Destined Entwining: Capturing My Devoted Beau

Chapter 1018: Chapter 481: The Abacus Rings Loud

Autumn Stetford frowned, ”Aiden, what do you mean? Nathan and Ryan are boys, how can they be raised the same as girls?”

Aiden Sheldon was momentarily speechless.

After all, he spoiled Ruby Sheldon even more than Autumn Stetford...

He turned his gaze to a patch of emerald-green grass not far away and the various flowerbeds surrounding the mansion, saying mildly, ”Really? Even if there are differences between boys and girls, at the very least, they shouldn’t be cruel.”

”Cruel?! Are you talking about me?!” Autumn Stetford was utterly incensed by this word, clenching her fists, nearly trembling all over, ”I’ve worked so hard raising your daughter for you! I’ve given up everything, going everywhere to find doctors and medicine for her! Who was all that for?!”

”Aiden Sheldon, you’re heartless!” Autumn Stetford’s eyes were red.

Aiden Sheldon was taken aback, ”Wasn’t it you who said you couldn’t stand to see the child suffer... wasn’t it you who volunteered to personally take care of her? Have all these years been reluctant for you? Do you not truly love Betty, but rather... rather... just for my sake?”

”For your sake?” Autumn Stetford took a deep breath, glaring at Aiden Sheldon, ”I, Autumn Stetford, won’t do anything just for anyone’s sake! I willingly had children for you because I love you! Not because I love them!”

She wished she could strangle this heartless man!

At the same time, she hated herself for loving him so hopelessly...

Aiden Sheldon smiled mildly, ”Really? You had children for me because you love me? Fine, I say now, donate all the Sheldon Family’s assets, leaving Nathan and Ryan nothing, would you agree?”

”You’re insane!” Autumn Stetford firmly opposed, ”The Sheldon Family’s assets are Nathan and Ryan’s! How can you donate them away?!”

”Didn’t you say you had children for me out of love? Can’t you give up all the Sheldon Family assets out of love for me?” Aiden Sheldon took a cigarette from his pocket, shielding it with his palm as he lit it, exhaling a gentle puff of white smoke.

His face was partially obscured behind the rising white smoke, appearing somewhat blurred and distant.

Autumn Stetford’s lips trembled as she looked at Aiden Sheldon’s refined yet immensely commanding visage behind the smoke, still strikingly charismatic even though he was over fifty.

He was mindful of fitness and skilled in combat, having lived a life of privilege and care, seeming barely over thirty.

Autumn Stetford instinctively touched her own face; she had undergone cosmetic treatments and minor adjustments last year, barely keeping up the appearance of being around forty, still retaining some charm.

She looked ten years older than Aiden Sheldon...

Yet they were the same age.

Women show age more readily, especially women who worry a lot.

Autumn Stetford closed her eyes briefly, pushing down the newly stirred anger, softly saying, ”Alright, let’s not be rash with our words. I’ll talk to Betty and ask her not to be so abrasive. But the young girl has yet to face any setbacks, and it’s no surprise she’s exhibiting these behaviors upon falling in love for the first time.”

”When I was her age, I had already married you and given birth to Nathan. She hasn’t even had a first love yet, aren’t you anxious?”

Aiden Sheldon could sense the implication in Autumn Stetford’s words, remaining silent for a while, ”She’s fallen in love? Isn’t it just another fleeting whim?”

Because of her family background, Ruby Sheldon had various men courting her since she was fourteen.

But both Aiden Sheldon and Autumn Stetford cherished her heart and soul, never allowing those men to take their precious child, so they employed strong and high-pressure tactics.

They directly pressured those boys’ families; anyone who wanted to pursue the Sheldon Family’s little Princess had to first endure the ”pressure test” from the Sheldon couple.

The Sheldon Family topped the national wealth rankings twenty years ago, what family in business could rival them domestically?

Quickly, one after another faltered under the ”pressure test,” whether genuine or fake, those boys were eliminated by them.

Even those girls who wanted to be friends with Ruby Sheldon were quietly driven away by Autumn Stetford on the grounds of their ”bad intentions.”

So in Aiden Sheldon’s view, Ruby Sheldon was still an indecisive, well-behaved child.

Whether it was a girlfriend or boyfriend, it was a fleeting game to her.

He believed Ruby Sheldon probably wouldn’t truly mature until twenty-five.

Now, Autumn Stetford actually tells him, Ruby Sheldon ”fell in love”...

Autumn Stetford scoffed, ”Aiden, even though you are her biological father, you really don’t understand girls. When girls fall in love, it’s unmistakable...”