There was never any destitution.
Grandma Jennings simply was unwilling to return to the Jennings Family, though she held the most shares among her children.
And this, Grandma Sterling wasn't sure why.
As for the Chapman Family, it was all a muddle of accounts that couldn't be untangled.
Sierra Summers learned from Grandma Sterling that the affairs of Joanna Jennings and Shane Chapman were widely talked about not just in Alvista, but even in Beldon, throughout the elite circles of the time.
Back then, the Chapman Family suddenly declined at the height of its glory, and Shane Chapman turned from a hot marriage prospect into someone everyone could trample.
Originally, the Jennings Family and the Chapman Family were two notable families that had nothing to do with each other.
Even at the peak of the Chapman Family's prosperity, the Jennings Family was not inferior in any way.
The two families were merely on nodding terms.
Shane Chapman and Joanna Jennings had no interactions.
