Chapter 89

Chapter 89 Divorce is Not an Option

"Oranda, what is in that Tean't-" Lessard said.

"Out," said before Leonard could even faishhis sentence.

Lan's voice carried a note of anger, and Leonard didn't dare disobey. He looked at me, then at fan, and finally left the study.

As soon as he was gone, I quickly spoke up. "lan, didn't we have an agreement?

We had agreed that he would help me with the divorce and that he wouldn't make things difficult for me.

But now, what was this? Am I supposed to be some ancient matriarch who had to accept concubines for her husband? Even Lily doesn't deserve that status! "Yes, we did, but clcumstances have changed."

La seemed older, and wearier, pressing his hand against his temple.

"Eve, you're a good child, and it's true that Lennard has been in the wrong. He's been reckless all these years."

I looked down, saying nothing. The whole Harmon family knew of his recklessness, but they were still a family and I was just an outsider.

Ian righed again when he noticed my silence.

"Leonard's health hasn't hilly recovered. Lily didn't just give him sleeping pills-there was taxin involved."

"She poisoned him?"

from having any more children, making her child the only heir to the Harmon family. This sent

nodded. "We only discovered it recently. While it won't have a major impact on his overall health, the toxin will affect his ability to

at least two years for the toxin to metabolize, and another year of recovery. That's three years before he

that the

was carrying wasn't just her leverage it

breath and looked at

marry him. No matter who's backing her, nothing they can offer her will compare to the status of being Mrs.

calculated woman. She knows how to weigh her options and won't collaborate with outsiders,"

despised me, but she didn't hate Leonard or the Harmon family. In fact, she

snertel. "Her? Marry into the Harmon family? In her next

before, you are the only Mrs. Harmon, and that will not change," he

Tunderstand your loyalty to Leonard. No one is better suited to stabilize the situation than you, so you

I wanted to argue, but one look in lan's eyes

background did make her unfitto marry into the Harmon family,

to keep my voice

and me back then, but Leonard and

mention it. It wasn't me who helped you back then-it was Leonard, I

recount the events of

went abroad, Leonard caused a huge commotion at my house and ended up falling ill. His grandmother also got

back and forth between hospitals. It was during that time that the Harmon family

that he was indeed a promising talent. The only problem was that Leonand

hurt him.

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