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.

Carl and look past this incident. Withholding the truth seemed the best way to

other hand, exclaimed in

 

narrowed eyes as she accused, “What, did you already know about

convulsively at the realization that he

known about his psychological issue all this while?” she asked

to find the words before he finally sighed and confessed,

In a fit of frustration and disbelief, she kicked him. “If you knew about it, then why didn’t you say anything?” If he had done so, she would have tried to persuade Carl to seek professional help; he would be better at coping with his psychological issue

it,” Charles admitted as he resentfully rubbed the area where Sonia’s kick

yourself my childhood friend when you are hiding things from me! When did you find

averted his gaze and looked to a remote corner of the room, appearing as if he was trying

him again, but he foresaw this and quickly brought his legs up, effectively dodging her approaching foot. With

stop dawdling!” she

it for a year now. Carl and I got in touch with 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 these shares alongside Carl. I don’t know how long they both have been working together, but I’m guessing it’s been more than three years, given how I’ve only joined them

Grandpa have been buying up shares in Paradigm

his years 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 on Leonard’s end, so she was shocked that Carl had even managed to locate him

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 amount of which

that Leonard was the one who purchased these shares 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 him with the means of purchasing shares

had asked for answers, Leonard kept mum about the

all these years to

she had unknowingly received an overwhelming amount of generosity and kindness from those around her. She should have returned their favors by maintaining her pride and dignity, but she had instead spent the last six years compromising with the Fuller Family. Not to mention, she was pathetically obsessing over the idea of turning Toby into the man he had once been.

felt as if she did not deserve the shares she now held in Paradigm Co. It

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

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