All Chapters of You Had This Divorce Coming: Chapter 281 - Chapter 290

Every humiliation returned with perfect clarity as Lucille stood once more in the courtyard where it had all happened.Only now did she truly realize that, for Gideon's sake, she had allowed them to treat her this way every single time without protest.She had not been weak. She had always known she had no power to fight back. Thus, she had silently committed every insult to memory, buried it deep inside, and waited.The reason she had pushed herself so relentlessly over the past five years was simple: she had been holding on to a promise she had made to herself. She would become someone. She would reach the point where she could stand beside Gideon as an equal. Then she would return and settle every account.She had imagined this day more times than she could count. Now it had finally arrived.Her brother had returned with the full weight of everything he had built overseas behind him. He had given her the power to turn every imagined scene into reality.Elaine, Michelle, and Da

"What if we tried it this way? If you can find it in yourself to let go of your anger and call off Blackstone, then I'll let you vent your anger on my wife and daughters however you see fit. I won't interfere."I give you my word that nothing like this will ever happen in this family again. On that basis, can you consider my personal request as your father-in-law? Can you give Gideon one more chance?"We're family. There isn't a wall between a family that can't be torn down. Don't you think?"Lucille could scarcely believe what she was hearing. These words were coming from this man. This supremely self-assured, untouchable man.She had never expected to see the day. Still, she understood exactly what was happening.Whatever else could be said about Lincoln Prescott, he was a very different opponent from Gideon. He was sharper and quicker to read a changing situation. He had spent decades navigating the business world. He had caught the scent of danger, assessed the terrain, and ch

"The Drake Group's debt fell entirely on Joanne's shoulders. Lucille's mother was, in truth, a woman who had been treated terribly. At the time, we pitied her and intended to leave her alone. She was a discarded woman trying to raise a young daughter by herself."But your mother and her sister had long resented how well Lucille's parents had lived. They seized the opportunity to pile on. They pressured Joanne to repay the debt and subjected her to relentless harassment and humiliation."Gideon had never known any of this. His family and Lucille's had been bound together by a bitter history that had remained hidden beneath the surface for years.His father's words struck him with chilling force.He grabbed Lincoln's arm. "Dad, you said you hired someone to short Drake Group's stock back then. That's almost exactly what's happening to the Prescott Group right now."So you think someone from the Drake family, Lucille's father or her brother, built enough power overseas to come back a

Otto had said everything he needed to say.Gideon sat motionless for a long moment after he left. Then he leaned back in his chair and picked up the third glass of whiskey.He drank it slowly. The memories came without invitation, fragments of the life he and Lucille had shared over the years.Throughout their marriage, he had always carried himself with absolute authority. He was older, more experienced, more accomplished. He had always believed he knew better. He had cast himself as the man who instructed her, corrected her, shaped her, and offered affection as though it naturally belonged with everything else.When they had first met, she had been thin and angular, with her hair cut short. He had regarded her with faint condescension, indulging her as though she were someone who had not quite grown into herself.He had liked running his fingers through her hair. He had liked pulling her into his arms after one of his lectures had left her red-eyed, comforting her before drawing

Lucille had dragged herself upright despite her fever and aching legs to cook him a bowl of noodles.He had found fault with every part of it.Eventually, the housekeeper, unable to watch any longer, had quietly mentioned that Lucille was sick and running a fever.Only then had Gideon looked at her flushed face and the exhaustion she wore like a second skin.He had apologized at length afterward and given her a limited-edition Bulgari necklace to smooth things over.The necklace had not smoothed anything over. That incident had settled inside her like a stone, something she could never dislodge. In the weeks that followed, she had slowly begun to pull herself away from him. Not dramatically, not all at once, just a fraction at a time. It was a quiet retreat she had never announced.He had overlooked everything she had done for him without so much as an acknowledgment.Now, as she watched him kneel in the rain, she felt that same sense of being unseen.She let the curtain fall a