Chapter 443 The victim of a business alliance
In the business party.
It was held at CloudTop Hotel, the highest hotel in Suham. And it was on the 98th floor.
All the people who came were the big names in businessmunity of the Suham.
Lyra and Malcolm entered arm in arm just as Shane, with Melissa in tow, came out of the elevator at
the other end.
The two sides met right at the door.
Malcolm, after all, was Shane''s boss at the National Investigation Bureau.
Shane saw him and bent over extremely respectfully and politely, "Good evening, Mr. Malcolm."
Malcolm nodded his head coldly and proudly in response.
As soon as Melissa saw Lyra, she tried to run up to her, but Shane pulled her back just in time.
"Melissa, there are so many people watching. Mind your manners."
Her wish to have a private conversation with Lyra fell through, and she could only lower her head in
sullenness.
Seeing this, Lyra released her hold on Malcolm''s arm and took the lead, pulling Melissa with her and
looking at Shane with a slight apology.
"Mr. Shane, I would like to borrow Melissa for a few minutes to apany me to the restroom. You''re
generous and won''t even disagree for a few minutes, right?"
Shane''s eyes narrowed slightly. He nced at Malcolm twice, and quickly smiled and responded, "Of
course, you ask me for her. How could I not agree?"
With his words, Lyra directly pulled Melissa away.
Two men were left waiting at the entrance door.
It wasn''t until they were far away from the two men that Lyra asked, "Why are you here with Shane?
You went back to the Cahan family?"
Melissa nodded, "Yes, after thinking about it for a long time, I still felt likeing back to try to fit in with
the Cahan family. After all, this is what I should have endured."
Lyra patted the back of her hand tofort her, "It''s good to be back. You''re the daughter of the
Cahan family. It was a strangebination of circumstances that you suffered a lot in the past. You
will not be alone in the future. You got many siblings."
Melissa''s face didn''t look good when she mentioned the siblings.
Thinking about her mother, Caitlin, she grabbed Lyra''s hand.
"In the past few days, I found that there is something wrong with the family. The day my mother went to
have lunch with us, I saw red marks on her wrists. They are injuries obviously."
"The next two days, because Shane did note back home, I never saw my mother. But she
probably did not want to see me. She treated me with indifference. Only when she''s in front of Shane,
is she polite to me like a stranger."
"Lyra, there are so many things about the Cahan family that are strange. And my cell phone was
taken away by Shane with an excuse two days ago. Tell Keith for me about these things. He will know
and check it out for me."
Lyra listened carefully and patted the back of her hand again, "Don''t worry. I''ll tell Keith everything
about this."
But Lyra felt puzzled.
"Now that Shane is the head of Cahan family. He''s Caitlin''s son. For what reason will Shane allow his
mother to carry a wound on her body?"
Melissa pondered for a moment and shook her head, "The penthouse where my mother lives is always
locked at night, so I''m going to wait until Shane lets his guard down and then go up and try to find out
what''s going on."
"Then you must be careful."
"Hmm."
The two exchanged a few more words and went back keeping their countenances.
Malcolm and Shane were still at the door, waiting for their respective femalepanions.
Shane was the first to break the silence, "Mr. Malcolm, you''re so blessed now. You have a lovely wife
and two adorable babies. And your career has not suffered any loss."
Malcolm''s eyes looked fiendish, "Sounds like you''re looking forward to my career being damaged? Are
you referring to White Corp, or the National Investigation Bureau?"
"Mr. Malcolm, you are joking. How dare I? If you are doing well, I will be happy." He bent slightly in fear.
Malcolm looked askance at his pretentious appearance. Not bothering to expose him, he simply said, "I
hope you''ll do what you say. But it doesn''t matter if you can''t, because you''re not strong enough to trip
me up."
Shane was stupefied slightly. After a while, he smiled again, which was very respectful.
The two ended their inharmonious chat just as Lyra and Melissa returned.
The two teams entered the main venue one after the other.
As soon as Melissa entered the venue, she was immediately dragged by Shane to meet many
business tycoons, seemingly to help her expand her professionalwork.
Lyra watched from afar and found that nothing seemed to be wrong, so she did not continue to stare
but focused on meeting her business friends at the banquet, taking advantage of the opportunity to get
the cooperation by the way.
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Melissa''s side.
She was dragged by Shane to clink sses with the business tycoons. She had drunk ten sses of
red wine and finally got a little drunk.
When another ss of wine was handed to her, she declined.
"Shane, I can''t drink. I don''t want to drink anymore."
Shane didn''t force her and apologized to Ashton Barker. Then he drank the ss of wine for Melissa.
He smiled and turned his head to ask Melissa, "Melissa, take a look at Mr. Barker. What do you think of
him?"
Ashton Barker stood across from the two listening and the corners of his mouth were turned upwards in
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Melissa nced at him. Ashton was close to forty years old. Although he was considered a middle-
aged man in the good-looking, whenpared to Keith, he was way much too inferior.
She lowered her head and said perfunctorily, "Mr. Ashton, you''re a talented man with a great presence.
You looks like a veteran in the business."
Ashton was delighted by herpliments.
"You really has a good sense. In fact, in addition to these advantages, I''m good at taking care of
people."
He said it and put his hand over Melissa''s fair and wless one.
Melissa decisively ducked behind Shane. Her face was red because of the wine and she was cautious.
"Mr. Ashton, I''m already in a rtionship. If you do this, my boyfriend will be upset if he finds out."
Ashton smiled awkwardly and could only withdraw his hand.
When he left, Shane asked Melissa in a whisper, "Who do you think is more suitable to be your future
husbandpared to Keith?"
"What do you mean?"
Melissa instantly took a step back and looked at him incredulously, "Keith and I are already in a
rtionship. Why do you ask that?"
Shane justughed, "What are you nervous about? He did ask me yesterday and said that if he can
marry you, he will give 10% of the Barker Group as part of the dowry, but I haven''t agreed to it yet. I
just asked you casually."
Melissa didn''t trust him at all and took another step away from him.
"10% of the shares are worth nothing to me. If you dare to agree, I will cut off my rtionship with the
Cahan family forever!"
Her position on this matter was very firm, "If you insist on using me as a sacrifice in a business, then let
Reba do it. Keith and I are already together."
Shane shook his head helplessly and seriously analyzed the pros and cons with her, "The Lloyd family
is better than the Barker family, but it is headed by Lyra Lloyd. And the whole Lloyd Group is in her
hands. Even if Keith really wants to marry you, he can''t give you even 10% share of the Lloyd Group.
He can''t do this."
Melissa stared at him in shock, "Is it the shares that matter, or the lifelong happiness of your sister?
Even if Keith can''t give me the shares, he will never wronged me. Because of this, you deliberately
brought me to the business banquet. You want to introduce your business partner to me, change me
into shares, and sell me to others? "