Chapter 57: Are you afraid of that?...

Stay a moment."

Jessica nodded and gestured for Davis to go ahead. She sat back down, took a deep breath as she gathered her expression. Elder Allen looked at her for a while and exhaled deeply.

His fingers tapped lightly on the wooden nightstand before he finally spoke, his voice heavy. His eyes brimming with helplessness.

"There are things happening in this household that you may not fully understand yet," Elder Allen began.

"The power struggles, the betrayals, the hurt, pain and selfishness—they have all been brewing for years. And now, Desmond..." a sigh escaped his lips.

"What about him?" Jessica questioned. Looking at the old man, there is a clear contrast in character with Desmond.

"Davis situation had created an opportunity he had been seeking for decades and I know he would stop at nothing to achieve it"

Jessica remained silent, listening intently.

"I have lived for decades and I know who I can trust. Be careful, Desmond and Vera are not people who accepts defeat easily." He concluded.

Jessica’s expression didn’t falter but she bobbed her head in acknowledgement "I understand, Grandpa."

A small smile tugged at the corners of Elder Allen’s lips. Slowly, he reached into the drawer beside him and pulled out a sealed brown envelope. With a measured hand, he held it out to Jessica.

She hesitated before taking it, her fingers brushing against the crisp brown envelope in confusion.

darting between the folder in

transfer agreement." He drawled. Jessica’s hand trembled, her breathe hitched and she glanced around the room. The statement was like a thunderclap and she

Jessica’s brows furrowed. "Grandpa—"

shares to you, though it was a selfish act but I have no other

expected that in this life time, he will be faced with a situation where he has to hope on a young lady to help the family soar through its trouble but what can he do when the

flickered with surprise.

though I haven’t spent much time with you but I believe you are the only one

that she is not sure if she can handle it. The old man signing off his shares to her as well as the shares of Davis inheritance means she is

a difficult position, but it’s the

is already exhausting for her not to talk of a man who had always witnessed

you certain about this?" she

marriage with Davis... it’s not what everyone believes it to be. We might end up going our separate ways in the next

is there marriage is just for a purpose not for its seek and after it wears off they might go their separate

had not wanted to stay with you he wouldn’t have allowed you to

will be a different case if he finds out, you left the shares in my hand won’t he feel—" she hesitated, searching for the right words,

deeply. "Jessica, this transfer was meant for Davis in the first place," he

family... his attitude towards life currently.

led the Allen group higher. He didn’t know when he will come to life

at his words. "You mean because he’s not

If I transfer the shares to him now, Desmond and the others will only see it as an opening to strike harder. He is already this way, do you think he can do much? Instead, giving him this would only fuel their desire to

prestigious family

her gaze meeting his. "If they would go after him, what

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