Chapter 488

"Do you really expect them to help us? How?" asked Quinton. "Would the Shaw family become enemies with Jackson Valor? Do you want the Shaw family to inject hundreds of millions of dollars into our family business to raise the stock price back up?" Demetria instantly shut her mouth. She was not completely clueless about business. After hearing what her husband said, she understood that it was impossible to get help from the Shaw family. Leaving aside the question of whether the Shaw family had hundreds of millions of dollars in liquidity, she knew there was no way the Shaw family would become enemies with Jackson Valor for them. "Then... what should we do?" Demetria asked anxiously, "What is wrong with Jackson Valor? How can he let himself be seduced by a woman like Serenity Lewis? Did she put a spell on him or something? She's just a woman Zeke cast away!" Quinton said a little impatiently, "That's enough. You can say that to me, but don't let anyone else hear you say that or we'll be in even more trouble." Demetria seemed reluctant, but in the end, she kept quiet. "I'll go talk to Jackson Valor and ask him what he wants," said Quinton. He couldn't let the Hall family fall into a major crisis because of Serenity Lewis. But when Quinton met with Jackson, Jackson actually made him a proposal that surprised him greatly. "You want me to stop? I'll stop if you raze the mall that kicked Serenity out to the ground within ten days," Jackson said flatly. Quinton could hardly believe his ears, "Raze the mall to the ground?" Was Jackson Valor asking him to demolish the entire mall? A lot of money was spent to build that mall. It was also located downtown so it had always made good profits. The shareholders would never agree to demolish the mall. "Jackson, I think there must be a misunderstanding between us. If you simply want to help Ms. Lewis vent her anger, surely we can agree on something else?" Quinton tried to negotiate so that he could reduce his losses. But Jackson was adamant. "I don't think there's any misunderstanding. But you're right, I am doing this for her. You should be glad that I didn't send someone to remove the arm your wife used to hit her out of respect for the Hall family." Quinton instantly became unhappy. "No matter what, our Mira was your fiancée. Can we just let this matter rest for Mira's sake? I can apologize to Ms. Lewis and compensate her." Quinton tried to persuade Jackson with emotions, but Jackson stared at him with a strange grin on his face, as if Quinton had just said something really funny. "For Mira's sake?" Quinton felt awkward. A man who was much younger than him was actually forcing him into such a predicament. Almost reflexively, he opened his mouth and said, "Does Serenity Lewis know about what happened back then?" The air around them instantly froze. Jackson's dark eyes stared coldly at Quinton. There was obvious hostility and murderous intent in those eyes. Murderous intent? Quinton was shocked. A chill ran down his spine. He had a feeling that if he said one more word, the entire Hall family would fall into ruin! The old Jackson Valor may not care about what happened back then, but to the current Jackson Valor, it was a taboo topic! The things that Quinton had planned to say were all stuck in his throat now. He could not utter a single word.