The Ex and Her Riches

Gwendolyn arched a brow. Her tone was playful as she asked, “Can you really assuage my anger?”

Cedrick rubbed her soft cheeks and righteously declared, “I can be quite effective. In fact, I’m probably more effective than most expensive medicine. If you don’t believe me, you can check it out yourself.”

He leaned over and planted a kiss on her red lips.

As they continued to kiss, they made their way up the stairs.

When Zoey came downstairs and accidentally witnessed the romantic scene before her, she quickly turned around and left.

Nope, I didn’t see anything at all! I should give them their privacy.

The embarrassing sounds were muffled as the door to the bedroom was shut.

When night fell, Gwendolyn finally received a phone call from Treyton.

Although she answered the call, she refused to speak first.

After a few seconds of heavy silence, Treyton finally said, “Kiddo, I’m sorry. I was wrong.”

As Treyton had not had anything to eat for the entire day, his voice sounded somewhat feeble.

Gwendolyn’s tone was light as she asked, “Have you thought it through?”

Treyton sounded sincere as he replied, “Yeah. I was too rash. Since the engagement was announced in public, I’m afraid it’s a foregone conclusion. Even if we gave away twenty percent of the company’s shares, Craig wouldn’t relent.”

Gwendolyn sighed in relief. “It’s good that you’ve thought it through. So, since you’ve been thinking about it for a day and night, do you have any suggestions?”

“We should try to meet up with Jennifer first and discover the reason she agreed to the engagement in public. If she’s truly changed her mind, I will not interfere. However, if Craig had done something to her, I will do everything in my power to take her away.”

Gwendolyn sighed again. He’s got the first part right, but the rest of his thoughts are still too rash.

you planning to elope

enforcement himself. He would be able

silent at

hard time controlling his rationality when it came to matters related to

he found out that Craig actually did something to Jennifer and hurt

from both ends of the line as they fell

I’ll get the Federal Bureau of Investigation to pull their people

“Okay.”

hour later, Treyton arrived and knocked

had also arrived. The five of them sat on the couch and

the living room soon plunged into a long silence as

some time, Summer

of the Newton family. Even if she is being held against her will by Craig, or even if she’s being threatened, it’s difficult for us to meddle with the Newton family’s affairs as long as he can come up with a plausible reason for his actions. We can’t

that Jennifer is sick and cannot leave the residence. She hasn’t been

again plunged into

can’t involve myself in the Newton family’s matters, I can come

Cedrick to pull strings at the Federal Bureau of

“If we use an excuse to barge in, we may end up in an impasse with Craig. That can be our last resort. I will head to the Newton residence tomorrow morning and try a gentle

nodded in agreement to the

reckon Craig will not let the matter go. Moreover, the exorbitant engagement gift that the Abbot family gave to the

at Gwendolyn admiringly. “Does that mean you have

smiled slightly. “If we can’t tackle the matter from Craig’s side, we’ll just have to approach Remus and the

Everyone’s eyes brightened.

arm around her slender waist and praised

Cedrick’s show of affection, the three others did not react to his

spent so much money to get himself engaged

is doing quite well. Perhaps we can use this angle. I recall someone having a lot of shares in

the entire time, immediately

talking