Midnight Bride The CEO’s Temptation

"No," Joshua said with a very quiet expression. "It is because of your own efforts."

"Are you here to piss me off?" The smile on Simon's lips was intense, but his eyes were terribly cold. "My dear… brother?"

Joshua's face darkened. He looked at Simon indifferently. "Master King, you'd better stop this trick. It's too disgusting."

Simon shrugged indifferently. Indeed, even if they were blood relatives, he would not recognize Joshua as his brother. Neither would Joshua.

Although he wanted to use 'brother' to disgust Joshua, it, in fact, terribly disgusted him. But judging from Joshua's reaction now, he must have known his identity.

If Joshua knew nothing, Simon really didn't think Joshua was eligible to be his opponent.

"Alright," he looked at Joshua with a half-smile, "Why does Master Denmark come to me today?"

"Cooperation," Joshua replied neatly.

"Cooperation?" Simon laughed sarcastically. "Master Denmark, I don't think there's anything I want from you except for Pumpkin. If you offer me Pumpkin in exchange, then no matter what kind of cooperation it is, we can talk about it."

"No way." Joshua did not hesitate. "Hazel is a human, not a bargaining chip."

"Then we have nothing to talk about." Simon lay down on the bed and closed his eyes unceremoniously. "Master Denmark, please leave. I haven't recovered yet. I don't have much energy to meet visitors."

"Do you always target me for fear that I would compete with you for the organization?" Joshua took a chair and sat down without any intention of leaving.

Simon opened his eyes and looked at Joshua sarcastically. "This sentence really makes me think you're not my opponent! Do you think I'm afraid you'll scramble with you for the organization?"

Simon was not afraid of that at all. Over these years, Ted had withdrawn into the background. It was Simon who had been leading the organization to expand the territory. He dared to say that at least half of the people in the current organization were loyal to him.

Even if Ted did choose Joshua, Simon still had the support of his uncle's family, so he didn't care about him at all. It was just that he didn't expect Joshua to have such a narrow vision and focus on the organization. It really… hugely disappointed him!

Joshua's eyes turned deep. "You're not interested in the organization, but you should be interested in other things. For example, Ted and I fight to the death!"

Simon's eyes suddenly lit up. If so, he could really consider it.

Joshua's eyes turned a little deeper. It seemed that Simon's relationship with Ted might not be as good as it should be. Simon seemed to have a great grudge against Ted. And the grudge should have something to do with Joshua. Otherwise, Simon would not have traveled a long way or even risked so much to chase him, entering Country Z directly.

However, Joshua did not care about the contradiction between Ted and Simon as long as he could use it.

"How do you want to cooperate?" Simon sat straight in bed and looked at Joshua with some seriousness.

"We join hands to get rid of Ted King." Joshua opened his mouth coldly.

Simon was taken aback and looked at Joshua a little incredibly.

Indeed, he had a bad relationship with Ted or even a terrible one, and he also wanted to see Ted and Joshua fight to the end, but he had never really wanted to kill Ted.

He looked at Joshua with deep eyes. He seemed to have lost to Joshua because of his ruthless personality.

"You're really… hard-hearted enough," Simon said quietly. "You want to drag me to kill your father with you? Joshua, do you misunderstand something? I don't have to kill Ted King no matter how I hate him."

Joshua said indifferently, "I don't mean to kill him."

Simon looked interested. "Oh?"

"Although you are not interested in the organization, now if you want to really get the organization, it would not be that easy, would it?" Joshua said suddenly.

Simon frowned and looked at Joshua, puzzled. "You know a lot."

He had been doing well in recent years, but the executives with real power in the organization were all loyal to Ted. He had tried to bond with or split them by trying all kinds of schemes like honeytrap, but the effect was not so good.

Therefore, unless Ted died and passed on the organization to him, otherwise, if he wanted to scratch it through violence, there was only a slim chance of success. Besides, even if he succeeded, he also had to pay a great price, and the organization would be decimated.

"I think though you're not interested in the organization, you don't have the patience to wait until Ted dies. Because that means you would always be unhappy under Ted's thumb while he lives a very comfortable life."

Joshua's statement was not interrogative but affirmative. Simon's mouth tightened into a thin line, and he didn't refute. Like Joshua, he looked down on the organization. But if he allowed Ted to live his life in peace before he died, his resentment would only grow!

"What on earth are you trying to say?!" Simon shouted irritably.

"We work together," Joshua said lightly. "Since you're sure he'll come to me, we can set up a trap in advance to make him take the bait. Finally, he will belong to me, and the organization will belong to you. I assure you that his life will be living death."

Simon's eyes turned a little deeper as Joshua calmly spoke those cold words.

"You want him under house arrest?" He asked, "Are you not afraid I'm using you, or I'll betray you, rescuing him after you succeed?"

"You won't," Joshua looked at him indifferently. "Our cooperation will end the moment I catch Ted. After that, whatever you want to do is your choice."

Simon suddenly laughed. Joshua's phrase "You won't" really sounded like a big joke to him.

He set up such a big game to make Joshua hate Ted so much, and he even wanted the two of them to fight each other. But Joshua believed him so much?

"Why do you trust me so much?" he asked.

"I don't trust you, but I trust your resentment against him and me. You want me to torture him, don't you?" Joshua spoke calmly.

The smile on Simon's face faded away. His face became more serious. "Very good, but Joshua, why do you think I'll trust you? That man, after all, is also your father. Do you really have the heart to treat him like that? Or do you just want to use me to meet him and then set me up instead?"