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.

the Newton family. Are you planning to elope with her? Craig will definitely send

worked with law enforcement himself. He would be able to mobilize

silent

controlling his rationality when it

out that Craig actually did something to Jennifer and hurt her, he

permeated from both ends of the line as they fell

Gwendolyn spoke first. “It’s not ideal to discuss this over the phone. I’ll get the Federal Bureau of

“Okay.”

arrived and knocked on

arrived. The five of them sat on the couch

soon plunged into a long silence as

some time, Summer

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 whisk Jennifer

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

again plunged into a deathly

Newton family’s matters, I can come up with a suitable excuse to get Nico to search the Newton residence.

they could get Cedrick to pull strings at the Federal Bureau of Investigation, things

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 approach. If it’s truly impossible, we’ll do it the

nodded in agreement

gift that the Abbot family gave to the Newton family will have to be given back untouched. Since Craig cares about profits, it will be impossible to expect that he

stared at Gwendolyn admiringly. “Does that

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

Everyone’s eyes brightened.

arm around her slender waist

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

much money to get

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

the entire time, immediately understood what she

talking about