The Queen They Buried

Chapter 437

Alice sat in the living room until Ronald came home at night. With all the socializing and dinners lately, he’d been getting back late every night.

“Why’d you drink so much?” Alice asked, stepping forward to steady Ronald, who was a bit wobbly on his feet

Ronald turned to look at Alice. Time had been kind to her. From their youth to now, Ronald’d lost the shine of his younger days, but for Alice, it was just a few more wrinkles and a little less elasticity in her skin, nothing more.

The years had smoothed away Alice’s youthful naivety and given her a different, more refined kind of charm.

However, Ronald and Alice hardly ever sat down for a peaceful talk ever since their blow–up at the hospital. For Alice to wait for Ronald late tonight, Ronald honestly never thought he’d see the day.

Ronald pulled his hand away and said coldly. “Do you need something?”

He was just a poor kid from a small mountain village. When he first saw Alice, the girl so graceful, pampered, and adored, at the Diamonde family, it would’ve been a lie to say he wasn’t moved. Anyone would be, and he was no exception.

He had liked her from their youth until now, at least. His feelings had never changed.

orchestrated by the Diamonde family. After that, it was all about responsibility. He liked her. Even though he knew exactly what the Diamonde family was up to, he just went along with

welled up in Ronald’s heart. It had been doomed from the start, and they might just keep things

from now on

froze, clearly not expecting Ronald to react like

to start. How could she tell him she wanted to

time. “I knew

long as she gives back what doesn’t belong to her, I’m not going to drive her into a corner because I’ve raised her all these

combined with the ones Alice held.

couldn’t afford to leave himself with such

had been so busy dealing with Aubree that he’d shoved the

her fists. Her earlier hesitation

up in the Wilson family. She’s my daughter and carries the Wilson name. She’s one of the Wilson family, Alice thought. ‘If anything, it’s

you said outside the study last

not get into that. The shares Carmen holds belong to the Wilson family, so I have no objections there.

face grew solemn at the mention

are getting serious about this, huh? With a market cap of hundreds of billions, it’s not small pressure