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.

had not made an

that event that Janice now

with you how to manage a household. Have you done this before, Sasha?” Janice

Sasha was dumbfounded.

Manage a household?

Why’s that old man doing this

he mean? Does he intend to… have me

Since he did not take another wife after so many years and Stephen and the others moved out after they got married, everything had been left to Tony all this time.

it was only the natural course

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

the Hayeses. How was she able to run

me, Aunt Janice. How would I know how to do

made Janice quite anxious. “I’m being serious here, really. Your grandfather’s waiting downstairs right now, so you

up half-dragged the speechless

he want me to 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 eldest daughter-in-law, Jasmine, helm Oceanic

desire to run things at home time and again,

spotted the old man seated in the hall.

tell me… that you also intend to let Sebastian manage the

“Is there a problem?”

his own son with eyes widened and shot him down with a stern look of disapproval the moment he sensed the latter’s unwillingness

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