First Love Only? I Left Him First, Now the CEO Can't Let Go novel Chapter 336

Chapter 336: Chapter 336: The Real Will

The Lynch Group.

Serena Jennings signed the documents, renouncing the inheritance left to her by Jasper Linton.

"Ms. Jennings, are you really sure about this?"

Jared Warren asked Serena seriously after glancing through the documents.

Serena smiled lightly, with ease.

"What’s there to be unsure about... You wouldn’t think a charity fund holds much allure for me, would you?"

"Not at all... Ms. Jennings is the one in charge of the Lockwood Group, it’s normal to overlook a small charity fund."

"Don’t misunderstand."

Serena waved her hand dismissively at Jared, speaking calmly, "I just don’t want to have anything more to do with the Linton Family."

"I see..."

Jared didn’t chat much with Serena. Since Serena wanted to renounce her inheritance, Jared carried out the procedure accordingly.

The two left the conference room one after the other, just as Wendy Linton walked over.

Serena noticed Jared and Wendy brush past each other.

Jared clutched the documents in his arms, intentionally lowering his head to avoid making eye contact with Wendy.

Wendy acted as if she hadn’t seen Jared either.

Originally, Serena didn’t have much interest in people related to the Linton Family, including Wendy and Jasper Linton’s lawyer.

However, the reaction between Jared and Wendy just now made her inadvertently draw a question mark in her mind.

Wendy is now the de facto head of the Linton Group and was Jasper Linton’s most valued adopted granddaughter, so seeing Jared should at least warrant a greeting.

Even if Wendy didn’t know Jared before, she would have met him after the reading of the will.

Yet, when they encountered each other, they acted like strangers.

This couldn’t help but make Serena feel puzzled.

Either there’s a rift between Wendy and Jared, leading to a poor relationship. 𝗳𝗿𝐞𝕖𝘄𝗲𝕓𝗻𝚘𝚟𝕖𝐥.𝚌𝕠𝕞

So when they met, neither greeted the other.

Or...

Serena turned around, walking alone to the elevator to wait.

Only those who don’t want outsiders to notice any relationship between them would deliberately maintain a sense of distance.

Between Wendy and Jared...

Which could it be?

As night fell, Jared first drove home, changed his clothes, and put on sunglasses, then headed out again.

This time, he hailed a cab directly to the Aethelgard Hotel.

He had a room key in hand, and after swiping it to enter the guest room, he didn’t see the person who invited him until he reached the bed, strewn with rose petals.

"Guess who I am?"

Suddenly, a slender pair of jade-like hands covered Jared’s eyes.

"Miss Wendy..."

Jared took the hands off his eyes, turned around.

Upon seeing Wendy, he was stunned.

Wendy wore no fabric, only thin ropes.

"What’s wrong, don’t like me dressed like this?"

Jared’s face flushed red, Adam’s apple moving, swallowing repeatedly.

No matter how much he swallowed, his throat felt increasingly dry.

"I... thought the deal between us... was over..."

Jared stuttered.

"How could it be..."

Wendy wrapped her hands around Jared’s neck, her fiery red lips capturing Jared’s earlobe.

"This is your reward... for doing well at the will reading."

Instinctively, Jared bit his lower lip.

"Felix and Charles, those two old men, I’ve already handled them... Dad had no objections about Grandpa distributing the inheritance this way... As for Serena, she suspects nothing... I told you before, as long as we work together, there’s nothing we can’t achieve."

"..."

The atmosphere in the hotel room was quite seductive, yet Jared’s reaction was stiff.

And not to a big corporation like Nash Group, but to some obscure small firms working together.

"President Jennings, still bothered by the failed negotiation?"

Amelia knocked and entered, bringing her a cup of coconut latte.

"I mixed it myself, try it and see how it tastes?"

Serena took a sip; the sweet coconut flavor masked the bitterness of the coffee, quite suitable for her current mood.

"Don’t dwell on it, the Linton Group not choosing us is their lack of vision."

Amelia said confidently.

Since Caleb Lockwood left, Serena had transferred Amelia to her side as an assistant.

She still spends most of her time at the Lockwood Group, so hiring a new assistant isn’t as convenient as working with someone familiar.

As for her previous jewelry design studio, she handed it over to a trusty acquaintance for management.

That person is Quentin Xavier, who recently won in the jewelry design competition.

"You’re right, Amelia; better to think of new projects."

Serena said, but still couldn’t help wondering whether the Linton Group not handing the international railway project to the Lockwood Group was due to her.

After all, among the many collaborators of the Linton Group, only the Lockwood Group fit the criteria and had the ability to undertake this project.

Yet the Linton Group excluded the Lockwood Group.

The current Linton Group is in Wendy’s hands.

Could it be Wendy deliberately targeting her?

Serena propped her chin up with one hand, a strange intuition suggesting from now on, her Lockwood Group and Wendy’s Linton Group would likely turn into fierce rivals.

After finishing the coconut latte Amelia had prepared for her, Serena’s phone suddenly rang.

The caller ID surprised her.

"Hello? Grandpa..."

"Serena, it’s me."

Over the receiver came Lance Lockwood’s aging voice.

"Can you... come over to the Lockwood’s old residence tonight?"