“Jaylin! I swear, it’s all a misunderstanding.


    I did make a bad investment recently, but it has nothing to do with our agreement! In fact, I already have the means to get back the money I lost!” Adolf rushed to make excuses.


    Once again, Brayden took it as his cue and produced a certificate of foreign debts.


    “The debtor indicated on this document is you, right?” he asked, waving the document in front of Adolf.


    “Your due date is just around the corner.


    Are you nning to liquidate all of yourpany’s assets to pay these debts?”


    Jaylin took two steps back and away from Adolf, feeling somewhat relieved that he hadn’t fallen into Adolf’s trap.


    “You… You set me up! You bastard!”


    Since the truth had already been exposed, Adolf saw no reason in keeping up the act.


    He narrowed his eyes at Jaylin and sneered, “You dare to say that to my face when you’ve been doing the same thing to our Shaw family?! Weren’t you marrying off your daughter to gain our support and stabilize yourpany’s position in Valmere? Ha! You sure have the nerve!”


    “I… You…” His face red with rage, Jaylin pointed a finger at Adolf and let loose.


    “Consider yourself lucky! If our reputations weren’t at stake, I would beat you up right here, right now! You think I don’t know what you were nning? You want to take over the Phillips Group once our children are married, right? You snake! I can’t believe I once considered you a friend! From now on, the Phillips family is breaking off all ties with the Shaw family! You and I have nothing to do with each other after today! Do you understand?!”


    Adolf nodded in earnest, feeling both m


    ortified and outraged.


    “Oh, I understand perfectly! But you should also remember that the Shaw family is still stronger than you! Don’t even think abouting to us for help in the future!”


    Adolf stormed out of the room with Carrie, leaving only the Phillips family, Hannah, Bryson, and Brayden.


    Since most of the people left were their rtives, anyway, Melissa thought nothing more of her image and wailed, “Lydia! How could you keep this from us? What did we ever do to you? If you knew it from the start, then you should have warned us beforehand! Do you realize how humiliating this is for the family?”


    Through it all, Lydia remained unusually calm.


    “Would you have even believed me if I told you? You only think about your self-interests.


    Why should I expect you to care when you didn’t even bat an eye and agreed to sell off your own daughter without a second’s hesitation?”


    Jaylin tossed the documents on the table and turned to re at Lydia, his hands clenched into fists.Content ? N?velDrama.Org 2024.


    “So, you deliberately nned all of this to embarrass us? I can’t believe this! We made a mistake in raising you up.


    We shouldn’t have given birth to you! If I had known you would do this to your own parents, I would have strangled you in the hospital as soon as your mother brought you out into the world!”


    Henry didn’t miss his chance to add fuel to the fire.


    “Yes, yes, exactly! Our parents worked really hard to raise us! Do you think it was easy for them to manage our family business and make it flourish?


    You had to do one thing to secure ourpany’s future, and you can’t even do it? Why, huh? Will it kill you to think about your family for once? You ungrateful brat!”


    Lydia burst intoughter.


    “Did you really just reprimand me, Henry?


    How can you have the guts to do that after you gambled all your shares away? Here you are, pretending like nothing happened and pinning all the me on me.


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