Female Novel
Chapter 2048
Luca nodded as she no longer felt anxious.
After all, the signing of the contract was a done deal.
Luca pushed Luke out of the suite. Jason and the others were already waiting for them downstairs inthe hotel lobby.
There were two cars parked at the hotel entrance. Mr. Zac and the other employees climbed intoanother car, while Jason helped Luke to get into the backseat of the Rolls-Royce.
Luca got into the car too.
The backseat of the car was spacious. Luca sat by the window and looked at the snow outside thewindow. Suddenly, Luke asked, "How's your wound?"
"It's still healing. The stitches can be removed in two days," Luca said in a soft voice. She had beendressing her wound often this time and taking medicine. Her wound was able to heal quickly with thehelp of the medicine.
"That fast?" Luke frowned. He remembered that her wound was a mass of bleeding flesh, and therewas even some rotten flesh. The doctor at the hospital had debrided and sutured her wound. He toldLuke that the wound was deep and would take some time to heal. After all, some time was needed forthe flesh to grow.
“Normally, surgical incisions only require seven days to remove the stitches,” explained Luca. She tookthe poison that Shanks developed, and that was why she had a special physical constitution.
Her wound would have healed much faster than a regular person who was wounded without theinterference of the fungus.
"Let me send you to the hospital to do a check-up after signing the contract.” Luke felt that somethingwas wrong. Ordinary people would not heal this fast. He was worried that Luca was pushing her bodyto the limits.
Luca knew Luke was worried for her, but she thought that it was unnecessary.
If Luca went for a medical check-up, the doctor would only exclaim that her healing ability was strongerthan regular people. Hence, Luca said, "Mr. Crawford, I know some clinical skills."
"I know that too, but you delayed treatment for too long. It'd be safer to do a check-up." Luke insisted.
Luca knew Luke would pull a long face if she did not listen to him.
"Alright." Luca had no choice but to listen to him. However, the doubts in her heart were growing bigger.Did Luke not suspect her of stealing the bidding document?
If Luke suspected her, why would he still care for her so much...
Luca could not figure it out.
The only explanation that made sense was Luke had never doubted her.
They got out of the car when they reached M Group's office. Luca looked at the person who wasstanding at the entrance of M Group's office. It was Marcos' assistant.
The assistant came over and greeted them passionately when he saw Luke and the others. “Goodmorning, Mr. Crawford. This way, please."
"Thank you." Luke sat in his wheelchair and spoke politely to him.
The assistant nodded. He led them into the elevator and pressed a button.
Luca looked at the numbers that gradually went up as the elevator rose. She felt like she wasdreaming.
The reason they came to M Group this time was to sign the contract. Before that, she still thought TCorporation would not be able to win the bid.
The elevator door slowly opened. Jason pushed Luke's wheelchair out of the elevator, while Lucafollowed behind Mr. Zac and the others as they moved forward.novelbin
The assistant brought them to the meeting room.
Marcos came in right after they sat down. His company's team was following behind him.
"Nice to see you again, Mr. Crawford." Marcos led his team to greet Luke. He reached out and shookhands with Luke.
"Likewise." The employees of T Corporation stood up while Luke spoke to show their respect to Marcosand the others.
After Marcos shook hands with Luke, he headed to the seat opposite Luke and sat down. The othersfound their seats behind their boss respectively.
The meeting had begun.
However, Marcos did not mention the contents of the contract right away. Instead, he said, "Mr.Crawford, do you mind if I ask you a question before the meeting begins?"
"Go ahead." Luke appeared to be calm even when Marcos wanted to suddenly throw him a question.He knew what Marcos was going to ask without even having to guess it.
"The news of a gun shooting taking place in a restaurant is all over the media and newspapers today.Although the police have yet to issue any press release about what exactly happened, some of themedia stated that you were the target. I wonder if this is true?" Marcos asked.
"Yes." Luke admitted. "I was being targeted."
Marcos raised his brows and asked, "Do you have any enemies in Russia?"
"I think that's a yes. If you were to go through the news from a few years ago, I cooperated with theRussian government and police to wipe out an extremist group in Russia back then. It was consideredthe most dangerous group in the world back then. Almost every mastermind behind the organizationwas caught, but I'm not sure why this group has shown up again recently. I guess I do have enemieshere."
"You mean the Island of Despair?" The Island of Despair came across Marcos' mind when Lukementioned the extremist group that was known worldwide.
"Yes." Luke nodded.
Marcos asked again, "But hasn't the Island of Despair vanished?"
"I'm guessing there'll soon be news flying around about the Island of Despair being re-established. Ibelieve that the man who's behind the shooting is a member of the Island of Despair. I don't have otherenemies in Russia other than this organization. Besides, I don't think I made the wrong decision tocooperate with the Russian government back then," Luke explained himself to dispel Marcos's doubts.
What came into Jason's mind had come across Luke's mind too. Thus, the reason why Marcos askedsuch a question before the meeting was because he was worried that Luke had made many enemies inRussia and they would stand in the way during their cooperation in the project.
However, Marcos had such a big family. He did not have to worry about having one or two enemies.
Furthermore, Marcos' family was one of the few families among all the big families in Russia that hadnever engaged in any shady business deals since it was established.
Given all the contributions Luke had made to their country and considering how he did not have toomany enemies, Marcos' family, who had been running their businesses with clean hands, would beable to accept it.
Indeed, it was just like what Luke had expected. Marcos smiled and said, “So, that's it. Mr. Crawford, Ihope you don't mind me asking the question. It's related to the project, after all.”
“I understand.” Luke did not mind either.
“Then, should we start the meeting?” Marcos set aside his worries after finding out what was going on.Moreover, Luke cooperated with the Russian government to get rid of the Island of Despair. That hadbrought Russia peace and stability in the international financial market. Such contributions meant a lotto the capitalists in Russia and the country's citizens.
“Sure.” Luke agreed.
It was a long meeting, but the negotiation between them went smoothly. Luca sat there while shewatched the other employees of T Corporation focus on the meeting. She quietly turned on her laptopand began to record the minutes.
Luke did not ask her to do anything. Hence, the only thing she could do was to record the minutes.
On the other hand.
Pierre flew into a rage when he watched the news.
“Crap! A bunch of losers!” Pierre did not expect that the huge amount of money he spent had ended upin vain.
Even though Abel had reminded him that Luke had Ray beside him and there was a chance that Pierremight not be able to succeed, Pierre did not expect that it would be a complete failure!
Pierre thought to himself that even if Abel's men were unable to kill Luke, they could at least seriouslyinjure him. However, there was not even a scratch on Luke.