Chapter 588

Newton poured a glass of warm water for Jasper, handing it to his grandson, who sat across from him.

“Thank you, Grandpa.” Jasper gratefully took the glass, sitting up straight. He cupped the glass with a

hand around the body and another at the base.

“How’s your injuries, Jasper?” Newton asked gently.

“They’re mostly surface wounds but have healed a lot,” Jasper replied, masking most of his weakness and

pain. “Don’t worry about me, Grandpa. I’m stronger than you think. I was in the army once, after all.”

“Then why didn’t you fight back when your father hit you?” Newton scowled. “That vixen, Sophia, clearly

influenced him to hurt you for no good reason. Why didn’t you just snatch the whip away and hit her back?!

He’d called Jasper over just to question him about this.

Jasper looked down at his glass of water. To Newton’s surprise, he stayed silent.

moment, Newton asked in a softer tone, “You’re my grandson, Jasper, and

it to our family, do you?”

pressed into a thin line.

was five years old, he once had to survive

was a stormy night when those

building, and the biting cold

bed, trying to feed

suit and tie as he walked into the room.

a drop of rainwater on them.

time when he

Please save my mom, sir!”

to the bedside.

hugged Jasper’s thin and

Anne! I’m so sorry it took me so long. I’m

for you and

to his mother, insisting on marrying her

Jasper, a child

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would he turn his affections elsewhere,

that cold, stormy night sick in bed or from the torturous existence the

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