Chapter 337 The Source of the Shares

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.

all this while?”

confessed, “Okay, fine. I’ve

anything?” If he had done so, she would have tried to persuade Carl to seek professional help; he would be better at coping with his psychological issue instead of going

to keep my mouth shut about it,” Charles admitted as he resentfully rubbed the area where Sonia’s kick had

when you are hiding things from me! When did you find

of the room,

legs up, effectively dodging her approaching foot. With a rueful chuckle,

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

buying up shares

spent the better part of his years studying and wandering through historical sites, so he hardly ever kept in touch with Sonia. In fact,

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. She wanted to know how he managed to acquire these shares, the amount of which far

an archeologist and it wasn’t a well-paid career,

with her grandfather. However, when the meeting came around and she had asked for answers, Leonard kept mum about the truth. Nevertheless, she would rather have

Leonard, Carl and Charles were collaborating with each other all these years

turned out, 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,

held in Paradigm Co. It hurt to think that she owned them and they weighed

could she have been so thick-skinned as to own them at all? She had never once done

Charles leapt up from the hospital bed and asked worriedly, “Baby,

watery eyes and drew in a deep breath to suppress her tears. “Nothing, I just feel really guilty

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