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

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

 

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

swallowed convulsively at the realization that he had let this secret out of the

Charles! Have you known about his psychological issue all this while?” she asked incredulously as she stared at

he finally sighed and confessed,

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

about it,” Charles admitted as he

you would call yourself my childhood friend when you are hiding things from me! When did you find out about Carl’s psychological issue? Tell me the

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

his legs up, effectively dodging her approaching foot. With a rueful chuckle, he responded, “Okay, okay, I’ll tell you everything! There’s no need to get

then, stop

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

Grandpa have been buying

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

sum of shares in Paradigm Co. that Leonard had 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

an archeologist and it

would save her questions for 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 in case he had made some kind of deal with

all these years to acquire the fifty-one percent share

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

at once, she felt as if she did not deserve the shares she now held in Paradigm Co. It hurt to think that she owned them and they weighed

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

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