Chapter 319



Ernest's eyes suddenly narrowed, and I instinctively tightened my grip on him. "Really?"

"Why would you think that?" he countered.

I was about to tell him it was something Jacqueline mentioned when, from a distance, Susie's voice called out to me, "Hey Licia, your phone's been ringing off the hook."

She was hurrying over, even though she shouldn't be running with her weak heart.

"Got it, I'm on it," I said, sliding off Ernest's lap and rushing over to Susie.

The caller was Jacqueline, and she'd tried several times. It seemed she had something urgent to discuss.

"Jacqueline," I answered the phone.

"Felicia, why haven't you been answering? Is everything okay?" Jacqueline asked, her voice laced with anxiety.

"No, I just didn't have my phone on me."

She let out a sigh of relief. "I got so worried, imagining all sorts of things."

it with me next time," I promised, then asked, "Jacqueline, did

so furious," came

"Who's got you riled

have his head," Jacqueline's fierce side was

still the Wagner family. As long as I had ties with the Wagners, Conrad's

did he do this time?" I asked,

woman, and now he's just vanished,"

heard from Dustin it was Herschel who

understood the situation without needing to pry further. "Jacqueline, he's probably just blowing off steam, taking

the Wagner family for good," Jacqueline's words made me frown

he say

him to take

a son anymore, even left the company in his

a will. It's clear, he wants nothing to do with us anymore," Jacqueline's venom

a loss for words,

were their

I had with Ernest on the plane, I ventured,. "Jacqueline, maybe he just spoke in

reasons."

"What reasons could he possibly have other than wanting to marry that widow

was speechless at

trying

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