Chapter 1088

Chloe couldn't help but feel the irony wash over her.

Here was a man who was rotten to his very core, and yet the traits he valued most in his children were justice and kindness. If that wasn't the biggest joke the universe could play, she didn't know what was.

Killian was almost dreamy as he spoke. "From now on, Eldridge City will never see the Big Four again. In the next hundred years, in the next thousand, only the Grevenberg family will matter."

So that was his endgame.

Chloe narrowed her eyes. "So, you never actually wanted Connor dead?"

"He's my son. He's got Grevenberg blood running through his veins. Of course I'd never let him die."

"So all those years, letting him and Claire fight it out, watching him suffer... you just stood by?"

"It was all just fuel to make him stronger."

Chloe was honestly speechless.

The man standing in front of her looked perfectly normal, almost elegant. But deep down, he was probably even more twisted than Claire.

Grant was silent, standing off to the side.

his sore spot. "You know, you've worked your whole life, but in the end, it looks like you

Grant stayed absolutely silent.

attempts to stir trouble between them. He just said, “Let's open the vault. These treasures have been sleeping for a hundred years-it's time they

Chloe noticed it—a stone door, looming

here for a century, the door showed no signs of wear. The carvings all over

the door, each one matching the symbols engraved on

was holding the Nagel

and the Gilbert

were the Shaw family's emerald pendant and the Sartori family's

placed the tokens into their

piece clicked into place perfectly, fitting into the door as if it were a

last emerald pendant went in, the keys seemed to melt into the stone

the ground began to

Dust billowed everywhere.

it finally cleared, the massive stone door slowly parted in the middle, revealing a blinding

just stood

treasure was real—a literal mountain of

stretched out like a private gold

he didn't even look surprised—it was as if he'd

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