Chapter 108
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Truth be told, Julia’s family antics were all on Walter’s radar. He knew exactly what they were up to, good or bad. He had been biting his tongue for years, turning a blind eye, all out of respect for the old days.
At last, he reached his breaking point.
“So what if it is?” Julia’s face, once filled with sorrow, shapped back to a cool composure, her tears vanishing as if they had never been.
She had been head over heels for Walter, bending over backward to win him over, aiming for his heart. What had she gotten for it? A one–way ticket to being kidnapped by Walter himself?
“Walter, cut the act! Aren’t you just as miserable as I am? Evangeline married you, so why give her the cold shoulder? Is it because you heard Alex is coming back? Now Evangeline is about to become a total stranger to you after the divorce cooling–off period ends in a month!”
He had to hand it to Julia; she was sharp. Her words had been like daggers, stabbing right at walter’s
heart.
Walter shook with rage, struggling to keep his cool as he shot back.
He could not pinpoint when it had started, but Evangeline had become a trigger for him, setting off his emotions like a ticking bomb.
“What about it?”
Julia burst into a mocking laugh, “My dear Walt, are you still clueless? You, Walter, will always be Evangeline’s plan B, nothing but her backup guy…”
Walter’s face turned stormier with each word Julia spat out. Her tirade, however, was cut short.
A strong hand had suddenly gripped her throat with a vice–like intensity.
She was drowning in an invisible sea, her lungs screaming for air, her body seized by a bone–chilling terror. “Young Master!”
The bodyguard’s shout snapped Walter back to reality.
He stared at Julia, her face a ghostly pale, her body limp, and he recoiled as if jolted by a shock.
He snatched the white handkerchief from the bodyguard, wiped his hands, and tossed it aside with a look of disgust. Pointing at Julia, he commanded, “Take her to Northern Montavia. As for the Rearden family. Let them be history.”
She could not believe Walter would be so cruel!
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