Betrayed by the Father Reborn in His Rival's Arms novel Chapter 216

Crying in absolute despair, she had no choice but to take all her anger out on Madeline.

Lucius, of course, knew he bore some responsibility for Liliana's miscarriage scare on the night of her engagement.

Otherwise, he wouldn't have swallowed his pride and forced himself to come check on her.

Under the old woman's piercing glare, Lucius had no choice but to answer. "I haven't prepared myself to remarry yet, so I didn't go."

His blunt confession shocked everyone. Eleanor narrowed her eyes, her voice dripping with menace. "Are you saying we are forcing you to the altar against your will?"

Lucius caught the threat loud and clear. With Liliana in the hospital, his absence yesterday, and his rebellious attitude today, he was playing with fire.

Eleanor would definitely make a move against him.

She might even go straight to Arthur Whitman and complain.

He had to de-escalate. He lowered his head and said, "I just need a little time to process things. If you want to vent your anger for Liliana, you can take it out on me. This has nothing to do with Madeline."

Grant couldn't hold back. "Lucius, how do you know it has nothing to do with her?

Some people look innocent but have incredibly vicious hearts.

Back then, didn't she deliberately break Liliana's leg in less than a day just because she accidentally broke her own?

With a mind like that, how can you guarantee she didn't do something to Liliana?"

Lucius paused. He knew it was a fact that Madeline had broken Liliana's leg.

Even though Grant and the doctors had lied about it later to get her better treatment, it had still happened.

Simply put, from the moment Sheri learned Liliana was the Prescott heiress, she had been scheming to use her as a ladder into their ranks.

Her ultimate goal was to marry Liliana's cousin, Quentin Prescott—the sole heir to the empire—and secure her future by bearing him children to inherit the vast fortune.

And this old woman sitting right in front of her was Quentin's biological grandmother.

She was also Quentin's only living relative.

If she could just win Eleanor over, she had a massive chance of being accepted as her granddaughter-in-law.

Her calculations were practically ringing in her head. At that moment, they arrived at the hospital room.

The group piled into Liliana's private suite. To avoid being thrown in a private prison by Eleanor's unchecked power, Madeline had to follow them inside to prove her innocence.