She Left She Thrived She’s Worth Billions novel Chapter 94

The room was silent.

Just as Gavin thought Dominic had fallen asleep, he saw him slowly lift his gaze.

His alcohol-clouded eyes seemed lost in deep recollection.

"Evelyn… she's the one who saved my life…"

"I know that story,"

Gavin retorted impatiently.

The Hale family had adopted the orphaned Evelyn precisely because she had saved Dominic's life.

It happened when Dominic was in middle school on a school trip to Belvaria. He was bitten by a poisonous snake in a scenic area.

It was Evelyn who had promptly sucked the venom out, saving his life.

"Just because she saved you, you're bound to her for life? Hasn't your family already repaid that debt by adopting her?"

Faced with Gavin's accusation, Dominic remained silent.

Even though many years had passed, he still remembered a voice that gave him the will to live as he drifted in and out of consciousness from the poison.

"You're lucky you ran into me. Don't worry, you're not going to die."

That voice had long since faded into a blur in his memory.

But he still vividly remembered the flutter in his heart it had caused.

When he opened his eyes, the first thing he saw was Evelyn on the ground, sucking the poisoned blood from his wound, bit by bit.

"You don't understand, Gavin… I fell for her before I even saw her face… That accident, to me, was a fateful encounter with true love…"

"What about Melanie, then? Have you ever thought about her feelings?"

At the mention of Melanie, the drunken haze in Dominic's eyes couldn't mask his resentment.

"Gavin, you said earlier that our family adopting Evelyn was how we repaid our debt to her?"

"Isn't it?"

Gavin asked, watching as Dominic shook his head in resignation.

"On the contrary, by adopting Evelyn… our family betrayed her."

"What?"

"It means she has the money to mess around with any man she wants!"

Dominic sat up, his face flushed red, whether from the alcohol or from anger.

"Take my company's bankruptcy, for example… Do you know what Melanie was doing while all this was happening?"

Dominic asked, and Gavin shook his head.

"She's spending twenty million dollars taking some boy toy out to dinner!"

Dominic's words left Gavin speechless.

Now, finally, Gavin stopped defending Melanie. The silence was a relief to Dominic.

Even if Evelyn had caused his company to go bankrupt, at least it wasn't intentional.

She had just been careless, and she'd been tricked.

But Melanie spending twenty million dollars on dinner with a boy toy was a deliberate act.

Thinking about it that way, Dominic felt his attitude toward Evelyn tonight had been completely out of line.

No matter what mistakes Evelyn had made, her intentions, at least, were to help his company.