"The famous financial group in Upreiland, the Holt Group, is a great example. Old Master Holt married four women. Only his first wife and her three children were able to inherit the properties of the Holt family. The other children were all exiled! Gloria Shaw! I am not wrong, am I?"
When Sabrina heard Keegan saying that, she was so pissed off by that jerk in front of her who had spent a few decades abroad that she laughed.
"Keegan Shaw!" Sabrina also did not want to waste her effort talking to Keegan anymore. "Fifty years ago, before you were even born, your grandfather ran out of ammunition and food supplies when he was at war abroad, and he was very close to being captured alive by his opponents! If my grandmother had not risked her life to save him, your grandfather could only be facing two possibilities. This first kind was to be beaten to death on the spot. The other kind was to rebel! Do you know what both of these possibilities mean?"
Sabrina sneered while looking at Keegan. Without waiting for Keegan to reply, she continued, "If he were to be beaten to death on the spot, your family would have been the kin of a soldier with wound decoration, but your family never would have had such good luck and good development in terms of business as it is now! Your family would naturally decline over time! Even if you were still in the country, you would have been a nobody and a misfit, let alone going abroad to develop your career! If he were to be captured and become a rebel! Then, your family, the entire Shaw family, would be in danger of losing your lives! Marcus Shaw!
If my grandmother had not saved your grandfather back then, your entire family may have already died a long time ago! If all of you had died, would you still be standing here competing with me?"
What she said was a little harsh, but Sabrina did not want to give in as well! Her mother had already lived for so many years, but both she and her mother had never taken a single penny from the Shaw family! They absolutely did not wish to endure the grievance of being wrongfully accused by the Shaw family!
Keegan was at a loss for words for a very long time after hearing what Sabrina had said.
"Keegan Shaw!" Sabrina spoke again. "I tell you another thing! With your grandfather’s status, he had once irresponsibly forced a girl who had saved his life to do that kind of thing, and he made the girl pregnant, but he never took the slightest bit of responsibility at all! Do you know what kind of punishment he would have gotten? Dismissal! It's dismissal, do you understand? Even if he were to be dismissed, he still had to be responsible for his actions! He had to support the woman who was forced into having sex with him and also the child! That child is my mother! From the day my mother was born until she became a grown-up, your grandfather had never given him a single penny for her living expenses! He had never fulfilled his responsibility as a father as well. As a person who grew up abroad, you should be familiar with laws about child protection and child support, right? You’re not from ancient times, right? Even if you were from ancient times, raising one's children is also a responsibility that a parent should fulfill, right? Mister Keegan
Shaw, you may calculate how much money is needed for child support, compensation for emotional distress, my grandmother's medical expenses, and so on, including annual late payment charges, interest, and inflation. Do the math and calculate how much is needed."
"No matter what, it can’t be all of my grandfather’s properties, right?" Keegan spoke haltingly.
"That's right. If you say that, it means that you acknowledged it’s your grandfather who had given birth to my mother, right?" Sabrina asked in return.
"I have always acknowledged that!"
"That's right then! Even if you did not acknowledge it, my mother is still your grandfather's daughter, much less you have acknowledged it. Since she is your grandfather's biological daughter, by law. he has the right to inherit half of your grandfather's properties. The other half is your father's. I would like to ask you, Keegan, being an outsider, an outsider who doesn't have the right to the inheritance, what are you doing spewing nonsense here?"
Keegan was suddenly dazed. "What did you ...say? I . have become an outsider?"
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