Our Love Story: Hard to Guard Against the Sudden Love Strike-Chapter 281 - 278: Changing Times

Quentin Thorne had mixed feelings, but hearing someone praise his child, he was more pleased than troubled.

Thinking of the outstanding Sienna Thornton, his eyes were full of satisfaction and relief: "Annie is a child who can endure hardships, has a great personality, is understanding and generous, handles people and matters adeptly, and is ambitious in her career. She has all the qualities of success, and I have high hopes for her. Her future is surely bright!"

Old Master Forrester, who had long suffered enough of Uncle Grant’s bragging about his grandson, was already sour. Now seeing Quentin Thorne also adopting Uncle Grant’s annoying habit of bragging about his daughter in front of him, an old man with an unaccomplished daughter and no granddaughter, he felt both sour and stifled!

But on second thought, Quentin Thorne was bragging about his Forrester family’s granddaughter-in-law, wasn’t he?

With that thought, Old Master Forrester felt balanced, his face lit up with a smile, and he teased, "Thorne, no matter how outstanding your elder daughter is, she’s still going to be a Forrester. I’ll just assume you’re envious of this old man!"

Quentin laughed meaningfully, raising his teacup to clink with Old Master Forrester, and said openly: "Uncle Forrester, let me make it clear to you. If Rex and Annie don’t work out, I have many outstanding young men to introduce to her. Each is no less than Rex!"

Old Master Forrester: "..."

Well, it turns out he has a lot of backups!

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After sending Old Master Forrester home, Quentin Thorne immediately turned around and left, without even glancing at the Grant family to see Uncle Grant.

Old Master Forrester stood at the door, watching the Audi with the impressive license plate vanish at the street corner. Then he looked at the Grant family’s courtyard house next door, shook his head, and went inside.

He thought that if Quentin Thorne offended the Grant family over his elder daughter’s matters, that would be quite a headache!

The old man was already troubled, and as soon as he opened the door, passing through the outer courtyard without even entering the inner courtyard’s door, he heard Sylvia Langley shouting: "This is impossible! Leo, you’re lying!"

Old Master Forrester felt a headache coming on.

Having just faced off with Quentin Thorne for a couple of hours, shocked and pressured, his emotions hadn’t calmed down. Now, hearing Cyrus causing another commotion, Old Master Forrester paused and turned on his heel to leave.

But before he took two steps, Sylvia Langley saw him.

Sylvia Langley shouted from behind: "Dad! Daddy! Come in and be the judge! Hurry!" 𝕗𝐫𝐞𝕖𝕨𝐞𝗯𝚗𝕠𝘃𝐞𝚕.𝐜𝗼𝚖

As she spoke, she ran out wearing slippers.

Old Master Forrester was caught red-handed and followed Sylvia Langley into the living room, looking resigned.

Grandson Thomas Reed was wearing white casual pants and a black short-sleeved polo shirt. At this moment, he was sitting casually on the sofa, holding a cigarette.

Seeing him sitting there not bothering to work, Old Master Forrester shouted: "You rascal, with your attire, did you just come back from playing golf?"

Thomas Reed smiled: "There are many matters at the Britione branch recently. I was entertaining clients, but with Aunt’s call, I had to rush back, didn’t I?"

Hearing that Sylvia Langley called back the grandson who was busy with his career abroad, Old Master Forrester’s face flushed purple with anger. He turned to question Sylvia Langley: "Sylvia, what’s going on? Why did you call someone from Britione back for nothing? Huh? You and Elliot have the Forrester overseas, so you’re fearless, but Bianca has nothing! Now that Leo is busy expanding the branch and accumulating clients, you called him back, what are you trying to do?!"

After all, they are his own daughter and grandson. Even if they once jointly embezzled over a hundred billion from the Forrester Group, the old man would never really argue with his blood. Although he stripped his daughter of all positions, he still kept her well-being in mind.

This is a father.

As a daughter-in-law, how can you compare to someone else’s daughter?

And Sylvia Langley, relying on being Cyrus Forrester’s mother and Elliot Forrester’s compliance, had strutted proudly in the Forrester family for decades. But since she only returned two to three times a year, even when throwing a tantrum, it was never a big deal. At most, she’d have a verbal spat with Bianca Fordham, but never dared to harm the interests of Bianca and her son. So all these years, Old Master Forrester tolerated it and gave Sylvia face.

Over time, both his late spouse and his daughter’s family felt he favored this daughter-in-law, resulting in plenty of grievances towards the old man over the years.

Old Master Forrester felt both angry and wronged, and now he turned all the anger he suffered at Quentin Thorne’s onto his daughter-in-law, roaring so loudly that even Uncle Grant next door might have heard.

Sylvia Langley had never been treated like this and cried out loud, throwing herself into Zane Forrester’s arms.

Zane Forrester saw his father angry and didn’t dare comfort Sylvia. He sat motionless.

Failing to receive the expected comfort, Sylvia was stunned momentarily and cried even louder, hitting Zane with her small fists.

Old Master Forrester watched with slanted eyes, flaring his nostrils in anger.

Seeing his nephew laughing, Zane Forrester felt his authority as an elder was nearly destroyed by Sylvia. He grabbed her small fists unhappily and said, "Enough! Dad is here! Why are you making a fuss?"

Sylvia Langley: "..."

Never having been spoken to harshly by her father-in-law and husband, they both yelled at her today, and she felt as if the sky was falling, unable to live on.

She ran back to her room crying.

Because Old Master Forrester was watching, Zane Forrester dared not follow her in, sitting in the living room with an unhappy face.

Finally, the living room returned to quiet.

Old Master Forrester gritted his teeth, looking at Thomas Reed: "Alright! Since you’re back, let’s get down to business! Speak up and then hurry back to Briton, don’t delay important matters!"

Thomas Reed chuckled, extinguishing the unburned cigarette in the jade ashtray, and said unhurriedly: "Aunt mainly wants me to clarify two things. Firstly, whether Sienna was ever my mistress; Secondly, whether Sienna was a mole I planted in the Forrester Group. Based on the associativity between these two matters, by proving the first, the second becomes unnecessary to explain, right?"

After speaking, he looked at Old Master Forrester and Zane Forrester.

Zane Forrester had no reaction, and Old Master Forrester nodded.

Thomas said: "Before I divorced my ex-wife, I indeed had a lover, but you’ve all met her - it’s Lawyer Jefferson whom I brought home during the New Year."

Old Master Forrester remained silent.

Zane Forrester sneered: "Having other lovers does not prove you have nothing to do with Sienna."

Thomas Reed laughed: "Uncle, you think I’m made of iron? I spend half the year traveling around; dealing with one ex-wife isn’t enough, and I can still manage two lovers? We’re all men who love our careers; I’m sure you understand me."

Zane Forrester said nothing.

Thomas Reed raised an eyebrow slightly disdainfully, looking at Old Master Forrester and Zane Forrester, and said with a smile: "Besides, didn’t you send someone to monitor me long-term? Over the years, how many lovers have I had, wouldn’t you know? Since you clearly know Sienna and I only have a mentor-student relationship, why let such rumors ferment?"

With that, Zane Forrester’s face changed suddenly.

Old Master Forrester was appalled, widening his eyes, turned to Zane Forrester, incredulously saying: "You had someone monitor your nephew?"

Zane Forrester was caught off guard, speechless.

Old Master Forrester was so angry that he threw the teacup in his hand to the ground, his whole body shaking violently, shouting: "Immediately stop your surveillance action! Go back to the United States! If I catch you doing this again, you will be kicked out of the Forrester family!"

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