Sasha: Are you starting to remember things, Darling?

Darling: Such as?

Sasha: That is… You mentioned our marriage. Have you recalled how we ended up being together?

Sasha clasped onto her phone with bated breath and was so nervous that her palms got clammy.

For whatever reason, he suddenly ceased correspondence after she sent this out. Meanwhile, there she was, all jittery as she waited in her room.

Still, the phone stayed silent.

 

Damn this man…

She considered making a voice call but that was when she heard footsteps approaching from outside.

 

“Are you up there, Sasha?”

“Who is it?”

Sasha could only put down her phone and come out.

“Aunt Janice? What brought you here today?” She was quite surprised to see the middle-aged woman who had shown up out of the blue.

Janice Durant, who had not made an appearance since the day of the

that event that Janice now

manage

Sasha was dumbfounded.

Manage a household?

mean? Why’s that old man doing this all of a

asked, “What does he mean?

noticed that there hasn’t been a female figurehead at Oceanic Estate for quite a while now? Since he did not take another wife after so many years and Stephen and the others

though it was only the natural

about running things here because this was the one-and-only Oceanic Estate, the confluence point of the members of this most powerful family. What claim did she have as a granddaughter-in-law to start calling

anything at the Hayeses.

it down. “You’re teasing me, Aunt

“I’m being serious here, really. Your grandfather’s waiting downstairs right

speechless and stupefied Sasha out of

take charge of things when the Jadesons are not shorn of talented people? Discounting those who are too far away, would it not make sense to have his own

to run things at home

old man seated

do you mean to tell me… that you also

“Is there a problem?”

widened and shot him down with a stern look of disapproval the

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