After Divorce She Becomes the Billionaire Heiress (Sylvia and Cyril) novel Chapter 27

Chapter 27 He looks down on you

After the last email exchange where Sylvia had blocked him, Cyril lost all contact with her. He had no idea what she was up to or how to reach her at all.

Meanwhile, the exposing rumors about Karina only intensified, with more sordid details. dug up.

Cyril knew this information would inevitably come out and be scrutinized for veracity. While falsehoods could potentially be buried, the truth would always surface eventually.

Having expected this situation, Cyril didn’t intend to intervene much. Businessman that he was, he understood what actions benefitted him and which didn’t. Clearly aiding Karina brought him no advantage here, so he had no reason to keep getting involved. Still, he had promised her some assistance.

The news coverage was scathing enough that Cyril had Karina issue a public apology under his name, stating she would reflect seriously on past misdeeds and not repeat them.

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But many netizens found this inadequate the statement wasn’t even made by Karina herself. Now hiding behind her agency, she expected this to just blow over? They kept demanding she make an in–person apology.

Karina pleaded with Cyril again. “If I do that and get banished abroad, my career here will be over! I worked so hard for what I have you’d just let it vanish easily?” 

Cyril gazed at her impassively. He was finding Karina increasingly unrecognizable too.

Gradually Cyril realized the people he knew had transformed beyond his perception. It was as if Sylvia’s presence had cloaked their behavior in normalcy before. With her gone, their façades had crumbled away.

He couldn’t say if this revelation was good or bad. But knowing it took Sylvia’s absence for their true nature to emerge left Cyril deeply disappointed in himself for not seeing through

them earlier.

He recalled Sylvia’s past pleas about Karina constantly texting and taunting her, begging Cyril for an explanation and to make it stop, saying she wouldn’t intervene between them, just wanting him to put family first.

But Cyril had ignored it entirely, even mocking Sylvia for meddling. How foolish he had. been! Sylvia saw their truth long ago yet still strove to shelter his family. With her no longer around to cover for them, their ugliness was laid bare.

Cyril had been in a strange mood the past few days but work obligations continued. He was

The restaurant was known for excellent privacy, popular for sensitive discussions. Cyril casually glanced over, then did a double take–out stepped Sylvia, intimately clinging to

Why were they together again? Cyril had questions last time but now their closeness bothered him immensely. He knew Bruce’s stature. If Sylvia got involved, she could be utterly ruined when his temper turned. After all, they had been family once. Cyril didn’t want to see Sylvia throw her life away like this.