FAZER LOGINRayne refused to accept that. It seemed the time had come to play her trump card.She stood before the floor-to-ceiling window, her lashes fluttering as she pulled out her phone and dialed a number.The call connected almost immediately.A man's deep, rough voice came through, tinged with coarseness. "Well, well, sweetheart. This is a surprise. You're actually calling me on your own for once?"Rayne suppressed the darkness churning inside her and kept her voice steady. "How's my son doing? Is he settling in all right over there?"The man burst into rough laughter. "He's doing great! I've got three nannies looking after him. He's getting the best formula money can buy, along with top-of-the-line toys and clothes from the best brands!"Rayne, I never expected your belly to come through for me like that and give me such a big, healthy boy! Whatever you need from me, just say the word. I'll pull the stars down from the sky for you."The man on the other end of the line was Kyler Sul
Gideon froze for a beat, then shoved the woman away hard.It was Rayne. She lifted her head and looked at him, her eyes brimming with tears.Just as Gideon was about to snap at her, she thrust both arms out in front of him, revealing bruises of every size scattered across them.Whatever fury had risen in Gideon's chest lodged in his throat. When he finally spoke, his voice came out dry and hoarse. "How did this happen?"Rayne choked back a sob, accusation thick in her voice. "Lucille deliberately brought in a gang of women who'd just turned 18 and had them torture Michelle and me like this!"Gideon's first instinct was disbelief. "That's impossible. Lucille wouldn't go that far."Rayne's tears spilled over, her eyes filled with wounded grief. "Even now, you're still defending her! Those women admitted it themselves. Lucille was the one who paid them to come in and humiliate us!"Giddy! Please, just divorce Lucille already! If this keeps up, she's going to be the death of every o
"I'll transfer full ownership of Blossom Court into Lily's name. Separately, I'll transfer 1% of my personal shares to her as well. I'll have my lawyer draw up the paperwork and transfer both the equity and the property to you."But when the police arrive, you need to tell them we've decided to settle this privately. You also need to guarantee that you'll never use this incident to threaten my mother again or involve the media," Gideon declared.In the end, Gideon could not bring himself to strip his mother of the only shares she owned, so he reluctantly agreed to part with 1% of his own instead.The shares and assets would eventually belong to his daughter anyway. Transferring them into Lily's name now would cost him nothing in the long run."Deal." Lucille felt no triumph at his answer, only deep exhaustion and hollow indifference. "Gideon, there's security footage from the restaurant entrance. I'll be keeping a copy as evidence. I hope you don't try anything clever. By now, you
By now, Lucille had run entirely out of emotion. Whatever fury or hatred she had once carried had gradually faded into calm with the passage of time.Rather than send Elaine to prison for a few days, only for her family to bail her out again, Lucille preferred a different approach. She wanted to hurt them where it would truly sting and make them genuinely suffer.Didn't this family value money and self-interest above everything else? Ever since Lily was born, hadn't they refused to spend a single cent on her, stingy to the bone?Then Lucille would go straight for what they cared about most. She would hit them where it hurt the worst.Since the Prescott family refused to bend on matters of principle, she would fight by every means available to claw as much as she could from their hands, both for herself and for Lily.The moment the words left Lucille's mouth, not only Gideon but every Prescott present went pale.Elaine was the most frantic of all. She practically jumped in place.
"What my mother just did was wrong. I apologize to you and Lily on her behalf. Will you forgive her?"With that, Gideon bowed sincerely to Lucille in front of everyone.In his heart, his mother would always be family, while Lily would forever remain nothing more than an outsider, someone whose fate barely registered with him.The moment something went wrong, his first instinct had not been to worry about Lily's safety or condemn what Elaine had done. Instead, he had feared that his mother might face consequences for her actions and rushed to shoulder the blame, apologizing on her behalf.His reaction did not surprise Lucille in the slightest. She slowly lifted her eyes and regarded Gideon with unmistakable scorn. "So, Gideon, in your heart, your mother, your entire family, will always matter more than Lily's life. Is that right?"Gideon froze for a moment. "That's not what I meant. It's just that Lily's safe now. No real harm was done, and I only hoped you could forg—"Before Luc
"Lucille, I... I was careless for a moment. I didn't mean to do it. Please forgive me. I'm begging you, forgive me... I really don't want to go back in there..." Elaine pleaded desperately from the ground, her face etched with sheer terror.The word "murder," uttered by the bystander moments ago, had wiped her mind completely blank. She had no idea what had possessed her or how she had lost control so completely that she could do something so unthinkable.Now, regret twisted her insides so sharply that she felt sick.Lucille remained where she was and looked coldly down at Elaine as she groveled at her feet. Even now, Lucille was shaken to her core.If Otto hadn't thrown himself into traffic without a second thought and caught the stroller just in time, the outcome did not bear thinking about.And yet the woman before her had been so vicious that she was willing to do something so brutal to her own granddaughter.What kind of cruelty was that? What kind of malice?Before Lucille
Inside the banquet hall, Lucille kept her eyes fixed on Gideon.He looked flushed and in high spirits as he moved from table to table with Rayne, raising his glass and offering toasts. "My buddy Otto is overseas right now on a confidential infrastructure project. He won't be back for a year, so I'l
Holding her swaddled daughter, Lucille Sandwell kept her voice steady, though a hint of hope slipped through. "Gideon, today is our daughter's one-month milestone. Can you come pick us up?"On the other end, Gideon Prescott's voice remained even and unreadable. "Something came up. I'll have the driv
The moment Gideon opened his mouth, Lucille felt her heart drop straight into hell. "Gwen, stop trying to stir things up. Lucy is baby Connor's aunt. We're all family. If she can help, she should. There's extra milk anyway."'Baby Connor. He said the name with such easy intimacy, as if the boy were
After the examination, Lucille remained asleep.The doctor stood in the hospital room and explained her condition to Gwen. "The patient's body is severely depleted after childbirth. She has already suffered a major hemorrhage and undergone emergency treatment, so she is highly prone to hypoglycemia







