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.

not made an appearance since

what happened at that event that

Your grandfather wanted me to share with you how to manage a household. Have you done this before, Sasha?”

Sasha was dumbfounded.

Manage a household?

that old man

asked, “What does he mean? Does he intend to… have me manage

at Oceanic Estate for quite a while now? Since he did not take another wife after so many years and Stephen and the others moved out after they got

as though it was only the natural course of things.

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

had not even managed anything at the Hayeses. How was she

turn it down. “You’re teasing me, Aunt Janice. How would I know

Janice quite anxious. “I’m being serious here, really. Your grandfather’s waiting downstairs

half-dragged the speechless

Discounting those who are

Jasmine had always been managing the family business. And with Jasmine herself often professing her desire to run things at home time and again, it was just incomprehensible why the old man would not just go to

confoundment and sheer disbelief, Sasha was brought downstairs where she quickly spotted the old man seated in the hall. Apart from him, she saw that Devin’s father, Stephen, was present as

you mean to tell me… that you also intend to let

“Is there a problem?”

down with a stern look of disapproval the moment he sensed the latter’s unwillingness

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