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.

like she had been struck by lightning, and the thunder still hovered overhead.

Girlfriend. Brielle.

word was clear, but how could she not understand their

soul seemed to momentarily leave her body, repeatedly battered and kneaded.

was so rigid, she didn’t even know how to react. She could taste blood in her mouth. Now that Max had acknowledged

color drained from Alivia’s face,

his memory or had just remembered everything upon seeing Brielle. Her heartbeat was thunderous, and

catch her breath.

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

tried to calm herself, but her trembling fingers betrayed the

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Brielle, that bitch!

crawl into a hole

they were hallucinating. How could they see Maz holding

absurd. As absurd

racing. The night he went to the Dorsey family’s old mansion? Wasn’t that the night Max had his accident?

wouldn’t return without a specific

was commanding, and he wasn’t flustered by Max’s announcement. “Max, there are some things that can be done in private; there’s no need to bring them out into the open. Just like what your brothers do on the outside,

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