Her Return, His Regret by Natie

Chapter 138~ The results

Later in the evening at the Kingsley mansion.

Miles narrowed his eyes at Celeste as she walked into their room.

It had been a long day of trying to convince the shareholders that the company wasn't going to go bankrupt after the news of Ryan's illness was exposed.

Although he and Charles had a hard time, they still managed to convince the board for the time being.

However, the stock price kept dropping with some of their partners pulling out of the deal, worrying about the future of the projects if the leader of the group wasn't going to live long.

"Why did you do that? Did you think Jason would become CEO if you exposed Ryan's illness?" Miles questioned, anger flickering through his eyes.

Celeste's smile froze, "Miles, honey, what do you mean?"

"Drop the act, Celeste," Miles snapped. "Have you been pretending to be nice all this time? How dare you expose our family secret like that knowing what impact it would have on the company? How dare you use my son's illness to get what you want for yours?" Celeste's expression hardened but she kept her voice soft as she replied, "Darling, why would you think I used Ryan's illness to get what I want? I only wanted to raise awareness and show the world how strong our family is during this difficult time. And what do you mean by my son? Isn't Jason your son too?"

"He is my son! That's why I gave him my shares! So that he wouldn't feel left out. But what did you do? You went behind my back after I told you about Ryan and announced his illness to the whole world. Now that the company is in chaos, are you happy?" Miles said angrily.

"I used to think you were a kind-hearted woman, but now I think it was my wishful thinking. All that you've ever cared about is my family's wealth. And because of you, I never got to spend much time with my other children!" "What about Jason? He grew up alone-"

"And whose fault is that, Celeste? Did I ask you to send him away? No... your greed made you do that. You wanted to keep him a secret so that you could use him in the future just like you're doing," Miles hissed.

children out of it. Don't manipulate or coax any of them into doing your bidding. If I find out, you will be sorry." Celeste dropped her act and glared at Miles as she said, "Ryan is already dying but instead of securing Jason's position, here you are warning me about useless things. I'm going to make sure my son sits in that position, Miles. Watch me." With those words, Celeste left the room, leaving Miles speechless. He

to the sweet, considerate woman he had been married to

so blind to see Celeste for who she

...

much they tried to pull the news down, more articles kept popping up

went and soon, a week

the Kingsley Group, giving it a huge financial burden that went beyond what

get the results of the

they volunteered

he looked around at everyone in the VIP lounge. He cleared his throat and said, "Thank you so much for doing this for me. No words can describe how grateful

statement, looking at Ryan with warm smiles

the twins I

that, Ryan. I have faith that at least one of us will be

at her

have to try harder before we get to that conclusion. And we will never get to that conclusion because we are

"Good morning, everyone."

voice echoed in the area. All eyes turned to him in

announced, waving the file

a match? You can tell us the results, we

atmosphere suddenly turned somber. They could see from the look on the doctor's face that he didn't bring