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.

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

exclaimed in surprise, “Y-You noticed Carl’s psychological

 

appraised him with narrowed eyes as she accused, “What, did you

he had let this secret

known about his psychological issue all this

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

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

shut about it,” Charles admitted as he resentfully rubbed the area where Sonia’s kick had landed moments

can’t believe you would call yourself my childhood friend when you are hiding things from me!

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

in annoyance and made to kick him again, but he foresaw this and quickly brought his legs up, effectively dodging her

stop

off all his shares in Paradigm Co., but your grandfather had been secretly buying up these shares alongside Carl.

and Grandpa have been buying up shares

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

presented Sonia with. She was well aware that her stepmother and sister had sold off these shares, and casting her own astonishment aside, Sonia’s curiosity was provoked after seeing the large number of

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

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

Carl and Charles were collaborating with each other all

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 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

not deserve the shares she now held in Paradigm

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

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