The Grants: Choosing One Between The Two-Chapter 223: Yvette Aston Takes Action for Ethan Grant
Harrison Sterling squinted his eyes. Is this Yvette Aston too confident about Ethan Grant?
"Yvette, I’ve told you, I can help you, but you need to leave Ethan Grant and come to my side." Harrison Sterling wasn’t going to easily help Ethan Grant.
"President Sterling, you don’t lack women, and you surely won’t fancy someone like me, right?" Yvette Aston forced herself to remain calm and not stutter. "I want to propose a different condition."
"Oh?" Harrison Sterling smiled. "What condition?"
"For Sterling to establish a foothold in Meridia, you need to have a standout project. I heard the Sterling Family is competing with the Aston Family for a project."
While Harrison Sterling was investigating Yvette Aston, Yvette was also investigating Harrison.
"The Aston Family’s influence in Meridia cannot be underestimated either, especially since George Aston’s biological daughter is the daughter-in-law of the Grant Family," Harrison intentionally provoked Yvette.
Yvette clenched her fingers tightly. "I’ve already left Grant Group, I can apply to be your assistant. If you mind about my educational background..."
Harrison squinted his eyes. "Welcome."
Yvette truly is smart. She would rather be a work assistant than a housemaid at his home.
She’s telling Harrison Sterling that he doesn’t lack women, but rather needs someone who can help him.
And her value far exceeds the trivial pleasures between a man and a woman.
"The Aston Family raised you for twenty-one years. Is it not inhumane for you to help me against them?" Harrison questioned in a deep tone. "For Ethan Grant, you don’t even understand basic gratitude? Is this what Ethan taught you?"
"President Sterling, if you don’t understand others, please just shut up..." Yvette’s voice trembled.
Perhaps, it is Harrison Sterling’s capability that drove her to speak so firmly.
Yvette could allow Harrison to criticize her, but would not allow him to speak ill of Ethan Grant.
"The person in charge of the Aston Family’s project is Stellan Aston. Between Stellan and me...we compete fairly, it has nothing to do with gratitude." Yvette’s fingernails left marks on her palm.
If not for Ethan, she didn’t want to confront the Aston Family head-on.
But she couldn’t just sit back.
Leaving Ethan to fight alone, he was too tired.
Yvette knew Harrison would consider it, because overseas trade hasn’t been doing well these years. Harrison came to reside in Meridia permanently just to secure this project, a project his mother wanted to obtain over twenty years ago.
Over twenty years ago, if not for this project, Harrison’s mother wouldn’t have returned to Meridia right before giving birth, causing a premature labor and giving birth to a daughter in a small town, only to be switched.
Now, with the Sandbar Village project restarting, both Harrison and the Sterling Matriarch have their eyes on it.
But without making inroads into Meridia’s business circle for over twenty years, Harrison didn’t have enough confidence.
Furthermore, the Aston Family has been climbing too fast with the backing of the Grant Group, and the local government has policies supporting local enterprises. Securing the project wasn’t straightforward for Harrison.
"Why should I trust you?" Harrison questioned back.
Yvette is a genius, her academic results and school grades were perfect, but she was imprisoned for five years, disconnected from society. Helping him secure such a high-difficulty project seems like child’s play.
Yet, inexplicably, Harrison trusted Yvette...
"Because I am the one who knows Stellan Aston best in this world..." Yvette took a deep breath.
She never intended to confront Stellan head-on.
Even though Stellan broke her heart back then, she viewed it as her atonement.
But now, Ethan Grant is more important.
"The Aston Family has raised a venomous snake," Harrison sneered, mocking Yvette’s malice.
After a long silence, Harrison spoke again. "Deal." 𝗳𝚛𝗲𝕖𝚠𝚎𝚋𝗻𝗼𝕧𝗲𝐥.𝚌𝚘𝐦
In his view, Yvette’s willingness to go against the Aston Family, who raised her for twenty-one years, for Ethan Grant was too malicious.
But it wasn’t his concern, he was a businessman seeking profit.
...
At Ethan Grant’s house.
After Harrison hung up the phone, Yvette’s phone slipped from her hand.
Crouching on the floor, trembling all over, Yvette hugged herself tightly.
Malice...
Once she chose to oppose the Aston Family, everyone would call her malicious.
Yvette knew the consequences of this matter.
But she had no other choice.
What she owed the Aston Family, she had long repaid...
She and Stellan Aston, a fair competition.
...
At Grant Group.
As soon as Ethan Grant entered the company, Arthur Grant rushed up with intense anger, ready to hit Ethan in front of reporters.
Ethan raised his hand, holding Arthur’s arm.
Arthur glared with wide eyes, looking at Ethan with intense anger. "Are you rebelling?"
Attempting to break free, Arthur realized that his son, half a head taller than him, had grown too strong for him to shake.
"Dad, be careful not to strain your back..." Ethan pushed Arthur away, adjusted his tie. "Do you think I’m still an eight or nine-year-old kid, watching helplessly as you commit domestic violence?"
Arthur was momentarily stunned, then flew into a rage. "It’s been so many years, are you holding a grudge against your father now?"
Ethan smiled. "Of course not."
"Wendy Bell is such a good girl, you didn’t cherish her well, you were with her six years ago, and now you’re not taking responsibility, letting some little vixen captivate you!" Arthur roared intentionally. "Wendy has attempted suicide and is in the hospital now, I order you to go see her immediately!"
The reporters were snapping photos, and rumors about Ethan and Wendy spread instantly.
Clearly, both Ethan and Yvette knew how to use public opinion to fight the media war, and so did Wendy Bell.
Wendy depicted herself as the victim, while the protagonist of Ethan’s publicized relationship became ’the mistress.’
Now, people online believed Ethan and Wendy had been together for six years and were interrupted by a third party.
In an instant, public opinion was shifting.
The most detestable part was that Arthur and Wendy exposed the identity of ’the mistress,’ leaking Yvette’s photo and information, claiming Yvette seduced Ethan as a life assistant.
The news even branded Yvette as a socialite within the second-generation circle.
Saying she slept with all kinds of men.
News about how Yvette swapped the life of a rich family’s daughter with hers also emerged.
With everything exposed like this, public opinion surely began to polarize.
People even dug up that Yvette had a five-year-old son.
Of all the women Ethan could choose, he chose an unwed mother.
"Mr. Grant, may I ask, were you together with Miss Wendy Bell for six years?"
"May I ask, was your relationship with Miss Wendy Bell destroyed because of your life assistant?"
Reporters blocked the entrance, questioning one after another.
Ethan’s face was cast in shadow, looking coldly at Arthur.
It was evident, Arthur was challenging his bottom line.
It’s fine to target him, but targeting Yvette meant courting death.
Arthur also looked coldly at Ethan, the father and son were at odds.
"The board members are all waiting. Be careful of what you say and don’t say in front of reporters," Arthur spoke first, reminding Ethan not to speak carelessly.
"If you obediently admit your mistake, I’ll treat your previous behavior as rebellion; otherwise, don’t blame a father for being ruthless." Arthur directly threatened.
He wanted Ethan to tacitly acknowledge the reporters’ questions.
Sacrificing one Yvette was nothing significant to Arthur.
