All Chapters of You Had This Divorce Coming: Chapter 151 - Chapter 160

Rayne watched Sven's fingers move across the phone screen. She had still been clinging to a tiny sliver of hope that this man, who had appeared out of nowhere, was nothing more than a prop Lucille had hired to bluff them.That hope vanished in less than two minutes.Gideon's phone rang. It was his company's PR team."Mr. Prescott, we've been receiving materials from several media outlets. All of it involves Ms. Rayne's scandal. Do you want us to suppress it? Each outlet's pricing is…"The voice came through the speaker clearly. Rayne heard every word.Gideon's face darkened. He looked at Lucille in disbelief, with something close to awe in his eyes.Rayne was trembling. Wendy had completely lost her composure.The two women stood frozen in place, trembling like people caught with something they should never have had. Their eyes darted frantically, and their faces shifted between shock and dread.Wendy clenched her jaw and forced herself to make the offer. "1,000,000. Lucille, 1

Meanwhile, Elaine watched Wendy open one banking app after another in front of Lucille. After checking every account she had, the total came to barely more than 200,000 dollars.Elaine was completely stunned. She immediately pulled Wendy aside, disbelief written all over her face. "What is going on? How do you only have this much money? Last month, when you asked me to invest 4,000,000 dollars in your beauty clinic, didn't you swear you received 16,000,000 dollars in dividends last year?"And what about the 1,600,000 dollars you borrowed from me last year? You said you were buying pre-IPO shares in some company and would start receiving dividends right away. Where's my money? Where did everything I lent you go?"Panic rising, Elaine repeatedly smacked Wendy's arm.Wendy yelped in pain and burst into tears, shaking her head frantically. "Um... That wasn't a loan. I was managing your money. I was investing it for you. Investments come with risks. We clearly stated that in our agreeme

"Option two. You go and negotiate with Rayne and the rest of them. A private settlement. My terms are that they assume full financial responsibility for Midnight Splendor's renovation and cover all losses incurred while the club remains closed. And..." Lucille met Gideon's eyes without flinching. She drew a slow, deliberate breath. "You sign the divorce papers. We end the marriage."Gideon's pupils constricted. The words escaped before he could stop them. "Lucy, you're still set on divorce?"No trace remained of the softness or hesitation that had once filled Lucille's eyes. She nodded. "Yes."There was nothing more to say. She turned and walked out of the booth. She didn't need to stay for the process. She had never needed the process. She only needed the result.Her purpose tonight had never been to send Rayne and Wendy to prison. That had always been the leverage, not the objective. The objective was exactly what she had just laid out in those two conditions.Midnight Splendor

"You called and told me to do it. I have the recording. You can't walk away from this, sister. If everyone goes down, we all go down together."The color drained from Elaine's face.She hadn't known. All those years, she had treated Wendy like a sister and trusted her with everything, yet her own sister had been recording her. She had kept the recording in reserve, ready to use the moment she needed it.Elaine thought about the money. Six million borrowed over three years, all of it gone. She thought about Wendy's gambling, hidden from everyone. She thought about every lie piled on top of the last, and then this: a recording of her own voice playing in a room she could no longer control."You..." Elaine's voice failed. She tried again. "You... all this time..."She couldn't finish the sentence. Every part of her was trembling."We're fake sisters." The words came out barely above a whisper. "That's what we are. Wendy, I treated you like my own blood. All these years. I helped rai

Hearing his eldest sister say that, Gideon felt the weight he had been carrying alone ease slightly.For weeks, he had faced every conflict and every crisis on his own, absorbing each blow without anyone at his side. He was genuinely close to the limit of what he could endure. Running the group's cross-border operations had never exhausted him the way his own household had.Now he understood exactly what it felt like to have chaos at home drag everything else down.More than anything, he felt regret. He had brought this on himself. He had married a sensible, perceptive woman who had understood him better than he had ever acknowledged, then pushed her until she became someone willing to burn everything down without looking back."I'm really glad you see it this way. If you can help resolve this, get Lucille to stop pushing for the divorce, and bring Lily home so we can be a real family again, I'll give you more latitude in company decisions going forward. I'll step back where it mat