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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you not talk about dying?” Lawrence said, his voice lower.

you. Please don’t let her know the truth”

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

her hate you, hate us?”

pressed another button, and the

Sofia’s lips

him half of her inheritance which Eulanda would never allow. I mean… why wouldn’t she give me what was rightfully mine?” Lawrence gave

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

his own. Yet that grandfather of yours wanted us away. I mean… the

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

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

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

only served to fuel her growing

inheritance, of a birthright stolen, yet his actions – the slow, insidious

flicker of doubt, a single ember of hope, sparked within her. “My grandmother wouldn’t have let you take everything,”

ever–controlling matriarch, wouldn’t have stood idly by. She would have fought,

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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

hitched. “What… what do you mean?” she stammered, a dread so

truth too. He and Eulanda have been business partners for so long… he knew about her

A strangled laugh escaped Sofia’s lips, a humorless sound laced with disbelief. “Alexander? No. That’s impossible.” Denial, a desperate shield, rose to the surface, a flimsy barrier against

very notion of Alexander, her confidante, her rock, harboring such a

Impossible,” she

to pity. “He was probably using the information to his advantage all along. Think about it. How convenient was

the Lockhart fortune?”

mean… I have always known that you are naive but, can’t you really see it?” Lawrence asked.

sparked a flicker of unease over her. Why would

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

it really possible that he had

all along! Eulanda wanted you to marry Alexander so he could help

frowned at that. Believing this man would be foolish.

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she heard a

akin to hope sparked in her eyes. Could it be help? Someone who

well,” he

heart hammered against her ribs, a frantic drumbeat against the

of the room.

to me and do exactly as I say or you will end up dead, do

said. Sofia nodded.

up… “ Lawrence gestured the gun. “Check the door,” he commanded, his voice a cold order. “And

“You won’t breathe a word of what’s transpired