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.

to poke at his sore spot. "You know, you've worked your whole life, but in the end, it looks like you were just setting the table

Grant stayed absolutely silent.

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

Chloe noticed it—a stone door,

The carvings all over it were still sharp and detailed, like they'd been chiseled

the door, each one matching the symbols engraved on the tokens of the

was holding the

the Gilbert family's dragon plaque. In

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

by one, they placed the tokens

into the door as if

emerald pendant went in, the keys seemed to melt into

ground began to

Dust billowed everywhere.

it finally cleared, the massive stone door slowly parted in

just stood there,

treasure was real—a literal mountain of

upon piles of gold stretched out like a private gold mine, so vast she couldn't

the endless gold, he didn't even look surprised—it was as if he'd

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