Chapter 255

He tried to respond, to explain himself, but before he could get a word out, the call ended with a sharp click.

The silence that followed was deafening.

He stared at his phone, stunned.

Jenna, who had overheard the conversation, was equally stunned.

“I don’t understand.

How?” she whispered, her voice trembling with disbelief.

“Gilbert, isn’t Dane Glenn’s son? Why would he… Wait! I think I get it now!”

Her sudden shift in tone caught Gilbert’s attention.

He turned to her, desperation in his eyes.

“What do you mean, you get it?”

A cold, calculating look crossed Jenna’s face.

“Dane did this to defend Madisyn,” she said with certainty, her eyes narrowing.

punishing you

more Jenna pondered her theory, the more

must’ve wormed her way into Dane’s good graces to take control of Natural Beauty which is under the

the

Jenna reveled in her revelation, Gilbert’s expression

on his phone, a serious look

you looking at, Gilbert?” Jenna leaned in, her

look at

calling Madisyn

his voice tinged with

Johns…

name echoed ominously in his mind, sending a shiver down his spine

his concern with

I think you’re overthinking it! My former mother’s family name was Johns

maiden name,” she

Madisyn somehow magically

feeling slightly reassured by her

too far-fetched to be

dismiss it, a persistent worry clung

kept woman unsettled him deeply, twisting his

tension on his face,

“Relax, Gilbert.

always with that pretty

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