Sasha: Are you starting to remember things, Darling?

Darling: Such as?

Sasha: That is… You mentioned our marriage. Have you recalled how we ended up being together?

Sasha clasped onto her phone with bated breath and was so nervous that her palms got clammy.

For whatever reason, he suddenly ceased correspondence after she sent this out. Meanwhile, there she was, all jittery as she waited in her room.

Still, the phone stayed silent.

 

Damn this man…

She considered making a voice call but that was when she heard footsteps approaching from outside.

 

“Are you up there, Sasha?”

“Who is it?”

Sasha could only put down her phone and come out.

“Aunt Janice? What brought you here today?” She was quite surprised to see the middle-aged woman who had shown up out of the blue.

was Janice Durant, who had not made an appearance

that event that Janice now appeared particularly self-conscious

with you how to manage a household. Have you done this

Sasha was dumbfounded.

Manage a household?

that old man doing this all of a

mean? Does he intend to… have

at Oceanic Estate for quite a while now? Since he did not take another wife after so many years and Stephen and the others moved out after they got married, everything had been left to

was only the natural course of things. Sasha, however, was completely

never thought about running things here because this was the one-and-only Oceanic Estate, the confluence point of the members of this most powerful family. What claim did

the Hayeses. How was she able to run

down. “You’re teasing me, Aunt Janice. How

“I’m being serious here, really. Your grandfather’s waiting downstairs right now, so you can go verify this with him for

speechless and stupefied

are not shorn of talented people? Discounting those who are too far away, would it not make sense to have his own eldest daughter-in-law, Jasmine,

Stephen and Jasmine had always been managing the family business. And with Jasmine herself often professing her desire to run things at home time and again, it

where she quickly spotted the old man seated in the hall. Apart from him, she saw that Devin’s father,

me… that you also

“Is there a problem?”

his own son with eyes widened and shot him down with a stern look

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