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,

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

she had nailed the

reveled in

news article on his phone,

at, Gilbert?” Jenna leaned in, her

look at

calling

his voice tinged with

Johns…

his mind, sending a shiver down his spine as

dismissed his concern with a wave

mother’s family name was

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

Madisyn somehow magically became Glenn’s

slightly

to be

efforts to dismiss it, a persistent

kept woman unsettled him deeply, twisting his

the lingering tension on his face, Jenna

“Relax, Gilbert.

always with that pretty

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