Unwanted Fake Wife The Top Billionaire novel Chapter 136

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“If I hadn’t seen Elena’s report online, would you have hidden this from me indefinitely?”

Charles was accustomed to browsing online. That morning, while planning a fishing trip with old friends, he came across the article about the factory fire. He asked Daniel to look into it, and what they uncovered was far more serious than the fire itself.

Nathan pressed his palm to his burning cheek. “I didn’t want you to worry.”

“He was only concerned about your health,” Victoria added quickly. “Right now, we should focus on getting Victor out. He can’t stay in custody.”

“Nathan, come with me,” Charles said flatly.

In the study, Charles closed the door and looked at him carefully.

“Do you know who Elena has been in contact with recently?”

Nathan said nothing.

Charles narrowed his eyes. “How much do you know about your father’s actions?”

Still silence.

“Did you have

any involvement?”

The room felt heavy.

Nathan’s heart sank. The fact that Charles was asking meant he already knew what Victor had done while serving as executive president.

“I’m giving you one last chance,” Charles said quietly. “If you’re not honest now, you can forget about Hawthorne Group entirely.”

Nathan clenched his jaw.

He had endured so much for the sake of inheriting the company and securing Charles’s shares.

As that realization settled in, Nathan felt a surge of resentment toward Victor. When he had first uncovered the embezzlement, he had warned him more than once, urging him to clean it up and stop before it spiraled, but Victor had dismissed every warning as if Nathan were overreacting and insisted he knew exactly what he was doing.

If Victor had pulled back when he still had the chance, none of this would have escalated to this point.

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And if prison was ultimately where this led, then it would be the consequence of his own

choices.

After weighing the risks and benefits in his mind, calculating what could still be salvaged and what had to be sacrificed, Nathan made his decision. He laid everything out, detailing the ways Victor had used his position over the years to divert funds, manipulate internal approvals, and leverage company resources for personal gain, holding nothing back.

Charles had already prepared himself for the worst. After reading Elena’s report, he had quietly ordered a private investigation, so he was not walking into this conversation blind. Even so, hearing Nathan confirm it in plain terms made his fingers curl tightly against the armrest of his chair, the tendons standing out as he struggled to steady his breathing.

For a moment, it seemed as though the weight of it might physically overwhelm him.

“Grandpa, please calm down. Dad is already in custody. You cannot let this affect your health.”

Nathan dropped to his knees and steadied him.

After a long moment, Charles regained composure and looked at his grandson with eyes clouded by disappointment.

“This morning I received an anonymous package,” he said. “It was sent three days ago from Marcus’s firm. It contained documented evidence of your father’s misconduct.”

Nathan stared at him in shock.

He had asked Marcus to defend Victor, yet Marcus had compiled evidence and delivered it directly to Charles.

“Doesn’t that strike you as strange?” Charles asked pointedly.

Nathan’s thoughts raced. Marcus had suddenly disappeared overseas. Before leaving, he sent that package. Elena had published that article. Charles’s first question in the study echoed in his mind.

“Are you saying Elena bought him off?” Nathan blurted out, then immediately shook his head. “That makes no sense. Marcus cares about money, but Elena’s salary at Velmora Media wouldn’t even begin to cover what it would take.”

Looking at Nathan standing in front of him, Charles could not help thinking that his grandson had a sharp mind when it suited him, yet at other times displayed a level of shortsightedness that bordered on self–sabotage, and that inconsistency was precisely why Charles had refused, all these years, to hand over his shares or formally secure Nathan’s position within Hawthorne Group.

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“You may not value her,” he said slowly, “but that doesn’t mean no one else does

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