Chapter 44

The drama ended with Jasper promising not to meddle in the Gardner Group’s business.

After Sophia and Javier left, Newton looked around at the mess in anger. “What a shame! All the men in our family just have to fall for those scheming Gardner women!”

Jasper bent down to pick up the things on the floor while his mind spun. Could someone have replaced Jonah at the meeting in Yoarkley?

But he knew his father wouldn’t have recognized the wrong person. They had fought twice at a shopping mall. There was no way Newton could have been mistaken unless he was showing early signs of dementia.

Jasper picked up a hand fan and asked, “Grandpa, is this yours?” Newton sighed and said, “Just look at me. I must have lost my senses in anger. Bring it to me.”

Newton’s gaze softened, and he said, “Alice made me this fan herself. The patterns and calligraphy are all her own work.”

She also

didn’t know how to

compared to Liana, who knew how to play the piano, dance, and sing. Besides being gentle,

exuded confidence now. And her previously unknown abilities were being revealed one by

he did not deserve her at her best, but Jonah did? So she didn’t love him, but was only fulfilling her

me every weekend and sometimes go for a walk with me. Other times, she would accompany me in the study for the

drawing skills are pretty good. The moment she put pen to paper, I could tell she had more than ten years of experience. She wrote with poise and

that decadent Gardner girl.

was one meaningful and beautifully written prose on it. It said, “If I were young again, I would make a mountain of

lines of words intently. Her writing and style looked identical to

remembered seeing Alice at the hotel Alyssa was in charge of. He also recalled hearing Alice’s footsteps in the corridor when he was leaving

one and the same person, right? How could it be? Alice was so naive

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