He Lost Me to His Best Friend novel Chapter 434

His lips trembling, Yardley looked at Julian, his voice a broken rasp. "You... you knew all along?"

Julian let out a cold laugh, casually tossing the folders onto the floor. His eyes were filled with nothing but contempt. "Yardley, whether I knew or not doesn't matter. What matters is that you chose to believe lies over the truth. You chose to protect a fraud over your own wife and child. You brought this entire disaster upon yourself!"

Yardley froze. He stared at Julian for a long time, completely at a loss for words.

The crowd was practically rioting with indignation. The harsh, piercing criticisms echoing around the room made the color drain from Yardley's face, leaving him pale and sick.

Corinne, who had woken up after taking her medication, continued to lie on the floor, playing dead to avoid dealing with the catastrophic fallout.

Realizing the tide had violently turned against them, Sylvia, Melanie, and Gwen tried to use the chaos to slip away unnoticed.

But they barely made it a few steps before they were swarmed by a mob of furious, wealthy socialites who backed the three of them straight into a wall.

The meticulously crafted reputations of the Flynn and Stetson families collapsed in real-time.

The immense trust these women once had in Corinne and Gwen had instantly morphed into explosive rage.

"Gwen, you're not going anywhere! You call your accountants right now and have them bring every single ledger to this room!"

"Exactly! If your daughter is capable of something so utterly degenerate, it proves your entire family is rotten to the core! Hand the books over!"

"I've donated over ten million to this charity over the years! If I find out you've been embezzling the money I gave to help people, I will absolutely destroy you!"

"Hand them over! Now! I'm losing my temper! Don't make me slap it out of you!"

The furious women were practically spitting in their faces.

Melanie, who had never been subjected to such humiliation in her life, snapped. She lost her mind and screamed, "Get out of my way, you crazed bitches!"

It was the worst possible thing she could have said.

Melanie took over a dozen brutal slaps, her face swelling up instantly.

Sylvia was seeing stars. Her face was battered, and one of her teeth was knocked completely loose by the onslaught.

Finally, police officers stormed into the room, physically pulling the infuriated women off them.

Melanie and Sylvia slumped against the wall, covered in blood, looking like absolute wrecks.

Catching sight of the uniformed officers, a glimmer of hope sparked in Sylvia's eyes. She suddenly remembered that Gunnar Stetson was a distant relative of her family. She dragged herself across the floor toward him.

"Commissioner Stetson! Help me! I'm Silas Stetson's daughter! I... I'm being framed..."

"Take them all in for a full investigation," Gunnar cut her off coldly, not even sparing her a second glance as he gave the order to the officers behind him.

A second later, two officers hauled Sylvia off the ground by her arms, dragging her away like a ragdoll.