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Chapter 0095

Candice, looking unwell, nodded slowly in response to Sonia. “I’ve got things to handle here.”

Her voice was hoarse, betraying her fatigue.

Sonia’s gaze became wary. She forced a strained smile, asking, “How come you didn’t join us?”

Candice lacked the energy to deal with Sonia and took a sip of her tea, answering, “I’m here on personal

matters. I’m on leave.”

“Is that so?” Sonia responded with a skeptical chuckle, then turned to Alex and asked, “Have you wrapped up your business?”

Alex, unfazed, sipped his tea.

“Not yet.”

Sonia’s expression soured slightly.

Greg, sensing the tension, lightened the mood. “What’s the matter, Sonia? Not a fan of Noxville?”

Sonia quickly dismissed the notion with a wave, then admitted, “I think the climate here doesn’t agree with me. I’ve developed some allergies.”

Greg sympathetically responded, “Oh no! You need to take care of that.”

Candice stayed quiet, almost blending into the background. She barely touched her food.

Meanwhile, Sonia and Greg struck up a rapport, their conversation flowing easily.

Out of the blue, Sonia turned to Alex, probing, “Is what Greg is saying true?”

Alex remained silent, his brows knitted, evidently in a foul mood. Sonia had to call his name

several times before he looked up.

Taken aback by his cold expression, Sonia cautiously asked, “Is something wrong?”

Greg set down his fork and regarded his friend, offering reassurance, “Don’t read too much into it. My dad’s words aren’t always to be taken to heart. You know how he is.”

Sonia bit her lip, probing further, “What happened?”

With no forthcoming response from Greg, Sonia turned toward Candice.

“Candice…”

cut short by

Joe was calling.

Candice’s heart to race, a sense of foreboding

the call outside the

was slightly breathless with a faint cough. “Are you

bypassed his question, asking instead, “Has

she sighed. “It’s a complicated situation here.

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for a moment before he said, “No matter what she does, she’s still

his words, Candie’s

is still your sister, even if she’s a half–sibling. Remember, it was your father who

linger on the topic of

a brief pause, she softened her voice. “What did she say to you? That I’m not

I got the

sensing her distress, spoke more softly. “I was against your mother’s decision to marry that

now she faces the consequences. But Peach is innocent in

please do.”

kindly, “You’ve always

began coughing again.

“How

the nebulizer the day before yesterday,” Joe

in Noxville. I’ve agreed to give her ten thousand monthly, but

my limit.”

there was rain, and today was cloudy. The air was humid, and it

dark clouds, her expression bitter, and divulged, “She had

both of us.”

perceiving her granddaughter’s sadness, fell silent for a

phone in hand, Candice was lost in

to the private room, she nearly collided with

caught Sonia’s voice, filled

do that to her?”

at the door, Greg’s empathetic words ringing in her ears. “If I had parents

could have coped

hand tightened into a fist, a bitter smile forming on

subjects of sympathy and gossip

lingered at the door momentarily,

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