CHAPTER 558: CHAPTER 558: I BEG YOU FOR ONE THING

Leon Keane frowned, his eyes coldly sweeping towards the driver.

The driver shrank his head in fear, feeling aggrieved. He didn’t want to bring the matriarch over either, but when he went to pick up Madam Kane, the matriarch was already sitting next to her, insisting on coming along.

Moreover, the matriarch sternly warned him not to mention it to President Kane over the phone.

"Grandma, why are you here?"

Leon Keane restrained his cold aura and asked the matriarch with a smile.

"Can’t I come?" In the past, the matriarch always looked lovingly at Leon Keane, but now her expression was serious. It involved the entire Kane family’s industry; she had no choice but to be serious: "Or is there something you’re hiding from me? Something you don’t want me to know?"

"How could that be?"

Leon Keane walked to the matriarch’s side, reaching out to wrap his arm around her shoulder: "I just worry that the car ride is tiring for you. If you miss me, you can just call, and I’ll be there whenever you want."

"Hmph, you always know how to please me."

The matriarch said this, but her heart softened significantly.

"No, I’m serious." Leon Keane said, "Grandma, there’s a dessert shop here with delicious sweets. How about I take you to try some?"

With the matriarch here, Leon Keane changed his mind; the elder’s health was most important. As for the conversation with his mother, that could wait for another time.

"Really?" The matriarch was delighted by Leon Keane’s coaxing, her sternness disappearing as she smiled affectionately: "Then grandma must try them. You know, when I was young, I loved desserts the most."

Seeing this, Madam Kane became anxious, silently cursing the matriarch for being gluttonous, forgetting the important matters.

"Leon, don’t spoil your granny. She’s already at such an old age, and you’re still letting her eat sweets? Aren’t you worried about high blood pressure catching up with her?" Madam Kane said, "Did Ivana Monroe tell you to do this? Giving her more sweets so your granny ends up in the hospital sooner?"

The smiles on both the matriarch’s and Leon Keane’s faces vanished instantly.

"It has nothing to do with Ivana, Mom, stop blaming everything on her." Leon Keane was very upset with how Madam Kane spoke of Ivana: "Grandma loves sweets, and she’s eaten them all her life without any high blood pressure, and it won’t happen now either."

Leon Keane’s words comforted the matriarch, but her expression remained unchanged because Madam Kane had mentioned Ivana.

She recalled the matter she and Madam Kane had come to discuss today.

"Leon, Grandma wants to ask you for a favor."

Leon Keane looked at the matriarch’s serious expression, feeling a bad premonition.

"Will you agree, Leon?"

The matriarch didn’t immediately say what it was but instead wanted Leon to agree first.

"Grandma, tell me what it is first."

"I want you to agree first."

This time, the matriarch was firm.

"Leon, just agree already! Look how old your grandma is, don’t disappoint her."

Madam Kane urged Leon Keane.

Leon Keane glanced at Madam Kane, his dark eyes filled with disappointment. After calling Madam Kane yesterday, he should have guessed what was going on. Bringing the matriarch here was just to cover her tracks.

Leon Keane didn’t know what exactly Madam Kane had said to the matriarch.

He didn’t dare to inquire specifically from the matriarch; she’s too old to be disturbed.

"Grandma, as long as it doesn’t go against my principles and conscience, I can promise you anything."

If it goes against them, then he wouldn’t be able to agree.

The matriarch could easily read between the lines.

The matriarch felt very disheartened, looking at Leon Keane as she said, "You should know what misdeeds Ivana has been up to, right? If you’re not aware, I can tell you now. She colluded with Harrison Horn to transfer Kane Group’s assets, causing the company’s financial chain to break. Is there any humanity left in her?"

"Before she was with you, she was married and had a child. Foolish grandson, such a woman is just here to scam your money. You can’t continue to be stubborn; Grandma wants you to divorce her now and send her to prison."

Leon Keane frowned, looking towards Madam Kane. Were all these things said by her to the matriarch?

Madam Kane didn’t dare meet Leon Keane’s gaze. She didn’t think she was wrong; it was all because of that bitch Ivana. If Ivana hadn’t stubbornly insisted on marrying into the Kane family, going all out against her, not only stealing Leon away but also taking Ian away, even wanting to step over her to grab the Kane family’s wealth, would she have had to deal with Ivana like this?

All this was Ivana’s own fault.

"The Kane Group’s financial issues have nothing to do with Ivana. I don’t mind her past, and she hasn’t had a child with anyone else. Her first time was with me, and she only has two children with me."

"Grandma, I don’t know who’s been speaking ill of her, but please trust your grandson; my judgement isn’t that bad. Ivana isn’t the kind of woman you think she is; she’s really wonderful. Ivana is even now..." pregnant.

Leon Keane didn’t finish his sentence when Madam Kane interrupted.

"Leon, stop lying to your grandma. She knows everything now."

"Was it you who said it? Mom, why are you framing Ivana?"

Clearly, it was you and Harrison Horn conspiring. Leon Keane couldn’t speak these words aloud. It was so easy to expose Madam Kane; he even had proof, but the matriarch wouldn’t be able to handle it.

Even he couldn’t accept that these actions had originated from Madam Kane.

"I didn’t falsely accuse her. If it weren’t true, it wouldn’t have been revealed. Your granny ate more salt than you’ve eaten rice; she wouldn’t be fooled on such a major issue."

"Mom, you know very well who’s responsible for the Kane Group’s financial troubles. Ivana is the mother of my two sons, your two grandsons. Doesn’t falsely accusing her make your conscience hurt? Or do you want to see the two children lose their mother?"

Leon Keane’s voice was hoarse, his dark eyes slightly reddened, filled with not just disappointment, but anger without an outlet.

"Such a woman isn’t fit to be the Kane family’s daughter-in-law or the mother of those two children. Leon, stop being stubborn. Listen to your grandma, divorce Ivana. She’s not someone to keep. My dear grandson, just look at yourself. Look at how Ivana has ruined you; you’ve almost lost your life. She’s a plague, a disaster."

The matriarch firmly believed Madam Kane’s words. She could never dream that Madam Kane would personally orchestrate the collapse of the Kane Group’s finances just to deal with Ivana.

Madam Kane’s heart was filled with glee, seeing the matriarch fully on her side. On the way here, she had worried the matriarch might be swayed by a few words from Leon Keane.

Last time when she brought the matriarch to deal with Ivana, that had almost been the outcome.

Indeed, it had to be the Kane Group facing trouble for the matriarch to truly stand on her side. No one could touch this ’cake’ of the Kane Group; anyone who did was an enemy of the matriarch.

"Grandma, she’s not..."

"If you don’t divorce her and send her to prison, don’t call me Grandma again in the future."