Chapter 40

“Dad, you must really miss Jennifer too,” Lily said. “It’s really laughable how when I saw Grace that day, she had no hint of remorse for Jennifer’s death.”

“All right, don’t speak of that woman,” Harold replied.

As they spoke, they could hear footsteps from the stairs. The father and daughter duo raised their heads to see Jason coming down the stairs.

“Did you come to see me for something?” Jason asked calmly as his gaze swept across the two people before him.

As Jason’s cold eyes took in Lily, she could feel her body tensing slightly. There was a time when her sister had been madly in love with this man!

Lily still remembered her sister talking to her with a dreamy expression on her face. “I once thought that I could never get a man like Jason in this life. He’s too cold, too logical, and even if you hug him, it’s as if you can’t feel any of his warmth. We can be together in a room, and he’s still a hundred miles away. He’s just like exquisite and beautiful porcelain. You can see his surface but you can never see what’s beneath.”

“Yes.” Lily thought so too. Every time she saw Jason, she was unable to see the man clearly. In hindsight, her sister’s choice of a husband may not have been the best one. Oh, for political and

financial reasons, Jennifer couldn’t have done better, but there was something glacial about Jason.

Something cold and callous.

Jason was very good-looking and backed by the large Reed Group, capable of doing anything within the city, the man was too scary and too

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may have been head-over-heels in love with Jason and had finally gotten his consent to marry, but Lily doubted the feeling was

Jennifer.

Jennifer wasn’t wonderful in every

was

Jason did not shed

a grave mistake, Lily is an impetuous child, who caused an incident that impacted us negatively. I’ve already scolded her. We hope that you can still attend Lily’s and Sean’s engagement dinner. Lily is Jennifer’s only sibling, and I’m sure Jennifer would wish that you could attend Lily’s engagement dinner,” Harold said with a

Harold with a forced smile. Harold felt as if his throat

to say.

had-mingled in the business

stifled by someone who was almost his son-in-law. He felt as if Jason could see through

think. I was quite surprised that she would cause so much trouble. Lying about jewelry and then forcing minimum wage workers to search for some imaginary ring.” Jason shook his

“Yes, Jason. This was handled very poorly.”

a daughter,” Jason said with a faint smile. “Children should be blessings, not burdens.”

Harold smiled embarrassedly.

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