The Ex-Wife's Burning Elegance

No matter how fierce the in-fighting within a family, no matter how bitter the rivalry, it rarely spills into public view. After all, no one wants to become the neighborhood laughingstock.

Take the Lerman family, for example-a clan notorious for its many illegitimate heirs. Even when the struggle for power turns cutthroat, they're never foolish enough to air their dirty laundry in public.

Because, as the old saying goes, family scandals should never leave the front door.

If these sordid affairs get out, will people only mock the individual involved?

Not at all. They'll mock the entire family.

Now, thanks to Stella, this mess is everywhere—the Williams family's reputation is utterly ruined.

Skyler, Aurora, the three Williams brothers, even Stella and Nora-every one of them has become the subject of dinner table gossip.

If this was Stella's idea of revenge, it was the most idiotic form imaginable.

Hurting your enemy a thousand times, only to suffer eight hundred wounds yourself.

Skyler's voice was icy as he spoke: "So impulsive... She's clearly not leadership material. Stella's performance had been so impressive lately, I thought maybe I'd misjudged her. But now..."

His anger faded into deep disappointment.

"I overestimated her. She's not just a step behind Nora-she can't even compare to Aurora."

shared his sentiment, shaking his

and she'd dragged Aurora down with

digging her own grave. Even the board members at Williams Group who wanted to back her must be rethinking their support

by self-interest, after

for Aurora and the rest of them, but she'd forgotten something vital: her shares in the company were

entered Williams Group yet, and she'd already damaged the company's

to see her rise would be disappointed, and the fence-sitters would

played a losing hand,

After this, nearly everyone at Williams Group will be against her joining. The only thing

sell them off.

ten percent, she won't amount

a little as he considered

"What about Aurora? How

crossed Jonathan's face. "I can't reach her at the

have already gone to the competition

up." sŵnovel

to bear a heavy burden

in touch with her, tell her to

replied, then left the

The Lerman residence.