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Chapter 796

Jim was lying in a hospital bed. An oxygen mask covered most of his face, leaving only his eyes exposed. His eye sockets had sunk deep, the once full skin around them now shadowed in dark blue and black. His eyes clouded over as if a white film had settled across them.

Hearing the faint sound of movement, Jim slowly turned his head. The moment he saw Rachel, his expression froze. For a second, he even wondered if his illness had worsened so much that he was hallucinating.

“R–Rachel, is that really you? Am I seeing things?”

Rachel’s hardened heart softened when she saw how frail and weak he looked. How had he gotten so thin? He was practically skin and bones.

She walked closer. “Dad, it’s me.”

“You came back. When did you come back? I thought you’d never set foot here again, not for the rest of your life.”

eyes welled with tears as

about what had happened before. The pain they had caused her was etched into her bones. It wasn’t something that

and again. They would never understand her,

decided

today because I have something to discuss with you. About that proposal you

couldn’t even speak. “Are you really? You’re willing to

won’t cause me any more trouble, I’ll withdraw the lawsuit. We’ll act like nothing happened before. But let me be clear–if she comes after me again,

add that with Jim’s health in

in the end, she held back the

nodded. “Y–You have my word. I won’t let her run wild again. From now on, you two will stay out of each other’s

to me. You know as well as I do that once you’re gone, if Lloyd Enterprise ends

company.”

head, glanced around the

You could have given the company to me. At the very least, I could have kept

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right, but he also knew it was too late. Nothing he said now could