I Chose Me Over My Marriage novel Chapter 96

His breaking point arrived in a split second.

"You expected me to run the company, but did you ever provide me with the resources to do so?"

Maxwell looked up, his eyes meeting Godfrey's with a chilling, deadpan calmness.

Godfrey furrowed his brow heavily. "What did you say?"

"Marcus might not work at headquarters, but all these years, you've been secretly building his network and funnelling resources his way. You've happily bribed and schmoozed the upper-crust socialites for him. But when it came to me, I had to fight tooth and nail just to handle the board of directors on my own. Despite that, I've consistently led the company to record profits, never taking a step backward, never acting out of self-interest. I didn't even get a say in my own marriage! You're right, you shouldn't have trusted me, because from the very beginning, you never believed in me anyway!"

Decades of buried resentment finally found a release valve, and once the floodgates opened, there was no stopping the torrent.

Godfrey stared at Maxwell with wide eyes, as if he had just heard the most ridiculous joke on earth, before letting out a harsh bark of laughter.

"That is because you've always been inferior to Marcus! You..."

Before Godfrey could finish, Maxwell sharply cut him off.

"Am I really inferior to him, or is it just because your second son married a much better daughter-in-law? In your eyes, only an impeccable pedigree earns the right to your resources, isn't that it?"

Marcus's mother hailed from a prestigious aristocratic family, far outranking Maxwell's own mother in wealth and status.

In many ways, Marcus's mother was just like Lyra—in Godfrey's eyes, they were nothing more than powerful political chess pieces.

"When Lyra was by my side, you were willing to spare me a glance. So why did you abandon the first wife who helped you build this empire from scratch, just to marry someone else? You drained her of her value, then found someone you actually liked. In a way, isn't that exactly what runs in the Sterling bloodline? Grandfather, you and I are exactly the same, so spare me your self-righteous lectures."

He was sick of listening to it, utterly exhausted by the hypocrisy.

These dusty, buried scandals had practically become taboo within the Sterling household.

Godfrey had never expected the day would come when those old skeletons would be dragged out into the light.

Especially not by Maxwell.

Out in the hallway, Mrs. Sterling Sr. was practically vibrating with panic.

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