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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

in

 

she accused,

realization that he had let this secret out of the

this while?” she asked incredulously as she stared at

and confessed, “Okay,

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

asked me to keep my mouth shut about it,” Charles admitted as he resentfully rubbed

glowered at him mutinously. “I can’t believe you would call yourself my childhood friend when you are hiding

his gaze and looked to a remote corner of the room, appearing as

kick him again, but he foresaw this and quickly brought his legs up, effectively dodging her approaching foot. With a rueful chuckle, he responded, “Okay, okay, I’ll tell

then, stop

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

have been buying up shares in Paradigm Co.?” She gaped in

had brought her to see her grandfather, Leonard. Leonard was an archeologist who spent the better part of 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

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

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

all these years to acquire the fifty-one percent share in Paradigm Co. that she now

turned out, 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. She chased after him like a desperate puppy in

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

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