Chapter 557

Beckett fell into silence and opened his mouth after a while. "Hmm." Initially, when he and Madeleine agreed to marriage, it wasn't due to love...he just wanted to find someone to marry and to activate his grandfather's will. Initially, the will of the old master of the Beach family was notarized. All the stocks under his name would be handed over to Beckett after he got married. Though the number of shares Beckett currently held wasn't much, they were his own, stealthily acquired when the Beach Group's stock market had problems. Through the will, he would reclaim his grandfather's shares, the rest... were the ones in Stanton's hands. And all the shares now in Stanton's hands belonged to Beckett's mother. It was Stanton who had, utilizing the sudden death of Beckett's mother and the fact that he was the first inheritor of his wife's assets, acquired them. Beckett tried to seize those shares from Stanton's hands, but it was going to be tough. Fortunately, Stanton was too cautious, and a