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Jamie studied him. "Then why Lesley, of all people?""My guess," Thomas said, "is that even if that thirty percent came back to you, you wouldn't stay on at the Walton Group. You'd probably scatter those shares out to other hands. "But who those shares end up with in the end isn't something either of us can control. If the next head of the family happens to hold a grudge against you, Sharon might get dragged into it too. She'll never take over the Waltons herself, but I don't want whoever ends up running the family to become her enemy and cause her trouble down the line. "Lesley, on the other hand, has no deep quarrel with us, and he has a child with Wendy. Given how close Wendy and Sharon are, she'd never let Lesley do anything to hurt Sharon. Compared to anyone else who might end up in charge, Lesley's the easiest one to keep in check. "You two have bad blood, sure, but once you're gone from the company for good, as long as you two don't keep crossing paths, you can at least s

Marina's pupils shrank as she rushed forward to check on Little Tabby. But the cat had already stopped breathing where she'd landed in the puddle, her heart still.Marina's eyes turned red with grief. She came by the café often to feed the cats and had gotten to know Little Tabby well—the cat really had been sharper than any of the other resident pets. Marina had grown fond of her. Seeing her die right in front of her was devastating.Just then, an ordinary-looking middle-aged man climbed out of the car that had hit her. He looked stricken with guilt over having killed the cat."I'm so sorry," the driver said with a sigh. "Visibility was terrible in this rain, and the cat darted out of nowhere—I didn't react in time and couldn't brake. I hit it, so I'll take responsibility and cover whatever compensation is fair."Marina looked up to see Jamie already crouched beside Little Tabby. The rain was falling harder now. Jamie lifted the cat's drenched, lifeless body into his arms.Marina

"Why did you decide to have the daughter inherit the Kalens and the son inherit the Ferreros?" Wendy asked, curious."Thomas says the Ferrero family is more complicated and dangerous than the Kalens," Sharon said. "Harper's a girl, so it's not really suited to her, getting caught up in all that fighting and killing. Grayson's a boy—he can shoulder more of it.""Trust Thomas to think it all through so carefully," Wendy said with a sigh.There was something a little off in the Ferrero bloodline, and given how much Grayson already resembled Thomas, he might well have inherited more of it than just his looks. That resemblance would also make it easier for him to move through the Ferrero family with less friction. When the Ferreros turned on each other, their methods were never pretty—Harper, as a girl, really wasn't suited to taking that family on."Thomas is already starting to favor Harper over Grayson," Marina said. "What's it going to be like once he really gets going? His heart's

"Why's that?" Sharon asked.Marina smiled. "Three years ago, Lex went up against you again and again over Victoria. As long as he held power, he was always going to be a threat to you. But even if Lex really does go down for good, there's no telling whether the next head of the Malcolm family might get jealous of all the resources and backing Uriah's given you. "Human nature never holds up under real scrutiny, after all. There are no eternal friends in this world—only eternal interests. Taking Lex down would just be settling a score. It treats the symptom, not the root cause."If you actually want to sleep easy going forward, you can't just stop at stripping Lex of the family headship. Sure, it'd be easy enough to prop up a different Malcolm as the new head. But people's hearts are hard to read—who'd want to spend their whole life being pulled around by someone else's strings? "When they have no power of their own, they naturally lean on Thomas's help. Right after taking over a

Learning that Little Tabby had died left Sharon genuinely sad. Hearing Wendy's suggestion, she shook her head gently."Even if I sent Jamie another cat, it wouldn't be the same one anymore.""Whether it's the same cat or not isn't the point," Wendy said. "It's enough that it comes from you.""A cat's like a person," Sharon said. "Irreplaceable."Somehow, that thought made Wendy suddenly think of Lesley. She and Lesley had known each other for a fair stretch of time—back when she'd worked as a maid in the Walton household, and later, through all their chatting online. But her feelings for him had never grown out of anything—they'd been carved bone-deep from the very start. That was exactly why she couldn't move past them, couldn't forget him no matter what. It turned out the hardest thing to let go of wasn't deep affection—it was a tangle of love and resentment both at once. Wendy drifted off for a moment, lost in thought.As they talked, the servant led Johanna into the receivin