Chapter 1248

Beatrice gently took Remington by the hand, and the two elderly figures shuffled back to their room, their movements slow and unsteady.

Alaric watched his grandparents leave, his heart heavy with worry. He had been on the verge of calling out to them. They were his and Hertha’s last hope.

If they gave up, then all hope would indeed be lost.

“Grand…” Alaric began, but before he could finish, Angelina’s hand clamped over his mouth, muffling his words.

Remington and Beatrice, advanced in their years and hard of hearing, didn’t catch Alaric’s muffled call..

Frustrated, Alaric shoved Angelina’s hand away and burst out, “Mom, why do you always have to be against me?”

in her heart. “You ungrateful boy,” she lamented. “You’re my only son. Everything I

do you keep picking on me?” Alaric frowned, his voice rising as

never felt this distressed over a woman before..

to be serious, and yet

her soul into planning for her son’s future, and it had all been

you something,” she said, her voice heavy with emotion. “Everyone else can criticize me, say I’m meddling. Your grandparents can even accuse me of trying to cozy

welled up in Angelina’s eyes as she looked at her son, her voice firm yet

his mother in such distress, looked away,

then continued, “You have no idea how many people in the company are backing your cousin Jeremiah Falconer. He’s about to marry the Suttner heiress. He has the support of the company veterans with a major family backing him. The Falconer Group is practically in his hands already. And you? Look at yourself! You’ve wasted

from the Falconer family and left penniless once Jeremiah takes over the

voice was low but

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