The Real Heiress Rules the World

Chapter 274 The War Begins

Chapter 274 The War Begins

Images of Sloane flooded Lucas’s mind-her smile, her tears, everything she’d ever done for him. Each memory was like a knife, cutting straight through his chest.

“Shut your mouth!” Lucas growled, swinging a heavy punch at Larry’s face.

Larry staggered back two steps, a thin trickle of blood seeping from the corner of his mouth. He wiped it away with the back of his hand and let out a cold, mocking laugh. “Hit a nerve? That’s what I thought. You don’t want to hear the truth, but I’m going to say it anyway. That engagement-she never wanted it. Your Hawthorne family forced her into it. And if it weren’t for all the mess you dragged her into, with her skills, she never would’ve had to go through any of this.”

Lucas froze mid-swing. His fist hovered in the air as guilt and regret surged through him again.

It was true. Sloane had never agreed to that engagement willingly. That was why she’d tried to call it off again and again.

To her, he had only ever been a decent business partner.

Then why… why had she taken the poison upon herself? Why would she go that far?

Just then, security burst into the room. Seeing the wrecked office, they stopped in shock.

The secretary stood anxiously at the door, her voice trembling. “Mr. Lucas… Mr. Larry… are you both all right?”

Lucas waved them off. He wiped the blood from his lip and said quietly, “We’re fine. Leave us.”

exchanged glances, hesitated, then stepped back and shut

overturned chairs, papers scattered everywhere. Lucas and Larry stood among the wreckage, still staring

worn. “Lucas… I just

eyes flickered. He lowered his head, voice hoarse.

in Lucas’s

Larry said through gritted teeth. “Because if she’s

door and walked out without

a deep thud as red marks bloomed across his knuckles. The pain burned up his arm-but it was nothing compared to what twisted inside his

a second. Back at his own office, he issued a direct

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