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Chapter 337

Chapter 337 

The moment she thought about her exchange with Carl the day before, Sonia lowered her gaze before she dismissed, “No, nothing happened at all.”

Clearly seeing through her lie, Charles raised a brow and drawled, “Really? Because from how I look at it, something definitely happened. I ran into Carl after I managed to borrow the wheelchair and boy, was I shocked by how gloomy he looked. I asked if he was okay, but he ignored me; when I returned to the ward, you looked sullen as well. I figured something must have happened between you two, but I only kept quiet about it because you looked so upset at that time.”

She chewed on her lip in reticence.

He pulled up a chair next to her bed. “Come on, let it all out and maybe I’ll guide you like a moral compass.”

“It’s nothing, really,” she muttered before she sat down on the chair propped up to one side of the room. “I just noticed that Carl has a psychological issue and I…

Sonia trailed off, not wanting to talk about how Carl had been involved in the poisoning, at least not to Charles. She didn’t want him to worry and she certainly would hate it if the two men started holding grudges against each other.

While Charles hadn’t known Carl for as long as she had, the two men were still friends and she didn’t want to jeopardize their friendship by telling the truth.

Moreover, she had already decided to forgive Carl and look past this incident. Withholding the truth seemed the best way to move forward.

Charles, on the other hand, exclaimed in surprise, “Y–You noticed Carl’s psychological issue?”

Sonia briefly appraised him with narrowed eyes as she accused, “What, did you already know about it?”

He swallowed convulsively at the realization that he had let this secret out of the bag.

you known about his psychological issue all this while?” she asked incredulously

to find the words before he finally sighed and confessed, “Okay, fine. I’ve known about this for quite

of frustration and disbelief, she kicked him. “If you knew about it, then why didn’t you say anything?” If he had done so, she would have tried to persuade Carl to seek professional help; he would

my mouth shut about it,” Charles

when you are hiding things from me! When did you

averted his gaze and looked to a remote corner of the room, appearing as if he was trying to come up

in annoyance and made to kick him again, but he foresaw this and quickly brought his legs up, effectively dodging her

stop

explained, “I’ve known about it for a year now. Carl and I got in touch with one another two years ago, courtesy of your grandfather. When your dad passed, your stepmother and sister sold off all his shares in Paradigm Co., but your grandfather had been secretly buying up these shares alongside Carl. I don’t know how long they both have been working together, but I’m guessing it’s been more than three years, given how I’ve only joined them

buying

her grandfather, Leonard. Leonard was an archeologist who spent the better part of his years studying and wandering through historical sites, so he hardly ever kept in touch with Sonia. In fact, she never

sister had sold off these shares, and casting her own astonishment aside, Sonia’s curiosity was provoked after seeing the large number of shares he

for a while, but she quickly dismissed it. He was merely an archeologist and it wasn’t a well-paid career, at least not well enough to provide him with the means

when the meeting came around and she had asked for answers, Leonard kept mum about the

she know that Leonard, Carl and Charles were collaborating with each other all these years to acquire the

she was pathetically obsessing over the idea of turning Toby into the man he had once been. She chased after

once, she felt as if she did not deserve the shares she now held in Paradigm

to own them at all?

was, Charles leapt up from the hospital bed and

him with watery eyes and drew in a deep breath to suppress her tears. “Nothing,

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