Chapter 180

Ashton glanced at me and said, “Alright, but do be careful.”

Seeing this, Sally smiled at me with gratitude in her eyes. If Ashton were unwilling to discuss the Fullers, I couldn’t just interject on her behalf. As such, this was a private matter within the family. A person as elegant or composed as Sally would definitely not want me around to witness her impending faux-pas.

I decided to take a stroll, marveling at the size of the yard. I followed a cobblestone path and soon found a shady place to sit in silence and observe my surroundings.

However, Marcus’s arrival immediately shattered the silence that I had been enjoying

A tall and slender figure loomed over me with a condescending look in his eyes.

For the sake of maintaining decorum, I got up and greeted him with a smile.

He furrowed his brows again, still clutching the book he was reading earlier. His gazę fell onto my swollen belly before asking, “A Fuller child?”

I was a little taken aback by how abruptly he had asked about the child in my belly. I paused to collect my thoughts before nodding at him. “Well, I’m Scarlett. Nice to meet you.”

He nodded and didn’t say much, but there was no mistaking the hostility beneath his lowered gaze.

he was so hostile towards me, seeing as

simply grunted a response at me and

we had lunch, it was

present at the table. Apart from Sally, Ashton, and myself, there were

also seemed to be surprisingly warm and

like Benjamin and Sally to appear together in public as husband and wife, I’m assuming they were prone to gossip. After all, the visual image they both conjured was startling. Benjamin looked much older than the more youthful

instantly vanished the moment a woman named

a fight. Her eyes were full of tears, her voice hoarse, but that did not stop her. “Listen here, Benjamin White. I can ignore your dalliances with your mistress and still put up with you being with her, but this is going too far. Why did you will the company to this woman instead of your flesh and blood? Yes, have you forgotten about him? Our son? Are

what have you done? I know that I haven’t been able to compete with you for the last ten years! You’ve already ruined my marriage and

son?”

She turned took at Benjamin with a frown and asked, “When did you will the company to

“I have not neglected our son. Marc will inherit all of my other assets, so he’ll have

was still unsatisfied with the explanation and could only see red. “This company was something we built and managed

my wife.” As he said this, his tired gaze fell on Marcus. Wearily,

with an impassive yet dangerous

to his side and tried to ease his discomfort. “I don’t want to have anything to do with the company,” said Sally, seemingly distraught. “Please stop forcing him. He’s already in

directed at both Marcus and

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