Betrayed by Blood: My Second Life as a Queen novel Chapter 190

Hearing Adelina recount those painful memories, Willow surprisingly felt no sadness—only a profound sense of absurdity.

She calmly pulled a tissue from her clutch, handed it to Adelina, and then leveled a cool, steady stare at Xavier.

Xavier opened his mouth, his voice coming out as a choked rasp. "Willow..."

"Xavier," Willow cut him off, letting out a soft, mocking laugh. "Stop putting on an act. It's incredibly hypocritical."

A deep, agonizing pain instantly flooded Xavier's eyes. In that moment, he felt entirely defenseless.

He wasn't putting on an act. He genuinely hadn't known how much she had suffered to get that ten thousand dollars.

In his mind, he had always assumed she was living comfortably off the hefty monthly allowance he authorized for her.

So when she handed him that ten thousand dollars during the company's crisis, he had honestly thought she was just being ungrateful—that she was sitting on a mountain of cash and had only offered a meager sum to insult him.

Meanwhile, Tessa had put all her luxury items up for sale online to help him. When he discovered her listing before anything sold, his heart had completely melted with gratitude.

Because of that, he found Willow's actions utterly selfish.

He thought she was too stingy to even give up one month's allowance, only offering a token amount to brush him off.

So, out of pure spite, he had bought Tessa a fifty-thousand-dollar handbag just to show his dissatisfaction.

It was only today, right at this very second, that he finally realized Willow had never received a single cent of that allowance. That ten thousand dollars wasn't much to him, but it was absolutely everything she had.

Yet he had looked at her desperate, bleeding devotion and spat on it.

Xavier desperately wanted to explain, but he knew with sickening certainty that whatever he said now would be far too late.

Willow's voice wasn't loud, but her words drove into his heart like fatal spikes. "Xavier, I will never forgive what you've done. You don't want to cut ties amicably? Fine. We'll let the law handle it. Bottom line: I refuse to have any kind of relationship with you. Just knowing that I have a brother like you makes me feel physically sick!"

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