Chapter 13M
With just a glance from me, my men immediately pulled Leonard away from my feet.!!
“Leonard, I told you just a moment ago. You’d lose everything if you divorced me.“W
“They’ll lose their jobs too.“}]
“But you didn’t listen. So tell me, what am I supposed to do now?”
“And if you made a mistake, why should that have anything to do with me?“}
Leonard had already started sobbing.
The fear of losing everything he had, the terror of watching the entire Stanford Family collapse because of his stupidity, gripped him.
He cried so bitterly, begging me over and over again.N
At last, the employees in the company began to grasp the gravity of the situation. Now, the entire conference room was filled with desperate wails.
Still, none of it had anything to do with me anymore.
After two years of marriage, I was finally free.
Honestly, I had understood what marriage was from a very young age.}
If two people could work together, they would make it through.
If not, they would part ways. That was just life.N
A true lover like my father who spent his entire life loving my mother…}
I would probably never meet someone like that in my lifetime.}
Well, it was precisely because I had witnessed the weight of true love that I had no desire to lose myself in the chaos of emotions. So, when the Stanford Family proposed marriage, I accepted it without hesitation.”
However, in the two years I spent as Leonard’s wife… He was never truly a husband, I was never truly a wife, and our so–called home never felt like one.>
Divorce, in the end, felt more like liberation.
After leaving the Stanford Family, I did not linger. I returned to Metropolia without a moment’s delay.}
When my father learned of everything that had happened, his fury was uncontrollable. The first to bear the brunt of his wrath was the Winslow Family of Lumeport.
I heard that my father’s retaliation cost them billions of dollars.
Morgan was forced to publish an official statement in the newspapers, severing all ties with Quincy.”
Yet, out of consideration for the Winslow Family’s long–standing loyalty to us, my father ultimately showed some leniency and allowed them to survive.
However, the Stanford Family… was different.”
They were the ones who first broke their promises. They were the ones who trampled on my dignity.}
With the prenuptial agreement he had signed with Nelson, my father reclaimed every last bit of Stanford Family property. When Nelson saw the divorce settlement, the shock was too much. He suffered a stroke on the spot and barely survived. As for Leonard, he lost everything he had. His downfall was irreversible.
I heard that, in a desperate plea for my father’s forgiveness, he knelt outside the gates of my old home for an entire month. His knees were bent in submission, but it was futile.
My father was a man who never forgot a grudge. If someone offended him, they might still be able to plead for mercy. But if someone bold enough to offend me, he would never forgive them.}]
Rumors spread that Leonard was now crippled and had been seen among a group of vagrants.
Others claimed to have spotted Quincy and Anne in dimly lit bars, selling drinks while letting themselves being harassed.
Well, whatever fate befell them, it no longer had anything to do with me.”
Because at this moment, I was in the San Del Mar, fishing under the warm sun, completely at peace.}
(The End)
