บททั้งหมดของ You Had This Divorce Coming: บทที่ 361 - บทที่ 370

Lily's party blazed with light, the room alive with voices. All 100 tables were filled, with silk and perfume in the air and glasses clinking nonstop.Every guest who had received an invitation had shown up. Even a few figures who normally came and went like phantoms, rarely seen in public at all, had made unexpected appearances, lending the Sandwell family more than enough prestige.Years of running her club had honed Joanne's gift for hospitality to a fine art. With a single wave of her hand, she had booked the entire top-floor executive lounge and all the luxury suites at the Cloudedge Hotel just to accommodate the guests who had traveled from afar. The sheer scale of the arrangements was staggering.Inside the lounge, Lily had already fallen fast asleep in Lucille's arms, worn out from the long ceremony.Nancy moved quietly nearby and tidied away the baby's things.The door clicked open.Joanne walked in with a radiant face, unable to hide the joy and pride in her expression.

Lucille looked up.Michelle stormed in, radiating aggression, with a whole procession of reporters and bodyguards at her heels. Cameras and microphones were already trained on the room.Her venomous accusation sent a jolt through Lucille's chest.Lucille ignored Michelle entirely. Instead, she slowly shifted her gaze to Gideon and fixed her eyes on his face."Gideon. Did you hear what your sister just said?" Her voice was cold enough to have come from an ice cellar.Gideon met her eyes, his brow drawn tight. He could feel with perfect clarity the arrow-sharp pain in her gaze.For any woman, being accused of bearing a bastard was about as deep an insult to her character as anyone could deliver. Even now, Gideon had not taken this step lightly.But after seeing Rayne's party through, he had stood off in a corner and watched the entire Westbrook family file out of the hall one after another.With his own eyes, he had watched Lucille and Otto stand side by side at the door as they

Lucille stood where she was and listened in silence to every ugly word that came out of Michelle's mouth. Strangely, the tension in her shoulders began to ease.Her gaze remained fixed on Gideon. At that moment, alongside the hatred and fury she felt for him, something else surfaced: a deep, visceral disgust.If they wanted to dump this filth on her so badly, then fine. She would show them exactly what it meant to play with fire.Gideon's face darkened. He met Lucille's eyes, his voice shaking. "You have nothing to say for yourself?"The calm on Lucille's face caught Gideon off guard. He had expected Michelle's accusations in front of so many reporters to send Lucille into a panic. He had expected her to fall apart, drop to her knees in front of everyone, and beg him to believe that none of it was true.But there wasn't a trace of guilt in her eyes. There was only something close to amusement, as if she were watching a show, and beneath it lay a hint of pity that made him feel as

The more Gideon turned it over in his mind, the more something felt wrong.The more readily and completely Lucille had admitted everything, the more his thoughts spiraled out of control and his heart raced with a panic he could not name.She was, after all, the woman who had shared his bed for five full years. No one knew better than he did how fierce and proud she was, right down to the bone.She guarded her reputation as fiercely as her own life. How could a woman like that possibly stand before so many reporters and admit aloud that she had cheated on him and that her daughter was a bastard?If there was nothing wrong on Lucille's end, then someone close to him had played him for a fool. Maybe that paternity report had been fake from the start.The thought alone darkened Gideon's expression as he looked at Rayne.Lucille's confession had done nothing to ease the turmoil inside him. If anything, it had wound him tighter, nearly to the breaking point.He spun around and seized

Daphne let out a heavy sigh. "What you're doing now isn't saving anything. It's only pushing Lucille and your daughter further away, one step at a time. At this rate, you might as well divorce her and spare yourself all this pain and self-destruction."These past five years, I could see how much you genuinely cared for her. Lucille really does suit you. In both your work and your personal life, she could have been your right hand in every sense."Have you not noticed that ever since she left, both your work and your life have completely fallen apart?"Gideon looked up at her in surprise.The moment their eyes met, something jolted through him. His eldest sister had always been the sharpest one in the family, the one who cut straight to the heart of things."How could I not have real feelings for her?" Gideon let out a bitter laugh. "Lucille doesn't even know this, but she was the first woman in my life. I married her because I genuinely wanted her. I always knew she was right for