Chapter 723

There was no way the crowd was going to pass up on such juicy gossip! One by one, they leaned forward, butts in the air, craning their necks to get a glimpse of the papers sprawled on the table.

Barry, however, remained seated calm as a cucumber, without so much as a twitch. He had already secretly seen the report countless times, thanks to a little sneak peek courtesy of Edith.

“Who dares touch those?!” Jareth’s roar thundered across the boardroom, his eyes blazing with a fierce and bloodthirsty glare.

These folks were not only the company’s directors but also his elders. Yet, at Jareth’s command, they recoiled, none daring to lay a finger on the documents.

“What’s the matter, Jareth? Can’t face the truth or just can’t accept it?” Gary sneered, his mockery dripping with venom, “Deep down, you must be repulsed by the idea of your fiancée being mentally unstable, right? Is that why you’ve been hiding her away. playing house without giving her a proper introduction to the company? Even you, who claim she’s the only one you’ll marry, must be afraid she’ll embarrass you.”

That was the last straw for Jareth.

The Fairhaven family didn’t have the myriad of formalities that the Abernathy family or the Chambers family did, and he was no blue–blooded gentleman with a century of family legacy like Thaddeus. Jareth wasn’t about to endure humiliation for the sake of revenge or the greater good.

He was going to handle this his way.

Jareth grabbed a water glass from the table and, without a second thought, hurled it at Gary’s head!

That hurt!” Gary, caught off guard, got a hefty lump on his

open his eyes, gasps filled the room, and the next second, he felt a heavy punch land squarely on his face, sending blood spurting from

to mount him like a cowboy riding

with a fury that blotted out

no stranger to drama, but seeing someone beaten to a pulp, especially by their own nephew,

the bodyguards rush in. It took all their strength to pry Jareth

is none of your damn business, you old cur!” Jareth seethed, every word soaked with loathing as if he wished to devour Gary alive, “Marilla is the most perfect girl in the world to me! I love her, and nothing anyone

he fought the urge to go at Gary again.

His expression was a mix of indignation and uncertainty as he cast a furtive glance at Barry. Barry’s neutral stance told Gary all he needed to

He paused at the sight of a cute little bear embroidered in the corner, a token of

barely touch it, and surely couldn’t bear to use it to clean up that cur’s blood stain, so he tucked it back into

Need to

blood from his nose, evidence of Jareth’s

was able to continue in the end. Barry leisurely picked up the report from the table and flipped

only he

report for real?” Barry

it gets, or I’m Jareth’s grandson!” Gary retorted, his voice loud, “It’s got the official seal of the authority on it,

with suspicion as he

if this was the first he had heard of it, he

family. No outsider should have been able

Elspeth gone and Frederic, who didn’t feel gruntled about him marrying Marilla, unlikely to stoop to such tactics to prevent their marriage.

would care for his face, it was

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