Bye-bye Trash! Hello Queen! novel Chapter 1015

Joanna was in torment. Everything she had worked for was all for nothing. All of it had gone to Natalie.

What was even more hateful was that Natalie was more brilliant than she was.

Why?

Why on earth was Natalie so exceptional?

She wracked her brain but couldn't figure it out.

A wild child brought back from the countryside who had somehow been studying abroad all along—where did it all go wrong?

She suddenly looked at Maxwell Griffith, her gaze icy. "Natalie has already divorced Sebastian, and she still got everything. Maxwell, how can you expect me to accept this? How can I be calm? How can I be rational?"

"I've waited over a decade for this moment, and in the end, I just paved the way for Natalie, the woman I despise most. Maxwell, my heart is breaking!"

"I can't accept it. Our decade of planning was all for Natalie's benefit."

Just thinking about Natalie's calm and composed face made her feel like she was falling apart.

Joanna collapsed into Maxwell Griffith's arms, sobbing her heart out.

Everything had slipped through her fingers.

She was in so much pain. The planning that had spanned more than a decade had cost her countless hours of effort and energy, not to mention the time spent comforting a tormented Sebastian.

She had designed all sorts of schemes to get Sebastian's attention.

She had meticulously planned all her hopes and dreams, pouring her entire being into them, but in that moment, everything came crashing down, turning to dust.

Maxwell Griffith gently patted her back, comforting her with a smile. "What are you crying for? You still have me, don't you? Even without Sebastian's assets, the company I control can give you an even better life."

Hearing these comforting words, Joanna's eyes darkened, and her crying subsided.

But how could that be enough?

It wasn't nearly enough.

Natalie had shown them to Sebastian.

Joanna was stunned. "Could that have been where it all went wrong?"

Maxwell Griffith frowned. "Joanna, why would he know? Do you know something?"

Joanna wiped away her tears and said in a low voice, "The pictures of us in bed... I sent them to Natalie. It was to provoke her, to make her leave Sebastian."

"She already showed the photos to Sebastian. Could he have found out about you from them?"

Smack! Maxwell’s hand moved in a blur, the sharp crack of his palm against Joanna's cheek silencing her instantly.

His gaze was dark. "Joanna, I've warned you countless times that Sebastian is cunning and suspicious by nature. He grew up in an unloving environment and is wary of everyone."

"That's why my father had you deliberately get close to him in your teens, to build the bond of childhood friends so he would let his guard down around you."

"But what have you done? You, who are so smart, who can run so many companies, how could you be so stupid?"