Mr. Chairman’s Devious Wife by Brey Mitchylle

Chapter 107

Lawrence’s laughter echoed inside the room. The manic glint returned to Lawrence’s eyes, replacing the twisted amusement that had played there moments before. A cruel chuckle escaped his lips. “Kill your mother? Sofia, darling, where on earth did you get that idea?” He shook his head, the movement theatrical.

“Eunice, bless her heart, knew the truth all along. She knew about my past, about the darkness that stained our family history. She knew that I was her brother.”

Sofia blinked, unable to believe what she just heard.

What?

What did he just say?

Eunice knew about him?

“Then why?” she asked. What was the point of everything? If her mother knew about Lawrence then… why would he harm her?

“Because your mother is weak…” Lawrence shrugged. “I cannot be with a weak woman. Unfortunately, even love is not enough to change someone like that.”

Sofia pursed her lips. Lawrence’s revelation was something that she never expected. “You are lying…” she said. “My mother would never….”

Before she could finish her words, Lawrence suddenly took something out of his pockets. It was a black rectangular object; a recorder.

He played it and almost immediately, Eunice’s voice filled the room.

“I can’t do this…” Eunice said.

“What do you mean?” Lawrence’s voice responded.

“She is my mother. I know you and I are blood–related siblings and I love you but she… she is still my mother.”

There was silence for a few seconds before Lawrence let out a sigh. “I’m sorry if I put you through a difficult situation,” he said, his voice mellowed. “But Eulanda would probably not agree that you give your fortune to me. It’s impossible. She would rather die.”

“You are a Lockhart. You deserve everything that you will get once I die.”

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not talk about dying?” Lawrence said,

only snorted in response. “Sofia adores you. Please don’t

“Eventually, she needed to know the

making her hate you, hate us?”

button, and

Sofia’s lips quivered.

inheritance which Eulanda would never allow. I mean… why wouldn’t she give me what was rightfully mine?” Lawrence gave a nonchalant shrug. “That greedy

father- the one who raised you- killed my grandfather?” Sofia asked.

like his own. Yet that grandfather of yours wanted us away. I mean… the only good thing about it was

to send her tumbling into oblivion. Lawrence’s words slammed into her with the force of a tidal wave, each revelation a

eyes shut, trying to shut out the sound, the image of her mother wrestling with a truth

thread. “Why did you…” The question trailed off, choked by the storm of emotions

to fuel her growing rage

slow, insidious poisoning of her mother – screamed of something far

hope, sparked within her. “My grandmother wouldn’t have let

idly by. She would have fought, tooth and nail, to protect

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smile, however, remained cold and calculating. “Oh, she tried. But look at where she is now?” he conceded, his voice dripping with amusement. “Even the great Eulanda Lockhart couldn’t fight the inevitable. Besides,” he leaned forward, his voice dropping to a conspiratorial

“What… what do you mean?” she stammered, a

his eyes gleaming with a malicious satisfaction. “He knew the truth too. He and Eulanda have been business partners for so

sound laced with disbelief. “Alexander? No. That’s impossible.” Denial, a desperate shield, rose to the surface, a flimsy

her confidante, her rock, harboring such

she mumbled.

amusement morphing into something akin to pity. “He was probably using the information to his advantage all along. Think about it. How convenient was it that he swooped in

the Lockhart fortune?”

I have always known that you are naive but, can’t you really

of unease over her. Why

her and offered the deal. He told her they had been engaged since they were younger

really possible that he had something else in mind?

you realize it now?” he chortled. “Alexander Beaumont was working with Eulanda all along! Eulanda wanted you to marry Alexander

frowned at that. Believing this

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as Sofia was about to say another word, she heard a doorbell. Her expression immediately changed, her face paling.

her eyes. Could it be help? Someone who might break her

“Well, well,” he drawled,

a frantic

of the room.

I say or you will end up dead, do you hear me?” he

said. Sofia nodded.

he commanded, his voice a cold order. “And if you value that little friend of yours,” he

with the gun, “You won’t breathe a word of what’s transpired here today.”