Married To My Billionaire Stepbrother

Chapter 53: What If You Fail?

"What? Natalie offered a mocking smile, her eyes gleaming with wickedness. "Were you expecting me to say that if I fail, I’ll give up all my inheritance in the family?"

Sephina was caught off guard as this was what always worked on Natalie- Challenge her, push her to fail, and then take control over her.

Seeing her grandma shocked, memories flashed before Natalie’s eyes, memories of past manipulations that had shaped her into the woman she was now.

"Grandma, if I win this competition, will you let me pursue it? I love making perfumes," a younger Natalie had once pleaded.

"Alright, but what if you fail?" Sephina had asked.

"I will give up on it," Natalie had promised, only to have that dream crushed when she inevitably failed or most precisely she was pushed to fail.

"Grandma, my teacher said I’m skilled at piano, and I can win this competition."

"What if you fail?"

"I won’t play again."

So many such incidents happened where she failed and in the end all she got to hear was- "You were meant to fail. Briena is the one who deserves it."

living with vultures like you,

to give her grandma a satisfaction of making a bet with

can you talk to Grandma like this?" Briena suddenly intervened,

answer? Next time, try

protect her face, as if

said, "Don’t worry, I am not going to give you another footage to record so you go on telling people how I beat you.

to get beaten up to knock some sense into that nasty brain of yours, come to my home. I’ll happily fulfill your wish. I’m an expert at giving a good beating in secret rather than in public. I promise it’ll be the best beating you’ll

shrank back, as if the devil himself had whispered in her ear. She

ashamed to seek our grandma all the time like a little kid?" Natalie interrupted her and turned to Sephian, "This is the heir you’ve chosen, Grandma—someone who cries at just a little teasing from me. I must

to which she immediately stopped acting

into that company’s office, considering how you people have completely ruined my

walked out with her head held high, leaving the other three fuming at her

to break her arrogance," Clara said, as

be more like her. If Briena were even half as sharp as Natalie, we

the criticism, quickly moved to Sephina’s side and clung to her hand like a child seeking comfort. "I’m sorry, Grandma, for disappointing you. You know I can’t be cunning like her, but I’ll try my

from

Natalie actually

eyes as she replied, "She won’t. That company is nothing more than an empty shell. It will only bring her more trouble and humiliation." With that, Sephina picked up her cellphone and made a quick call. "Natalie will be

alive, they wouldn’t have to confront Natalie directly. This old woman had been making Natalie’s life a living hell for years, and they knew she would