Three Years Forgotten, Why Go Crazy When I Say Goodbye? novel Chapter 560

With that, Silas turned to leave. Before he walked away, he threw a final warning over his shoulder. "From now on, stay the hell away from Willow. Don't show your face in her life, and don't harass her. If I catch you coming anywhere near her again, I will end you."

Julian's expression, already dark, plummeted into a dangerous scowl. His fists clenched so tightly his knuckles turned white, his eyes burning with resentment and fury. "Willow and I are legally married! Who the hell are you to interfere in our business? You're the other man, yet you're acting like you're on a moral crusade!"

Silas's lips quirked into a ghost of a smile, absolutely dripping with contempt. The ice in his eyes grew colder. "Married? A dead marriage where you're just unilaterally harassing her—you call that a marriage?"

The only reason Silas was wasting his breath on this trash instead of stepping in and destroying him was because Willow hadn't asked him to yet. He respected her, so he held back. But that didn't mean he would sit on the sidelines forever.

Julian's chest heaved. Silas's dominating declaration made him feel suffocated, trapped between rage and absolute powerlessness. "What? Is Mr. Thorne openly admitting to stealing another man's wife? Using your power to bully others?"

"Call it whatever you want," Silas replied, completely unfazed by the taunt. He was open, dominant, and didn't try to hide a thing. His voice rang with undeniable certainty. "I am going to make Willow mine."

Those words fell lightly from his lips, but they slammed into Julian's chest like a boulder, crushing his last pathetic delusion.

Silas watched him quietly, staring at the hysterical, delusional man in front of him. His eyes were devoid of anything but freezing apathy. "People move forward. No one stays trapped in the past forever. Her past obsession was just youthful ignorance. She picked the wrong man. But instead of cherishing her, you bled her dry and ground her gentle heart into dust. She hit her limit, and she walked away. You're living in a pathetic fantasy, humiliating yourself over a past that doesn't exist anymore."

That blunt, surgical breakdown struck Julian exactly where it hurt, stripping him of whatever dignity he had left. Suddenly, he burst out laughing. His eyes turned dark and malicious, filled with ugly suspicion. "I get it now. You're so hell-bent on stealing my wife, interfering in someone else's marriage... When it comes down to it, you just want her skills, don't you? You just want her genius in the lab!"

"I'll admit, Willow is talented. She's smarter than most. But at the end of the day, she's just a regular woman, and there are plenty of women like her. For the almighty CEO of Merit Biotech to stoop to stealing another man's wife just for a researcher... don't you think that's a little pathetic?"