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.

whole life, but in the end, it looks like you were just setting the table

Grant stayed absolutely silent.

seem bothered by her 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

when Chloe noticed it—a stone door,

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

four sunken emblems on the door, each one matching the

was holding the

and the Gilbert family's dragon

Shaw family's emerald pendant

placed the tokens into their

place perfectly, fitting into the door as

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

ground

Dust billowed everywhere.

it finally cleared, the massive stone door slowly parted in

stood there,

real—a literal mountain of

a private gold mine, so vast

was the first to step in. Staring at the endless gold, he didn't even look surprised—it was as if he'd

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