Chapter 25:What a Glib Mouth

Morrison family looked like fathers and sons got along well on the surface. But there was something deep. Arthur’s father was on bad terms with his grandpa thus he didn’t stay in the house throughout the year while his wife always stayed at home. Arthur was young and competent, but he was disable now. Even so, Selena put the hope of carrying on the family line on him rather than her youngest son who was healthy and lively. It seemed that Nicola respected his parents and brother and was timid as well as incompetent. But he secretly tried to sleep with his brother’s wife for several times. If he was really timid, he wouldn’t dare to have such idea. It was complicated inside the family. Jocelyn carried memories of two people. She thought of so many complicated things that she fell asleep. Because of that wedding issue, the Leonard Group taken over by Stan was affected by public opinions and its stock market was turbulent. Seeing parent’s hard work was wasted by Stan, Jocelyn felt terrible but she had to bite her teeth to make it worse. As long as Stan ruined the Leonard Group, she could take it back to start again. This was exactly what didn’t kill it made it stronger. In the afternoon, Arthur was pushed out by the servant for a walk while Jocelyn surfed the internet in the room. There were private messages from Facebook. “Hi, this is Susan, secretary to the chairman from Lemon Holding Group. Are you the designer of the jewellery? The attached picture was a bracelet designed by Joanne when she studied jewellery design at abroad. At that time, she often designed some samples to share with online friends but it had been many years. While she was thinking, there was another message from the dialog box. “Our chairman is so interested in your design, and our company plans to build up a jewellery brand aiming at young groups. We are recruiting designers, are you interested?” Jocelyn’s eyes started to light up. It was her early dream to build up a jewellery brand. “If it is convenient, can you tell us your real name? We can make an appointment to talk about it. Our chairman really likes your design.” There was consecutive words from that secretary. It could be seen that they were thirsty for talents. Holding her chin, Jocelyn stared at the screen for a while and typed a sentence. “There will be no problem if your future independent brand can be operated by myself. ” “...” There were more dishes at dinner than usual. While Jocelyn was wondering if there were guests, the door rang. Hearing the sound “Mr.”from servants, she knew it was Abner Morrison. It had been half month since he travelled to France for business. He even didn’t catch the wedding of Judd family. It was the first time that Jocelyn met him since she went out of jail. “Abner, how is the business in France?” Selena actively picked dishes for Abner while kept glancing at the expressions of their father. She totally didn’t notice that her husband looked bad since he came back. “Just so so.” The atmosphere froze after those words. “Hum” The old man noticed that Abner must had met some trouble, he said coldly, “I have reminded you early that it is not easy to do business. People respect you because our family in Yanjing, but who knows you when you go out of Yanjing?” Abner had a bad temper. After hearing this, he refuted, “It’s common to win or lose a battle, so is business. I haven’t seen any general who lead soldiers always win.” The old man frowned. “Either soldiers winning or losing is upright and to protect the country. Business is another thing.” Seeing that Abner was about to refute, Selena stopped him by pulling, “This dish is good. Father, please have a try. Abner, taste it.” Both the father and son were speechless, looking all bad. The atmosphere in the house froze. Lowering her head, Jocelyn sighed silently. What a glib mouth Selena had? As soon as she spoke, her husband and father quarreled. She really hit a nerve. All her three kids seemed to get used to it. They didn’t speak a word and just ate, pretending to see nothing. She was so convinced. After dinner, the old man went back to his study and those three kids scattered. Abner seemed to be so angry that he wouldn’t stay at home, arguing with Selena in the corridor. Taking the opportunity to make tea downstairs, Jocelyn hid aside to hear the dialogues. “Master your temper to talk with father. He will help because you are the only son. In his opinion, it is just usual chatting with others. “ “You needn’t do that. I didn’t except his help when I came back. Besides, as you saw, he didn’t seem to help me.” “Abner.” Selena caught up him, “Please listen to me, Mrs. Ruskin isn’t that easy-going. It will be easier for you to ask help from father. “ Hearing the name of Mrs. Ruskin, Jocelyn was surprised and pricked up her ears. “It is none of your business, remember you need to bid something tomorrow afternoon at the charity auction held by Leonard financial group. Then give it to Mrs. Ruskin as a gift and take the opportunity to speak more.” Hearing this, Jocelyn clenched her hands and slowly turned around to hide against the wall. Mixed feelings welled up in her heart. She recalled the scene when Stan humbly stood before her parents and asked for a job in Leonard financial group. When Stan did not inherit his family business but wanted to enter the Leonard financial group. He gave a great speech without any flaw. He said that he didn't want to rely on his father. He wanted to make success on his own. At that time, Joanne focused on the jewellery design and told her parents that she didn't want to manage the company. Therefore they trusted him and allowed him to work in Leonard Group. Within one year, Stan became the vice president of the group. Now that her parents passed away in the accident, the entire group’s power naturally fell into his hands. Without too much thinking, she also knew that the charity auction was a means of crisis public relations made by Stan. On one hand, he wanted to take out their money by the charity auction for his money laundering. On the other hand, he gathered celebrities as well as politicians by the reputation of the family to do business. Indeed, he killed two birds with one stone. But Abner just mentioned Mrs. Ruskin------- Jocelyn turned her eyes. If Abner needed the help of Mrs. Ruskin, then she would find a breakthrough to enter Morrison Group. After all, before the reborn, Joanne was on good terms with Mrs. Ruskin. It was easy to convince Selena to take her to the auction. Her ability of identifying painting was enough. Selena also feared that thing like that marriage issue happened again. To avoid being cheated, there was no disadvantages to take her.