Chapter 393
“He’s still in emergency surgery. We won’t know his condition until tomorrow,” Lenny replied.
Even though he used to be her brother, Mira felt no pity.
The Mercer family had brought a wolf into their home when they welcomed Mara back, and they had all happily enabled her toxicity. Julian had been one of her biggest enablers.
They were reaping what they had sown.
Meanwhile, at Porter Entertainment.
“Boss, it’s done. Julian is going to be permanently crippled, if not dead,” Allen said, bowing slightly as he leaned in toward Shane Porter.
Because they were dealing in dark secrets, these matters were always handled at the corporate office. Shane rarely brought this kind of business home.
“Excellent. That pawn has been feeding at my trough for a long time; it’s about time she proved her worth. Next, tell her to focus on Ethan’s office. The Mercer family is in total chaos right now. She needs to use this window to steal Ethan’s bidding documents p>
Allen nodded. “But her godmother doesn’t want her hanging around the company too much. She keeps pressuring the girl to study p>
“That’s not up to her.” Shane paused, tapping his fingers on the desk. “Give the girl a generous cash bonus and call it her hazard pay for this job. Tell her that as long as she secures the bidding documents, we won’t interrupt her studies until after her college entrance exams p>
“Understood p>
“And keep a closer eye on Mira. That girl is a freak of nature. Every time we set a trap, she slips right through and takes our people down with her. If we let her keep growing, she’s going to become a serious threat p>
“Yes, Boss p>
Shane shifted his gaze back to his paperwork, but sensing Allen lingering, he looked up again. “Is there something else p>
“Boss, I just think… if we want to swallow the Mercer Group’s assets, we don’t necessarily have to destroy their entire family in the process p>
Allen carefully watched his boss’s expression, his tone cautious.
“What, are you getting soft p>
“Not exactly. It just seems like Mira has already severed all ties with the Mercers. There’s no point in wasting our resources to target her anymore p>
“Allen, we’ve been running things together for years. Don’t you know that if you don’t rip out the roots, the weeds will just grow back in the springa dortust want to absorb their assets. /w their family entirely eradicated,” Shane said, his voice laced with venom.
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Allen stared at his boss, wondering if there was some deep-seated, blood-feud history between Shane and the Mercer family that he didn’t know about. But as a subordinate, he knew better than to ask
no’
questions his boss didn’t want to answer.
The next day was the State Academic Decathlon.
This time, only four students from Melvion Central High School had qualified: Mira, Elara Finn, Harvey Rivers, and Wesley Scott.
After the recent incident with Lexie Fontaine, Mira wasn’t taking any chances. She insisted on bringing her two bodyguards.
The school’s reputation was on the line, so the principal personally led the trip, spending the entire commute lecturing them on test-taking strategies as if he wished he could take the exam for them.
The decathlon was being hosted at a middle school in Melvion City. Students from the Auremont District were instructed to convene at the testing center.
Everyone present had ranked in the top three during the district qualifiers, making up a total pool of just under twenty students.
There were three competitors from
the Academy, including Logan Gentry and Zander May. They had been rivals last time but now they were supposedly comrades fighting for the glory of the Auremont District.
However, the students from the Academy clearly had no intention of saying hello, and Mira’s group certainly wasn’t going to swallow their pride to make the first move.
Mira didn’t recognize the rest of the competitors from the other high schools in the district.