America 1982-Chapter 589 - 128: Someone Should Help Us Retire Gracefully

The pale blue waters of the Pacific Ocean reflected the clouds, and from Tommy’s Beverly Hills mansion, which took four years to complete, the entire ocean looked like a dazzling sapphire.

"I saw in the fashion magazine that they rated your mansion as the second largest private property in the entire Los Angeles metropolitan area," Stephen said as he sat on the terrace, enjoying the gentle sea breeze, "Feels good, I just have one question, Tommy."

Tommy, who was sitting in front of the coffee table, flipping through some documents that Stephen had brought, asked absentmindedly, "What?"

"One hundred and twenty-seven rooms— are you sure you and Odelia won’t get lost in your own house? Your backyard is so big you could hold the Super Bowl there." Stephen glanced into the distance, "I feel like I need a telescope just to see the front door of your house from here."

Stephen had once thought he was quite good at spending money, until he saw Tommy’s mansion, or rather, a castle, after its completion. He realized his previous superiority over Tommy in enjoying life with lavish spending had been eclipsed; the bastard had built himself a castle.

Construction of this six-acre residence began in 1984, with at least one hundred and thirty workers bustling about every day. It wasn’t until recently that it was completed. The building used nearly a thousand tons of steel, and an incalculable amount of wood and stone. The residence’s overall design is divided into three main buildings, connected by corridors, and from the air, the three uniquely shaped houses and their walkways cleverly form an eagle with spread wings, a bald eagle at that. 𝕗𝗿𝕖𝐞𝐰𝗲𝕓𝐧𝕠𝕧𝗲𝐥.𝚌𝐨𝚖

Hawk already meant eagle, so of course, this guy named his mansion the Eagle’s Nest.

The Eagle’s Nest has over one hundred rooms, including a family library, a home theater, a gym, a bowling alley, an ice rink, a tennis court, a private hairstyling studio, a private kitchen, a private medical room, a gardening room, and a supplies storage room with humidity control, to name a few. In other words, if a person didn’t wish to leave, one could stay from birth until death.

He even built a parking lot that can hold one hundred cars, a helipad, two swimming pools—one outdoor and one indoor—plus a family zoo, which houses giraffes, zebras, monkeys, alpacas, flamingos, kangaroos, turtles, rabbits, and two damn big elephants. Children love it, of course, but even his own mother, after visiting once, planned to stay for a half-month just to play with the monkeys every day.

There’s also a female walk-in wardrobe that spans two thousand square meters, with four maids employed just to manage Odelia’s clothing collection every day. Going into the wardrobe to dress is like walking into a luxury goods store—it’s that exaggerated. After seeing it once, he resolved never to bring his girlfriend to Tommy’s, as he didn’t want her to see that wardrobe.

And the most extravagant part was that the house took four years to build, and the architectural firm responsible for the entire design sent more than a dozen designers around the world for four years to gather items like hand-crafted Italian furniture, English decorations, French light fixtures, and Nordic oak staircase railings. Every rock, screw, and tree seen here could have its own unique story.

This bastard even went to Africa to procure a baobab tree at a high price, transplanting it in his own yard with the sole reason of preventing future generations of the Hawk family from becoming friends with Black people.

He intended to personally teach his descendants how to become close friends with Black people. The method? If any Black person showed kindness to his children, he would have the kids dig out some fruit from the baobab tree to give to that Black person, ensuring that they would never gain friendship from them, making his descendants be deemed as extreme racists by Black people.

The entire estate is one-third larger than the President’s White House, and it takes more than forty full-time servants plus the services of five housekeeping companies to handle the daily domestic work of Tommy’s home.

"Firstly, over forty bedrooms will be occupied by the servants as their quarters, and the parking lot will also take up more than thirty spaces for the servants’ vehicles; I must consider their needs. Then there’s old Page, big George, Dorothy and her daughter, all of who need independent spaces. Although big George hasn’t moved in yet, I still need to arrange his room. Most importantly, if Odelia gives birth to the baby in her belly, according to her lifestyle, the nanny, bodyguards, tutors, pediatricians and the like for the baby will also need rooms," Tommy closed the documents and looked up at Stephen:

"Lastly, say one day I whimsically bring ten Hollywood actresses over for a deep exchange and crazy party, there are enough rooms here to ensure Odelia would definitely not realize their presence. If I wanted, ten women could live here right under Odelia’s nose until they bear my children. Of course, that’s just a joke. I wouldn’t do that. I won’t engage in those crazy acts in my own house."

"If you did that, you’d really be an asshole. Odelia is pregnant now, you can’t mess around at home, brother. Odelia... she’s inseparable from us at CS," Stephen seriously reminded Tommy after hearing him jest about the benefits of having a big house, "Are you sure you’re still not planning to propose to her? Let her give birth to your child just as a girlfriend?"