Mr. Hawthorne, Your Wife Wants a Divorce Again-Chapter 952: Kiddo
——YG: I had Mark Joyce investigate, and this person is indeed sinister. I had HR dismiss him.
Following this message was a voice message.
Ann Vaughn clicked it open and brought the phone to her ear. She heard the man’s low, magnetic voice slowly reaching her ears, as if he was right beside her at this moment.
"Hey kiddo, want to have lunch together later?"
Kiddo...? Kiddo?!
Ann Vaughn puffed up her cheeks in anger. Last night he was calling her his girlfriend, which made her head spin.
Why, today she turned into a kiddo??
...
The second floor of Green’s Restaurant.
A short while ago, when she went to Josiah Keaton’s appointment, Ann Vaughn just had some desserts and excused herself.
The stomach for desserts was filled, but the other stomach was still empty.
So as soon as the dishes came, she couldn’t wait to start eating.
May is a good season to eat crayfish, and as soon as the platter was served, the fresh, spicy, and numbing flavor completely captivated Ann Vaughn’s mind.
But she peeled slowly, and she was almost dying of craving before managing to peel any, so she looked up and saw Cyrus Hawthorne’s bowl full of shrimp meat, watching him eagerly.
Cyrus Hawthorne’s lips curved slightly, and then he took off the disposable gloves, placing the porcelain bowl beside her, "It’s ready."
"Thank you." Ann Vaughn’s eyes lit up, and just as she was about to dig in, she suddenly remembered Little Dumpling’s actions from last night. With a flick of her chopsticks, the plump shrimp meat was placed in front of Cyrus Hawthorne, "You peeled it, you take the first bite."
She even learned to feed him...
Cyrus Hawthorne was dumbfounded with laughter, feeling more and more delighted, leaning in to bite the shrimp meat off the chopsticks.
"Tastes good."
"Right?" Ann Vaughn said joyfully while eating the shrimp meat in her bowl, not realizing what he meant, "Crayfish are especially delicious this season, not eating them is simply life’s regret."
In the end, most of the crayfish on the table ended up in Ann Vaughn’s stomach. When it seemed like she could almost eat no more, Cyrus Hawthorne finally stopped peeling shrimp and served her a bowl of soup to refresh her palate.
The company executives who witnessed all this were almost driven crazy.
He was just there to have a meal with his business partners, so why did he have to witness this PDA massacre as a single dog??
"Damn, my teeth are going to rot." A certain executive said, finding the shrimp in his hand tasteless, "Am I here to eat, or to eat dog food?"
"Calm down, aren’t we all the same?"
"I really want those who spread rumors about them breaking up secretly to see this, does this look like breaking up? I think President Hawthorne was just shy of directly feeding Ann Vaughn."
"Most likely rumors spread by those women, as long as President Hawthorne hasn’t remarried, they think they have a chance, right?"
"No wonder the Hawthorne Corp was pressing the Lockwood Family so hard recently, and their high-society clientele diminished greatly, forcing the Lockwood Family to come out in the open, very flamboyantly. Seems it was all for a woman."
"Offending the Lockwood Family just means you can’t get their medicine when you get sick in the future. But if you offend President Hawthorne... not to mention us, who in The Imperial Capital can rival the Hawthorne Group?"
The executives immediately fell silent.
As the saying goes, if the King of Hell wants you dead by midnight, you’re not living past dawn.
Prolonging life suddenly seemed important, but cherishing life was key.
...
Ann Vaughn still didn’t know that just over the course of one meal, the problems bothering her were effortlessly resolved on their own.
After finishing reading the materials Cyrus Hawthorne gave her, she hesitated for a long time but couldn’t muster the courage to dial Wilder Sheridan’s number.
——The family gap was simply too large.
Wilder Sheridan was the son of the richest man in Marinia, and such a family was not prone to losing their daughter, not to mention, even if lost, would they not look for so many years?
If she rashly reached out, it would always give people the impression of trying to climb up the social ladder...
Thinking of this, Ann Vaughn couldn’t help but shrink back.
Besides, Warren Vance once said that she was adopted as a child but wasn’t favored by that family; bullying and beatings were a common occurrence.
If she really was the Sheridan Family daughter, why hadn’t they found her back then?
A layer of confusion gradually spread across Ann Vaughn’s eyes, and looking at the phone number on the screen, she finally deleted it digit by digit.
Forget it.
She would think about it later.
...
When the announcement of Vaughn Clinic’s few days of closure came out, one reservation group after another exploded.
Since Vaughn Clinic reopened, it had never closed, not even during the Spring Festival, where staff were present to oversee it, demonstrating diligence and commitment.
But now, it was closed for several days, with unpredictable business hours!
Considering the Lockwood Family’s antics not long ago and even more in recent days, who couldn’t guess why the closure?
——I was about to drive to the clinic to get my medicine when I was informed of this, and instantly felt like I was freezing over.
——Lockwood Family, come out to get hit! Day after day, not exerting energy to improve strength, why keep targeting our little clinic?!
——I knew this would happen... The Lockwood Family’s goal from the start was clear - to bring down the clinic. We’ve held on for so long, unfortunately, some pig teammates were lured by the Lockwood Family and actually went to buy their so-called anti-aging serum.
——Isn’t Celestial Dew fragrant? I used less than a bottle, the pregnancy spots and crow’s feet on my face have almost disappeared, and the change is especially noticeable, even my mother-in-law thought I had surgery.
——Damn! It’s hard to get a bottle overseas now, how did you get it? Share it!
——Share please! Even if I die today, die outside, or jump off here, I will never buy a single drug from the Lockwood Family! I’m supporting Vaughn Clinic for life!!
——Wait a minute, don’t you feel it? The Lockwood Family seems to be intentionally using the pretense of suppressing Vaughn Clinic to poach customers due to their recent slump?
The discussion in the group was fervent, with everyone adding a word, they miraculously pieced together the whole situation.
And because the clinic staff were out having fun, they weren’t able to explain to them on time, resulting in the misunderstanding that Vaughn Clinic was closing, creating an intense sense of crisis.
Some sought connections to target the Lockwood Family industries, some tried to cause political trouble for the Lockwood Family, and others went even further—
Some people directly placed orders for thousands of anti-aging serums but canceled the deposits at the time of final payment, refusing this batch of goods...
This was probably the most united Vaughn Clinic customers had ever been.
They retaliated with satisfaction, almost driving the Lockwood Family mad with anger over these orders.
Who could afford the deposit for anti-aging serums, and who would expect them to refund?
Due to the lack of preparation, the Lockwood Family’s loss this time was imaginable. 𝗳𝐫𝚎𝗲𝚠𝚎𝗯𝕟𝐨𝘃𝚎𝗹.𝗰𝗼𝗺
Producing the anti-aging serum wasn’t hard, and it held little value. Therefore, all Lockwood Family pharmacists could make it, which meant it wasn’t limited like usual. Once it was bought out, it was gone.
