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.

you because of

The more Jenna pondered her theory, the more

take control of Natural Beauty which

she had nailed the reason behind their humiliating

reveled in

at a news article on

at, Gilbert?” Jenna leaned in,

look

is everyone calling Madisyn

muttered, his voice tinged with

Johns…

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

dismissed his concern with a wave of

overthinking it! My former mother’s family

her maiden name,” she said, a smirk tugging

do you really think Madisyn

feeling slightly

seemed too far-fetched to

his efforts to dismiss it, a persistent

becoming Dane’s kept woman unsettled

the lingering tension on his face, Jenna

“Relax, Gilbert.

with

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