Betrayed by the Father Reborn in His Rival's Arms novel Chapter 176

Madeline had never imagined she had crossed paths with such a titan of industry.

His empire vastly eclipsed the Whitman Group.

But what confused her was that Quentin had never shown his face to the public, keeping his identity a total mystery; officially, he was listed as forty-two years old, sixteen years her senior.

Yet the man sitting before her, despite exuding the ruthless aura of a seasoned tycoon, didn't look that old at all—he looked closer to thirty.

Madeline's mind raced, completely bewildered by the situation.

This financial leviathan, whom countless billionaires begged to meet without success, was sitting right in front of her.

And he was the one who had been protecting her all along.

Unable to hold back, she asked, "Did you save me? I think I passed out... did you bring me here?"

Quentin gave a slight nod.

A wave of relief washed over her, and she had to ask, "Were you the one who broke Liliana's legs?"

Quentin nodded again.

Madeline whispered in awe, "But how did you know exactly what happened..."

She figured the incident at the Whitman Estate wouldn't have leaked to the public so easily.

Even if he had heard rumors, it was just a messy internal family dispute, making it hard to directly trace back to Liliana.

"I don't need to know the details," Quentin replied smoothly. "I simply take whatever suffering you endured and return it tenfold to your enemies. It's how I've always operated."

Stunned by his ruthless efficiency, Madeline fell silent for a moment before looking up, her clear, bright eyes locking onto his as she asked the question burning in her chest: "Have you been protecting me... because there's something unusual about my real identity? Did you know my parents?"

After a beat, she looked him in the eye and said, "I want to know."

She wanted to know why searching for her own bloodline was supposedly a death sentence.

What terrible secret was hiding in her past? She had already sensed the danger lurking beneath the surface—if it wasn't dangerous, why had her grandmother kept it hidden for so long?

Even when her grandmother saw her heart shattered by Liliana stealing Lucius, and watched her suffer a miscarriage in silence because she had no family to defend her, she had taken the secret to her grave, never giving Madeline a single hint about who she really was.

Madeline knew her grandmother had kept her in the dark to protect her.

But in this moment, her resolve was absolute; she refused to live her life in a haze, forever ignorant of her parents' names and their story.

She refused to forget them.

Quentin studied her. "Are you really so eager to walk into your own grave?"