Chapter 379

Margaret and her husband exchanged worried glances, the first sign of uncertainty in their previously unified front.

The mention of potential legal consequences seemed to penetrate their righteous anger like water through cracks in a dam. However, Richard was too enraged to be cautious.

He broke away from his father’s restraining hand with a violent jerk and jabbed a finger toward Zavian.

“I should have known something was happening between you when you kissed in front of us at the resort,” he snarled, spittle flying from his lips and his eyes wild with rage and humiliation. “The way you looked at each other—I saw it, but I refused to believe it. I never doubted you for a second, Emmeline.”

Richard’s voice cracked slightly, revealing a glimpse of genuine pain beneath the anger that momentarily made Emmeline’s heart twist with unwanted sympathy. “I trusted you blindly... never imagined I’d be betrayed! By my own wife and a man I considered a friend!”

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