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 because of

more Jenna pondered her theory, the more convinced she

into Dane’s good graces to take control of Natural Beauty which is under

nailed the reason

in her revelation,

news article on his phone, a

you looking at, Gilbert?” Jenna leaned

look

calling Madisyn ‘Madisyn

muttered, his voice

Johns…

echoed ominously in his mind, sending a shiver down his spine as a sense of dread began to

dismissed his concern with a

it! My former mother’s family

must be using her maiden name,” she said, a smirk

think Madisyn

exhaled softly, feeling slightly reassured by her

to be true,

despite his efforts to dismiss it, a

Dane’s kept woman unsettled him

the lingering tension on his face,

“Relax, Gilbert.

always with

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