Mila Anderson was distinctly cold toward her own son. He had once harbored resentment against Mila, but now he would rather return to Mila's world than set foot in the world of his birth mother, Pheobe Rogers.
How could Pheobe's heart not ache with anger and pain?
Glades Horne had adopted a very subtle method of appeasement. This ensured James Horne wouldn't attempt to take over Valence Group and wouldn't obey Pheobe Rogers, thereby using James to embarrass Pheobe. Although James sometimes still helped Pheobe—she was his birth mother, after all—whenever matters involved Glades, James always sided with Glades. In this covert battle of attrition, Glades naturally emerged victorious.
