"Hey Ced." Cami greeted over the video call, she was clearly in a much better moodpared to Cedric.


    "Good afternoon Cami, Benedict." Cedric said with a nod as he prepared to discuss Lucius Ting with them.


    "He took the bait?" Benedict asked, going straight to the point, not bothering with pleasantries.


    "Ignore my brother." Cami said, rolling her eyes. "He took the night off and went outst night. He clearly had too much fun." She said with augh as Benedict smirked next to her.


    "I enjoyed myself quite a bit, little sister." Benedict said as he grinned at Cami. "I had two gorgeous women -"


    "Ugh, gross." Cami said, cutting her brother off, making the others on the callugh.


    Cedric had decided that he didn''t want any of his team out of the loop, so today all of his assistants were joining them as well. They had made sure to inform everyone in thepany not to bother them for at least an hour.


    "Honestly, this is a much needed break." Dave said with a sigh, making Ian and Camiugh.


    "What?" Dave asked as he noticed the older assistant''s reaction.


    "You should have been around when news first broke out about the Reyes Heir''s return." Ian said with augh as Cami nodded on the screen.


    "Everyone wanted to know who he was, they kept nagging and inviting us to lunch." Cami said, rolling her eyes. "That''s why we don''t really hangout with other people either. It was clear they all had ulterior motives."


    "It''s much calmer now." Ian said, making Cedricugh.


    "Okay guys, enoughparing the past and the present, we need to focus on Lucius Ting." Cedric said as he tried to get all of them back on track with their discussion.


    "Where do we start?" Cami asked.


    "I''ll catch you and Benedict up with what happened on our end, then Dave and Mae can give an update on the investigation, then you guys tell us what yourtest interaction with him has been about." Cedric said as he leaned back on the couch.


    Everyone simply nodded, agreeing to his proposal.


    "Almost everything went ording to n yesterday night." Cedric began. "As we expected he would retaliate and most of hispetitors have signed up to work with Mor Co."


    "Will you work with all of them?" Cami asked Cedric.


    "I''ve asked Dave to look through all of the proposals and filter them to see which show the most potential." Cedric exined as he looked at the frowning assistant. Dave had thought Cedric would go through the list himself, but he chose to delegate it to Dave first.


    "Dave will send those proposals to you tonight." Cedric said as he nodded to Dave. "You have finished looking through them, righ?" Cedric asked his assistant.


    "Most of them." Dave said with a frown.


    "Dave, you should know that time is of the essence with this matter." Cedric scolded.


    "Rx, Cedric." Cami told her boss. "I still have some Mor Co. work to deal with today, the earliest I could even look at those documents is tomorrow evening. So Dave has time."


    Cedric sighed and nodded, he didn''t appreciate it when his assistants ganged up on him, but he knew that they always had his best interest at heart. They knew how to calm his temper and to get him back on track, they were crucial members of his team.


    "Moving on, I''m sure you all saw how Lucius was triggered by my presence there, he chose to leverage the knowledge of the rift between me and Cami. What took me by shock were his usations of me not truly earning my ce." Cedric exined with a frown.


    As much as he hated to admit it, those usations had hurt him. He didn''t let anyone spot that he was bothered by what Lucius said, they all knew, after all, that Cedric had built Constetions Resorts through the Prince Group with his own money and without any connections.


    "We could release that statement, Cedric." Ian said as he reminded his friend and former boss about Prince Group.


    "No, if we do that it wille out as desperate." Cedric said, shaking his head. "I will not apologize for the circumstances of my birth. I love my family and I would not have wanted to be born to any other family. Rich or not, I am thankful to them."


    "So we will push through with that version of the statement?" Mae asked Cedric, to which he simply nodded.


    "We will open up to the public about Prince Group when the time is right." Cedric exined. "I don''t want thatpany to be another asset that I use to protect my name. The businesses under Prince Group are supposed to be passion projects for us, I won''t let it be tainted that way."


    The assistants nodded in understanding, it was one of Cedric''s non-negotiables, he wouldn''t budge on the matter, even if it would benefit his and the other''s image to the public.


    "With Adrianna''s pregnancy he will target her, so I want security around my wife heightened. I will not risk her safety for some petty feud." Cedric instructed his assistants.


    "I''ll inform Leon." Dave told Cedric as he noted down Cedric''s instructions.


    "Cami, Benedict, this is something that will be a little more troublesome for you. The Chan family is nning on weing Lucius Ting back." Cedric revealed, shocking the siblings over the call.


    "Don''t they realize how bad that is for them?" Benedict asked, shaking his head. "Aren''t the Chans supposed to be a family of super geniuses or something?"


    "The old man is blinded by his desire to make it up to his dead son." Cedric said with a frown. "Lucius shouldn''t be able to do much with the Chan family since control of the family always belongs to the person with the most influence on the Saints Hospital board, but we never know what Lucius has nned."


    "We''ll see if he has anything to tell us when we meet up next time." Cami said with a nod. "I think he trusts us now."


    "I want us to leverage on whatever confidence he will be earning from this." Cedric said in a serious tone. "The more confident he is, the more likely he will be to slip up."


    "We''ll make sure to keep it that way." Benedict said, nodding at Cedric through the screen.


    "What if he does manage to convince the Chan family to change the family head to him? What will happen then?" Dave asked as he looked at Cedric and Ian.


    "There will only be one way to avoid that situation." Ian said with a frown. "It isn''t exactly an easy option."


    "Eric will need toe back and im his position as the head of the family." Cedric informed assistants.


    "How will that force them not to give the family over to Lucius?" Benedict asked.


    "The Chan family is steeped in tradition, some of them are written down as familyws as conditions for inheritances. Their ancestors did that to protect their wealth." Ian exined.


    "One such w''" Cedric exined as he did air quotes. "Was that if the proper heir came back to im his birthright, no one can contest."


    "So if Eric ims the position as family head, there is nothing anyone would dare to do against him." Ian said with a shrug.


    "It''s what they wanted from the beginning anyway." Cedric said, shaking his head. "What updates do you have for us?" Cedric asked Mae and Dave, as he shifted the topic, not wanting to exin theplexities of the Chan family any further.


    "Oh, we found the nurse." Mae suddenly said, shocking everyone else.