Divorce Time

Chapter 379

Before Dalton could even finish his sentence, Abelard cut him off, “Are you trying to say that Stewart sided with Charlene again and gave Ms. Hawkins a hard time?”

Dalton was genuinely taken aback by Abelard’s spot–on guess. “How did you know, old man? Do you already know what went down?”

Abelard chuckled, “I didn’t know. Just a lucky guess.”

The thing was, if Charlene and Stewart had initially agreed to work with his somewhat clueless son because of him, they wouldn’t deliberately make things difficult for him at work without reason. His son wasn’t the type to stir up trouble either, which meant that any conflict probably wasn’t directly between Dalton and them.

It seemed more likely that someone Dalton cared about had run into issues with Charlene and Stewart. And that someone was probably Vesta.

Earlier that year, when he met up with Geoffrey, Charlene, and the gang for dinner, they happened to bump into Ms. Hawkins at the restaurant entrance. Abelard had noticed how attentive Dalton was to her, and given her poise and charm, he had approved.

That was until Hickey Watson informed him that Ms. Hawkins was actually Thorne Henderson’s girlfriend. Abelard wasn’t privy to the intricacies of Charlene and Thorne’s relationship, but he did notice the odd expressions Charlene and Stewart had when they saw Vesta and her father. Clearly, there was no love lost there.

type to pick fights easily, so if there was tension with his son, it likely had

sure enough, it was all because of

might develop feelings for her, so she deliberately targeted Vesta. Stewart, according to Dalton, was

bemused grin. “You want me to call Kenton and

just too out of

He had no intention of revealing the truth. “I can’t do that for you. If you want to help Ms. Hawkins,

just about helping her, I actually like Stewart.

thought the root of

being reckless? I don’t know about that. Maybe

about it. How can you say I’m

then tell me

rundown of the situation.

As the company head, she should have sorted things out promptly. Instead, she sided with her staff and family

they weren’t worried about the financial hit from ending the contract with PrimeStar, I doubt they’d even apologize. From Stewart’s perspective, it’s reasonable not to want to continue working with them.”