Chapter 44

The drama ended with Jasper promising not to meddle in the Gardner Group’s business.

After Sophia and Javier left, Newton looked around at the mess in anger. “What a shame! All the men in our family just have to fall for those scheming Gardner women!”

Jasper bent down to pick up the things on the floor while his mind spun. Could someone have replaced Jonah at the meeting in Yoarkley?

But he knew his father wouldn’t have recognized the wrong person. They had fought twice at a shopping mall. There was no way Newton could have been mistaken unless he was showing early signs of dementia.

Jasper picked up a hand fan and asked, “Grandpa, is this yours?” Newton sighed and said, “Just look at me. I must have lost my senses in anger. Bring it to me.”

Newton’s gaze softened, and he said, “Alice made me this fan herself. The patterns and calligraphy are all her own work.”

Alice knew calligraphy? She also knew how to draw?

for a moment, and he didn’t know how to respond. When she was with him, she was

sing. Besides being gentle, obedient, and pretty, Alice had no other

after leaving him? She exuded confidence now. And her previously

he did not deserve her at her best, but Jonah did? So she didn’t love him, but was only fulfilling her duties –

would accompany me in the

good. The moment she put pen to paper, I could tell she had more than ten years of experience. She wrote with poise and

“She’s so much better than that decadent Gardner girl. But alas, you’re blinded by love and

his lips and opened the hand fan. There was one meaningful and beautifully written prose on it. It said, “If I were young again, I would make a mountain

over the two lines of words intently. Her writing and style looked identical to the calligraphy hanging in Alyssa’s office, the one she had wanted

also recalled hearing

and Alice were one and the same person, right? How could

just returned from a business trip in Yoarkley. He was having

listening. A pleased expression appeared on his stern face. His eldest son was good at everything but was too religious. No amount of power, fame, or wealth

this.” Winston took a sip of red wine and savored its taste. “Don’t you always advocate dealing with problems

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