely period for Lucia in the past two years. She walked with Timothy and Janet through the streets and alleys of the town, visited the church, ate delicious food, and even played at the harbor several times. Occasionally, Lucia would go out with Paul and Mandy to see the night view, and the bar, listen to music and drink wine at night. However, she didn't know that in her leisurely time, the Lion group in Austos had changed a lot. The chief executive of the Lion group has disappeared without a trace for three days. Ever since the unexpected death of Dustin, a shareholder and executive of the company, the shareholders and high-level executives of the company all want to get some benefits from that.
In addition, the father and son of the Kelly Group had mobilized and showed the will of cooperation to them again and again. Everyone had complicated feelings and felt hesitant to join Martin's plan. There were different versions of Dustin's accidental death, most of which were about the incident not being an accident but a murder, but most of the information was just a few rumors, no concrete evidence, and just something people talked about in private.
However, as more and more people talked about this matter, the credibility of this rumor has slowly grown.
As for the shareholders who had attended Martin's drinking party with Dustin, they had their own guesses. That day, Dustin contradicted Martin, and the very next day, something bad happened to him. People couldn't help but think that there was some connection to that. Hence, they were a little nervous about meeting the Kelly family. Even if they were just putting on a show, they would smile obsequiously and avoid falling out with the Kelly family.
As the father and son of the Kelly family were getting along well with the Lion group's shareholders and senior executives, added the fact that August had disappeared for no reason for a few days, the balance of power within the group was slowly tilting to the Kelly family.
On the fifth day of August's disappearance, Bishop appeared in the company and held an emergency meeting as a shareholder. Soon, he received the most votes and officially took over the company as the identity of the second-in-line successor of Eliot in the Adams family.
For a time, there was a lot of gossip in Austos City. Everyone was familiar with the feudings between rich and powerful families, and they were even happy to talk about it. But this time, August had suddenly disappeared, and then the second son of the Adams family suddenly seized power. It was really shocking and caused many suspicious things.
Despite this turmoil, he never showed up, and Olivia Adams of the Adams family has also remained silent. Although the police have sent people to investigate August's tracks, they haven't found anything.
A week later, there was sensational news in Austos City. The police found an adult male body torn apart by wild animals in the reeds behind the green mountain. The body was severely damaged. After the DNA test, it was confirmed to be August's body. Furthermore, tents and cutlery were found next to the body, as well as some personal belongings of August.
Through the investigation, the cause of death was finally determined. The deceased was camping and fishing and finally died of a wild-animals attack.
Under Bishop's arrangement, the Adams family held a grand funeral for August. Olivia Adams showed up at the funeral and cried so much that she almost fainted, and Bishop was also very emaciated.
Even so, there were still some marketing accounts and netizens on the Internet who guessed the truth about the news. Many people speculated that this was the result of the power struggle between the two sons of the Adams family. But soon, the news was sealed up. All the speculation about this matter on the Internet disappeared overnight, and the rumors were tightly covered. At the same time, most of the managers of the Lion Group were replaced. Bishop firmly held the power and blocked all public suspicion and speculation alone.
Soon, after a period of time, under his decisive means, all kinds of comments slowly disappeared, and the topic of internal strife in the Adams family became less and less popular.
At the same time, Lucia was abroad. Because the recovery work of the Bram team had entered the second phase, she got more chances to meet Paula. As she needed to spend most of her time accompanying her, started to get busy.
Mandy took the excuse that something had happened to her family and returned home early, while Paul was not idle abroad. either. He held video conferences every day and went back and forth to various cities nearby abroad to talk about projects, and did not have much time to spend with them. For a moment, Lucia's burden became heavier. On the one hand, she had to take care of the two little kids. On the other hand, she had to pay attention to Paula's situation all the time. She was so busy that she was dizzy. Fortunately, Paul left his bodyguard to Lucia. With his help, Lucia was finally able to breathe a sigh of relief.
After a week, Paula's condition slowly improved. The continuous cell awakening and electric treatment actually made her slowly move her fingers. This was a good sign, which proved that Paula still had a chance to wake up.
Lucia picked up her phone and couldn't wait to call Paul. "Paul, good news! Paula could move her fingers!”
On the other end of the line, Paul hesitated for half a second after hearing this, then chuckled and said slowly, "It is indeed good news. I could return to you the day after tomorrow. Hold on a bit longer.”
"Okay, Lucas is a good helper. There are not many things to do. You don't have to worry about us.". "Okay, I'll be back soon."
Lucia hung up. She was still immersed in the joy of Paula's recovery, while Paul was lost in thought on the other side.
To him, it was a good thing that his younger sister was recovering and showing signs of waking up. However, as she recovered, there was something that could be really annoying.
Once the treatment here was over, they would definitely return to their country. But Austos was in a mess. The leader of the Lion group had already changed, and the news of August's death was like a bomb. He was not sure whether Lucia still had some feelings for August, but this news would definitely be a shock to her.
He went to great lengths to bring Lucia's family abroad, keeping her on the grounds of her sister's treatment. But the recovery of Paula could make his efforts wasted.
He gave her a new phone and deliberately blocked the news, so she knew nothing about what happened in Austos City.
Right now, the only thing he could do was return to Lucia soon and try his best to keep her for as long as possible.
The situation in Austos was still unclear, and he wasn't sure of August's death. He could not let Lucia feel sorry for August and go back to him again!
Even if August really died, he would never allow it because his woman had to be obsessed with no man but him!
However, it was impossible to hide the truth in the darkness forever, just like in the end, the cat would always be out of the bag.