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!”

revenge and had awoken with a mission to retaliate

Selina in the passenger seat Selina, why don’t you come with me to the office? The family business will

inscrutable as she nodded, “Thank you, Dad.”

bumpkin, no matter

obsession! She had to marry Howard Chadwick! No

their families could give her more opportunities to get close to

not take Skyler? You’ve always favored Selina, you have to

fondness for his daughter was

rather not,” Skyler muttered, his attention glued

to share a

the pretenses

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

And Skyler, for his part, always seemed at odds

my big bro enough for the

“Spoiled brat!”

go–getter” Skyler’s eyes swept coldly over

tried to soothe the situation, “Dad, don’t be angry. Let’s get out of the car.

up outside the Hamilton Group’s towering

of the car, with

the elevator, straight

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