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, “YYou 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.

with it, Charles! Have you known about his psychological issue all this while?” she asked

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

why didn’t you say anything?” If he had done so, she would have tried to persuade Carl to seek professional help; he would be better at

one who asked me to keep my mouth shut about it,” Charles admitted as he resentfully rubbed the area

him mutinously. “I can’t believe you would call yourself my childhood friend when you are hiding things from me! When did you find out

averted his gaze and looked to a remote corner of the room, appearing

foresaw this and quickly brought his legs up, effectively dodging her approaching foot. With a rueful chuckle, he responded, “Okay, okay, I’ll tell you everything!

stop

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

buying up

was right after her divorce from Toby, Carl had brought her to see 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 saw him in

was even more surprising was the sum of shares in Paradigm Co. that Leonard had presented Sonia with. She was well aware that her stepmother and 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 had in hand.

an archeologist and it wasn’t a well-paid career, at least not well enough to provide him with the means of purchasing shares

and decided that she would save her questions for the next meeting with her grandfather. However, when the meeting came around and she had asked for

with each other all these years to acquire the fifty-one percent share in Paradigm Co. that she now

she had unknowingly received an overwhelming amount of generosity and kindness from those around her. She should have returned their favors by maintaining her pride and dignity, but she had instead spent the last six years compromising with the Fuller Family. Not to mention, she was pathetically obsessing over the idea of turning Toby into the man he had once been. She chased after him like a desperate puppy in the hopes that they could have the happily-ever-after that she dreamed of. In retrospect, she had been a fool and even disappointed her grandfather, Charles and Carl. The guilt and shame stirred in her like a sour, bitter

felt as if she did not deserve the shares she now held in Paradigm Co.

to own them at all? She

was, Charles leapt up from the hospital bed and asked

to suppress her tears. “Nothing, I just feel

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