A Widow's Poison, A Wife's Rebellion novel Chapter 530

If Starla involved them now, the whole clan would know exactly what kind of power she wielded over them.

“Don’t worry,” Starla said with a chilling smile. “If you don’t sign, I can be far more excessive than this.”

Fairfax stared at her, a cold realization dawning on him. She was serious. She truly intended to take everything. For the first time, he began to question his own judgment. Had he been completely wrong about her all along?

“You were never like this,” he said, his voice strained with an emotion he could barely contain.

“Of course not,” Starla replied. “I used to be too easy to bully.”

Fairfax was speechless.

“And what now? Is it wrong of me to refuse to be bullied anymore?” she added, her voice laced with a smile full of mockery.

She was right. The entire Yelchin family saw her actions as wrong simply because she was no longer their doormat.

Fairfax’s gaze on her grew deeper, more complicated. Just then, his phone rang again. The name ‘Grandma’ on the screen made the veins on his forehead throb.

He finally answered. “Hello.”

“Is it handled? Can I go back to my room now?”

“You’ll have to wait a moment.”

Her methods were brutal, something he never would have imagined from the Starla he once knew. His breathing grew ragged.

“Torment us if you must, but my grandmother is an old woman!” He couldn't stand the thought of Annika, who deserved to live out her years in peace, being dragged into this mess.

“She is your grandmother,” Starla shot back. “At her age, you’re the one who should be concerned for her, you’re the one who should respect her. Everything she’s going through right now is because of you. What, are you trying to outsource your filial duty to me now?”

In the past, when their relationship was good, his words might have swayed her. But now? It was laughable.

Fairfax knew that everything she was doing was to force him to sign the divorce agreement that would give her the entire Yelchin fortune. The torment his family was enduring was a direct result of his refusal. And as long as he refused, she would continue, escalating her tactics until he finally broke.

She was forcing his hand, just as the Yelchins had once forced hers. Now, she was simply returning the favor, using the very methods they had once used to break her.