Whats She Overheard in Her Own Marriage novel Chapter 270

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Elaine opened her mouth, stammering furiously, but she couldn’t summon a single counter-argument.

“You want me to be just as obedient as them. So tell me, Mom, what exactly do you expect me to sacrifice? My career? My freedom? My time?”

Elaine stared at her, utterly shell-shocked. She had heard rumors of Kaia’s ruthless negotiating tactics in the medical community-how she rarely spoke, but when she did, she utterly dismantled her opponents. Now, she was turning that exact terrifying precision on her own mother-in-law.

Seeing Elaine rendered completely speechless, Kaia’s expression turned to stone. Every word she spoke hit like a nail being hammered into a coffin. “Mom, I respect you simply because you gave birth to my husband. But respect is a two-way street. If you have such rigid demands for the kind of daughter-in-law I should be, then let me ask you: What kind of mother-in-law have you been to me?”

Elaine’s face drained of all color, turning a sickly, ghostly white.

“Kaia!” Finnian’s booming voice shattered the tension from the entryway.

Kaia flinched slightly and turned. Finnian strode in, his face dark as a thundercloud, holding a fast-asleep Brynlee against his shoulder.

Seeing her son, Elaine looked as though her savior had arrived. Her eyes instantly welled up with dramatic, victimized tears.

She rushed toward him. “Finnian…”

“Mom, take Brynlee,” Finnian ordered sharply, carefully passing the toddler into Elaine’s arms. The little girl simply smacked her lips and nuzzled deeper into sleep.

He turned his lethal gaze onto Kaia. “Come outside.”

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It wasn’t a request. It was an absolute command.

Kaia held her ground, staring him down.

“Whatever you want to say, say it right here.” She refused to be treated like a disobedient subordinate.

“Do you really want to do this in front of Brynlee?” Finnian shot back, his eyes flashing toward his sleeping daughter.

Kaia’s gaze iced over. After a tense standoff, she finally turned on her heel and marched out the front door.

Finnian followed her into the gardens, his towering frame radiating a suffocating, oppressive fury.

Kaia stopped beneath the gazebo. The air still smelled heavily of damp earth from the afternoon storm.

“How could you speak to her like that? You completely crossed the line,” Finnian snarled, his brows pulled tight in anger.

“I simply told the truth. How is that crossing the line?” Kaia fired back, utterly unfazed.

“She’s an elder…

“So being an elder gives her a free pass to insult and belittle me?”

Finnian’s jaw clenched.

Kaia leaned against one of the gazebo pillars, her eyes locking onto his. “I’ve been married to you for seven years. Do you know how many times your mother has lectured me like that? In the past, I swallowed my pride and endured it because she was family. But we are getting a divorce. I told you, I am done tolerating her blatant disrespect.”

Finnian stood paralyzed. Just hours ago, he had used their legal divorce agreement to threaten her. Now, she was using the impending divorce to permanently sever her obligations to his family. It was a brutal, flawless

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checkmate.

“Fine,” he finally ground out, his voice low and rigid. “But I still expect you to treat my mother with a basic level of respect.”

Kaia gave a slow, cynical nod. “I’ll do my best. But let me be clear, Finnian. If this were a professional setting, your mother’s behavior would be grounds for a massive workplace harassment lawsuit. If anyone ever spoke to you the way she speaks to me, you would lose your mind and flip the table. I only put up with it for this long because she’s your mother.”

Finnian looked as though he had been struck with a whip. He stared at her, entirely lost for words.

sing to waste another second, Kaia crossed her arms over her chest, ecting an aura of absolute untouchable dominance. She turned her

to him. “When you took Brynlee this afternoon, I knew exactly what were doing. You used my child to threaten me into compliance. Do at again, and see what happens.”

With that, Kaia marched back into the house, leaving him standing alone in the dead silence of the garden. A few minutes later, she heard his heavy footsteps echo past her in the grand foyer as he headed upstairs.

Kaia returned to the living room. Shortly after, Brynlee’s tiny feet padded down the grand staircase.

“Mom, I’m thirsty. I want water,” Brynlee mumbled sleepily as she descended.

Kaia immediately poured her a glass of warm water. Brynlee grabbed the glass, chugged half of it, and wiped her damp bangs from her forehead. “Mom, after Dad picked me up today, we went to visit Aunt Noelle! Her leg is wrapped in a giant cast, and she can’t even walk. It’s so sad!”

Kaia froze, her hand hovering in mid-air.

Finnian picked up his daughter and immediately drove straight to the

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hospital to see Noelle?

“She looked like she was hurting a lot, but she was so happy to see me! She even gave me all these yummy snacks,” Brynlee rambled on, completely oblivious to the fact that her mother’s eyes had turned terrifyingly cold.

Kaia slowly took the glass from Brynlee’s hands. Staring down at her daughter’s innocent face, she felt something vital inside her chest shatter into a million irreparable pieces.

He hadn’t breathed a single word of it to her.

om, have you gone to the hospital to see Aunt Noelle yet?”

finally blinked, her voice dropping to a hollow whisper. “Brynlee, why n’t you go watch cartoons in the media room? I’ll turn it on for you, okay?”

“Okay! I want Peppa

Kaia nodded nu She gently str her clothes

She tur

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nlee cheered.

he television, and turned the volume up high. hair. “Mom needs to go upstairs and change

footsteps heavy and deliberate as she ascended

tepped into his massive walk-in closet. He always sual clothes the moment he got home. He had just is dress shirt, standing shirtless in his tailored gray ching for a simple t-shirt.

wy oak door suddenly slammed violently against the wall.

hipped around to see Kaia storming toward him, her face a mask of

solute, unadulterated fury.

“Kaia…” Finnian instinctively held the t-shirt against his chest.

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Kaia didn’t step fully into the room. She stood dead center in the doorway, blocking his exit.

“You took Brynlee to the hospital today.” It wasn’t a question. It was an executioner’s verdict.