Chapter 4: Not A Chance In Hell

After Sephina hung up the call, Clara asked, "Is she coming, Mother?"

Sephina nodded. "Yes. Let's see who she has married."

"Grandma, I remember the name of her husband," Briena chimed in. "I searched for him, and there's no one special with that name. All are ordinary men. That means she didn't marry anyone significant but just a random man."

"That's better. This way, it will be easier to get our hands on the entire company."

"Ivan will be here as well."

"Why did you call him here?" Clara asked. "To maintain your good image, you shouldn't show our family conflicts to him."

"Mother, I want him to see how pathetic the woman he loves is and how she has been nothing but trouble to us."

"Do as you wish," Sephina encouraged.

Natalie arrived at the Ford residence in a cab. The moment she entered the huge iron gate, the servants spotted her and started gossiping in hushed voices, but she paid them no mind.

This house, if not for her mother's memories attached to it, would have been a place she would never step into again. These people had sent her away to a far-off place with the intention of making her suffer and live at their mercy. After her mother's death, this so-called family of hers saw her as nothing but an eyesore. The only reason she tolerated them was that she still thought of them as family.

Entering the drawing room, Natalie saw her family waiting for her.

husband?" Sephina asked, her gaze shifting to the door

come," Natalie replied, showing no

"Didn't I tell you to bring

I do not know him?" Natalie maintained her calm, as if her grandmother's words could no longer affect her. The memory of how they had all wanted to throw her out

older woman sighed in annoyance. "Is he so pathetic that you do not want us to see

"You could say that."

no will to argue. They wouldn't trust her anyway. All she

after what you did, you have no shame, do you?" Sephina asked, standing up. "After sending you to a faraway place for years, I thought you'd

her. "Are you just now realizing it, when it's already

her authority over the family. "I sent you there to rid you of this stubbornness, just

the older woman, her tall form casting a shadow over her not-so-tall grandmother, a reminder of Carryn. This daughter and her mother shared an invisible, domineering strength that seemed to flow naturally in their blood, growing stronger the more they were pushed into a corner. This was what Sephina hated most, as

"What?

country plagued by poverty and crime, leaving her to fend for herself. Thanks to their

glint appeared in Sephina's eyes.

me," Natalie challenged, not backing

is this how you talk to your grandma?" her father scolded. "It would have been better if you had died

wife. She always wondered if this man was truly her father, or if she was even a daughter of this family. They always favored Briena and treated her as if

to have manners? You should have kept me home to learn them, but then..." she chuckled mockingly, "What would I have learned at home? How to seduce a man who belongs to

you talk about my mother like that?" Briena stood up, anger visible on

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