Chapter 72

Bainbridge was gloating. “I know It’s tough on you, buddy. It’s just that your body didn’t play ball. Why not stay in the hospital a little longer?”

Waldo said that Howard’s days were numbered.

The look in Bainbridge’s eyes was pure crocodile tears.

“How come your parents aren’t here, Howard?” Farrah breezed over in her flashy red cocktail dress. “Even your granddad made it. Are they too high and mighty or what?”

Then she threw a disdainful glance at Gwendolyn. “No offense, but you’re treating this country girl like she’s a treasure. Parading her around, aren’t you embarrassed?”

Howard’s face remained calm, but his eyes twinkled with barely concealed amusement. “Farrah, she is my treasure.”

“Mr. Howard, I hear Gwendolyn’s interning at the hospital. Even her mother has to wait in line like everyone else. Tough luck having a daughter like that. You call her a treasure?”

Vivien sneered with a superior air.

“Would you rather be the treasure?” Howard shot back with a mocking smile. “You have all this interest in whom I cherish. What, are you still hung up on the past?”

Back in the day, Vivien had a thing for Howard. And why wouldn’t she? He was the catch of the season.

“Enough!”

a thundercloud. As soon as the cornerstone ceremony was over,

Vivien.

was of no use to him

to start. Don’t get tied up with these nobodies. Don’t disappoint

“Yes, Father.”

glance at Howard, Bainbridge

the senior Chadwick had cleared out, Howard

“Sure.”

wheeled him

stopped at the edge of the crowd, next to

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his cane, his face stern, flanked by bodyguards, he asked Howard, “How’s the

up, thanks to

Warren scoffed coldly.

chronic chills, looking more stooped and aged than usual. With constant pain in his limbs and no relief from Waldo’s acupuncture, it

The future of the Chadwick Group was for the family’s main

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