Betrayed by the Father Reborn in His Rival's Arms novel Chapter 463

Madeline turned and walked out of the restaurant.

Quentin tried to go after her, but Lucius and Tristan stepped into his path, blocking him together.

Quentin's fists cracked at his sides.

"She said she needs a minute to herself," Lucius warned.

Tristan closed the distance, his expression grim.

"Quentin, you are going to tell me exactly what happened between you and Penelope at the hotel. From start to finish."

Quentin hadn't brought many bodyguards, and Tristan signaled his own men to form a barricade. A tense standoff ensued.

Tristan had no choice. He needed to know if Quentin had actually slept with his sister.

Comparing the online uproar to the released recording, it didn't seem possible. If Penelope had truly been taken advantage of, she wouldn't have stayed entirely silent while Quentin published audio that humiliated her.

Penelope had never been the type to swallow a grievance.

But looking at it from another angle, Penelope's phone was filled with intimate photos of Quentin, all taken in that hotel room.

Now that she was pregnant, who else could Tristan suspect?

Aside from that night at the hotel, his sister hadn't stepped foot outside The York Manor for nearly a month. There was absolutely zero chance she had been with another man.

Besides, a pregnancy test took a few weeks to show a positive result.

Tristan couldn't think of any other logical explanation.

Finally, Quentin glared fiercely at Tristan, shoved his arm out of the way, and stormed off in pursuit of his wife.

Madeline hurried through the estate's sprawling gardens, the scent of white camellias feeling unusually sharp and cold in the night air.

She didn't know where she was going. She just instinctively wanted to get as far away from that noisy, calculating, and malicious gathering as possible.

She reached a wrought-iron bench at the end of the path and finally collapsed onto it, no longer able to hold herself up.

The tears broke free.

She didn't even know why she was crying.