Chapter 1718

Skyler couldn’t quite grasp the full extent of the situation, so she wisely chose to hold her tongue.

Hudson continued, “You’ve seen how things have been these past few days. Everyone seems to have it out for Zavier.” Sensitive topics were a minefield, and Skyler dared not tread any further. She opted to listen silently as Hudson spoke.

The old man chuckled, “I’m not dead yet, but there are plenty who wish I were, eager to carve up my estate. Sometimes, I envy those average families, with loving fathers and dutiful children.”

Skyler envied them too, but fate had dealt her a different hand, placing her in the family she was born into.

Hudson looked at her and asked, “Child, you understand what I’m talking about, right?”

Skyler nodded, “Grandpa, Zavier isn’t as bad as everyone makes him out to be.”e2

Hudson laughed, “Look at you, already defending your fiancé. And he won’t even let you live with him, yet you speak on his behalf.” Skyler clarified, “Grandpa, I’m not defending him. I’m just telling you what I’ve seen. And it’s not that he won’t let me live with him. I chose to stay at the dorms.”

know what my grandchildren are like.”

knew, but she

sudden turn when Hudson asked, “Do you know why

so straightforward, blurted out, “Isn’t it because of the Blue family?”

Blue family,” Hudson confirmed. “Your family isn’t powerful enough to be a pillar for

and that was why he arranged such a match. However the next words from Hudson took her by surprise,

looked out the floor-to-ceiling window, gazing into the distance, “Zavier’s brother had a girl he liked, from

Skyler nodded.

family was

from the Duran family, all of the Durans would back Brodie. Then there’d be nothing stopping Brodie from taking over Rivera Inc.

Hudson’s voice cracked, and tears welled up in

worried that Hudson was revisiting painful memories, quickly comforted him, “Grandpa, you don’t have to

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