Chapter 1603

Steve did not know what Rian was thinking as he tossed an envelope before Rian with a loud tap. "You're already in deep shit, just see what you've done?!" "What have I done to make you so angry?" Rian took the envelope and opened it. He looked at the contents of it before smirking and letting out an indifferent look. "It's just something between a man and a woman, it's nothing to make you so angry." Steve was so furious he took a glass beside him and tossed it at Rian. "I couldn't care less if you want to fool around with women. But now everything is burning down around you and you're still smothering yourself in a woman's bosom, and then to have these pictures sent over here..." "Dad, is someone from the White Corporation following me?" It was only then did Rian realize what was going on. The pictures were of him with Hannah fooling around inside the car, and not long after he did that intimate act with her, the pictures arrived at Steve's hands. Does that not mean that Lucas had already placed people around him? "You didn't even notice that he had sent people to follow you, you useless piece of shit!" Steve glared at Rian with a disgusted look, but there was little else he could do. If it were not for Rian being his only son, the inheritance rights of the Sandow family would never have to be passed down on such a waste of space. Perhaps knowing that he was the sole successor to the family's business and that the Sandow Corporation would be his sooner or later, this was the reason he was such an unaccomplished lout, engrossing himself with nothing but women. "Sir, Mr. White is here outside the door." The butler's respectful voice came from the door, interrupting the two. Steve immediately recomposed himself. "Mr. White is here I see, invite him in. We can't let an esteemed guest wait at the door now, can we?" The butler then said, "Yes, sir." Soon, Lucas's tall and upright figure appeared at the door. Steve quickly went forward to greet him. "Ah, Lucas, you're here. How rare indeed. Barnaby, get word to the kitchen to prepare a lavish meal. I want to have a proper drink with him today." Lucas's nickname was Smiley, and he would always wear a smile on his face no matter where or when; making it difficult for others to discern his true emotions. But today, he had no intention to put up an act as he could not laugh at anything that had to do with Stella. He went straight to the point. "Steve, you know very well what I'm here for today. You don't have to put up the act." Steve then said, "What are you saying, Lucas? You're a boy I've watched growing up. You're like a son in my eyes. "Moreover, you were once engaged to Stellie, and if that girl hadn't been so headstrong to run away overseas, the two of you might already have children. With a child, then we will properly be family..." "Steve, back then it was I who was unwilling to marry your daughter, and not her being unwilling to wed me. I hope you don't twist the truth of things." The reason Lucas had not mentioned this back then was because he felt there was no need to do so. Now he had to make things clear. He wanted to let everyone in the world know that he never had any forlorn love, not then, not now. There was only Stella in his heart. He then added, "To preserve your dignity, you Sandows went around telling others that Stellie didn't want me and left me behind. Others may not know the truth, but you all do, and now you actually believed your own lies?" Lucas's bluntness was a literal slap on the Sandow family's face. Steve's expression darkened. "Lucas, our families have been friends for so many years now and such things are normal, you don't have to make things sound so bad." "I'm not here to reminisce about the past today." Lucas tossed a file to Steve and looked up. "It's nine o'clock right now, and I'll give you twelve hours. Let me know your answer by nine in the morning tomorrow." Seeing that Lucas was already being hostile, Steve no longer had to put up an act. "Lucas, our families are friends, you don't have to push things to the brink. It does neither of us any good." Lucas smiled. "We could've co-existed peacefully, but it's your daughter who hatched a plan and touched a person she shouldn't have."