America's Road to Wealth

Chapter 160

Ikana's father is a very flamboyant person.

When Waleed was rich, luxury cars, yachts and mansions never stopped.

The yacht, once named "Kingdom 5KR" by Waleed, was one of the most luxurious yachts in the world at that time.

But in 1991, Ikana's dad went bankrupt again.

In order to repay the debt and turn around, the yacht had to be sold.

And when this yacht was in the hands of Ted Lena, Ikana happened to be in a special period of growth from naive romance to rational reality.

In 1991, Ikana was less than ten years old.

When she has the best memory and is also the happiest time.

Father first went bankrupt and sold some of the most valuable things in the family.

Then the birth mother divorced the father in the second year.
Just before that puberty age.

These two things are in the process of Ikana forming her own three views and character.

had a great impact.

This may be the reason why her character is somewhat realistic and ambitious.

Consider that before that, she was the happy daughter of a billionaire.

Born with a golden spoon in his mouth, he has everything.

After that, the father went bankrupt and the mother got divorced.

No matter how normal a child is, after such a big change, it is impossible for his personality to change.

What's more, she was about 9 years old, this is an age that can already remember, will understand and not understand.

This made the yacht, in Ikana's memory, very different.

At this moment, he confirmed that this ship was the one in his memory.

Ikana, who had already arrived on the deck of the ship, stared at the white hull and the beautiful and neat buildings on the ship in a daze.

Her eyes are a little hazy.

She seemed to see her young self spending happy time with her parents on this yacht as if separated by time and space.

With this yacht that carried a part of her joy was sold.

Since then, Ikana has also matured rapidly.

This is why Ikana made plans for her future at a young age.

When I was fifteen or sixteen years old, I went to be a model and a host experience.

Suddenly, a gust of cold wind blew across the sea.

Ikana couldn't help being clever physically, she turned around and couldn't help throwing herself into Abel's arms again.

"Thank you dear, thank you. Thank you so much!!"

Her voice was very excited, and Abel even heard a whimper in her tone.

This made Abel stunned.

He didn't know why Ikana had such a big reaction.

He didn't even know that Ikana would have a different feeling for this yacht.

The reason why I bought this "Kingdom 5KR".

The reason is that he later discovered that the former owner of the ship was Ted Lena.

Thinking of the yacht that Ted Lener sold when he ran out of money.

Bought it back for Ikana to use.

Presumably this should give Ikana a special face with her father.

That might make Ikana happy.

Ikana was happy, and he had some demands that he couldn't ask for from her.

It may also be satisfied.

That way he can be happy too.

What's more, he still has a hand.

For this yacht, Ikana, like Annie and the others, only has unlimited use rights.

The ownership is still controlled by him in some way.

Unexpectedly, Ikana saw this yacht.

The reaction will be so great.

"what's wrong?"

He gently hugged her fragrant and plump body with his backhand, gently stroked her well-shaped back with one hand, and said softly while comforting her:
"Even if you don't like it, you don't have to react like this. I thought you would be very happy to see it."

Ikana, lifted her face from his shoulders.

It can be seen that her eye sockets are indeed slightly red.

But this young girl with strong self-control has controlled her emotions in such a short time.

She smiled with red eyes:
"I'm very happy, I'm like this just because I like it!"

"Oh~"

Seeing that she was not lying, Abel laughed.

"Let's go. Let's see how it looks inside. It's too cold outside. It's really not a smart choice to go to sea in New York in winter."

Ikana nodded, and was held by him obediently, and walked into the cabin.

"Waleed said he bought the ship from your father for $2000 million."

Walk into the deck verandah, after entering the forward cabin.

The warm yacht heating made the two of them feel a comfortable warmth in their bodies that were a little bit cold from the sea breeze.

Abel walked inside curiously, and said:

"After that, Waleed said he spent hundreds of millions of dollars on renovations."

"I just got it last night, so I sent it to be painted and printed with your name on it."

"I haven't even seen it myself."

Ikana's beautiful eyes, like Abel's, looked at everything she saw.

She nodded slightly and said:
"It looks like this yacht from the outside. But inside, it's nothing like it was in my father's hands."

There are five floors of buildings on the deck of this yacht.

The area gets smaller as you go up. The fifth floor on the top floor is just a viewing platform of about ten square meters and a large bathtub of several square meters.

The entire fourth floor is the master bedroom on the yacht, which has the best view height on the yacht.

The third and second floors are guest rooms, and part of the first floor is also guest rooms.

Most of the remaining space on the first floor is for entertainment and public places.

Such as a public outdoor swimming pool, and a helipad at the back.

Below the buildings on this deck is the hull of the yacht.

This part of the space, except for the dormitories of the crew and sailors.

There are also some entertainment facilities, as well as on-board warehouses, yacht engine hosts and other facilities.

Abe had no idea what it looked like in Ted Lener's hands.

But after Prince Walid's renovation, he saw everything at this time, and he only felt that everything was resplendent.

Typical aesthetic style of local tyrants in the desert area..
All kinds of entertainment facilities such as theaters, swimming pools, discos and so on, which are necessary for top luxury yachts, are also available on yachts.

Kingdom 5KR, translated into Chinese, actually means Kingdom Number.

Its hull length is 288 feet, which is more than 87 meters if converted into meters.

Such a yacht, in 2000, is already the largest group of privately owned luxury yachts.

Otherwise, he is not worthy of Waleed, the Middle Eastern stock god.

It's just that now Prince Walid, after hearing what Abel said, is ready to place an order for a bigger and more luxurious yacht.

This king ship has become a less important toy.

In order to make friends with Abel, he even wanted to give it to Abel directly.

It was just that Abel didn't want to take such a big favor for nothing, so he refused at that time.

Later, he realized that it was Ted Lener's favorite yacht, so he wanted to buy it back to make Ikana happy.

If this ship is the hull, the current market price is only about 1500 million US dollars.

But the most valuable part of the luxury yacht itself is the decoration, modification and decoration on it.

Al-Waleed spent almost $1.3 million on refitting the ship.

Counting the purchase cost, Waleed spent almost 1.5 million US dollars on the ship.

This is not counting the cost of daily maintenance, as well as the salaries of the crew and captains and other miscellaneous expenses.

From 1991 to the present, Abel conservatively estimated that Prince Waleed spent at least 1.6 million US dollars on it.

Abel originally planned to buy it at the original price, but Walid was unwilling.

The final compromise was at the strong request of Prince Walid.

Abel took a little advantage and sold this one of the most luxurious yachts in the world to Abel for $8000 million.

It is said that the scene of the two calling and bargaining at that time, if others saw it.

It must be very speechless.

During the bargaining process of these two people.

One wants to buy more expensive, the other wants to sell cheaper.
Such a bargain.

It will only appear in people like the desert chieftain and Abel who are not short of money.

The King's is very big, and Abel and Ikana just glanced at it roughly.

It took almost 40 minutes for the two of them to arrive at the viewing platform on the fifth floor of the deck building.

"Well, Ikana, how is this different from the ship you remember from the past?"

On the viewing platform, Abel smiled while blowing the cold sea breeze.

"Except for the hull," said Ikana:
"Nowhere else is the same. Even this viewing platform didn't exist before. It seems that it was added later."

"I noticed the ornaments, they seemed to be all gold"

This surprised Ikana a little.

There are so many gold ornaments and statues, regardless of artistic value and processing fees.

If it's just priced in gold, she thinks it's worth at least seventy-eight million U.S. dollars.

Not to mention the gold-plated and gold wires everywhere on the ship, revealing a luxurious atmosphere everywhere.

Ikana thought.

If my father comes up.

Gotta love the decor of this boat!
"Yes. But it's really cold here. Let's go downstairs." Abel nodded.

"it is good."

The height of this viewing platform is at least about 30 meters from the water.

At a height of more than ten floors, there is wind on the sea.

The temperature at this time is estimated to be around zero degrees.

It's naturally cold up here.

The two came to the master bedroom on the fourth floor, which was also the most luxurious and spacious bedroom on the yacht.

this bedroom.

The indoor area alone should be about [-] square meters.

You must know that this is on a yacht, the bedroom of [-] square meters is already ridiculously large.

"Because time is urgent." Abel said:

"I only asked my housekeeper, David Jones, to replace the personal daily items, quilts and other things on this floor. The other things are still the same as before."

"Ikana, wait until you are free. You can design it yourself, or modify the layout on the ship."

Abel laughed.

Ikana smiled and nodded in agreement.

Prince Walid's decoration costs are exaggerated, and the house is also decorated magnificently.

But honestly.
Ikana didn't appreciate the style very much.

She felt that her father might like it very much, and even fell in love at first glance.

In her own words, she felt that this was not in line with her own style and aesthetics.

Although it is also very beautiful.

"Okay~" Abel smiled and walked to Ikana's side, hugging her gently.

"Now, can you go out to sea with me? Look, the weather outside seems to be snowing later."

"Going out on a yacht when it's snowing. Pretty cool to think about, isn't it?"

Ikana, who was hugged by him, smelled the masculinity on him.

It was a special smell, not sweat but not a strange smell of perfume.

Make her very attractive.

She didn't know that this was actually a manifestation of mutual attraction between the hormones of both parties.

She glanced at someone's tent, amused and charmingly said:
"Is it really just going out to sea? Nothing else?"

Her expression made Abel unable to control himself anymore.

Abel let go of Ikana, walked to the head of the bed in the bedroom, and pressed a button.

Then the microphone next to the button rang.

"Boss?"

It was Edward's voice. At this time, the captain of the bodyguard was in the captain's room, which is where the yacht was controlled.

In the captain's room, there are also the captain and first mate of the yacht, as well as two other bodyguards.

"It's me. Edward, let the captain go. We're not going anywhere, we're just going around the coast of New York."

"clear."

in the captain's room.

Edward turned to the captain and said, "Excuse me, Mr. Gerald, let's sail."

The old captain, who has been driving yachts for the rich for more than ten years, nodded with a smile and gave the order to set off.

As for the fact that Edward and another bodyguard did not leave the captain's cabin after the ship started.

Director Jared is also used to it.

The rich have always had extremely high requirements for safety.

Even on their own private yachts, they worry about the captain taking them somewhere unsafe.

Leaving bodyguards in the captain's room to monitor, this is also what it should mean.

And the former King, now in the master bedroom of the Ikana.

Abel, who had finished his explanation, turned around and looked at Ikana who was looking at him with a smile.

In the short time since he had contacted Edward, Ikana had already taken off her slim and beautiful coat.

A lavender trimmed wool turtleneck sweater was revealed, with white leg socks underneath.

No pants, a pair of thermal underwear over the leg socks.

In this look, Ikana looks at home and sexy.

In line with her relatively dignified and elegant appearance.

There is a different feeling of intellectual family and wife.

But under her elegant and slender neck, there is a big pear that seems not so good.

Body and temperament, forming a special sense of conflict.

Let her at this time have a fatal attraction to Abel.

He walked over with a smile and took her into his arms.

At this moment, when Abel closed the bedroom curtains.

Outside the glass through the curtain, on the waters of New York, a fine snow fell.

Outside is cold wind, cold snow and cold sea.

The house is as warm as spring and warm as fire.

This is bound to be a fiery winter sea trip.

For Ikana, this will also be a torment of happiness, a long and short day and night.

The next day is January 11th.

Weather, overcast.

Pier 15, South Street Seaport, Manhattan, New York.

The Ikana yacht, which had been out at sea for a day and a night, slowly docked at noon.

On the yacht, the master bedroom is in the bathroom of more than 30 square meters.

Abel looked helplessly into the mirror, seeing the dense hickeys on his neck.

Oh, this Ikana is definitely on purpose.

Knowing that today, there will be an important reception.

Last night, while I was getting high.

He actually planted so many strawberries on his own neck.

He knew that this was Ikana's little thought again.

But what can he do?
Of course he had no choice but to forgive her.

It is useless to seek revenge without forgiveness.

Ikana, who went to sea with him for a day and a night, might have difficulty even moving a finger at the moment.

Still sleeping outside.

Abel didn't even know if she could make it to Smith Capital's year-end reception tonight.

Originally, Abel had invited her to go with her father.

He had to send a high-necked shirt to try to hide the strawberry print just below the neck.

There is no way to do the above.

Fortunately, he has a thick skin, so it doesn't matter if someone sees him.

After changing his clothes, he walked out of the bathroom.

Coming to the huge and soft Simmons, Abel glanced at the sleeping Ikana.

"Ikana, Ikana, Ikana?" He whispered a few times.

"I'm going ashore. I have to go to the Smith Building first and make some preparations. Can you still go to the evening reception?"

Ikana didn't respond at first, but after he called a few times.

She finally opened her eyes with a murmur, "Wuuuuuuuuuuuu, you bastard. I'm going tonight."

"But you look like this"

"I can!"

"Okay. Shall we go ashore now?"

"No, no. I'd better take a rest. Let me sleep until the afternoon."

"Don't force yourself, Ikana. Take a good rest when you're tired."

"I didn't force it." She whispered stubbornly:

"I'll make a call later and ask my assistant to bring me clothes, cosmetics, and jewelry. Just leave me alone. If it really doesn't work at night, there's nothing you can do if you can't go there."

"Okay." Abel smiled and bowed his head to kiss her.

Ikana avoided subconsciously.

"I haven't rinsed my mouth and brushed my teeth yet. And you still...smell in the morning!"

Oh yes!

Abel almost forgot about this, he immediately avoided Ikana's lips decisively, and only kissed her forehead.

asshole!Shouldn't it be that even if there is taste, in order to prove that you like me, you still kiss me anyway?It really is a bastard. Ikana was a little depressed and a little angry thinking.

"Okay. Then you have a rest. I'll go first."

Ikana nodded helplessly.

Abel just left the bedroom.

Ikana, who stayed behind, was tired and sleepy, her body was exhausted, and her throat was a little hoarse.

It belongs to the sequelae of excessive exercise and excessive shouting.

But at the moment, her mood and spirit are extremely good.

Think of such a ship as long as 288 feet and worth hundreds of millions of dollars.

Look at all of New York.

No, it is an ultra-luxury yacht that few people can own in the whole world.

From now on it will be your own.

If it wasn't for being so tired that she couldn't move, she would want to get up now, take a good look at the Ikana, and study carefully where it needs to be modified to her favorite style.

She didn't know.

This ship does not belong to her, she is just the user
On Abel's side, he landed refreshed.

But instead of walking up, they left directly by plane on the helicopter pad equipped with the Ikana.

Not counting the time for takeoff and landing, it took less than 10 minutes to arrive at the Smith Building.

In his office, he invited David Mellon and Merio who had a half-day vacation yesterday.

"How's it going? There's nothing wrong with the night, right?"

For Smith Capital's first year-end reception, Abel still attaches great importance to it.

It was a stage for him to flex his muscles to Wall Street while making them take him more seriously.

David Mellon said:
"Invitation letters have been sent out for all the guests to be invited. And they all received good feedback. Most of the guests said they would come in person."

After Melio finished David's speech, the boss turned his attention to himself.

He also quickly said:

"In terms of hardware facilities, the preparations have also been completed. Hilton Hotel has shown the greatest sincerity. Some of our own staff have already settled in the venue."

Facing these two, his right and left arm in Smith Capital answered like this.

Abel nodded in satisfaction:

"Then, watch our performance tonight. This will be a stage performance for us to go to the entire Wall Street!"

Abel was already looking forward to it, when the reception started or was halfway through at night.

What kind of reaction will those guests have?

It must be shocking, right?

Abel thought happily.

(End of this chapter)