Chapter 90

“I’m not leaving. Gwendolyn spread her arms wide, standing firm before him like a mother hen shielding her chicks.

“Out of my way!” The cane swung wildly, and Warren’s fury unleashed on Howard with reckless abandon.

Thud.

Again and again, Gwendolyn wrapped her arms around Howard, taking the blows for him. “Gwendolyn, step aside!” Howard began to regret bringing her into this mess.

“I won’t!” Stubborn as ever, she shielded him even more fiercely. “Mr. Chadwick, for better or worse, you’ve done so much for me. I want to do something for you to make you proud!”

Gwendolyn clenched her teeth, her eyes reddening with emotion.

She thought he was foolish. There were far crueler, more vicious ways to avoid this pain.

But he chose to leave the Chadwick family with his head held high.

Even knowing it was his plan, her heart ached for him.

Howard reached out, pulling her close, shielding her from Warren’s relentless strikes.

“Howard!” Warren panted heavily. “Admit your wrongs, and I might retract my words.”

pale and tense. “The family wronged me, deceived me,

“You’ll regret this!”

guidance from his

those memories were being carved out ruthlessly.

the most definitive

Farrah watched with gleeful excitement, calling Bainbridge. “Howard’s digging his own grave,

was positively elated

Keep hitting!

beat that crippled Howard dead!

Exhausted, Warren dropped the willow cane

white shirt soaked in red. His face was ghostly white, his fingers gripping the sides of the wheelchair tightly. Gwendolyn

tucked the declaration of disownment into his

illness seems to have

nearly passed out

your cold affliction one day, what would you

interest for Gwendolyn’s suffering

his composure, Warren said, “A generous reward. They’d be

it meant having your pride, Bainbridge and his parents, bow and

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