Chapter 191 He Hid His Cards Well
“Eh? Someone’s here? Here at this place?” Benjamin Bloom looked around in confusion.
He wondered, had some prominent figure arrived? If so, wouldn’t their arrival have caused a commotion already?
“Who did you see?” Ashley also questioned her son, Timothy.
She had stationed Timothy outside to observe the arriving guests, and if someone significant was to arrive, he was to report immediately.
“I didn’t see anyone…” Timothy was equally baffled, shaking his head in ignorance.
Ashley gave him a stern glance as if reproaching, “What were you doing outside then?”
Timothy also felt innocent because, besides the people from the Five Major Families arriving, he hadn’t seen any other big shots.
“Hasn’t he arrived yet?” By this time, Mr. Shelton and others were also looking around.
The surrounding guests were also looking left and right, but they didn’t see any influential figures either.
“Should we go out and wait?” Mr. Itai Sullivan suggested.
However, Mr. Shelton, pointing at where Leones stood, laughed and said, “Isn’t Mr. Bloom right there?”
Mr. Bloom?
When these words were uttered, there was an immediate buzz of surprise from the crowd.
The Bloom family were the hosts today, and now another Mr. Bloom was mentioned. How coincidental?
But then, aside from the members of the Bloom family, who else in Sherland bearing the name Bloom could be considered an influential magnate? Nobody had heard of any!
Moreover, following the direction Mr. Shelton was pointing in, no one spotted any Mr. Bloom. Those standing in that direction quickly cleared out, aware that they weren’t the intended. individuals.
With Mr. Shelton pointing out, everyone dispersed, leaving only Leones standing proudly in place.
“What are you still doing standing there, you disgrace!” Ashley exclaimed upon seeing him, “Get out of the way now!”
The surrounding guests also looked at Leones with contempt, thinking, “When they call for Mr. Bloom, why are you standing there?”
Not every Bloom could be casually addressed as “Mr. Bloom“.
Moreover, being addressed as “Mr. Bloom” by the chiefs of the Five Major Families carried significant weight.
Yet, just then, the chiefs of the Five Major Families, upon seeing Leones, immediately approached
him.
“Mr. Bloom!”
“Mr. Bloom, you came so early?”
“Mr. Bloom, we were late. There was a traffic jam on the way.”
The chiefs of the Five Major Families sequentially walked towards Leones.
The crowd erupted in murmurs.
“What… what’s going on? Am I seeing things?”
“Leones Bloom is the Mr. Bloom that the chiefs of the Five Major Families are talking about? Did they mistake him for someone else?”
“Very strange! There must be some mistake! Otherwise… It’s just not possible! Absolutely impossible!”
The guests at the scene were reluctant to believe what they were seeing.
“Everyone… that’s just my grandson Leones… not any Mr. Bloom…” Benjamin naturally wouldn’t believe that the youngster he had once kicked out of the house would be Mr. Bloom mentioned by the chiefs of the Five Major Families.
His initial thought was that the chiefs, being old, had weak eyesight and mistook him for someone else.
“Heh, that disgrace being Mr. Bloom? What a joke, Ashley rolled her eyes and muttered under her breath.
Everyone had thought that after the reminders from the Bloom family members, the chiefs of the Five Major Families would realize they had identified the wrong person.
However, members of the Five Major Families seemed as if they hadn’t heard anything at all, and rushed to Leones’s side to offer greetings and respect. They acted with humility, as if servants meeting their master.
For a moment, Leones was like a moon surrounded by the stars, becoming the center of everyone’s
attention.
This scene once again left the crowd in shock. Members of the Bloom family were even more surprised, displaying faces filled with disbelief.
Although hard to comprehend, the truth was evident, and they had to accept it. Leones, who had been expelled from the Bloom family, was actually the “Mr. Bloom” referred to by the Five Major
Families!
“What on earth is going on?”
“How could Leones become the Mr. Bloom mentioned by the Five Major Families?”
“What did we miss? Why haven’t we heard about this?”
“Didn’t he just get out of prison not too long ago?”
The guests looked puzzled and filled with questions. The Bloom family members were also in the dark, sharing the same doubts.
But then, everyone had a realization.
“No wonder Leones acted so arrogantly earlier… He indeed had the credentials to back his bold -claims!”
“If all of this was orchestrated by Leones, then doesn’t it mean that with the Five Major Families obeying him, Leones has now become the largest shareholder of the Bloom family?”
“That statement, that the Bloom family will be led by him from now on, seems to–be more than just a boast!”
Realizing this, the people at the scene were again astonished. No one had expected Leones’s
earlier bold claims to actually come true.
Everyone had laughed at him earlier, thinking him mad. The realization that they were the real fools hit them unexpectedly fast.
“Has he… he really…” At this point, Benjamin’s expression fluctuated between different emotions. Seeing that the chiefs of the families, whom even he sought to appease, were now surrounding and paying respect to Leones, Benjamin truly didn’t know where to put his face.
Only now did he understand the source of Leones’s confidence and why he dared to make such audacious statements about the future of the Bloom family.
“So that’s how it is…” Benjamin sighed deeply, “Clever boy… He hid his cards well…”
Even with his age and experience, he couldn’t imagine what groundbreaking feat his grandson, who had just been released from prison, had accomplished to command such respect and loyalty from the members of the Five Major Families.
“How is this possible!” Ashley gritted her teeth, looking at Leones in horror.
She originally thought that Leones was already down and out, and there was nothing to worry
about. However, to Ashley’s surprise, he made a comeback out of nowhere!
“How could that wretch possibly be Mr. Bloom… Have these people from the Five Major Families gone senile?” Even at this moment, Ashley refused to believe any of this.
“Mom… What do we do!?” Seeing this, Timothy was terrified.
Thinking back to yesterday, even the children of top magnates, like Darius and Lily, referred to Leones in the same way. Timothy suddenly realized a horrifying reality.
The current Leones might be beyond their wildest imagination. Opposing him would be tantamount to seeking one’s own doom!
