Chapter 967 – Beginning with a Daring Encounter

“Why not?”

“This will cause more problems between Desmond and I,” Lawrence complained.

“I believe you will find a way to resolve it. You can either tell them or I will.”

“Benne promised that he would keep it to himself and won’t tell,” Lawrence pointed out.

“Thankfully, I’m not Benne, and I don’t remember making such a promise to you.”

“I’m an old man and…”

“And you should have remembered that before playing such an expensive prank,” Celsie cut in, and Lawrence took a deep breath.

He had not expected Celsie to be so tough. He had thought reasoning with her would be easier than it had been with Benne, especially since Kimberly had told him Celsie had forgiven her easily.

Who knew she could be so tough?

“Alright. I will tell them I was behind it,” Lawrence said with a defeated sigh.

“Can I trust that this would end here and you won’t interfere in our relationship anymore? I respect you a lot, but I won’t tolerate any more interference,” Celsie said firmly.

“I won’t,” he promised before hanging up.

Celsie sighed as she returned to her desk. She knew she had been sort of harsh, but that couldn’t be helped.

She needed to start drawing the lines and putting people in their rightful places so that everyone would know they were not allowed to interfere in her relationship with Benne anymore.

“Are you not going out today?” Aaron asked as he eyed Candace curiously, wondering if she had no plans for visiting Matt as she had been doing consistently since Matt brought her home the other day.

“Is there somewhere you want me to go?” Candace asked with a slightly raised brow as she turned her attention from the movie they were seeing to meet his gaze.

“You’ve been going out a lot lately. I just thought you’d do the same today,” he said with a sweet smile.

“No, I’m not going anywhere. I want to stay indoors with you,” Candace said, choosing not to indulge her father since she knew what he was driving at.

“You can go out if you want to. You don’t need to keep me company,” he assured her.

“Why don’t we return to Sogal by weekend?” Candace asked, changing the subject.

“You read my mind. I was going to suggest that myself. I think I’ve had my fill of Serenopolis and I’m ready to get back to work. I can’t wait to show you and Jamal around the company,” Aaron said with a happy smile just as Jamal joined them.

“Is your company as big as Benne’s company?” Jamal asked curiously as he handed his book to his mother for her to check his spellings.

“Benne’s company is that big because he deals in a lot of businesses. But my company specializes in photography…”

“I guess it’s not as big as Benne’s then,” Jamal said thoughtfully, cutting Aaron off.

“Jamal! That was rude!” Candace scolded while Aaron chuckled.

“I’m sorry, grandpa,” Jamal said with his head hung in shame.

“That’s alright. If you want it to be as big as Benne’s some day then you will have to run it when you grow up and make it that way. Can you do that?” Aaron asked with interest.

“Uncle Harry and Benne can help me do it,” Jamal said confidently, and Aaron laughed again.

“I can’t wait to teach you all about Jamal,” Aaron said as he looked at his grandson with a proud smile.

“Don’t worry grandpa. I will make it really big,” Jamal promised.

Seeing how much Jamal admired Benne and wanted to be like him, he had no doubt that Jamal had all it would take to expand HAJ studios into an even bigger company in the future.

He had never been interested in doing more than photography himself. He was content leaving it as it was, but didn’t mind if Jamal would have other plans for it.

Aaron watched as Candace corrected Jamal’s spelling errors and gave him another assignment to go do in the bedroom so he wouldn’t be distracted by the television.

They’ve been doing their best to homeschool him so he would be able to catch up easily when he returns to school.

“Don’t you want to date again?” Candace suddenly asked, startling Aaron who frowned.

“What?” Aaron asked as he wondered where the question had come from.

“From what I’ve heard from Harry he has never seen you with any lady or heard of you having a relationship. Why?” Candace asked, and Aaron shook his head.

“Because I don’t want to,” Aaron said, and Candace raised a brow.

“Because you got married to a bitch and she hurt your feelings?” Candace asked flatly.

“You shouldn’t talk about your mother that way,” Aaron said with a shake of his head.

“You can choose not to see her in that light, but you can’t tell me how to see her or how to talk about her,” Candace said, annoyed that even now Aaron was defending Sara.

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