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 relatives of the Scott

who had initially resisted marriage, eventually followed his parents' wishes

married, but in

you won't listen to me, why don't I just adopt Scott as my

had no real intention of replacing him with Scott, but she wanted to drive home the point that Ben needed to learn from Scott and

are you always comparing me to others?" Ben said, his back to her. "Scott made his choices, and I'll make mine. As for Jamie, I

on him, every comparison

compare you to others!" she snapped. "Do you think

child is, they can't hold a candle

of it. "You should leave. I

his mother into a

this villa and forcing a

What you're doing is illegal. Are you trying to get your law license revoked or better yet, end up in

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