Chapter 292

“Let’s get Jeannie, and hit the mall this afternoon for some fancy lingerie. She mentioned she knows just the place!”

“Oh, let’s not,” Gwendolyn demurred.

“We must! I’m dialing her up right this second!”

In the bustling heart of Bayridge City downtown

In the creeping pace of the car.

Derrick was a bundle of nerves, his back drenched, breaking out in a cold sweat.

The call from the hospital that morning nearly had him collapsing in fright, worried sick that Claude might spill the beans about the

past.

Everything he owned could go up in smoke.

“Honey, what’s wrong?” Magnolia asked, concem lacing her voice as she sat beside him. “Did you have a rough night?”

Derrick waved it off. “Nothing, just worried about Claude. He’s awake, but only his eyes can move. I’m scared he won’t pull through”

Magnolia’s face lit up with relief. “Nonsense! He’ll get better in time. The doctors had written him off, but look, he woke up! They said he’s got a strong will to live, must be because he can’t bear to leave us!”

was driven by revenge and had awoken with a mission to retaliate against

Selina in the passenger seat Selina, why don’t you come with me to the office? The family business will be yours and your brother’s burden someday. Best to

was inscrutable as she nodded, “Thank

be outdone by some country bumpkin, no matter what. She

had to marry Howard Chadwick! No

their families could give her more opportunities to get close

not take Skyler? You’ve always favored Selina, you have to show some love to our

daughter was a good thing.

Skyler muttered, his attention glued to

a space with Selina

love for the pretenses of the business world,

a little ambition?” Demrick’s frustrations found an outlet as he lashed out at

for his son, seeing him as an excess to the family. And Skyler, for his part, always seemed at odds with him, like he was born to settle

derisive laugh, “Isn’t my big bro

“Spoiled brat!”

Skyler’s eyes swept coldly over

quickly tried to soothe the situation, “Dad, don’t be angry. Let’s

outside the Hamilton Group’s towering

of the car, with Selina

their way up the elevator, straight

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