“Just give me the kids,” Christopher cut in, “I’ll handle Ashton.”

While Christopher spoke, I moved close to the phone, immediately crossing my arms to distract him while I dialed Ashton’s number.

I supposed Ashton would have known that he had been tricked by now.

As expected, he answered the call almost immediately.

After turning off the screen while leaving the phone on, I casually walked up to Christopher.

“You want my kids because you want them to inherit your family business,” I stated, “But why don’t you consider Ashton? Is it because of his mother? Do you hate Ashton because of something his mother did?”

That assumption sounded awful coming out of my mouth, but that was the only way I could think of the clear all the misunderstandings.

We all need closure from broken relationships.

He laughed. “I thought you would know the answer, given how you had him investigated into before.”

“How did…”

“Enough!”

complete my sentence, Ashton’s furious voice roared from the other end of the

I had not turned on the speaker. He must be at

go through after

around the room, trying to trace the source. He knitted his brows when he realized

a capable wife, Ashton, but trust me, one day, you’ll let her down. I would advise you to give me

said, he got up

was a point in time during that conversation where I thought the truth had come to light, but I still had a lot of

up the phone. After a short pause, I cleared my throat

came for

“Ashton?”

still

then unlocked the screen with a tap of a finger and

and ended the call after hearing what

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