CHAPTER 176: CHAPTER 176: IAN STERLING SUSPECTS HER MOTIVES...

"This is a private matter between Ian and me. If Ian himself wants to break up, I definitely won’t cling to him. I won’t accept it when outsiders say this to me. Sorry." Summer calmly told him without any fear.

"I advise you not to test my patience!" Sean Sterling was extremely frustrated with her.

He has been overwhelmed with Summit’s troubles lately, having no time to deal with her, and couldn’t believe she still came to his son’s house. What if she gets pregnant?

"Even if you get pregnant with Ian’s child, I won’t let you give birth, nor will I let you in. You’re simply not worthy!"

Summer couldn’t help but smile, she really didn’t care about getting into his family. When the Sterling Family ends up on the streets, he thinks he is so great?

"I’m the one who wants to be with her. If you keep stopping me, I’ll take her and leave the country, and I won’t care about Summit’s issues anymore." Ian looked at his father coldly and said.

"You dare!!!"

Sean Sterling glared at his son, exuding an aura of fury, quite intimidating, but Ian wasn’t afraid of him and continued:

"I could have filled Summit’s financial gap this time; there’s no need to rely on the Grant Family’s help. But if you don’t agree with me being with Summer,

I won’t care about Summit anymore."

Sean Sterling fell silent. He knew his son started his own business but didn’t know how much money he made over the years. He thought it couldn’t be more than Summit’s earnings!

"Father, have you made up your mind?" Ian closed the living room door, walked over to Summer with one hand in his pocket, and asked again.

"Can you come up with a billion to fill Summit’s hole?" he asked solemnly.

"I can." He confidently replied with a single word.

Sean Sterling glanced at the woman again, truly disliking her. She was too hard to control, and he also had a bad feeling about her.

Might as well pretend to accept her for now, wait for his son to fill in Summit’s hole and get through this crisis, then find a way to break them up and teach this woman a lesson?

"Fine, as long as you deal with Summit’s troubles, I will agree to you being together."

Hearing this, Ian was delighted, holding the woman’s hand beside him, finally getting his father’s approval. Of course, he hoped the family would be harmonious together!

Summer slightly curled her lips, looking into the old fox’s deep eyes, felt chilling no matter how she looked. She knew he was just saying superficial words.

He might still try to break her and his son apart secretly, so she had to be careful.

"By the way, where does Attorney Nolan live?" Sean Sterling suddenly asked.

Ian was about to answer for her when Summer suddenly tugged his hand, afraid that the old fox would trouble her family, and also afraid he might encounter her mother and recognize her.

"I live at Veridian Gardens." She gave the previous address of the house. Ian turned to look at her, did she still distrust his father?

Sean Sterling said nothing. Previously, his bodyguard had followed her, saying she came to this neighborhood every day after work. Had she been living with his son already?

Hmph, even if she had a Sterling Family child, don’t think about giving birth!

"Then Attorney Nolan should head back for tonight. I have some things I want to talk to Ian alone." He dismissed her.

"Then I’ll head back first."

After saying goodbye to the man beside her, Summer left, afraid Sean Sterling would hear her open the adjacent door, she could only go downstairs, drive, and prepare to take a turn outside.

Sean Sterling went to the balcony, looked down to confirm she had left, then went back inside the house and instructed his son:

"You still need to be wary of her, don’t tell her the core secrets of Summit or show her our real accounts, and definitely don’t give her..."

"Why are you so guarded against her?" Ian frowned, dissatisfied with his father.

"Then let me ask you, with Summit in crisis, if she truly wants to marry into the Sterling Family, would she refuse to help with the lawsuit? Yet she just stood by and watched Summit’s reputation crumble?

Does she want to marry into a wealthy family or a bankrupt one?

Think about it carefully." He said solemnly to his son.

Ian found his father’s words unsettling. Her actions were indeed enigmatic—

"If you insist on being with her, I won’t stop you. I just hope you remain cautious with her; this woman is not some naive girl.

I also don’t know what her true intentions are?

You should quickly fill Summit’s financial gap. Summit is my life’s work, and it will be your asset in the future. We, father and son, must protect it well." Sean Sterling said calmly to his son.

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Summer was driving and called her sister on the phone, asking after it was answered: "Vivian, where are you now?"

"At a club drinking with friends, what’s up?"

She sounded somewhat drunk, with a lot of noise around, people calling her to drink, in the room’s middle, a tattooed man was being beaten by several others. He was from another gang, caught cheating at their casino yesterday.

Hearing screams on her sister’s end, Summer grew worried, asking sternly, "Vivian, which club are you at right now?"

"You just focus on your date with Ian, don’t mind me. I’m safe, really good." Vivian said before hanging up and continued drinking with them.

Suddenly, the private room door was kicked open from the outside. A large group of thugs blocked the doorway with sticks. The leader, seeing one of theirs battered badly, angrily signalled to his men,

"Teach them a lesson!"

Immediately, chaos broke out in the room.

Vivian also became a target. She grabbed a bottle and smashed it over an opponent’s head—

Little K protected her, charging towards the door. She was the one the boss liked; she mustn’t get hurt.

With so many people crammed in the room, it was chaos, and she still got hit hard on the arm with a stick, dropping the broken bottle for protection.

"Crack—" the adjacent room door opened as Elias Spencer, who was heading to the washroom, stepped out to see the fight next door.

Quite a few people, all of them thugs.

He wasn’t planning to intervene, but suddenly his gaze landed on the woman inside the room, wasn’t that Vivian Nolan?

Why was she involved with these thugs?

Elias Spencer kicked away the thug in front of him, threw a few punches to clear those blocking, and called out, "Vivian, come over!"

"Attorney Spencer? You’re here too?" she exclaimed joyfully, only to be hit on the back of the head suddenly with a stick, groaned, feeling a warm stream down the neck into the back.

Elias Spencer quickly fought off people around her, grabbed her hand, dashed out of the room. Little K felt relieved seeing her saved by someone familiar.

After leaving the room, seeing blood on her head, her face pale, staggering with each step, he picked her up and quickly left the club.

In the car, he commanded the bodyguard sternly, "To the nearest hospital."

"Yes." The bodyguard responded.

Elias Spencer pulled out a few tissues to press against the wound at the back of her head and asked, "Who did you offend?"