Chapter 263\u00a0<\/p>\n
After noting it down, Madeleine didn\u2019t say anything more to\u00a0<\/p>\n
Leona and just hung up the phone.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Roderick looked at her with concern.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cShe didn\u2019t say what she wanted?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cNo, she said she wanted to meet and talk. I\u2019ll go see what it\u2019s\u00a0<\/p>\n
about.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Roderick reached out and grabbed Madeleine\u2019s wrist, his\u00a0<\/p>\n
expression filled with deep worry.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you don\u2019t want to go, you don\u2019t have to. I\u2019ll deal with her.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
This was exactly the kind of time when a husband should step\u00a0<\/p>\n
up for his wife.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Madeleine smiled knowingly.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cRicki, it would have been so nice if you could have protected\u00a0<\/p>\n
me like this when we were little, like a big brother. I used to be\u00a0<\/p>\n
so envious of other people who had brothers.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Chapter 263\u00a0<\/p>\n
Roderick pressed his lips together.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Madeleine really hadn\u2019t changed a bit. Whenever a topic came up that she didn\u2019t want to continue, she would quickly change.\u00a0<\/p>\n
the subject.\u00a0<\/p>\n
But what did she just say?\u00a0<\/p>\n
Envious of others having a brother?\u00a0<\/p>\n
Roderick was a bit exasperated. \u201cIt\u2019s not like I never protected\u00a0<\/p>\n
you, you just didn\u2019t see it. Besides, I never wanted to be your\u00a0<\/p>\n
brother.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Kevin, who had been listening to his parents talk the whole\u00a0<\/p>\n
time, finally understood these last few sentences.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He tugged on Madeleine\u2019s sleeve with a serious expression.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cMommy, Daddy can\u2019t be your brother. If he was, you couldn\u2019t\u00a0<\/p>\n
get married or have babies.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
As Kevin thought about it, a sense of panic inexplicably rose in\u00a0<\/p>\n
his heart.\u00a0<\/p>\n
If that were the case, would he even exist in this world?\u00a0<\/p>\n
Oh my goodness! That\u2019s so scary.\u00a0<\/p>\n
INCREAS\u00a0<\/p>\n
Chapter 263\u00a0<\/p>\n
Madeleine had found it funny at first, but then she looked at her\u00a0<\/p>\n
son and noticed his expression changing unpredictably.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Mother and son were on the same wavelength, and Madeleine\u00a0<\/p>\n
instantly guessed the reason for her son\u2019s worried look.\u00a0<\/p>\n
She couldn\u2019t help but let out a laugh.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The little guy really inherited a lot from her.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Leona had scheduled the meeting for the next afternoon. In the\u00a0<\/p>\n
morning, Madeleine went to her company.\u00a0<\/p>\n
After renting the office space, she had hired a construction\u00a0<\/p>\n
crew to do some simple renovations.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The industry the Mosley family was in before didn\u2019t require a\u00a0<\/p>\n
large company; the main focus was on the factory. So now that\u00a0<\/p>\n
Madeleine had the storefront set up, she would face an\u00a0<\/p>\n
important task-\u00a0<\/p>\n
raising investment.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Although both Roderick and Rebecca had said they would do\u00a0<\/p>\n
everything in their power to help if Madeleine just asked.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Chapter 263\u00a0<\/p>\n
But Madeleine didn\u2019t want to.\u00a0<\/p>\n
What kind of startup relies on your husband and best friend?\u00a0<\/p>\n
Since she had decided to rebuild her family\u2019s business with her\u00a0<\/p>\n
own two hands, she couldn\u2019t just think about relying on others for everything.\u00a0<\/p>\n
After checking on the renovations for a while, she found a\u00a0<\/p>\n
random place to eat and went to the meeting spot with Leona\u00a0<\/p>\n
early.\u00a0<\/p>\n
They were meeting at a coffee shop. It wasn\u2019t very crowded at\u00a0<\/p>\n
this time, so Madeleine took out her laptop and started writing\u00a0<\/p>\n
a letter of intent for investors.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cSigh, when I was a kid, I used to be so jealous of the\u00a0<\/p>\n
professionals working on their laptops in cafes. Thinking back\u00a0<\/p>\n
now, I must have been out of my mind.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Madeleine sighed, shook her head, and dove back into her work,\u00a0<\/p>\n
writing for over an hour straight.\u00a0<\/p>\n
After Leona arrived at the cafe, she stood behind Madeleine for\u00a0<\/p>\n
about ten seconds.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Chapter 263\u00a0<\/p>\n
With a complex expression, her gaze swept over the clear\u00a0<\/p>\n
entries on the screen for market analysis, product positioning,\u00a0<\/p>\n
and funding requirements.\u00a0<\/p>\n
This was completely different from the scene Leona had\u00a0<\/p>\n
imagined.\u00a0<\/p>\n
She had expected to see a pampered rich wife, so sheltered by\u00a0<\/p>\n
Roderick that she couldn\u2019t weather the slightest storm, who\u00a0<\/p>\n
might show up to the meeting guarded and with an air of\u00a0<\/p>\n
superiority.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Instead, what she saw was a Madeleine who was so focused,\u00a0<\/p>\n
even showing the weariness and determination of an\u00a0<\/p>\n
entrepreneur.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The feeling was like punching a wad of cotton, leaving the subtly provocative opening she had prepared stuck in her\u00a0<\/p>\n
throat.\u00a0<\/p>\n
She cleared her throat softly.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Madeleine typed the final period, saved the document, and only\u00a0<\/p>\n
then pulled herself out of her work mode.\u00a0<\/p>\n
She closed her laptop, looked up, and saw Leona. She didn\u2019t look very surprised, just smiled politely and gestured to the seat\u00a0<\/p>\n
Chapter 263\u00a0<\/p>\n
across from her, \u201cYou\u2019re here?\u00a0<\/p>\n
Have a seat.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Her tone was as calm as if she were greeting a regular\u00a0<\/p>\n
business partner.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Leona sat down and ordered an Americano.\u00a0<\/p>\n
A brief silence spread between them, with only the low\u00a0<\/p>\n
background music of the cafe flowing in the air.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI just saw what you were writing.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Leona took a sip of her coffee and said lightly, \u201cWho\u2019s it for,\u00a0<\/p>\n
Roderick?\u00a0<\/p>\n
Or Edward? I\u2019ve heard some things about you.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
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