Jay was staring at Rose blankly. She had suddenly become obedient and pleasant. This call of 'darling' had ironed all the uncomfortable feelings in his heart and made him docile.
"Third Uncle is still a patient, so let him be." A soft smile overflowed from Rose's dark glazed eyes, laced with a bit of coquetry.
She had not looked at him with such innocence and admiration for many years.
For an instant, Jay felt like he had gone many years back when he and Angeline shared a peaceful time.
It was before none of the disasters had happened.
Jay’s iron-clad heart began to melt, and when he spoke again, the aggressiveness in his voice vanished i n thin air.
"James, for the sake of my wife’s pleading, I won't argue with you anymore."
Grand Old Master Ares and James were stunned.
They did not expect the solution that they wracked their heads for to be resolved by Rose simply calling out 'darling'.
James shut his eyes speechlessly and did not bother t o look at Jay again.
With the uncle and nephew conflict resolved for now, Jay expressed slightly his concern for his uncle. "Do tell. Why did you jump off the building?"
James was silent and speechless.
In the past few months, his mental journey, simply put, was penned with hot and bitter tears.
Jay wanted to rub salt on his wound and said deliberately, "I heard that you bought an apartment outside with the tens of billions of funds I gave you and even brought all the women and children into the apartment."
A painful expression appeared on James' face.
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