Chapter 589:

With that, Billie grabbed a fork from the table. Before anyone could react, she aimed it at her neck with all her strength, her intent clear.

Daxton, who had been silently observing from the sidelines, was the first to react. With lightning speed, he closed the distance to Billie and grabbed her wrist before she could harm herself. With a firm but measured grip, he applied just enough pressure to weaken her hold. The fork slipped from her hand, clattering harmlessly to the floor.

Daxton kicked it aside, ensuring it was out of reach before releasing her wrist.

Billie, her resolve shattered, collapsed onto the floor. Covering her face, she began sobbing quietly, her earlier defiance replaced by despair.

“Enough!” Shawn’s voice rang out, firm and commanding. “This is the Norris family home, not some dramatic rural sideshow! Billie, you’re a graduate of a prestigious university. Since when did you start dealing with problems by throwing childish tantrums like this?” He looked at her with deep disappointment. However, the memory of her fragile state after losing Lisa softened his tone. Shawn swallowed the harsher words he wanted to say.

Daxton bypassed the sobbing Billie and moved to help Carrie to her feet.

didn’t resist as

skin was soft and delicate, like a child’s, yet the weight

could say more, a hurried voice

entering the room in a flowing white outfit, her expression one

and helped her

to her feet. She pulled Lise close. Billie’s earlier vulnerability gave way to

Lise as though the family might harm her. “Lise, why are you here?”

though her sharp gaze quickly found Carrie. Positioning herself protectively in front of Billie, Lise’s voice turned cold. “I have no intention of clinging to Kristopher. If you resent

a subtle but

she painted herself

unyielding. She had no intention of arguing in the Norris Mansion, not when emotions were running so

hand, gently squeezing it

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