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.

had not made an appearance since the

that event that

me to share with you how to manage a

Sasha was dumbfounded.

Manage a household?

old man

mean? Does he intend to… have me manage Oceanic

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 Tony all this time. Now that you’re here, shouldn’t it be time for you to take

nodded as though it was only the natural course of things.

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 she have as a granddaughter-in-law to start calling

managed anything at the Hayeses. How was she able

me, Aunt Janice. How would I

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

straight up half-dragged the speechless and stupefied Sasha out of the

talented people? Discounting those who are too far away,

business. And with Jasmine herself often professing her desire to run things at home time and again, it was just incomprehensible

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

you mean to tell me… that you also intend to let Sebastian manage the tempered glass

“Is there a problem?”

and shot him down with a stern look of disapproval the moment he sensed the latter’s unwillingness to

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