Chapter 297

Adah's gaze slowly came into focus on the DNA report. The moment she registered the result, she froze, then burst into uncontrollable laughter.

"Ha! Hahaha—" Her laughter was sharp, almost frenzied.

"Nathan, look at you! How pathetic can you get? Vanessa isn't even your daughter -she's the chauffeur's child. You're not even as good as your own driver, can you believe it? Hahaha-"

Adah doubled over, her laughter echoing off the walls. But as she laughed, fat tears began to spill down her cheeks, streaking her face.

Nathan had hurt Claire so cruelly, all for Vanessa-who wasn't even his own flesh and blood. Yet, was Adah herself any less guilty?

She had always known Vanessa wasn't really her daughter. Still, she'd gone out of her way to protect her, blindly ignoring Claire's pain.

With that realization, Adah suddenly slapped the test report hard against Nathan's face.

Her hands trembling, she crouched down and gathered up the scattered pages from the floor.

Each word on those documents hit her like a sledgehammer, pounding relentlessly against her heart until she could barely breathe.

it all began-Claire's tragic

Nathan, costing Adah her own kidney, her biological daughter, and even entangling her son in a criminal case

on the brink of a breakdown. She sobbed and laughed at the same time, her expression

didn't you always complain about how humiliating it was to marry into my family? Well, how does it feel now, knowing you've been played

You drove The Linwood Group into bankruptcy, funneled every penny into Sophia's account, and

perfect 'husband,' the perfect 'father,' aren't you? What

the remaining papers, Adah tore them to

down onto Nathan's useless body like confetti at a funeral-burying what little

Adah spat was a dagger, stabbing Nathan's heart again and again, without

in the countryside, determined to make something of himself in the city. From the very beginning, he'd

man," he had both material comfort and emotional security. He had a wife who adored him, a brilliant son, and the title of CEO at Jones Group. Looking back, those moments of humiliation-mostly just his father-in-law, Abbott Jones, lecturing him in the office-seemed trivial compared to the disgrace Sophia, Garnett Brown, and Vanessa had

repent, to beg

could do was look at Claire, his

remorse was genuine-deeper

had been so,

known it would end like this-with nothing left, half his body paralyzed- he'd have gladly

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