Chapter 298

The woman's face was a copy-paste of every generic social media influencer, as if stamped from the same mold as countless online beauties.

Liam studied the man's face, which tugged at a memory he could not quite place. After racking his brain to no avail, he furrowed his brow and asked, "Who are you?"

The man's grin was all show, the kind that could turn into a backstab at the drop of a hat. He sidled up to Liam, saying, "Yo! Mr. Cole, you've got a short memory for old acquaintances, huh? What happened, did your family hit rock bottom, and now you've forgotten me?"

Then, leaning in closer, just a couple of steps away, he pointed to his own face and cried out with feigned shock, "It's me! Jaxton! The Shaw family's golden boy, your old sidekick!"

Jaxton Shaw's grin was all show; his eyes sparkled with contempt, and his smirk was dripping with irony.

"Mr. Shaw, who's this? Look at that raggedy get-up! How on earth were you ever his sidekick?"

The social media starlet at Jaxton's sid