Eight Years of Maybe One Day of I Do—Bride Swapped Deal With It novel Chapter 77

Chapter 7

I turned and grinned. “Dad!”

“I thought you were sending a driver. Why’d you come yourself?”

Dad gently patted my hair, and I leaned into his hand slightly.

“If I didn’t come, how would I know what other stupid things your ex was planning to pull?”

He looked at Silas with pure disgust.

Silas’s head dropped, trembling. Regret flooded through him.

The ladder to success had been right beside him the whole time. Why did he go chasing after Cora instead?

“U-Uncle…”

Cora stammered, but Dad immediately cut her off. “Uncle? I don’t have a niece like you.”

His voice was ice-cold. Silas’s whole body jolted. His face went red.

I let out a faint smile.

Dad had cut off this “niece” a long time ago.

Because she was the daughter of his brother’s mistress. A child born from an affair.

Cora and her mother were cut from the same cloth-arrogant and spoiled.

But her mother’s mistakes were unforgivable.

In one accident, she’d killed Dad’s brother, his sister-in-law, and their three-month-old baby.

Dad had supported Cora financially out of principle-the child was innocent.

But she and her mother were both trouble.

She constantly used his name to cause problems, notorious in their circles as a “disaster.”

Eventually Dad got fed up. Cut off her funds.

When she couldn’t make it overseas anymore, she came back and wormed her way into the domestic office.

“I know what you are. Not worth my time.”

Dad shifted his gaze from Cora to Silas. “But YOU, Silas.”

“I thought you were decent. That my daughter saw something in you. That you’d treated her well for six years.”

“Turns out you were just waiting for the right moment to show your true colors.”

“One promotion. One Cora. That’s all it took for the mask to come off.”

Dad wasn’t holding back. Silas’s face went from pale to red, shoulders shaking. Couldn’t even look up.

“Whatever. Reagan was already talking to me about getting engaged. Good thing she wised up fast and saw through you.”

Dad smiled and patted my shoulder.

“Let’s go. I made your favorite stuff for a late-night snack.”

“Don’t waste your time on people who aren’t worth it.”

I followed Dad out. Behind us, the sound of arguing gradually started up.

Silas blaming Cora for putting on an act and ruining everything for him.

Cora calling him a backstabbing snake who made her sick.

So predictable and boring.

Not even half as interesting as the hazelnut cake Dad had waiting for me.

Honestly, the going-away party was just one tiny blip in my schedule.

I couldn’t care less about Silas and Cora’s mess. Their impact on me had ended a month ago.

What mattered now was the new chapter in my career.

Seven years of hard work. The higher the position, the heavier the responsibility. I had to be fully prepared.

After spending two weeks with Dad at headquarters, I flew back home to start handling the work transition.

And back at the domestic office, the truth about my identity was no longer a secret. Word spread like wildfire through the entire company.

But everyone took it in stride. No one talked behind my back.

People treated me the same as always-kept that sense of professionalism.

Nothing really changed.

Instead, the gossip about Tech became the hottest topic among employees. Even hotter than me.

The model couple who’d been so lovey-dovey and public about their relationship?

After one trip overseas, they came back total strangers.

“That’s it?”

“What was Cora even acting high and mighty for? I thought she was actually untouchable.”

After hearing about the drama that went down at headquarters, Marin snorted in disgust.

“She’s been pulling this crap forever, using that distant family connection.”

“Finance came to me complaining once-said she forced them to expense her personal stuff on the company card. They didn’t dare say no.”

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