My Substitute CEO Bride (Nash Calcraft)

Chapter 1825

At the old residence, Frederic was sitting in a lounge chair under the sun.

Several of the Petro family children laughed as they played with each other in the garden.

Finnegan clasped his hands behind his back and plastered a smile on his face as he walked toward Frederic. "Enjoying the sun, Frederic?"

"Yes," Frederic replied calmly.

Finnegan rubbed his hands together. "Well... there's something I wanted to discuss with you!"

"Go ahead. As long as it's not something concerning Colby!"

He had been informed about what had happened to Colby shortly after the incident occurred and knew that Finnegan most likely was here because of that. There was nothing he could do about it.

Finnegan gritted his teeth. "He's my grandson, and we grew up inseparable. If you don't want to do it for him, do it for my sake?"

Frederick looked up lazily at Finnegan. "So what if he's your grandson? I'd be the same even if it were Cobalt who'd gotten into trouble!"

"You've got a heart of stone, Frederick!"

Finnegan smiled bitterly.

but had still decided to

calmly, "Don't you have descendants residing overseas too? You've got plenty of grandchildren now, so what's the problem with losing one?" Finnegan scoffed. "I could never be as ruthless as you are. I'll come up with something else since you aren't going

go ahead and

his

would be able to help Finnegan were the State Capital's retired five-star

colleagues well. None of them

took his phone out so

"Gerry..."

of the country right now. I'll call you once

of Finnegan's

informed of what happened, it was likely that Gerry was also in the know and had decided to

"Cedric..."

He's on a ventilator right now. I'll have him call you once he's feeling

rang out from the other

hung up the second she finished

nearly threw his phone onto

On a ventilator?

Cedric was the champion of a competition among retired veterans a couple of

like no one would