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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dying?” Lawrence said, his voice

only snorted in response. “Sofia adores you. Please don’t let her know the

protect her from the harshness of this world?” he asked. He chuckled. “Eventually, she needed to know the truth or Eulanda would probably

hate you,

pressed another button, and the recording stopped.

lips

of her inheritance which Eulanda would never allow. I mean… why wouldn’t she give me what was

raised you- killed my grandfather?”

raised me… he treated me like his own. Yet that grandfather of yours wanted us away.

the plush carpeting beneath her suddenly a precarious tightrope threatening to send her tumbling into oblivion. Lawrence’s words slammed into her with the force of a tidal wave, each revelation a crushing blow that knocked the wind out of

squeezed her eyes shut, trying to shut out the sound, the image of her mother wrestling

whispered, her voice hoarse, barely a thread. “Why did you…” The question trailed off, choked

served to fuel her

– the slow, insidious poisoning of her mother – screamed of

hope, sparked within her. “My grandmother wouldn’t have let you take everything,” she rasped. “She wouldn’t have allowed it.”

idly by. She would have fought,

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at where she is now?” he conceded, his voice dripping with amusement. “Even the great

do you mean?” she stammered, a dread so

Eulanda have been business partners for so long… he knew

with disbelief. “Alexander? No. That’s impossible.”

Alexander, her confidante, her rock, harboring

she mumbled.

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 and married you, the sole heir

the Lockhart fortune?”

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

over

who approached her and offered the deal. He told her they had been engaged

really possible that he had something else in

Eulanda wanted you to marry Alexander so he could help her secure the wealth of

frowned at that. Believing this man would be foolish.

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

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

he drawled, his voice dripping with amusement. “Looks like we have

hammered against her ribs, a frantic drumbeat against the

of the room.

say or you

said. Sofia nodded.

commanded, his voice a cold order. “And if

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