Love at First Sight? Mr. Harrison Has Been Scheming All Along-Chapter 108: "Take a Knife and Chop Off His Hand
For a brief moment, the entire top floor fell silent.
Everyone around, including those inside their offices, was straining to hear.
After all...
So much had happened today.
Most people only knew that this Gary Sinclair had been causing a scene at the company’s entrance for a long time, claiming his daughter and President Harrison were a couple.
As for their actual relationship, no one was really sure.
But that morning, Miles Harrison had thrown a huge tantrum in President Harrison’s office, and it had even escalated into a physical fight.
Everyone felt that President Harrison’s relationship with this Miss Linden must be something special.
After barely half a second of silence, Sean Harrison spoke directly. "No."
He unhesitatingly pulled Rory Linden’s hand, his gaze falling on the hand Gary Sinclair had clamped on her arm. He commanded, "Let go."
"She’s my daughter! I can grab her if I want to!"
But as Gary Sinclair said this, his tone was clearly less confident than before.
Sean Harrison’s presence was just too powerful.
Even though the single word he had just spoken betrayed no emotion, it carried an air of authority that defied refusal.
Sean Harrison didn’t waste any more words on him. He spoke directly to the two plainclothes bodyguards who had followed him. "Take a knife and cut off his hand."
Without a word, one of the bodyguards pulled an Yengisar knife from his pocket.
The sheath hit the floor with a CLANG.
Gary Sinclair jumped in fright!
The bodyguard walked right up to Gary Sinclair with the knife, raising his arm with a blank expression.
It looked as if he was really about to chop off Gary Sinclair’s arm...
Rory Linden’s heart leaped into her throat. She was just about to shout for him to stop...
"Fuck! Shit!"
Gary Sinclair yanked his hand away and took an almost reflexive step back.
The knife fell with a SWISH, tracing an arc through the air and hitting nothing.
Sean Harrison pulled Rory Linden into his embrace with his other hand. "Let’s go to my office."
Rory Linden glanced at the man beside her, then at everyone else...
She realized that in this entire situation, only she and Gary Sinclair were panicking and afraid about the threat of chopping off a hand...
No one else seemed to have any reaction to it at all.
’Were they just betting that Gary would let go?’
’What if he hadn’t let go? That strike would have at least shattered bone, even if it didn’t sever his hand completely!’
Sean Harrison guessed what she was thinking and explained, "Human nature is simple. He was bound to let go."
During the short walk to his office, Rory Linden suddenly felt that the man beside her was a bit of a stranger.
It was as if she had never truly gotten to know him.
Sean Harrison wasn’t just betting that Gary Sinclair would let go.
He simply didn’t care if his hand was chopped off.
Sean Harrison’s office was enormous, at least four or five times larger than her hospital director’s office.
It was spacious enough to ride a bicycle around in freely.
Sean Harrison led her to the three-seater sofa in his office.
Gary Sinclair followed them.
After what had just happened, he suddenly didn’t dare to act so recklessly.
But he was still determined to get his money.
"I’m my daughter’s only living relative in this world. If you want to marry her, you need my permission, and you have to give me a bride price. I won’t ask for too much, just fifty million!"
Gary Sinclair had mulled over this number countless times.
He had looked up Sean Harrison online and learned that Panda Tech alone was worth hundreds of billions.
His personal assets were even more incalculable.
For someone that rich, fifty million was just a drop in the bucket!
"Have you no shame!" Rory Linden shot to her feet, furious. "Fifty million?! Fine, you can have it! But what about the dowry? How much of a dowry are you providing that makes you think you can demand a fifty-million-dollar bride price!"
Gary Sinclair probably didn’t have a single penny to his name.
Yet he was dreaming of fifty million!
If he hadn’t bullied her and her mother so much back then, if he hadn’t abandoned her when her mother died, she might not have ignored him so completely.
Sean Harrison gently tugged her hand, signaling for Rory Linden to sit down.
Rory Linden had no choice but to sit.
A secretary came in with coffee.
Sean Harrison said slowly and deliberately, "Marriage is a lifelong commitment. Rory and I have only been together for a few months. It’s too early to talk about getting married. We should be together for at least three to five years before we consider it."
"Three to five years?!"
Gary Sinclair couldn’t wait that long!
He had spent all this time dreaming about living a good life by relying on his son-in-law, Sean Harrison.
Sean Harrison nodded.
Rory Linden also agreed with his strategy.
Gary Sinclair was demanding a bride price for a marriage, so it might not technically be considered extortion.
If he weren’t demanding a bride price, it would definitely be extortion!
"In three to five years, how old will my daughter be? She’ll be in her thirties! By then, she’ll be past her prime. What if you dump her!" Gary Sinclair said bluntly. "I see what you’re doing. You just want to sleep with her for free!"
"That’s my business, not yours," Rory Linden retorted.
Furious, Gary Sinclair rushed over, looking like he was about to hit her.
But he was blocked by Ethan Dixon!
"Fuck, then doesn’t that make you a whore? I raised a daughter like you, and instead of getting married and earning me a bride price, you’re just being a whore for some rich guy! You... Argh!"
Before Gary Sinclair could finish his ugly words, Ethan Dixon seized him in a restraining hold!
His arm was twisted behind his back, the pain making him grimace, unable to utter another word.
Sean Harrison crossed his legs and said calmly, "Mr. Sinclair, out of consideration for you being my girlfriend’s biological father, I already gave you a sum of money. But you are insatiably greedy."
Held fast by Ethan Dixon, Gary Sinclair struggled twice before realizing he couldn’t move. He could only grimace and shout curses.
"Am I wrong to ask for my daughter’s bride price? You have to give it to me, or I’ll make your lives a living hell!"
"As for the bride price, we can discuss that when we get married. It won’t be too late to talk about it in three to five years, once we’ve decided to get married."
Sean Harrison’s pace was steady and unhurried.
He didn’t say he wouldn’t marry Rory Linden; he just said they needed to wait.
"I don’t care! You have to give me the money..."
Before Gary Sinclair could finish, the office door opened.
A secretary led several people in.
Rory Linden looked over and saw that, in addition to the lawyer from last time, Noah Sterling, there were three police officers!
When Gary Sinclair saw the police, it was like he’d found a lifeline! He shouted at the top of his lungs:
"Officers, help me, help me! These people are trying to kill me!"
Sean Harrison finally stood up from the sofa and briefly explained the situation to the police.
In just a few sentences, he made everything clear.
Gary Sinclair had no understanding of the law!
While Sean Harrison was speaking, he even chimed in, "Officer, you have to stand up for me! He’s just a bully throwing his weight around, trying to sleep with my daughter for free!"
Standing to the side, Noah Sterling could barely stop himself from laughing out loud.
The police questioned Gary Sinclair about the 540,000.
Gary Sinclair sneered, "He’s such a big boss. To him, 540,000 is like five dollars and forty cents. He can’t think he can get away with sleeping with my daughter and just fob me off with 540,000!"
He had just confirmed the evidence of his own crime.
The police immediately took out their handcuffs and led him away.
As the representing attorney, Noah Sterling followed them out.
Everyone had left.
Sean Harrison walked behind his desk and sat down in the large executive chair. "Leave the rest to Lawyer Sterling. He’s the best litigation lawyer in Veridia. Gary Sinclair won’t be getting out for at least ten years."
Rory Linden’s heart relaxed slightly.
She started to walk toward his desk, but she looked down and saw something on the floor in the corner by the desk.
She bent down to pick it up and discovered...
It was a tooth?!
When she looked up, she noticed a faint smear of blood on the dark lacquer of the desktop.
Seeing her standing motionless, Sean Harrison asked, "What’s wrong?"
Rory Linden didn’t touch it, just pointed at the tooth. "There’s... there’s a tooth here."
