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.

and look past this incident. Withholding the truth

other hand, exclaimed in surprise,

 

as she accused,

that he had let this secret out of

this

he finally sighed and confessed, “Okay, fine. I’ve known

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 instead of going to lengths to poison

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

you are hiding things

and looked to a remote corner of the room,

quickly brought 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 riled

stop dawdling!”

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

buying

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

Sonia’s curiosity was provoked after seeing the large number of shares he had in hand.

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

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

and Charles were collaborating with each other all these

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

in Paradigm

could she have been so thick-skinned as to own them at all?

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