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.

of that, they were relatives of the

eventually followed his parents'

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

to me, why don't I just adopt Scott as my son? At least he understands

their parents, they would hear comparisons to others. Ben's mother had no real intention of replacing him with Scott, but she wanted to drive home the point that Ben needed

her. "Scott made his choices, and I'll make mine. As for Jamie,

him, every comparison a stone

"Do you

child is, they can't hold a candle to my own," she

of it. "You should leave.

nearly sent his

this villa

has a child. And Ben, you're a lawyer! What you're doing is illegal. Are you trying to get your law license revoked or better

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