Hearing my silence, he must have assumed I was still holding onto the past. After a brief pause, he said, "HiTech remains yours. No matter what changes ahead, it will always be under your name. Focus on resting now. That's what matters for the child."
"Ashton," I called softly, my voice still rough from the fever. "About the incident when you sent Rebecca to K City… and the Fuller Corporation emergency right after. Were those things… part of your plan?"
The timing of those events had never sat right with me. They came one after another, too precise to ignore. I had turned the possibilities over in my mind more times than I could count, but the one I avoided thinking about was the most unsettling—that everything had been arranged from the start.
He looked at me, his gaze steady but firm. "Are you suggesting I used you as a shield?"
