Substitute Wife, Genius CEO novel Chapter 184

Having spun the same lies for seven years, Xavier was practically an expert. The manipulative excuses rolled effortlessly off his tongue.

"I told you, it's just a misunderstanding! I only see her as a friend, as the person who saved my life. There is absolutely nothing going on between us."

Summer's face twisted in disgust. "Xavier, drop the act. It's truly nauseating."

"Summer, think this through carefully. The Sterling Group's legal team doesn't play around. If you really want a divorce, I can give it to you, but you will leave with nothing. And custody of Leo will strictly remain with the Sterling family."

This bastard actually wanted her to walk away with nothing.

On what grounds?

Summer sneered. "You cheated on me during our marriage, your family physically abused my son, and you want me to leave with nothing?"

Looking as composed as he would in a boardroom negotiation, Xavier replied smoothly, "Summer, those are just your paranoid delusions. In court, everything requires evidence."

"Who says I don't have evidence?" Summer shot him a half-smile that didn't reach her eyes. "Over the years, every time you went to the US on a 'business trip,' I've gathered plenty of explicit videos of you and Wildflower Lily hooking up in public, in private, whenever the mood struck you animals. Do you need me to send them to you so you can review them? The quality is surprisingly crisp."

Xavier couldn't tell if she was bluffing. He stared at her, his unreadable eyes filled with intense scrutiny.

Without another word, Summer unblocked Xavier's number and fired off a video of the two of them hooking up in a car.

The moment the video played, the man's heavy panting and the woman's sticky, high-pitched moans immediately echoed through the cabin.

"Since the day we got married, I poured my heart into helping you at the company. Even when I was pregnant, I didn't take a single day off. Did you know I fainted while I was pregnant? Did you know I woke up with cramps in the middle of the night? Did you know I had a difficult labor and hemorrhaged when I gave birth to Leo?"

"I haven't even started listing my grievances, and you have the audacity to turn this around on me? So, you know what it feels like to be played and deceived. What about me? I was kept in the dark, lied to for seven years, played for a fool for seven years. Did I deserve that?"

"All I want is a divorce. I want the share of the assets that belongs to me, and I want the son I carried for nine months. Am I wrong for that?"

"Xavier, the fact that I haven't leaked your disgusting sex tapes to the entire world is me giving you the last shred of dignity you'll ever get. Don't push your luck. Learn when to fold, understand?"

"If you don't want Lily's reputation destroyed, if you don't want her branded as a homewrecker the whole world spits on, and if you don't want the child in her belly called a bastard... then you will sign the divorce papers quickly and quietly. I want the money, and I want custody of Leo."