Chapter 820:

“Hugh, can’t you give me even a small chance?” Cheryl’s voice cracked with desperation, as if saying that had drained whatever strength she had left.

Watching her crumble like that, Freya suddenly thought of Kristian putting on the same act in front of her.

Hugh spoke again, and his tone was more solemn than she’d ever heard. “The moment you made false accusations against Mina right in front of me, whatever chance we had vanished completely.”

“False accusations against Mina?” Ethel picked up on the key part immediately.

Hugh started to explain but paused, worried the truth might upset Freya.

But Freya, with her sharp memory, spoke calmly. “On Ms. Newman’s birthday, after I finished speaking with her and was about to head home with you, do you remember what she said?”

Ethel thought for a moment, then the words came rushing back to her in a flash.

me, people will talk. They’ll mock you

Freya after recalling

“Yes,” Freya said softly.

then, Hugh had a talk with Cheryl, but Freya hadn’t

as well, but Freya hadn’t known exactly

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losing you,”

didn’t respond, unmoved

two daughters now, and while

to have a good life,” Hugh said, his tone honest but firm. “But the Briggs Group belongs to Ethel and Mina. It’s also the product of their mother’s hard work and sacrifice. It’s not something that can just be handed away. I can build another company. Running it won’t be

possibility before, but now he was

her head, her voice

truth, she couldn’t accept this

thrive, it could never

now she understood—if she turned this down, she’d walk

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