Rich Radiant and Over Him (Alicia and Vincent) novel Chapter 76

"My relationship with Tyrone is none of your concern, Mr. Lawson. Whether he's using me, or how he plans to use me, I honestly don't care. What matters is that he's willing to give me exactly what I need right now." Alicia looked Vincent in the eye as she spoke again. "I'm married now. Next time we meet, please pretend you don't know me."

With that, Alicia turned and walked away without hesitation.

Vincent's hands clenched into fists. He'd never imagined a day would come when Alicia would leave him so decisively.

He had always thought Alicia was the kind of woman who couldn't breathe without him.

He'd convinced himself that in this lifetime, if anyone was going to walk away, it would be him, not her.

But reality proved him wrong.

Now that Alicia had a better option, he could be tossed aside just like that.

"Alicia, what about after the divorce? You're making enemies left and right by siding with Tyrone—what happens when you're no longer his wife?" Vincent stood and grabbed her wrist, desperate.

She was determined to send both Henry and Mira to prison, which meant she'd made enemies of the Holloway and Lawson families—the most powerful names in Seaview City.

Unless Alicia and Tyrone stayed married forever, those people would never let her go.

"The Lawsons aren't just me," Vincent blurted out, trying to explain. "If it were up to me alone… Mira would go to prison. She needs to answer for her own mistakes. If it were just my decision, I would have sent her away four years ago."

He wanted Alicia to understand—it wasn't that he didn't want Mira to pay for her crimes, but that the Lawsons were more than just him.

Mira was the only daughter in the family, spoiled since childhood. She never thought about consequences, because as long as she didn't cross the truly powerful, her family always cleaned up her messes.

She never expected that messing with Alicia would come back to haunt her after all these years.

"Besides… I did punish her. I sent her overseas for four years," Vincent insisted, as if that alone should have been enough.

Four years away from home, wasn't that enough to make up for what Mira had done to Alicia?

"Do you even understand what permanent hearing loss means, Mr. Lawson?" Alicia's voice shook as she pointed to her left ear. "It means I'll never hear a sound with this ear again—for the rest of my life."

Vincent simply couldn't grasp the impact that incident of bullying had on her.