Chapter 488

All eyes turned to Max.

Max had been keeping a low profile all evening as if he were uninterested in participating in the proceedings. It wasn’t until this moment that he seemed to come to life, his fingertips. grazing the rosary beads he wore.

Everyone thought he would remove the rosary without hesitation. Even Michael had started to speak up, “Patrick, please escort the lady out. This is no place for outsiders to cause a scene.”

Brielle stood tall, her back straight. Even upon hearing Michael’s words, she just stared steadily at Max.

“Max, think carefully. If you really…”

Before she could finish, Max interrupted her, “Dad, the night I went to the Dorsey family’s ancestral home, I had intended to introduce her to you. It’s not too late now.”

This out–of–the–blue statement drew all eyes to him.

His fingers still lingered on the rosary, gently caressing it, and then he leaned forward slightly, interlocking his fingers with Brielle’s.

Their fingers intertwined.

“This is my girlfriend, Brielle.” The statement landed heavily in the room as if it could burst

eardrums.

by lightning, and the thunder

Girlfriend. Brielle.

was clear, but how could she not understand

smugness vanished. Her soul seemed to momentarily leave her body, repeatedly battered and kneaded. His words hit her

blood in her mouth. Now that Max had acknowledged

last trace of color drained from

whether Max had never lost his memory or had just remembered everything upon seeing Brielle. Her heartbeat was thunderous, and she felt

catch her breath.

had never been so humiliated in all her life. All this had been given to

to calm herself, but her trembling

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Brielle, that bitch!

crawl into a hole and disappear. Such humiliation

room also thought they were hallucinating. How could they see Maz holding Brielle’s hand

absurd as a

briefly stunned, his mind racing. The night he went to the Dorsey family’s old mansion? Wasn’t

wouldn’t return without a specific call from him. It turned out it was because

done in private; there’s no need to bring them out into the open. Just like what your brothers do on the outside, I’ve always turned a blind eye,”

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