The next morning, in the Raven family's apartment, Nadia looked at the feast on the table suspiciously and asked in confusion, "Mom, is today a special occasion? Our breakfast has never been this hearty even during the new year!"Mrs. Raven chuckled. "Your dad has agreed to work for Dean. They already signed the contract today, and he paid your dad this morning."Nadia gaped at her father, surprised that her parents hadn't mentioned anything to her."Nadia, do you know how much Dean paid your dad? It's beyond your imagination. It's ten times more than what he got from Angela!" Mrs. Raven said joyously. "I made an appointment with a real estate agent to go house hunting later. We are going to move to a bigger house!""Dad, why would you work for Dean? Dean is a sick man. Didn't you say so yourself the last time his scandals came out? Have you forgotten about it?" Nadia was concerned that her father might have gotten himself involved with the wrong person, so she did not want him to

Three hours later, Fred returned to see Eric."It's a shame that he's really a guy! No kidding. You can't fake that Adam's Apple," Fred said regretfully."Why did you spend so much time with him when you already know that he is a guy?" Eric glanced at the time. "Did you two really go for a spa treatment after grabbing food?"Fred shook his head. "No. I did get to see his muscles, though. He got hot while we were eating and he took off his jacket, so I saw everything...""And? What did you two do?" Eric asked in confusion.Meanwhile, Nico showed his sister the screen of his phone."He was playing games with me and helped me get past the difficult levels! He isn't all that good-looking and is a bit chubby, but he is kind of nice. He didn't even swear when our teammates screwed up. I can tell that he is a decent guy," Nico said.Nadia shoved his hand aside. "So? Did you two plan your next gaming session before saying goodbye?""Yeah! I asked him to help me out!" Nico hit his siste

"Elliot is in Aryadelle right now. We won't know even if it actually works," Sebastian said despite remaining silent the entire time."Haha. If it works, Elliot would be in horrible pain. Don't you think Elliot's men would inform Avery? Once Avery finds out that something is wrong with Elliot, she will naturally try to figure something out. Hahaha!" Dean was overjoyed at the idea.Stanley was shocked. "Dean, we should just focus on earning money. There's no need for us to make Elliot Foster our enemy, right?"Stanley did not know about the fact that Elliot had scammed 2.1 billion out of Dean, and Dean wasn't going to admit to being fooled, so he could only make up an excuse."Elliot and I have a past. Avery and Elliot were the ones who released that scandal about me," Dean said with a dark look. "Stanley, you can't be that timid, can you? If we can control Elliot, both Elliot and Avery are at our command. Their money and connection are all ours to do as we please. When we are riche

Mrs. Cooper hurried over to try and help Elliot up, but he was too heavy for her to carry on her own, so she ran downstairs to get the bodyguard to help her."Why did Mr. Foster pass out? Did he fall sick? Have you called an ambulance?" The bodyguard hurried upstairs.Suddenly remembering that she was still on the phone, Mrs. Cooper glanced down at the screen on her phone and said, "Avery, Mr. Foster passed out! I need to call an ambulance first! I will call you back later!"Mrs. Cooper hung up and immediately called the emergency line.Shortly after, Elliot was rushed to the hospital.Avery was not in Aryadelle so she couldn't do anything other than worry about him.She called Wesley and asked him to go check on Elliot at the hospital, before calling Sebastian back."You all have crossed the line!" She trembled in rage. "Sebastian, if something happens to Elliot, I will kill you all! I mean it!""What happened?" Sebastian could sense from her tone that something went wrong."

"I know that person. He used to work at one of the hospitals in Ark Ville. There was some issue with the hospital management and he quit after that," a contact told Avery."Do you know his number?" she asked."No. I don't know him in person but we have a mutual friend. I can try to see if I can ask about it. What do you want with him, though?""There's something I need his help with. Please help me check with that mutual friend of yours.""Sure. I'll keep you posted."...Meanwhile, in Aryadelle, Elliot had regained consciousness and stared dazed at the ceiling. All his memories came rushing back to him from the moment he opened his eyes.Life seemed to have resumed to normal in the past days, giving him an illusion that everything was going to be alright; but the headache last night had burst his bubble.He knew that Dean was behind it. He had scammed a fortune out of Dean and so Dean had been doing everything he could to gain control over Elliot.Elliot did not doubt that Av