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Chapter 20

Author: Deer Woods
Several seconds passed before Gideon found his voice. The calm had left it entirely. "No. My daughter is not taking your surname."

Lucille let out a short, humorless laugh. The storm inside her had gone quiet, leaving something flat and clear behind.

"Oh, so you do remember she's your daughter. How many times have you held Rayne's son? A hundred? More? And Lily, from the day she was born until now, has seen her father exactly once. Is she something shameful? Some child who doesn't deserve a fa
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    Rayne looked at Wendy with gleaming eyes.Elaine and Wendy returned the look. The two women were intoxicated by their own cruelty.Wendy uncrossed her arms and walked toward Lucille with the calm ease of someone who had never faced consequences in her life. "Your mother acted so high and mighty before your father's collapse. The Drake heiress behaved like the rest of us weren't worth her time."But then the Drake family fell apart. Your father went bankrupt. He took your aunt and your brother and fled overseas with whatever money remained. By the time your mother learned what he had done, there was nothing left to recover."Lucille listened without blinking. Her hand never stopped moving. One slap after another, deliberate and controlled, struck hard against her own face."Your family owed all of us money. Tens of millions altogether. Of course we came to collect. What did you expect?"Eventually, your mother came to us. She said the debt collectors were terrifying the two of you

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    Elaine pulled out her phone without hesitation. She had kept the video for years. Whenever Lucille made her blood boil, she watched it, and each viewing brought the same sharp satisfaction while deepening the hatred a little more.She shoved the screen in front of Lucille's face. The footage was old and grainy.A group of expensively dressed women surrounded a lone figure, boxing her in from every side as they mocked and struck her without restraint.The woman on the ground never fought back. Her clothes had been ripped apart. She just kept begging repeatedly.Lucille pressed a hand against her chest. Then one of the women grabbed the kneeling figure by the hair and jerked her head up.Every rational thought in Lucille's mind went dark. She lunged for Elaine's phone, smashed it against the ground, and went straight for Elaine's face.That was her mother. She had been reduced to that by a mob of women who called themselves ladies.Two bodyguards slammed into Joanne from behind be

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    Elaine looked at Lucille with undisguised contempt. "Calling for backup? You're a little late for that."Lucille ended the call and looked back at her coldly. "I'm not calling for backup. I already said it. Whatever happens here, I'll face it alone. I'm not dragging anyone else into this."Wendy let out a mocking laugh. "Big talk. Joanne was just like you. Full of herself too. And look how that ended."Lucille's fingers curled tightly at her side. When she spoke, her voice was flat. "So what exactly did you people do to my mother?"Rayne had already heard the entire story from Wendy. She glanced around the terrace. Their people surrounded them, and there were no witnesses.She dropped the helpless-girl act without hesitation, her smile turning cold. "Oh, it's quite a story, Lucille. Want to hear it? Get on your knees and beg three times, and we'll tell you everything. Ladies, what do you think?"Wendy folded her arms. "Three times isn't nearly enough. After everything she's cost

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    Lucille's entire body went rigid as she turned.Elaine's finger was still pointed outward. The "filth" she had been talking about was Lucille.Melissa went pale, then sickly green, and looked seconds away from collapsing from sheer rage. "You've got some nerve, Elaine. Calling your own son's wife filth. Joanne built her business with her own two hands and repaid every cent of that debt herself."What have you ever done? You're a parasite. You've lived off that family your entire life. And do you really think your actions stayed buried? Keep pushing me, and I'll drag every one of your secrets into the open."Melissa had spent decades practicing law. She didn't need profanity to cut deep.Elaine's face stiffened. She raised a hand, her long nails aimed straight at Melissa's face.Lucille caught her wrist before the blow could land. Something in Lucille's eyes sent a chill through Elaine."You want a scene? Fine. Settle it with me directly. Leave everyone else out of it." Lucille t

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    That was the day Lucille learned what it felt like to want someone.Gideon's maturity and intelligence, as well as the quiet force he carried, struck her all at once. She could not pull herself back from it.When the interview ended, he handed her his card and ruffled her hair with easy, affection

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