The Hidden Empress Stripping Her Secrets After Divorce novel Chapter 93

"What?!" Her mother's face drained of color, her designer handbag slipping from her grip and hitting the floor with a heavy thud.

Her father's pupils contracted sharply. He took a massive stride forward and grabbed Lyra by the shoulders. "Explain yourself! What tip? How could anyone know about that?!"

Lyra winced from his tight grip, but she ignored the discomfort, frantically repeating everything Vivian had told her. Her voice shook with absolute despair. "...It practically spells out my name! If those files are published, I'm ruined! The Langford family is ruined! There is no way the Lancasters will ever accept me as a daughter-in-law!"

"How could you be so careless!" her mother shrieked, furious and panicked, pointing an accusatory finger at her. "I told you to keep your head down when you were abroad! But what did you do? You got yourself knocked up and left behind a mountain of evidence! Now that someone caught you, what do you expect us to do?!"

"Keep my head down?!" Lyra's head snapped up. Years of suppressed grievances instantly erupted, fueled by her current terror and rage. She glared at her mother with bloodshot eyes. "When the family's business was failing and the cash flow almost completely dried up, Dad was so stressed his hair turned white! You sent me abroad to 'weather the storm,' but weren't you really just sending me off to find a wealthy backer?! Barely a year in, the family was on the brink of collapse! Lawrence Lancaster was in charge of their family back then—there was no way he was going to bail us out! It was me! I was the one who found someone and got that lifeline money! Did you think those funds just fell from the sky?! I was all alone in a foreign country! Who else could I rely on but myself?!"

Her words crashed down like a heavy sledgehammer, entirely shattering the delicate illusion they had maintained for years. Her mother froze, mouth agape, her face flashing violently between red and white.

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