While My Husband Cheated I Married His Powerful Brother novel Chapter 168

Chapter 168: Chapter 168 The Revenge Alliance

The Thorne family had always been extra careful when it came to politics.

They had deep pockets, endless influence, and connections that stretched across all kinds of major industries and continents. But despite all that power, they had never tied their name to a single political figure.

Councilor Whitmore had tried his best to change that rule a year ago.

He had approached Dorian directly with a straightforward proposal for a marriage alliance. His daughter, Naya, would marry Dorian. In return, the Councilor would get full access to the massive vault of Thorne resources, including political funding, high-level connections, and corporate weight.

Dorian had shot the deal down cold.

He had kept his tone polite and diplomatic, but his answer was absolute.

"The risks are far too high," Dorian had told him. "Political entanglements are unpredictable. The Thorne family will not tie its legacy to any single candidate."

Councilor Whitmore had been furious about the rejection, but he didn’t dare push the issue. He knew the Thorne family held too much power to turn into an outright enemy.

The Thorne family sat on a mountain of wealth.

They didn’t need favors from local politicians, they didn’t need backing from high-ranking officials, and they certainly didn’t need to kiss up to anyone to get what they wanted.

If anything, they worried about the exact opposite happening to them.

They worried that dirty political scandals would spill over and tarnish the family name. They worried about getting dragged into messy public battles they had zero interest in fighting. Most of all, they worried about losing the total independence they had spent generations building.

That was the real reason Dorian had refused to marry Naya Whitmore in the first place. That was why he made sure to keep Councilor Whitmore and his daughter at a safe distance.

And then, out of nowhere, he went ahead and married Veyra.

The news of the secret marriage had spread through upper-class circles like wildfire.

Dorian Thorne, the most sought-after bachelor in all of Etland City, had suddenly hitched himself to a woman nobody had ever heard of before.

The high-society news pages were completely stumped trying to figure out who she was. The local gossip columns ran wild with scandalous theories, and the Whitmore family was left absolutely livid.

Naya Whitmore felt completely humiliated by the whole thing. She had been waiting patiently for Dorian to notice her, fully expecting a formal proposal and already planning out their grand high-society wedding.

Instead of choosing her, he had gone off and married a complete nobody.

Naya was determined to dig up every single detail she could find on Veyra. She wanted to know where this woman came from, who her family was, and what kind of hold she had over Dorian that Naya didn’t.

That was why she finally reached out and called Eleanor.

Eleanor had been waiting for that phone call, thrilled to hear Naya’s voice on the line.

Ever since she got confined to the family meditation room, Eleanor had been stewing in her own anger. She had been thoroughly humiliated, dragged down, and punished in front of everyone.

And as far as she was concerned, Veyra was the direct cause of all her misery.

She wanted payback more than anything. She wanted to watch Veyra get completely ruined, but up until now, she hadn’t found a clean way to strike without getting her own hands dirty.

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