Chapter 489
Chapter 489
Kaia’s voice then came through the recording.
“Because Rafael was the most likely candidate to inherit control of The Sanders Family’s empire. You came from a small town. You clawed your way up from the bottom. The thing you value most could never be something as intangible as love. What you crave is power you can hold in your hands and money you can command. That is the exact reason you chose Rafael.”
“Kaia…”
“How can you spout such garbage? I was forced to marry Rafael! It wasn’t my choice to-
“You’re awfully defensive. I must have hit the nail on the head.”
“You thought Rafael was going to be the boss, but fate dealt you a lethal blow. Rafael stepped down, Finnian took the throne, and you realized you bet on the wrong horse, didn’t you?”
“Shut up, Kaia!”
“You don’t know anything! Stop making things up!”
“You’re right, I don’t know anything. But I do have to ask: who exactly is it that you love? If it was Rafael, then you lost your shot at inheriting the empire. If it’s Finnian, then you just proved my point. Oh, wait, I get it. The only thing you truly love is The Sanders Family’s wealth and power.”
“Why should I stop? Weren’t you the one who called me a substitute? Weren’t you the one who claimed he never loved me? We’ve been married for seven years. We have a beautiful daughter together. I have the marriage certificate, and I am still the legal Mrs. Sanders. And you? What has he ever given you? The audacity to provoke me? Blind arrogance? You’ve just inflated your own importance in your head. In reality, he has given you absolutely nothing. So when you come to me and call me a substitute, I have to ask: what exactly did I replace?”
“Enough!” Josephine barked, her face twisting into an ugly scowl. “Alright, Kaia, turn it off.”
A deathly silence settled over the parking garage. Elaine’s complexion steadily drained until she was as white as a medical chart.
Josephine closed her eyes in pure disgust. “What a catastrophic family scandal. This is an absolute disgrace. Look at the kind of daughter you adopted, Elaine. Look at the kind of daughter you raised.”
Elaine’s breathing grew ragged as her face flushed crimson, then drained white, then morphed into a sickly gray. Her lips trembled as she tried to form words, but nothing came
out.
Chapter 489
Josephine sighed heavily. “I saw it from the very beginning. I knew that girl was thorough corrupt. She never cared about love. All she ever wanted was whoever could drag her closer to the center of The Sanders Family’s power. First it was Rafael, and now it’s Finnian. She’s simply too greedy.”
Kaia turned off her phone and tucked it back into her handbag, staring at both of them. “That was the entire conversation from this morning. I didn’t add a single word, and I didn’t delete a single sentence. Now, you finally have proof that I didn’t instigate this. She sought me out purely to flaunt her supposed ‘irreplaceable’ status in my husband’s heart.”
Elaine finally managed to gasp, “Kaia, you… you can’t just throw those accusations around.”
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