Caryn looked at Sephina. "Any questions about my presence here now?"
Sephina’s gaze was filled with anger, as if she were throwing daggers at her. She knew well that Caryn was never an easy person to deal with—she was always a step ahead of everyone.
Jay, who was fuming with anger, finally spoke. "How dare you show up here, even if you were alive? You were married to me, yet you had an affair and made me raise your child? You immoral woman. My mother was always right—you were a slu—"
"Jay Ford," Caryn’s sharp, authoritative voice interrupted him. "You should take a better look at yourself before insulting me. A manwhore like you, who had a mistress while married, has no right to judge me. You better not go there, or I might let your current mistress know that she wasn’t the only one."
Clara’s anger flared. "How dare you slander Jay?"
"You are the very reason I can slander him openly," Caryn said. "Now shut up and speak only if you want to hear about his other mistresses."
Clara looked at Jay, who immediately said, "Don’t trust her. She’s trying to sow discord between us."
Natalie could only remain a bystander as her mother, though weak, still dominated everyone.
Sephina spoke. "Caryn, even if you have those shares, you no longer hold power in this company like before. Only someone with Ford blood can lead this company, and that person is Briena—my granddaughter."
"So, to lead this company, one needs to have the blood of the Ford family?" Caryn asked mockingly. "That means the blood of Albert Ford’s family line?" She looked at Albert, who remained calm but, at the same time, utterly helpless.
"Of course, that’s what I mean," Sephina replied. "Bastards are not allowed here."
"Sephina," Albert said, "I ask you to keep quiet and decide company matters based on capability, which is what we need to run this company."
"Albert, you have always been biased toward this mother and daughter. I wonder what they have been feeding you all these years, but now it’s enough." She pointed at Caryn. "This woman cheated on our son, and that girl is a bastard. I won’t let them stay in our family or our business. They are not our blood."
"With that being said, then Jay and his daughter Briena should be kicked out as well," Caryn said.
"Why would we kick out our own flesh and blood?" Sephina growled. "He is the only son Albert and I have."
"Are you sure he is your son?" Caryn asked, then turned to Albert. "I won’t apologize for what I’m saying today."
"Caryn..." Albert said in a helpless tone.
"My daughter has suffered enough in your family for me to consider anything else now," Caryn declared as she looked at Albert. "We owe nothing to each other now."
"What are you two implying?" Sephina asked, noticing Albert’s guilty expression.
"There’s another news report trending. You might want to take a look at it," Caryn said.
Everyone checked their devices, and the revelation left them speechless.
Sephina turned to Caryn in fury. "What nonsense is this?"
"It’s the truth, Sephina. You should take a good look at it," Caryn replied. "You can ask your husband if it’s a lie."
Sephina looked at Albert. "Albert, this report says Jay is not my son?"
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Eric turned her wheelchair while Natalie quietly followed her mother.
Inside the meeting room, Jay couldn’t help but ask, "Father, please tell me it’s not true."
Albert sighed and explained. "Back then I was so busy with building my company that I ignored Sephina. When she was pregnant and needed me the most, I was never with her. My negligence not just affected her mentally but later made her lose her child as well. The situation was serious that doctors somehow managed to save her, but said she would never be able to have a child again.
"Sephina’s condition was bad and she was not in a mentality for any kind of shock. It was all my fault and out of guilt towards her, I had to take that step. When she woke up after two days, I had already found an orphan child to show it to her as hers. All I did was to keep her happy and get rid of my own guilt."
"You are so cruel, Albert," Sephina mumbled and stood up from her chair as her assistant helped her. "Take me back home."
"Mother," Jay called her, but she didn’t reply.
After Sephina, Albert left as well, leaving Jay, Clara and Briena behind.
"M-Mom, what would happen now? Will grandma disown us now?" Briena asked nervously.
"She won’t. She hates Caryn more than anything," Clara assured.
"Mom, I don’t want to lose all of this," she mumbled.
"Shut up you two," Jay exclaimed angrily and left the meeting room. Today his pride was gravely hurt. He was cheated by his wife, and then he was not the son of the Ford family.
Clara sat in the chair helplessly as she watched Jay leave. ’Where things have gone wrong?’ All she had done was to expose Natalie’s birth secret, but now they were the ones ended up exposed with something even more shocking.
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