The next second, there was only silence on the phone.

Ben sent the phone number to his assistant. "Investigate thoroughly."

A thought suddenly struck him. He couldn't let Jamie continue to roam freely outside.

*

Four days later, Ben's mother came to visit. "You refuse to take over the family business, and now you're going against me by keeping Jamie around again?"

Ben didn't respond, but her anger only grew.

"Ben, you've seen for yourself what kind of person Jamie is. Why are you still so obsessed with her? The fiancée I arranged for you is far better than the one you've chosen!" The Larson family was also one of the prominent families in Birkham.

While the Lucas and Larson families couldn't rival the York family, the Lucas family still held its position as the second most influential family in the city.

top of that, they were

followed his parents' wishes and

cousin, Scott," she said indignantly. "At first, he refused to get married, but in the end,

palpable. "Ben, if you won't listen to me, why don't I just adopt Scott as my son? At least he understands

others. Ben's mother had no real intention of replacing him with Scott, but she wanted to

comparing me to others?" Ben said, his back to her. "Scott made his choices, and I'll make

grated on him, every comparison a stone

you think I enjoy this? If you'd listen to me, do

is, they can't hold a

didn't want to hear any more of it. "You should leave. I have my own plans when it

his mother into

locked up in this villa and forcing a child on

has a child. And Ben, you're a lawyer! What you're doing is illegal. Are you trying

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