Chapter 247: Too Deep in the Role He spat out the words with biting sarcasm. "Go back to the Carter Family?"
Daniel snapped, "Thatâs right!"
Logan raised a brow, the corners of his mouth curling into a faint smirk. "Also, Chairman Reid, what makes you think you have the right to send me back to the Carter family?"
Because youâre in our way! Daniel screamed in his head but kept a façade of righteousness. "The Carter Family raised you for years. You havenât visited onceâdonât you have a conscience?"
"Why did the Carter Family âraiseâ me in the first place?" Loganâs voice turned cold, laced with an overwhelming pressure. "Isnât Chairman Reid perfectly clear on that?"
Why did the Carter Family take Logan in?
Because after he was born, the Reids abandoned him.
They never expected that bastard to surviveâlet alone grow up to be the powerful Mr. Reid, someone even his biological father had to tiptoe around.
"Youâyouâ" Daniel was shaking with rage. "Where do you get the audacity to spout such nonsense? Iâm your father! Everything you have was given to you by the Reid Family! Itâs only right that we take it back! You need me to remind you of your place? You were thrown away at birth because you deserved it!"
"Oh?"
Logan let out a mocking laugh. "Then by all means, enlighten meâwhat exactly is my place?"
"Youâre..."
"Iâm the illegitimate child of your mistress, Amelia? My birth caused the death of your legal wife, Anna? And to appease the Perry Family, you dumped me like garbage?"
Logan sipped his tea, utterly unfazed, as if Daniel were no more than a speck of dust.
"If thatâs what you came to say, save it. Iâve heard it all before."
Daniel opened his mouth, then closed it again, his expression twitching with embarrassment.
Logan tilted his head lazily. "Donât mistake my silence for ignorance. Or better yet, ask yourselfâwhy do you think I havenât exposed the truth?"
A cold sweat broke out on Danielâs back.
Logan knew the truth? What truth? That couldnât be...
Everyone in the Reid Family had always believed Logan was the illegitimate one. He was tossed aside, as he deserved. But if that narrative unraveledâif Logan wasnât who they thought he wasâthen the Reid Family would be finished.
No. That was impossible. Theyâd covered their tracks too well. Logan couldnât have found any proof.
Daniel collected himself. "Whatever youâre planning, I donât care. The Carter Family wants you back, and youâre going. As for the companyâdonât worry. Owen will take over. Properly and officially."
Logan gave a low, amused scoff. "So all of this was just to clear the path for a useless nobody."
"Logan!" Daniel slammed his palm on the table. "Youâve got enough already! Whatâs wrong with giving Owen a little?"
"And if I say no?"
"You ungrateful brat!" Enraged beyond reason, Daniel grabbed a heavy incense burner and hurled it at Loganâ
It landed with a sharp crack against his shoulder.
"You think I canât make you leave? You should know clearly that the Carter Family is not sincere to you, and we in the Reid Family donât like you either. You are born a bastard! Youâd better know your place!"
With that, Daniel stormed out.
Silence fell over the room.
Logan looked up slowly. "Jack."
Jack rushed over, concern etched in every line of his face. He knew his boss didnât care about the Reid Familyâbut this was still too cruel.
Logan didnât seem fazed. His voice was calm, even lazy. "Help me back to my room. And call Selina."
Jack blinked. "You... need help?"
Logan smiled faintly. "Iâm a businessman. Gotta collect a little interest from Chairman Reid."
When Selina got the call from Jack, she had just finished dealing with Owen â who was still standing next to her, frozen in shock.
Then she heard:
"Madam, please hurry to the Reid Family estate! Chairman Reid is forcing Mr. Logan to hand over Reid Groupâs shares to Owen. When he refused, the chairman beat him with a stickâheâs bleeding..."
Selina "accidentally" tapped her phoneâs Bluetooth setting, connecting the call to Reid Groupâs office speaker system.
In an instant, the entire company echoed with one sentence:
âHe refused to give Owen the shares, so he was beaten...
Owenâs face turned ghost white. Panicked, he lunged at Selina to grab her phone.
She casually sidestepped him, feigning concern. "Chairman Reid really went too far. Iâll head over right away!"
Jack sighed dramatically on the other end, "Sure, itâs not life-threatening, but how could Chairman Reid do this? Mr. Logan is his biological son! And yet he said Logan being abandoned and left to fend for himself wasnât an accidentâit was all to clear a path for Owen!"
"Iâm seriously starting to wonder if Owen is the chairmanâs illegitimate child. Otherwise, why toss his real son aside for a foster one? Is Owen human, and our Mr. Logan isnât?"
Selina covered her mouth, letting out a dramatic sob. "My poor husband... boohoo, Iâm on my way! So it wasnât just a rumorâOwen wants Logan dead! Waaahhh... In my next life, please donât let him be born into the Reid Family!"
Jack: "..."
Jack cleared his throat, trying to reel her in. "Madam, Mr. Logan was already hurt before, and this just made it worse... Please, hurry..."
When the call ended, everyone watched Selina stagger in place.
Then she bolted for the underground parking garage like a woman possessedâlike if she didnât run fast enough, sheâd never see her husband alive again.
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"Now it makes sense why Owen was so bold spreading liesâheâs backed by the Reid Family."
"Is the Reid Family out of their minds? Trying to kill their own blood son over a foster one?"
"Mr. Reid refused to give up his shares and the chairman beat him?! Thatâs sick."
"Letâs be realâReid Family is only powerful now because of Mr. Logan. And they think this joke of a foster son can take over? What a joke."
The gossip spread like wildfire across City A.
Half an hour later, Selina burst into the Reid estate and slammed open Loganâs bedroom door, diving toward his bedside.
"Honey! Iâm late! What did the doctor say? Can you be saved?! Waaahhhâhow did you end up hurt like this?! Itâs my fault, I shouldâve come with you!
I didnât know Chairman Reid was this insane, boohoohoo..."
Logan winced as she hit him square in the chest.
Selina sobbed even louder. "Logan, if you die, I wonât live either! Let the world see how Chairman Reid drove his own son and daughter-in-law to their deaths! Waaahhhhhh..."
Logan coughed softly, narrowing his gaze at her. He stared into her eyesâjust to confirm what he suspected.
Not a single tear.
He lowered his lashes.
"Mrs. Reid," he said, voice flat, "are you really that heartbroken?"
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