Chapter 65

The cold glint in Jason’s dark eyes sent shivers down Sean’s spine.

“What gave you the impression you were permitted to ask questions?” Terrence remarked. “When you shouldn’t ask something, don’t.” Terrence shoulder-nudged Sean toward the door. Beneath his breath, he muttered, “How can you not understand this, Mr. Stevens?”

Sean’s face went pale and he left feeling embarrassed.

That one question could’ve been a serious misstep on his behalf.

Sweat beaded on his brown as Terrence opened his car door.

Jason leaned against the back of the sofa and took out a cheap mobile phone. There was only one number in the contacts list.

He pressed that number. After a while, a gentle female voice sounded from the other end of the phone.

“Sister,” he said slowly. “What do you want to eat for dinner? I’ll bring it back for you,” he said softly. The coldness in his eyes was replaced with tenderness.

At night, Grace was wiping the photo frame that held her mother’s photo with a paper towel. She had gone to buy a small desk just to house this photo and she made it a point to dust it

left with the CumminsFamily. This photo was the only item she had left with which to reminisce about

the photo frame, Jason sat to one side, looking at

a… uh, a bus ticket?” Grace asked. In the past two days, many of her colleagues from the Sanitation Service Center had been struggling to get tickets for the journey back home to celebrate Thanksgiving with their families.

I don’t have a

She nodded once. “I can

tomorrow.”

realized what she was trying to ask. “I don’t need to buy any

have to go home?” she asked

from here, I don’t have a home.” Even though he had stayed in the Reed Residence for

then remembered how he had said that he had no family, but… didn’t people normally have

he smiled faintly and

the old head of the Reed family, although they were grandfather and grandson, family affection was something that didn’t exist in the Reed Family. The only thing that his grandfather was interested

grandfather wouldn’t care about anything else. But if he ever disappointed the family, even if he was grandfather’s grandson, he

half of the blood in his body came from that woman’s.

even felt disgust for him because of it. He remembered how when he was a child, grandfather had looked at him in disgust several times and said with

The infractions ranged from a less than perfect score on a

begun to show his capabilities in the boardroom that grandfather’s attitude towards

in him was a fact

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