Meeting The One For Me

Chapter 33

Ryan rose with the phone in hand. He walked to the window to answer it. “Yes?”

“sir, there’s news from Sheysea. Two hours ago, Audrey’s foster mother approached the young Frankin heir and was involved in a car accident. She didn’t make it,” Julian reported.

Ryan’s pupils contracted. He gripped the phone tightly. “Understood,” he replied curtly.

After ending the call, he picked up his suit jacket draped over the chair. “I need to leave.”

“Take your time getting to know the third Shaw daughter,” George suggested casually, crossing his legs languidly.

He picked up a chess manual from the table beside him and continued, “The Lambert family will eventually be in your hands. With the Shaw family’s backing, you’ll have a more stable position on the board.”

The subtext was clear. George liked the third Shaw daughter, Cecilia Shaw. Ryan’s feelings were secondary. Ryan knew winning George’s acceptance of Audrey was going to be a long journey.

Wanda, George’s only daughter, was the apple of the Lambert family’s eye. She had suffered terribly at the hands of the Franklin family, which had led to a mental breakdown and multiple suicide

attempts.

member of the Franklin family as an enemy, including Audrey and her brother

Franklins with Wanda, the Lambert family might not have turned a blind eye, which had given Ryan the opportunity

understand,” Ryan nodded

took her place. I never stopped you from helping her, but

now leisurely perusing the chess manual

Xenos, the maid at the

warm and inviting. “I’ll pack some up for you.

I have other matters to attend to,”

else, but Ryan was already hurrying past her, heading

the soup into the study and placed it beside George. She lamented, “He’s too busy with the company, always on the go,

this hour.”

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look up from the chess manual. He chuckled, “It’s probably not company business. Is

smile. “She asked me to make