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.

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

 

as she

realization that he had let this secret out

this while?” she asked incredulously as

and confessed, “Okay, fine. I’ve known about

done so, she would have tried to persuade Carl to seek professional help; he would be better at

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

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

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

but he foresaw this and quickly brought his legs up, effectively dodging her approaching foot. With a rueful chuckle, he responded, “Okay,

then, stop dawdling!” she

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

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

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

astonishment aside, Sonia’s curiosity was provoked after seeing the large number of shares

an archeologist and it wasn’t a well-paid career, at least not well enough to provide him with

the next meeting with her grandfather. However, when the meeting came around and she had asked for answers, Leonard kept mum about the truth. Nevertheless, she would rather have a clear explanation on this, just

Carl and Charles were collaborating with each other all these years to

six years compromising with the Fuller Family. Not to mention, she was pathetically obsessing over the idea of turning Toby into the

the shares she now held in Paradigm Co. It hurt

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

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