Bogus Billionaire by Shining Riviera

Chapter 5

Caroline was amused by Gwen’s outburst. “You’ve read too many romance novels. I just picked him off the street. He has nothing to do with the Morrisons. The only thing they have in common is that he works in one of their companies.”

“Oh.” Gwen was disappointed. “So he’s Eddy’s employee. Doesn’t that mean that Eddy can bully you whenever he wants?”

Caroline’s eyes darkened. “He … probably wouldn’t because of Old Mr. Morrison. Besides, I’m already married. Eddy probably won’t come and bother me anymore.”

Gwen relaxed a little, but when she thought of Eddy’s harassment, she felt angry on her friend’s behalf. “If it were up to me, I’d have beaten up that man. Does he not know how much you wanted to marry him?”

Caroline said, “It’s already in the past, Gwen. In the future, Eddy and I will be our own people. We will not interfere with each other.”

“So your marriage …” Gwen hesitated. “It hasn’t been made known to Old Mr. Morrison yet, has it? If he comes to know about it, he’ll be sad.”

Caroline had just begun to feel calm, but now she was worried again. She felt guilty when Jude was brought up. It was him who had finalized her engagement with Eddy. When the Evanses met their demise, everyone waited for him to retract his statement and turn her into a joke, yet he hadn’t done that at all. Instead, he’d publicly announced that she was the only person he would accept as his granddaughter-in-law.

Because of her, he and Eddy had argued several times.

Now that things had ended up this way, Caroline only felt guilty toward Jude.

“I’ll tell him tonight,” Caroline said. She would rather have him hear it from herself than from someone else.

Gwen was worried. “Do you need me to go with you?”

cares for me so much. He

…

of Starlust Hotel, Jude Morrison was sitting in the highest chair as a symbol of his power and status and was talking to Kirk Morrison. He chuckled. “You’re the one that my brother nurtured,

beer belly, but one

brother, Kirk, “is that being able to put down all the things you were doing overseas to rush back home is an incredible feat that not many people can

and Uncle Jude. Our country has been developing rapidly. I only came back because I saw

home

he didn’t come then. Otherwise, you wouldn’t have been

knitted his eyebrows together. “What do you

car accident at

anxiously.

“No.”

good.” The old man sank into his chair,

collided with each

out if this was deliberate or accidental?” Jude’s wits were sharp,

had been observing his expression. He confirmed that the old man was indeed clueless before saying, “Yes. That’s why I need

are brothers. I would have investigated

refused politely. “I will get to the bottom of it. Not many people know that I’ve returned. I think I’ll be

in a low voice, “Are you suspecting foul

had only told the other three large families of Osbury about Kirk’s

surface of the table. He did not answer but said

he broke the somber atmosphere with a chuckle. “Of course.” He looked at Thomas and changed the topic. “Where’s Eddy? Why isn’t

of work. He

“Ever since meeting you a couple of times overseas, he began admiring you. I watched him grow up, yet I’ve never seen

smile. His thoughts wandered to

fiancé also called Eddy? Would it be

Thomas waved a

retracted his gaze and looked at