The Inheritance - Book 1
Copyright© 2026 by Arise
Chapter 29
It was such a huge street and yet, it was nothing in the eyes of the young Mr. Crawford.
How powerful was this Crawford family?!
Whitney and the rest of the girls fell for Mr. Crawford immediately. How they wished to become his girlfriend.
“Still, aren’t you exaggerating this?”
“If it is such an influential family, we should have seen it on the Internet!”
The girls doubted it.
Quinton laughed. “Those that you see online are not the most powerful ones. Think about it. What kind of an existence would a company be when all the big companies you know online are supported by it? Many of the large industries are supported by such a powerful company, and such companies are run by families of whom we don’t usually hear their names!”
“Hmm, it makes sense.” The girls were now convinced.
Ring!
The phone rang.
Mrs. Smith picked up the phone. She was shocked when she saw where the call was from. “It’s from the Bureau of Commerce!”
Helen was getting anxious.
Were they going to seize their assets? It was true that their company almost went bankrupt, but Mayberry International Inc. had just announced their investment to their company.
Everyone knew that the bank would not show any mercy to the companies who owed them money. Once the company could not repay the loan, the bank would inform the bureau immediately.
They all knew clearly how it worked.
Everyone stopped talking and waited patiently.
“Thank you, Mr. Harrison. Yes, yes, yes! Thank you for your encouragement and support! Okay, goodbye!”
Everyone was confused upon seeing Helen speak in such an excited manner.
“Mr. Harrison?” Mila’s father was surprised.
Their company was considered a small company. So, they were always very scared of authority.
Seeing Mrs. Smith’s reaction, he knew it was not bad news.
“Yes!”
And she recounted their conversation.
“It must all be thanks to the young Mr. Crawford! Otherwise, it would be impossible!”
“Mr. Crawford is indeed very influential and powerful!”
Everyone was very impressed by this man.
The incident had sparked curiosity among many of them. Who was this mysterious Mr. Crawford?
Over the following days, Richard did not do anything that attracted attention to himself. Besides, he spent all the money on the card his sister had sent him which was loaded with twenty million dollars. There was about one million dollars or so left on the card, so he bought himself some branded outfits as well as some accessories like watches and stuff.
Xavia did call Richard up once to borrow some money, but he refused to lend her any.
He was not being ruthless. He just wanted her to learn her lesson.
Blindly pursuing money was useless. Sometimes, when you thought you were about to have it, you were actually losing it.
He really hoped Xavia would not continue living like this.
Otherwise, she would lose herself one day.
After Richard refused to help her, he had not heard about her for days.
So, he focused on preparing for his third driving test.
“What are you doing, bro?”
It was Saturday. Richard was reading a book, laying on the bed, while Harper and the rest had gone out to have some fun.
Just as he was feeling bored, his sister, Jessica, called him.
“I’m reading a book. What is it?”
Richard felt rather helpless when dealing with his domineering sister. His head ached when he heard her voice.
He could still remember the one time he had been beaten by her just because he had wanted to buy an ice cream. They had still been poor at that time.
He was rather annoyed by his innocence back then.
Now that his peculiar parenting was over and he had spent so much money, he was still being scolded by his sister!
Richard felt that his life was quite dramatic, almost as if it was a dream.
“Hey, I’ve checked the transactions of your card. You have spent all the money! Haha, great job! I heard from Zack that you have improved a lot. You even learned to use our company funds to invest in a small company! I did a background check on the company you helped. Did you fall in love with that girl? Are you getting me a sister-in-law?” Jessica asked playfully.
It was true that Richard had been keeping in touch with Mila over these past few days and they were indeed growing fond of each other. Mila chatted with him about almost everything, and he was very happy to chat about anything with her.
However, the closer they got, the more Richard became reluctant to take the first step in pursuing her.
He did not expect his sister to find out about this.
“No, I’m not!” Richard said bitterly.
“Okay, I will stop teasing you. I just want to tell you that since you have started investing, you reminded me of my plan to build some schools or shopping complexes in Mayberry. Why don’t you try to do it for me instead?” Jessica gave him an unforgiving challenge.
“What?! But Sister, I know nothing about investment!”
“That’s why I want you to learn. It will be alright. Zack will form an exceptional team to help you do this. You can take this chance to learn how to make use of the assets. Otherwise, if you cannot pass the last test in the future, Daddy will not...”
“What test?”
Richard sensed something strange from his sister’s words.
Since the day his sister had sent him the money, she had been acting strangely. She forced him to spend at least two hundred thousand dollars at a time, and then, she told him to spend the whole twenty million dollars. It didn’t seem like she did it just because they had plenty of money.
She seemed to have a motive behind this.
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