A Woman Worth Billions Dated the Wrong Brother novel Chapter 434

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Amber POV

It didn’t make any sense.

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The president of Sumn was the same man who had supposedly found me all those years ago. According to my grandfather, he had discovered me when I was a little girl, alone and unable to remember where I came from, and had helped make sure I was returned safely to my family. I had no memory of his face from that day, no memory of his voice, and no memory of the place where he had supposedly found me. Everything I knew about that part of my childhood had come from the people who had been there.

And one of those people had been the president of Sum.

I stared at Mr. Stait’s message again, trying to reconcile the two versions of the same man. How could someone who had supposedly helped save me as a child now be the person who had ordered Jasmine’s signal blocked?

There had to be an explanation.

At least, that was what I wanted to believe.

I decided to speak to my grandfather before I made any conclusions. I called him and waited until he answered, then went straight to the point.

“Grandpa, I need to ask you something about the president of Sum.”

His voice immediately became more serious. “What about him?”

“Mr. Stait discovered that he ordered the signal Jasmine placed in the caves to be blocked.”

There was a long silence on the other end.

“Are you certain?”

“That’s what he told us.”

I took a breath before asking the question that had been bothering me since the moment I saw the message.

“You always told me that he was the person who found me when I was a child. Is that still what you believe?”

“Yes.”

“How well did you know him back then?”

My grandfather sighed. “Very well.”

“How well?”

“He wasn’t the president of Sum at the time,” he finally said.

I sat up straighter.

“What?”

“He wasn’t an important political figure when he supposedly found you. He had ambition, but very little influence outside a small circle. He was intelligent and well connected, but he wasn’t powerful.”

“Then how did he become president?”

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“With help.”

already knew the answer before he said it.

“My help.”

My grandfather didn’t deny it.

“I believed he had potential. I introduced him to people who could help him establish himself, supported some of his early initiatives, and helped open doors that would otherwise have remained closed to him. His influence grew over the years.”

I stared at the wall.

“So when he found me, he wasn’t already powerful.”

“No.”

“Then why was he there?”

My grandfather was quiet for several seconds.

“I don’t know.”

That answer bothered me more than anything else.

After we ended the call, I remained staring at my phone. Jason had entered the room sometime during the conversation, but he hadn’t interrupted me. He was standing near the window, watching me with the same quiet patience he always had when he knew I was thinking through something complicated.

Finally, he walked over.

“What did your grandfather say?”

I looked up at him.

“He wasn’t powerful when he supposedly found me.”

Jason’s expression changed immediately.

“What do you mean?”

“He wasn’t an important political figure yet. Grandpa said he had ambition, but very little influence. Grandpa actually helped him build his career.”

Jason sat down beside me.

“So your grandfather helped the man who eventually became president of Sum.’

“Yes.”

“And that same man is now the one Mr. Stait says ordered Jasmine’s signal blocked.”

I nodded.

Jason leaned back, thinking.

“That’s a problem.”

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“It’s more than a problem.”

Nooked at him.

“Jason, start thinking about every interaction we’ve had with him.”

He frowned.

“I already have.”

“No. From the beginning.”

Jason studied my face before nodding.

“Okay. The property was one of the first.”

“Exactly.”

“He told us only you could buy it.”

“At the time, I thought he was helping us understand the legal restrictions.”

“But he knew the restrictions.”

“Too much about them.”

Jason’s eyes narrowed.

“Then he helped get us out of River City.”

I nodded.

“And that was where the real investigation was happening.”

Jason became quiet.

“Which means getting us out of the city didn’t just remove us from danger.”

“It removed us from the investigation.”

“And gave whoever was behind everything more room to work.”

I felt a chill move through me.

“Exactly.”

Jason leaned forward, resting his elbows on his knees.

“Then there were the mines.”

“He gained control of them while everything was happening.”

“And he always seemed to know where we were going.”

I nodded slowly.

“That was what bothered me most. He didn’t just know what we had already done. He seemed to know what we were planning to do next.”

Jason looked at me.

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“Which means someone was giving him information.”

he was getting it himself.”

Neither of us spoke for a moment.

Then Jason’s expression hardened.

“Sum.”

I nodded.

“The political situation.”

He understood immediately.

“He used the hatred toward the Vincent family to strengthen his position.”

“Yes. Every time the Vincent name became more hated, he looked more like the man protecting Sum from them.’

Jason slowly leaned back.

“But if he was connected to the Vincent situation somehow…”

“He could benefit from both sides.”

“The Vincent family’s downfall strengthened him politically.”

“And whatever happened to us created more opportunities for him to increase his influence.”

Jason was silent.

I could see the same memories moving through his mind.

“The charities,” he finally said.

I nodded.

“The public appearances. The donations. All those times he presented himself as an ally.”

Jason’s jaw tightened.

“We thought he was building goodwill.”

“What if he was building trust with us?”

He looked at me.

“And with everyone else.”

I swallowed.

Then another piece fell into place.

“The attacks.”

Jason’s eyes darkened.

“Against you and me.”

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“The hacker attack.”

he information leaks.”

“The people who always seemed to know where we were.”

He looked toward the window.

“We’ve spent so long assuming we had too many enemies that we never stopped to ask whether one person was connecting them.”

I stared at him.

“Maybe that’s exactly what happened.”

Jason turned back to me.

“Let’s say you’re right. The property, River City, the mines, the political situation, the charities, the attacks, the hacker incident. If he was behind all of it, then he wasn’t reacting to us.”

“He was directing us.”

Jason nodded slowly.

“He kept giving us choices.”

“But they weren’t really choices.”

“Because every path he gave us led somewhere he wanted us to go.”

The realization settled between us.

I looked down at my hands.

“Then everything we’ve been calling help…”

“May have been manipulation.”

My throat tightened.

“Everything we’ve trusted him with.”

Jason reached for my hand.

“And every time we believed he was protecting us…’

“He was making sure we stayed exactly where he wanted us.”

We sat in silence for several seconds.

There was still one part that refused to fit.

“Jason.”

He looked at me.

“If he really has been behind all of this, why?”

“Power?”

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“Maybe,”