A Bumpy Road to Power

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Dirk Carter stretched lazily.

He said, "Secretary Hall insists on having Jamie Ford run the Public Security Bureau. I want to know, should anything happen to Jamie Ford, who among us here will take responsibility?"

"I will! Since Jamie Ford was nominated by me, I'll take full responsibility for any issue. Is this answer satisfactory to you, Secretary General Carter?"

Wade Quincy said, patting his chest.

Dirk Carter nodded, saying, "Since Secretary Quincy has spoken, it makes no sense for me to oppose. You all handle it."

Seeing Dirk Carter compromise.

Michael Hall was instantly overjoyed.

To him, Dirk Carter was already completely suppressed.

He said smugly, "The ancients said, those who adapt to the times are wise. Sometimes Secretary General Carter, you need to change your temperament. Always going against everyone's opinion isn't a personality, it's foolishness, you know?"

Saying such words openly at a committee meeting had already crossed the line.

But Michael Hall didn't care.

He just wanted to humiliate Dirk Carter, rub his face in the ground.

In this moment, he was immersed in the thrill of victory.

After the meeting ended.

Dirk Carter had just returned to his office.

Carly Lambert pushed the door open and entered, complaining, "What's the deal with Josias Rayburn? How can he support Jamie Ford? I didn't expect this guy to be spineless, I guess I misjudged him."

Looking at Dirk Carter.

Yet his face was all smiles.

Stunned, Carly Lambert said, "How can you still smile? Jamie Ford running the Public Security Bureau means all your and Director Pei's previous efforts will be in vain, and next he will surely eliminate all the evidence unfavorable to them."

"I know."

Dirk Carter said.

"Since you know, why aren't you anxious at all?"

Carly Lambert asked in surprise.

Dirk Carter smiled slightly, saying, "Without letting the enemy win once, how can they become reckless? Heaven wishes their destruction, it must first let them go mad, right?"

"You already have a plan?"

Carly Lambert asked.

Dirk Carter said, "Everything is ready, just waiting for the east wind. The time is about right, the east wind should come."

Just as the words fell.

The sound of knocking on the office door echoed.

Dirk Carter grinned, saying, "Speak of the devil, the devil arrives, the east wind is here."

The door opened.

Arlo Yarbrough walked in.

Handed a folder to Dirk Carter, saying, "The test report is out, as you expected. Jennifer Hughes and Little Snow are not siblings, meaning Jennifer Hughes isn't Aurelius Hughes's daughter."

"What did you say? Jennifer Hughes isn't Aurelius Hughes's daughter? Then whose daughter is she?"

Carly Lambert heard this shocking news, widened her eyes, and asked both of them.

Dirk Carter laughed, "You'll know the answer soon enough..."

…

10:30 a.m.

On the rooftop of The Fragrant Garden Grand Hotel.

There's a swimming pool here.

In the large pool, only one person was swimming, none other than Teresa Thorne.

A fiery three-piece bikini covering private parts, her graceful figure fluttering on the water, even at nearly fifty, such a body still aroused a man's blood.

Suddenly.

Hurried footsteps sounded.

The pool entrance.

Bodyguard Ah Ping hurried to the edge of the pool.

"What's the matter?"

Teresa Thorne surfaced from the water, wiped water from her face, and asked.

"Madam, Dirk Carter from the Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection of Koryn City is here to visit you."

Ah Ping said.

"Dirk Carter?"

Teresa Thorne frowned, she had heard of the name, but hadn't interacted with him, sneering, "Another bootlicker, tell him I'm too busy to see him."

Ah Ping still showed eagerness to speak, Teresa Thorne asked, "Why don't you go?"

Ah Ping said, "This Dirk Carter claims he knows the whereabouts of Miss Snow."

"Oh?"

About to dive back into the water, Teresa Thorne halted her movements.

Thought for a moment, then said, "Bring him here."

"Yes!"

Ah Ping responded, turned, and left.

Five minutes later.

Dirk Carter appeared at the poolside.

Teresa Thorne didn't immediately acknowledge him, continued swimming back and forth in the pool.

After about ten more minutes.

Teresa Thorne climbed out of the pool, wrapped herself in a towel, and slowly walked up to Dirk Carter, glanced briefly, and asked suspiciously, "Secretary General Carter, have we met before?"

"I have a common face, Teresa Thorne, meeting me isn't unusual."

Dirk Carter said.

Teresa Thorne sat down on a lounge chair.

Picked up a glass of orange juice from the table, took a sip, and said loftily, "I heard you know the whereabouts of my eldest daughter?"

"Yes!"

"Then what do you want?"

"I want many things, so this time I personally came to visit, planning to have a good talk with you, Teresa Thorne."

Speaking, Dirk Carter also sat down on another lounge chair beside Teresa Thorne.

Teresa Thorne looked at him disdainfully, saying, "Secretary General Carter, finding my daughter, naturally there's a reward, but if you ask for too much, I can't manage."

"No, I believe whatever I ask, you'll fulfill it."

Dirk Carter said with a smile.

Teresa Thorne was taken aback, asked, "So confident?"

"Of course."

"Then tell me first, where is my daughter?"

Teresa Thorne asked.

Dirk Carter took a letter from his pocket, pushed it in front of Teresa Thorne, and said, "Teresa Thorne, before discussing business, there's something I hope you review. After seeing it, we can chat further."

Teresa Thorne glanced at the envelope.

Accepted it slowly and opened.

Pulled out two photographs.

She looked at the photos carefully, saying, "What does this mean, I don't know the people in these photos."

"Let me introduce them to you, Teresa Thorne. The girl in the first photo is Audrey Linden, the girl in the second photo is Aspen Vance, both are patients of Koryn City Psychiatric Hospital."

Upon hearing this.

Teresa Thorne instantly threw the photos away.

As if they were unlucky.

Angrily said, "Secretary General Carter, what is this? Why show me this? What does it have to do with me?"

Dirk Carter bent down, picked the photos back up, wiped the water from them, and said, "These two girls have quite a connection with you, Teresa Thorne."

"Rubbish, I don't know them at all!"

Teresa Thorne angrily said.

Dirk Carter chuckled, "You indeed don't know them, but they, like you, are all Bennett Kane's women. Only they were raped, while you were willing."

With these words.

Teresa Thorne's face turned horrified.

Suddenly stood, pointed at Dirk Carter, and shouted, "Dirk Carter, what nonsense are you saying? Get out of here!"

Dirk Carter remained calm, took a paper from his pocket again.

Opened it, handed it to Teresa Thorne, saying, "Teresa Thorne, look at this paper first, then decide whether to chase me away!"

Teresa Thorne startled, accepted the paper.

With just one glance, her body trembled, the fury on her face froze, replaced by boundless fear.

"How…how do you have this?"

She asked shakily.

Dirk Carter sighed, saying, "Teresa Thorne, if I delivered this report to Mr. Hughes, how do you think he'd react?"

Teresa Thorne's eyes became empty.

Sitting back down as if she lost her spirit.

It was a DNA test report.

The report documented that Little Snow and Jennifer Hughes had no blood relation.

This truth she concealed for many years.

If truly known by The Hughes Family, she feared the consequences would be disastrous for her...