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!”

driven by revenge and had awoken with

to the office? The family business will be yours and your brother’s burden someday. Best to

inscrutable as she nodded, “Thank

by some country bumpkin, no matter what. She had to

her obsession! She had to marry Howard

her more opportunities

favored Selina, you have to show

for his daughter was a

rather not,” Skyler muttered, his attention glued to

a space with

love for the pretenses of the

found

the family. And Skyler, for his

derisive laugh, “Isn’t my

“Spoiled brat!”

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

the situation, “Dad, don’t be angry. Let’s get out of the car. Mom and Skyler can head home.”

up outside the Hamilton Group’s towering

out of the car, with Selina following suit.

up the elevator, straight to the

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