“What are you doing?” Zoe was clearly taken aback, and she instantly clung to Herbert’s arm. Soon after, she regained her composure and held her head high. “Don’t forget your place! You married into the Chesire family, not the other way around! How dare you raise your voice at me? You—”

“Why did you deceive me?” Alexander snapped, interjecting Zoe mid-sentence. “Did you bring me into this family? And who is Amber? Explain everything, now!”

Zoe was taken aback and stammered, “Y—You know about that?”

Alexander clenched his jaw, and his gaze burned with anger. It was all coming together, just as he suspected.

Olivia was not lying, and his judgment was right.

There had indeed been a conspiracy during his wedding!

What were Zoe and the Chesire family plotting?

“Zoe,” Herbert chimed in. He then glared at Alexander arrogantly and continued, “He’s nothing but a worthless man, so why fear him discovering the truth? Tell him that you’ll soon become mine! As for him, he’s just a pitiful little good-for-nothing, oblivious to the fact that he’s been played with.”

and puckered her lips into a coy smile. “Since we’re getting a divorce anyway, I see no reason to hide anything from you,” she said to Alexander.

sought a son-in-law. With no male heir left in the family and only Amber as their granddaughter, Zoe—as an elder cousin of

rule. Whichever of the two granddaughters bore a son first would immediately become the heir

tragic accident where Amber saved Alexander, and he married into

“You were just as naive as my sweet Amber! The fire injured her throat while she tried to save you, rendering her mute.

a little girl, they’d

He could not believe how evil Zoe was, believing that this level of deceit was

added mockingly, “Now that you’ve learned the truth, do you intend to defend those two? Don’t be ridiculous! Just take a look at who’s

Herbert adoringly, then turned to Alexander with a look of disdain. “Herbert is the heir of the Dorvall family, and he’s going

Swoosh!

lightning-fast hand grabbed Zoe by her throat, choking

to hell,” Alexander growled ominously as if he were the grim reaper, here to drag Zoe into

arm cradling Olivia, Alexander applied steady pressure with his right hand,

deep shade of purple, her eyes bulging wide with spasms. She was visibly horrified as if she were

as iron, and Zoe

really kill

way in front of me? You’ve got some nerve!” Herbert roared and aimed a brutal punch at Alexander’s face. “Son of a bitch, I’m

Thump!

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