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

move.

and Thaddeus watched everything unfold.

brought out the champagne, his face beaming. “Congratulations, Mr. Abernathy, and Mrs. Abernathy. A

their eyes

a hand. It’s been a pleasure working together,” Evadne said,

didn’t do much, it

He quickly corrected himself, “It was

embrace Marilla and

no right to complain. He had missed

it was a

content just to be by her

over a slight slip of the tongue and moved closer, her graceful

the mark of a good secretary being to see and

her waist. “Evadne, stop tormenting me. My

“As my man,

Elmsworth, ended in a

bare, igniting public outrage. Even the President took notice, ordering a thorough investigation of Gardners and any

political arena was on edge, and

its reputation tarnished,

a viral meme – “Mogul’s Choice: You Deserve It!” – and in a fit of rage, he threw his phone, shattering his car’s

late at night, Jeff couldn’t sleep. He summoned everyone to the

a sharp slap from his father sobered him

head with his

the Chambers Group?” Jeff roared, nearly smashing the expensive

respect, he had never been so humiliated. His face and even his shoe were lost. His anger wouldn’t be quelled without

all ties with him. Anything we gained through his position that could benefit the Chambers Group, we must destroy the evidence, and fast. The President’s

Why?” Byron, bleary–eyed and

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 like a dagger straight for

despised comparisons to his brother Avery,

his father went, doing the jitterbug

bull in a ring, “If that self–righteous hack hadn’t botched my surgery, how the hell would I be in this

as he locked his

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

provocations. But now, crippled and out of favor

she wouldn’t have saved your

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