Chapter 33 - A Posthumous Wedding!

Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

Thirty heads and thirty lives died in Heller’s hands just like that!

Lucy had a rather awful look on her face. She frowned and said, “How ruthless of Heller!”

Neal, who had a dark and sinister look all over his countenance, clenched his fists tightly!

Shane had been Neal’s loyal follower for many years and was his absolute confidant. He had made countless contributions to the Wilsons. It was Neal who had sent Shane to kill Heller that evening.

But now, he was dead! He had died at the hands of Heller!

This made Neal immensely furious!

Lucy asked tentatively, “What are you going to do next, Mr. Wilson?”

Neal sneered and said, “You don’t have to bother sounding me out, Lucy! I’m not a fool like Sebastian Zoff! Since I’ve said that Heller will die, he definitely will! Even if he doesn’t die tonight, he’ll still die tomorrow at my son’s funeral!”

A frowning Lucy asked, “But what if Heller doesn’t attend the funeral tomorrow?”

A sinister Neal replied grimly, “Do you think I’ll give up just like that? Now that things have come to this point, I don’t mind telling you the truth—in addition to Shane, I’ve also prepared another big surprise for Heller!”

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“He’ll have to come to the funeral tomorrow even if he doesn’t want to!”

“Even if he doesn’t, I’ll make it such that he has no choice but to come!”

After saying that, Neal left straightaway!

Before they left, the Wilsons also took Shane and the rest of the people’s heads with them.

It was just that even so, an incredibly pungent smell of blood continued to waft in the air!

Jacob suddenly asked softly, “Lucy, you knew that Shane would fail, right?”

An expressionless Lucy asked coldly, “What are you trying to say?”

Jacob replied seriously, “I may be stupid, but I’m no fool! Others may not know it, but we both know that Heller had a large group of snipers with him when he killed Hugh at the Xanders’ last night! With snipers around, Shane ambushing and killing Heller is nothing but a pipe dream!

“What I don’t understand is, not only do you clearly know about this, but Heller is also clearly the Wilsons’ and our common enemy now, so why didn’t you warn Neal about it?”

Lucy turned and patted Jacob on the cheek. She said coldly, “My silly little brother, it seems that you’ve finally become a little smarter!”

“Unfortunately, you’re still being too much of a smart-aleck!”

“Do you remember what Heller said before? Five years ago, after the annihilation of the Nicholsons, if it weren’t because I had someone backing me up, the Zoffs would never have allowed me to hog most of the Nicholsons’ assets without doing anything at all.”

“Do you think the Wilsons and us are real allies just because we have a common enemy? What a joke! Remember this—all the big families are cruel and ruthless people who’ll swallow you down whole, bones and all! They may backstab us any time and become our enemy!”

“Do you think the Wilsons aren’t aware that I was borrowing their hand to kill Heller? They know!”

“In that case, why should I warn them about it?”

Lucy said proudly, “The more the Wilsons invest in this, and the more manpower they lose, the more it’ll benefit me!”

“The most ideal result would be the Wilsons and Heller duking it out and having both of them end up suffering great losses!”

“When that happens, I can easily wrap up the mess and reap the spoils of victory without lifting a finger!”

“Heller’s life isn’t the only thing I’m after!”

“The Nicholsons, the Zoffs, and the Wilsons—all their assets are mine!”

“Nobody can fight with me for them!”

“Do you understand me?!”

Jacob was as quiet as a mouse. He didn’t dare utter a word at all!

“Men!”

Lucy pointed to Jacob and calmly ordered, “Take that good-for-nothing to the hospital and have him recuperate there!”

“I have a fight to watch later, so I don’t have any time to spare on this good-for-nothing younger brother of mine!”

“Yes, ma’am!”

…

At the Lincolns.

Ruby’s father, Joseph Lincoln, was drinking moodily by himself. He sighed and said, ​​”I heard that Heller has returned. I wonder how Ruby is. We’ve ignored her and left her to fend for herself all this time over the last five years. Was that too cruel of us?”

Ruby’s mother, Holly, gave Joseph a sideways glance. She said in a matter-of-fact tone, “Have you relented? Ruby was a piece of me for ten months! Do you think my heart doesn’t ache when she’s my daughter? But she simply had to get herself involved with Heller, and even give him a daughter! You know very well that there are countless people in L.A. after Heller’s life! The Lincolns have also been implicated as a result. During the last five years, Lucy Xander has been targeting us and making our life very difficult!”

“As a result, we can only cut Ruby off and ignore her so that we may survive! The Lincolns don’t have the power to interfere in their affairs at all! If we dare so much as to help Ruby, all the Lincolns will die terribly!”

“Do you want all the Lincolns to die with Heller?”

Joseph shut up and stayed quiet like a chicken!

Her husband’s wimpy behavior infuriated Holly, but when she thought of how they had already been husband and wife for so many years, she nevertheless patiently said, “It’s fine. We’ll just take it as if we’ve never had a daughter like her! Besides, even if we lose our daughter, we still have our son! Howard will definitely distinguish himself!”

Suddenly, their son, Howard Lincoln, ran over. He was out of breath as he shouted, “Dad, Mom! Something’s happened!”

Holly frowned lightly and said reproachfully, “Why are you yelling? Calm down and speak slowly!”

Howard’s voice was a little sharp as he said, “Heller has not only killed Jack Zoff, but also Hugh Wilson! Neal Wilson, the head of the Wilsons, has publicly announced at Lucy’s celebration party just now that he’s going to blacklist the Lincolns on all fronts!”

Holly suddenly raised her head and screamed, “What did you say?!”

An anxious Howard said, “It’s true! The Wilsons are already here!”

He had only just said that when a large group of Wilsons swarmed right into the house!

A middle-aged man in the lead looked at Holly and said coldly, “I’m Jimmy Wilson, the second butler of the Wilsons!”

Holly got up in a panic. Her voice shook as she said, “My apologies for not receiving you in advance, Mr. Wilson. It was the Lincolns’ oversight. May I know why Mr. Wilson is here so late at night?”

Jimmy replied indifferently, “By order of the head of the Wilsons, I’ve come specially to give the Lincolns a gift!”

“Bring it over!”

After he spoke, Jimmy clapped once. The next moment, his subordinates filed into the house with trays on their hands!

On the trays were stacks of hundred-dollar bills!

Jimmy said frostily, “There’s $1,000,000 here, not a cent more and not a cent less!”

Holly was stunned!

Both Howard and Joseph also looked absolutely dumbstruck!

The Wilsons had only just said that they were going to blacklist the Lincolns on all fronts, yet they were now taking the initiative to send them a million dollars in cash. What exactly did they have up their sleeve?

Jimmy could tell that Holly was puzzled, so he took the initiative to explain, “This is a wedding gift from the Wilsons to the Lincolns!”

A wedding gift?

Didn’t that mean that the Wilsons were planning a union with the Lincolns?

Overjoyed, Holly blurted out, “Dare I ask, which lady from the Lincolns has the Wilsons taken a fancy to? It’s our greatest honor to be able to form a union with the Wilsons! It’s their blessing of a lifetime to be able to marry into the Wilsons, no matter who it is! I’ll bring her over right away!”

The corners of Jimmy’s lips rose slightly. “She should indeed feel honored. It’s quite the coincidence, but this blessing just so happens to have something to do with you!”

Holly’s expression froze slightly and her eyes widened dramatically. “Surely the Wilsons didn’t take a fancy to me, right?”

Jimmy sneered mercilessly, “You? Ask yourself, are you worthy of that?”

Holly looked terribly embarrassed. She let out a sheepish laugh and asked, “So, who’s the lucky girl, exactly?”

Jimmy replied coldly, “She’s your daughter, Ruby Lincoln!”

Dead silence filled the place!

A dumbfounded Holly stammered, “T-this…”

Jimmy smiled calmly and said, “What you want to say is that even though Ruby isn’t married yet, she’s already given birth to a daughter for Heller, right? No matter, that’s exactly what the Wilsons want! If she wasn’t Heller’s woman, we wouldn’t be interested!”

Holly suddenly had a very bad feeling. She asked, “Then, dare I ask, which of the Wilsons’ sons has taken a fancy to Ruby?”

Jimmy said mockingly, “It’s Mr. Neal’s son, Mr. Hugh Wilson!”

A pale Holly stammered, “B-but… Isn’t he already dead?”

Jimmy let out a sinister laugh and replied, “Yes, that’s right. The Wilsons will be laying Mr. Hugh to rest tomorrow, but he was yet unmarried and without any children when he was alive!

“Thus, we plan to hold a wedding at Mr. Hugh’s funeral! A posthumous one!”

“The bride is none other than Ruby Lincoln!”

“Heller was the one who killed Mr. Hugh! Since Ruby is his woman, she, as well as the wretched little girl she had with Heller, shall both accompany Mr. Hugh to the afterworld!”