Chapter 250
Chapter 250
“Noelle, you are such a good girl, always putting everyone else first. You’ve suffered so much,” Elaine said, feeling as though a thousand arrows were piercing her heart. She was blessed with such a
onsiderate, gentle daughter, yet she couldn’t even protect her.
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Sitting in The VIP Observation Room, Josephine watched the entire spectacle unfold through a one-way mirror.
Her face betrayed no emotion, but Ava, standing beside her, felt a pang of sympathy.
“Ma’am, Miss Sanders is…”
“She won’t die,” Josephine remarked flatly. “Pain is the only teacher that forces a person to wake up.”
Ava immediately fell silent, stepping back respectfully. She looked at the seventy-eight-year-old matriarch, noting the deep lines etched into her face by time, yet her eyes burned as sharply as ever.
Finnian had been away from the conglomerate all day. The moment he heard about the press conference, he rushed to wrap up a meeting and hurried back.
In the car, Dexter played a clip from the press conference. In just ten short minutes, Noelle had apologized profusely, then tragically forgot her injury while trying to stand out of respect, resulting in a brutal second fall. The pain was so intense it had literally knocked her unconscious.
Watching the video, Finnian’s throat went tight, and the veins on the back of his hand bulged with rage.
He immediately dialed Elaine to demand answers.
Elaine had just dropped Brynlee off at the estate and was rushing to the hospital. Furious upon hearing that Noelle had fallen yet again and was now comatose, Elaine immediately launched into a vicious tirade against Kaia. Only after she vented did she reveal that the press conference was Josephine’s doing, and that the statement Noelle read had been ghostwritten by the matriarch’s team. It wasn’t an apology; it was a public humiliation.
Finnian comforted his mother, telling her to take good care of Noelle at the hospital. Then, he ordered his driver, “To Veridian Future.”
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By the time he arrived shortly after five, the Veridian Future offices were just letting out for the day.
Finnian suddenly appeared in Kaia’s office just as she was wrapping up a conversation with a few technicians. Standing in the doorway, his eyes were bloodshot, and he looked like a bowstring pulled past its absolute limit, ready to snap at any second.
Terrified by Finnian’s murderous aura, the technicians quickly made their excuses and fled the room.
“Can I help you?” Kaia looked in confusion at the uninvited guest.
Finnian stared at her calm face, his expression swirling with dark, unintelligible emotions.
It was the first time Kaia had ever seen him look so conflicted. He looked as though he wanted to scream at her, yet was forcefully repressing it. It looked like pure rage, intertwined with something completely unfamiliar.
“Noelle was forced by Grandmother to hold a press conference. Did you know about this?” As he stepped inside, he violently slammed the door shut. The deafening crash made Kaia freeze as she was sorting her files. “I just saw the news. What about it?” Kaia had indeed seen the headlines, but she hadn’t paid them much mind. She simply viewed it as another pathetic act in Noelle’s endless play-feigning weakness to harvest more pity and attention from Finnian.
Kaia had absolutely zero interest in participating in the woman’s self-directed soap opera. Out of sight, out of mind.
But why was Finnian storming into her office?
She was genuinely confused.
“Noelle read the humiliating statement Grandmother forced on her. Are you happy now?” Finnian’s voice was dangerously low, vibrating with suppressed fury. “If you’re still not satisfied, do you want me to host a
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press conference too? Shall I read a statement just for you?”
Kaia was utterly blindsided. Her fingers tightened around her documents. “Finnian, if you want to act like a lunatic, go do it somewhere else. I don’t have time for this.”
Sara Lili is a daring romance writer who turns icy landscapes into scenes of fiery passion. She loves crafting hot love stories while embracing the chill of Iceland’s breathtaking cold.

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