Without a doubt.
Pepper must have found out. She had only let Tony run off to Africa for a few days, and before she knew it, he had already gambled away their daughter—even though she wasn't even technically made of cells—on the African continent.
If Pepper wasn't angry, she wouldn't be the famous Little Pepper.
Fortunately.
It had only been Lake that he lost her to. If he had lost her to someone else, Lake felt that Pepper wouldn't have merely given Tony the cold shoulder. She probably would have gambled away all of Stark Industries.
The corners of Lake's mouth lifted as he shook his head and looked at Hughes in front of him. "All right. It's time for me to give you your Christmas present."
As soon as he finished speaking,
Lake directly pressed his right hand against Hughes's temple.
The next second,
the interstellar technologies related to Rockefeller from the interstellar technology gift package drawn from the Silver Chest were transmitted directly to Hughes.
Lake withdrew his hand, took out the limited-edition golden lighter from the box, and played with it as he walked toward the liquor cabinet to pour himself another drink.
"Hughes..."
Karen looked at Hughes standing in front of her like an idiot, practically drooling and completely unresponsive. She helplessly looked at Lake. "He's your uncle, you know."
Lake smiled. "If he weren't my uncle, believe me, I wouldn't have given it to him."
The interstellar gift package was useless to him anyway.
Lake had originally planned to give it directly to Tony, who was also a member of Wall Street. But the person who had gone on the trip was Pepper Potts. Lake felt that if he went to Pepper Potts and did this to her, Ophiuchus would probably become Viperuchus.
Forget it.