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!”

knew better. Claude was driven by revenge and had awoken with a mission to retaliate

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

as she nodded,

country bumpkin, no matter what. She had to

obsession! She had to marry Howard Chadwick! No matter

partnership between their families could give her more opportunities to get close to

always favored Selina, you have to show some

his daughter was a

muttered, his attention

share a space with

the pretenses of the business world, nor any

show a little ambition?” Demrick’s frustrations found an outlet as

family. And Skyler, for his part, always seemed at

laugh, “Isn’t my big bro enough for the

“Spoiled brat!”

seems quite the go–getter” Skyler’s eyes swept coldly over Selina.

don’t be angry. Let’s get out of

pulled up outside the Hamilton Group’s towering headquarters.

got out of the car, with Selina following

way up the elevator, straight

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