My Family Traded My Marriage Away의 모든 챕터: 챕터 11 - 챕터 20

Duncan didn't leave with Ronald and Janice. He claimed he had something to do, and the following day, he reached out to Isaac himself.He showed up at the law firm with some of Lloyd Corporation's internal financial records."This is only part of the records." He sat in the conference room, his expression grim. "If I hand over the rest, can you help secure my project?"I looked at him. "So you're not here because you realize just how wrong you've been. You're only here because you found out they'd given Giselle far more than they'd given you."My words struck a nerve. He flushed with anger."Don't you want the evidence?""I do." I placed an audio recorder on the table. "But the evidence can only ensure clemency when you're held accountable under the law. It can't buy my forgiveness."The financial records proved that Ronald had transferred large sums of income from the trust into a company registered under Giselle's name.Everything from the office rent to the employee salaries

After news of the asset freezes spread, Lloyd Corporation lost three major business contracts in rapid succession.Ronald gave a press interview where he pinned all the blame on me. He looked straight into the camera, his expression weary, and said, "My youngest daughter recently lost her baby, and she's not in a very stable state of mind. She's been influenced by things she's read online and mistakenly believes the family has misappropriated her assets. "We don't blame her. We only hope she'll come back to us soon."Janice stood beside him, dabbing at her tears. "Her older sister has always doted on her the most but has fallen severely ill because of her."Within hours, the Internet was awash with people calling me out. Some said I'd disowned my parents for the sake of an inheritance. Others said the Lloyds had raised me, yet I'd kicked them while they were down when the company ran into trouble.This was just part of Ronald's usual bag of tricks. He knew that, in the past, I'd

Grandpa left more than just one letter for me.Isaac took a second folder out of the safe. It contained the letters he'd exchanged with the Lloyds during the later years of his life.When I was ten years old, Grandpa had already asked to take me in and raise me himself. Ronald replied that I was a sensitive, insecure child and couldn't bear to be separated from Janice.When I was 12 years old, Grandpa once again offered to take me away to attend school elsewhere. Janice said Giselle and I were very close and that separating us against our will would make me depressed.But those were the same two years when my classmates had constantly mocked me because all I had to wear were Giselle's hand-me-downs. I'd lost count of how many times I'd wished I could leave that family.I'd never known that Grandpa had been waiting for me.I also found a note with his new phone number written on it. I spotted Giselle's handwriting on the back."Evelina is emotionally unstable. Please don't contac

Hector refused to give up. He moved out of the marital home and got rid of everything Giselle had used. Everything from the house slippers in the shoe cabinet, the clothes she'd left in the guest room, and even the cup she always used was tossed out.He sent me photos, as if to prove that he'd erased every trace of his mistake. However, some things don't disappear just because a few old things were thrown out.A week later, I returned to the city to finalize the divorce. Hector insisted that I stop by our old marital home."You left some of your things here."I opened the door to find that the house looked almost exactly as it had before I left. My favorite flowers sat on the dining table. The kitchen had been stocked with fresh ingredients. He'd even bought a new pair of slippers identical to my old ones."See? Giselle's gone. No one else will be moving in from now on," he said.I headed to the nursery without bothering to change out of my shoes.The starry wallpaper was still

When Duncan arrived at the law firm with the financial records, he'd lost a considerable amount of weight.His project had come to a complete standstill. Investors were demanding their money back, and all the people who used to flock around him, sucking up to him, had disappeared.He placed a flash drive in front of me. "This contains all of Dad's financial records from the past several years. I'm willing to testify in court."I didn't touch the drive. "What are your terms?"He lowered his head and said, "I want you to drop the part of the claim against me. Dad made those transfers. I didn't know where the money came from."Isaac flipped open several documents. They all bore Duncan's signature. When he said he hadn't known about it, what he really meant was that he'd never bothered to ask where the money came from.He'd always assumed that everything belonging to the Lloyds was rightfully his anyway."Evelina, you're my sister."It was the first time he'd ever called me that. I