Chapter 588

Newton poured a glass of warm water for Jasper, handing it to his grandson, who sat across from him.

“Thank you, Grandpa.” Jasper gratefully took the glass, sitting up straight. He cupped the glass with a

hand around the body and another at the base.

“How’s your injuries, Jasper?” Newton asked gently.

“They’re mostly surface wounds but have healed a lot,” Jasper replied, masking most of his weakness and

pain. “Don’t worry about me, Grandpa. I’m stronger than you think. I was in the army once, after all.”

“Then why didn’t you fight back when your father hit you?” Newton scowled. “That vixen, Sophia, clearly

influenced him to hurt you for no good reason. Why didn’t you just snatch the whip away and hit her back?!

He’d called Jasper over just to question him about this.

Jasper looked down at his glass of water. To Newton’s surprise, he stayed silent.

a softer tone, “You’re

still feel like you owe it to our family, do

lips pressed into

old, he once had to survive in a filthy, narrow little

was a stormy night when those cars arrived outside

building, and the biting cold

trying to feed

had been younger then, clad in a smart suit and tie as he walked into the room. Not even

had a drop of rainwater on

in mind at that time when he saw this man

my mom, sir!”

the bedside. Tears

Jasper’s thin and sickly

Anne! I’m so sorry it took me

you and

remembered his father’s devotion to his mother, insisting on marrying her no matter

pressure from his family and the public. Thus, Jasper, a

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