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Chapter 8
Everyone, family, and friends were celebrating his return. Ernest Bestman thought quietly as he watched his wife with her co-worker's chat at a corner.
He recalled how he met Olivia, he was still struggling as a young politician, and she was a single lady with no family, working at the embassy. They weren't the best of collabo as friends advised but they tried hard to keep the relationship alive with so much hard work and sacrifices which brought them here today. He smiled.
But whenever the thoughts of his son Jason filtered in, Ernest would feel weary.
Jason was given everything his parents could afford and as the saying applied, much was expected of him.Ernest was disappointed, his wife wasn't helpful too, she overindulged Jason who cared about nothing and no one except himself.
He understood his wife Olivia grew up an orphan and wanted her child to have the life she didn't.Ernest didn't sha
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