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Chapter 337

Chapter 337 The Source of the Shares

The moment she thought about her exchange with Carl the day before, Sonia lowered her gaze before she dismissed, “No, nothing happened at all.”

Clearly seeing through her lie, Charles raised a brow and drawled, “Really? Because from how I look at it, something definitely happened. I ran into Carl after I managed to borrow the wheelchair and boy, was I shocked by how gloomy he looked. I asked if he was okay, but he ignored me; when I returned to the ward, you looked sullen as well. I figured something must have happened between you two, but I only kept quiet about it because you looked so upset at that time.”

She chewed on her lip in reticence.

 

He pulled up a chair next to her bed. “Come on, let it all out and maybe I’ll guide you like a moral compass.”

“It’s nothing, really,” she muttered before she sat down on the chair propped up to one side of the room. “I just noticed that Carl has a psychological issue and I…”

Sonia trailed off, not wanting to talk about how Carl had been involved in the poisoning, at least not to Charles. She didn’t want him to worry and she certainly would hate it if the two men started holding grudges against each other.

While Charles hadn’t known Carl for as long as she had, the two men were still friends and she didn’t want to jeopardize their friendship by telling the truth.

this incident. Withholding the truth seemed the best way to move

other hand, exclaimed in surprise, “Y-You noticed

 

him with narrowed eyes as she accused,

he had let this

his psychological issue all this while?” she asked incredulously as she stared at him with wide

the words before he finally sighed and confessed, “Okay, fine. I’ve known

anything?” If he had done so, she

the one who asked me to keep my mouth shut about it,” Charles admitted as

at him mutinously. “I can’t believe you would call yourself my childhood friend when you are hiding things from me! When did you find out about Carl’s psychological issue?

room, appearing as if he

this and quickly brought his legs up, effectively dodging her approaching foot. With a rueful

then, stop

one another two years ago, courtesy of your grandfather. When your dad passed, your stepmother and sister sold off all his shares in Paradigm Co., but your grandfather had been secretly buying up

of you and Grandpa have been buying up shares in Paradigm Co.?”

studying and wandering through historical sites, so he hardly ever kept in touch with Sonia. In fact, she never saw him in the six years that she was married to Toby; it was always radio silence

her own astonishment aside, Sonia’s curiosity was provoked after seeing the large number of shares he had in hand. She wanted to know how he managed to acquire these shares, the

had stood valid for a while, but she quickly dismissed it. He was merely an archeologist and it wasn’t a well-paid career, at least not well enough to provide

save her questions for the next meeting with her grandfather. However, when the meeting came around and she had asked

Charles were collaborating with each other all these years to acquire the fifty-one percent share

with the Fuller Family. Not to mention, she was pathetically obsessing over the idea of turning Toby into the man he had once been. She chased after him like a desperate puppy in the hopes that they could have the happily-ever-after that she dreamed of. In retrospect, she had been a fool and even disappointed her grandfather, Charles and Carl. The guilt and shame stirred in her like

if she did not deserve the shares she now held in Paradigm Co. It hurt to think

could she have been so thick-skinned as to own them at all? She had never once done anything

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