Chapter 37
Chapter 37
Gloria thought no woman was worthy of her son. Chloe’s behavior made Gloria dislike her even more. She felt even inore lewd woman. A real badly wouldn’t seduce a man like that.
ore strongly that Chloe was a
She didn’t like Sophia either. She thought Sophia was only fit to be her son’s nammy. Although, Chloe was no match for Sophia in looks, temperament, or ability, she was the Stewart Family’s real daughter. In the powerful families, bloodline was the most important thing.
Gloria withdrew her disdainful gaze miul sakl faintly, “like good care of Eilon and fulfill your duties as his fancée” With that, she picked up her handbag and prepared to leave.
At that moment, Ethan’s cell phone suddenly rang. She answered and handed it to Eilun. “It’s your father”
Ethan took the call, listened for a moment, and his face suddenly turned pale. He braced himself and sat up straight. “What? How is this possible?”
Howard, Ethan’s father, sighed on the other end of the line, “Now our major partners are canceling their contracts with our company one after another, and I can’t stop them. If this continues, we’ll in big trouble,”
“Why? If they want to cancel their contracts, don’t they have a reason?” Ethan frowned, his voice growing hoarse.
Mentioning this, Howard gritted his teeth, “None! No reason at all! Even those who were close before are avoiding me like the plague!”
The Baker Group will be ruined if this continues. Someone with power is controlling Perino’s economy and making large companies avoid the Bakers A thought flashed violently through Ethan’s mind. “Could it be Tristan?” He blurted out the name gloomily.
“Tristan‘ The head of the Years Group!” Howard’s face changed drastically upon hearing this, “Why did you mention that one? You’ve offended him!”
Ethan tightened his grip on the phone and pursed his lips, not responding.
Howard, upset that the major partners were canceling their contracts, suddenly burst into a rage. He berated Ethan soundly.
In the end, he gasped for air and ground his teeth, “What kind of people have you offended? It’s not the Yeats Family. It’s the Roseente Family, the wealthiest in Virelia!”
Ethan was stunned for a few seconds. He was surprised that it wasn’t Tristan who made a move against the Baker Group, but he quickly figured it out how could a big shot like Tristan make such a big deal just for Sophia?
In the few seconds Ethan was in a daze, Gloria heard Howard’s angry tirade against her son from his cell phone, and then saw her son’s pale face. Her heart immediately broke, and she rushed over to grab the phone in a fit of rage. “Since it wasn’t the Yeats family that did this, why are you cursing your son! He just woke up. His body hasn’t even recovered. Why are you provoking him?”
Howard’s face darkened. The Roscente Family has already overwhelmed me, and then another the Yeats Family. Your son is trying to bring the entire Baker Group to an end!” After he roared these words, he hung up the phone in anger.
Gloria heard the busy signal, her heart skipped a beat, and the displeasure slowly faded from her face.
She looked at Ethan’s tightly furrowed brow and asked cautiously, “Son, when did you get involved with someone from the Roscente Family!”
“I don’t know,” Ethan replied in annoyance, a coldness radiating all around him, “I don’t know those Rosentes. How could I-?” His words suddenly stopped.
He thought of Sophia Roscente, who changed her name after leaving the Stewart family! The thought had just occurred to him. He quickly dismissed it.
“I need to see what’s going on with your father. Rest well at the hospital,” Gloria felt panicked. She walked with her handbag, looked at Chloe, and said in a commanding tone. “Take good care of Ethan. If anything happens to him, you’ll be responsible!” She walked away arrogantly.
Chloe bit her lips, lowered her head, and looked cold. She heard Howard say the major partners were stopping work with the Baker Group. It was close to bankruptcy.
y goes bankrupt, what can she do? She’d have to beg me, the daughter of the
How dare Gloria treat me with such an attitude! If the Baker Family Stewarts? That was what Chloe thought.
But the Baker family had not reached that point yet, of course, she had to wait and see. She would never allow herself to lose the wealth that surrounded her!
Chloe glanced at Ethan’s furious face, carefully wrapped her fingers around his, and asked worriedly, “Is it true what Uncle just said?”
Chapter 37
Ethan suddenly turned his head sideways and stared at Chloe for a split second, his eyes filled with emotion.
The look made Chloe’s heart pound and she unconsciously wanted to pull her hand back. Unexpectedly, Kilian backhanded her slender wrist, his grip firm. “Tell me, Chloe. Before you switched with Sophia, were you really living in the slums of Virella? Are Sophia’s relatives really poor?”
Chloe’s body stiffened, and a trace of sensitivity and panic flashed under her eyes.
Even though she was back with the Stewarts, wearing fancy clothes and jewelry and carrying a handbag she couldn’t afford even if she had fought for her entire life for the past twenty years, she still felt inferior and cowardly.
The experience of living in the slums for the past twenty years was a bad history that she could never erase in her life.
Since returning to the Stewart Family, she hadn’t wanted to talk about it at all, except at first to use the pain she had suffered over the years to stir up Griffin and Felicity’s guilt about her.
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