Chapter 500

Edgar felt his world crumbling as the prosecutors approached him. His legs turned to jelly, and in full view of everyone, he collapsed to the ground!

All over social media, headlines blared the same news – Edgar was under arrest.

Quick to react, reporters swarmed Jeff.

“Mr. Chambers! What’s your take on your son–in–law’s arrest?”

“Were you aware of Mr. Gardner’s shady dealings?”

“Has Mr. Gardner been scratching your back during his tenure? Has he been funneling benefits to the Chambers Group under the table?”

Jeff felt his blood boil, his face ashen.

He’d thought Matthew would handle everything, but people from the DA’s office had still broken through, led by none other than Emeric’s second son, Arnold!

Both prominent moguls, yet here was Emeric’s boy, arresting his son–in–law, making a mockery of him!

If only he’d known, he would have slipped away in the confusion. What a blunder!

“Dad! Let’s get out of here!” Matthew rushed over, helping his father towards the exit.

The reporters were relentless, trailing them closely as Jeff struggled forward. In the chaos, Jeff’s shoe was trampled off!

“Oh, my shoe!” Jeff awkwardly lifted his bare foot.

“Dad! Who cares about your shoe at a time like this? We need to move!” Matthew, sweating profusely, dragged his father onward.

So Jeff hobbled away with one shoe, fleeing the scene in a sorry state.

“Look! Why’s there a shoe here?”

“Is that Jeff’s shoe? Was he so panicked that he lost it? So funny!”

The reporters snapped pictures of the shoe and erupted into laughter.

escorted out of the venue by the DA’s men, his legs dragged behind him as if stricken with polio, too terrified to

move.

and

“Congratulations, Mr. Abernathy, and Mrs. Abernathy. A

in their eyes as they looked

It’s been a pleasure working together,” Evadne said, her eyes shimmering with unspoken

do much, it was all-”

himself, “It was all you, Evadne,

who could so openly embrace Marilla and call her his wife, without a care in

no right to complain. He had missed too many

reunited, it was a

be by her side, even as an unnamed

the tongue and moved closer, her graceful arm

the car, the mark of a good

her waist. “Evadne, stop tormenting me. My iron will crumbles

“As

crucial for Elmsworth, ended

career was laid bare, igniting public outrage. Even the President took notice, ordering a thorough investigation of Gardners

and Edgar was despised more

suffered, its reputation tarnished, under

scrolling through social media on his way home, saw his lost shoe turned into a viral meme – “Mogul’s Choice: You Deserve It!” – and

sleep. He summoned everyone to

a sharp slap from his father sobered him

watched with detached amusement, propping his head with

Chambers

commanding respect, he had never been so humiliated. His face and

through his position that could benefit the Chambers Group, we must destroy the evidence, and fast. The President’s involved now. It

Why?” Byron, bleary–eyed and clueless,

of God, can you tell me how I ended up with a son who can’t even get it up?” Jeff’s patience with Byron had evaporated, and in a fit of rage, he hurled the insult

He despised comparisons to his brother Avery, and despised even more any insinuation of sexual inadequacy.

father went, doing the jitterbug right

quack, Evadne!” Byron spat out, his eyes ablaze and breathing like a bull in a ring, “If that self–righteous hack hadn’t botched my surgery, how the

barely moving as he locked his icy gaze on Byron, a chilling threat simmering

beat, and he stumbled back into the couch, his voice suddenly weak. “It’s all Evadne’s fault! She operated on my leg

But now, crippled and out of favor

says you’ve got crap for brains, and you’re in such a rush to prove him right?” Avery adjusted his glasses, a scornful smirk on his lips. “If Evadne wanted to harm you, she wouldn’t have saved your leg. She’d have left you paralyzed. Are you suggesting she cured your leg only

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