Chapter 285 An Explanation
The two of them turned to look at the sound at the same time.
They saw Amelia ignoring her injured ankle, rushing down the stairs step by step.
Her eyes, once gentle as water, now burned with fury.
She charged straight up to Ethan, her breathing still uneven from moving too fast.
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“Ethan!” Amelia lifted her chin and glared at him, righteous and furious. “How can you assume everyone is as filthy–minded as you?!”
Ethan was stunned by her sudden appearance and accusation.
Amelia didn’t pause and pressed on. “Mason telling you to divorce me is him sparing your dignity! He doesn’t want you to lose so badly in front of the media and everyone else!”
The injustice in her chest boiled over.
The next second, she almost blurted out the truth about the divorce agreement, determined to let Ethan know that this was never about whether he wanted a divorce–she had already wanted out long ago.
“Actually, we…”
But just as the words left her mouth, Mason’s large hand suddenly closed around her wrist, gently pulling her back.
He cut off what she was about to say.
Frowning slightly, he asked in a low voice, “Amelia, why did you come down?”
Then, his gaze dropped to her slightly swollen ankle, his voice sinking.
“Do you want to lose that foot?”
Amelia had run down purely on a surge of reckless courage.
The moment she heard Ethan using such vile, despicable thoughts to speculate about Mason, the last string in her mind snapped.
She could endure Ethan’s coldness and misunderstandings toward her, but she would never allow him to stain Mason like this.
So even if it meant tearing everything open and confronting it head–on, she had to protect
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Yet, that blazing courage was instantly doused when it met Mason’s eyes, tinged with faint. reproach.
This subtle exchange, however, landed in Ethan’s eyes as the final straw, crushing his reason,
Watching his own wife reveal a soft, almost girlish side in front of another man right in front of him…
This enraged him more than any malicious speculation ever could.
“Enough!” Enraged, Ethan pointed at Amelia and shouted, “Amelia, you’re the one at the center of the scandal right now! And you two are still trying to gang up on me and force me into a divorce?”
Amelia was so angry at his shameless twisting of the facts that she laughed.
She shook off Mason’s hand, stepped forward, and met Ethan’s flushed face head–on.
“Ethan, you really have the nerve to say something like that.”
She fired back mercilessly. “It’s just a photo of me hugging someone, and you act like the sky is falling, like I’ve committed some unforgivable betrayal against you.”
The mockery in her eyes deepened.
“Then, why don’t you take a good look? The background of that photo–the garden–doesn’t it look familiar to you?
“Wasn’t that the day you dragged me to a business banquet, then stood by while your precious buddy teamed up with Hannah to bully me, and Hannah even slapped me?”
At her words, Ethan’s memories surged up, his pupils shrinking visibly.
“If a single hug is enough to convict me, then you, Ethan, should be the first to be beyond. redemption.
“I am still your legal wife, yet you dared to bring Hannah and her daughter Isla back to the family estate, flirting right in front of me as if I didn’t exist!
“You didn’t just place Hannah into the company–you were photographed again and again taking her and her daughter out to eat like one happy little family of three!
“And just a few days ago, you openly brought her to a charity auction and let her be your
With every sentence, Amelia stepped closer.
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All the grievances she had suppressed for far too long finally erupted.
“Ethan, ask yourself, who exactly humiliated whom? Who was trampling this marriage?”
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She stood right in front of him, chin lifted. The eyes that had once been filled with love now held nothing but ice.
“Did you really think that just because I didn’t explode openly, you could keep dancing on my boundaries however you pleased?”
Her ruthless accusations stabbed straight into Ethan’s already crumbling pride.
Yet the ugliness in a man’s nature made it impossible for him to admit his fault at this moment.
To admit it would mean total defeat in this confrontation.
So, humiliation twisted into rage became his only option.
“There is nothing between Hannah and me!” he practically roared, trying to drown out his guilt through sheer volume. “I take care of them out of moral obligation! What does that have to do with our marriage?”
He even argued forcefully, trying to wrest control back. “Amelia, don’t forget who you are! You’re still my wife, still the daughter–in–law of this family! Now that these scandalous photos have caused an uproar everywhere, instead of reflecting on yourself, you’re standing here making trouble! You must give me–give this family–an explanation!”
“An explanation?”
“How do you want me to explain?” Amelia asked softly, every word laced with biting sarcasm. “Should I get on my knees and beg for your forgiveness? Or go in front of the media and admit that I’m promiscuous–just to complete your image as the innocent, wronged heir?”
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Sara Lili is a daring romance writer who turns icy landscapes into scenes of fiery passion. She loves crafting hot love stories while embracing the chill of Iceland’s breathtaking cold.

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