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CHAPTER 761
Max turned to his sister, his gaze hardening with sharp resolve. "Maxine, go. Pack only what belongs to you—nothing bought with Griffin blood money. We’re moving. Tonight."Evelyn let out a sharp, choked sob. "Moving? To where? You have nothing out there! You are Griffins! You don't know how to survive without me!""We'll learn," Maxine said, her voice trembling but certain. She stepped back from her mother’s reaching hand as if it were a contagion. "I’m not staying here another hour. I can't breathe in this house anymore. Every corner feels like it’s hiding a ghost.""Maxine, please!" Evelyn pleaded, crawling forward on her knees, her poise shattered. "You’re a lady! You’ve never worked a day in your life!"Maxine looked down at her mother, a sad, bitter smile touching her lips. "Then it’s time I started. I’m going to find a job, Mother. A real one. I’d rather scrub floors like Millicent did than sit in this drawing room pretending I’m better than the people we stepped on to get
CHAPTER 760
Everyone turned to the corner. Maxine, a silent shadow throughout the night, finally stepped into the light. Her eyes were red-rimmed, her face stripped of its usual arrogance. She looked at Tedmond, then Millicent, and finally at her mother with pure horror."I had no idea," Maxine whispered, her voice gaining a hard edge. "You told me Tedmond’s mother was a thief. You told me she was a monster trying to break us apart. I believed you because a daughter is supposed to believe her mother."She stepped beside Max, her small frame shaking. "But he was just a baby. None of it was his fault."Maxine turned on Evelyn, her expression a mirror of Max’s defiance. "You’re a terrible person, Mother. You and Father weren't pillars of the city; you were predators in silk. If Max testifies, I’ll be right there beside him. I’ll tell them about the letters I found. I’ll tell them how you taught us to hate a brother who had done nothing but exist."Evelyn gasped, clutching the back of her chair as
CHAPTER 759
Max stayed on his knees, the cold floor biting into his skin, but the physical discomfort was nothing compared to the violent reconstruction occurring within his mind. Every memory, every time he had mocked Tedmond’s lowly blood, every time he had sabotaged his brother to protect the legacy, replayed like a series of crimes.‘I was the hero,’ he thought, a bitter, hysterical laugh bubbling in his chest. ‘I thought I was the white knight protecting my mother from a gold-digger. I was just the attack dog for a monster.’He looked up at Tedmond. For years, he had seen a rival, a threat, a bastard reaching for what was rightfully theirs. Now, for the first time, he saw a survivor. He saw a man shaped by the very fires that had tried to consume his mother."All those years," Max rasped, his voice cracking. "I followed Father's lead. I thought his coldness toward you was a sign of your unworthiness.”“I thought his discipline was a necessity. I didn't see that he was just beating the tru
CHAPTER 758
“That’s a lie,” Millicent countered, her voice rising with a quiet, lethal authority. “You didn't love him. You loved the power. You loved the crown so much that you were willing to sharpen the blades he used on us.”Beside them, Persis and Tedmond sat in a paralyzed silence. Tedmond’s face was ashen, his hands clenched into white-knuckled fists. To hear the story of his own birth, to realize he was the parasite Harold had tried to erase and the filth Evelyn had kicked down the stairs, left him breathless. The man he had been told to respect was a monster; the woman before him was his accomplice.Persis looked at Millicent with a mixture of horror and profound reverence. The woman she thought she knew was only a fraction of the survivor sitting in that chair.Millicent turned to her son and her friend, a weary sadness softening her features. “There are parts I have left out,” she said quietly. “Deeply painful parts... things that happened during those days of the whip and those n
CHAPTER 757
To the world, Millicent was back to being a maid. But behind her hollow eyes, a clock was still ticking. She would scrub their floors, she would endure their cruelty, and she would wait. She had to survive long enough to find the exit that Martha had died trying to show her.The eighth month arrived like a heavy shroud. Millicent’s body was a map of exhaustion, her frame gaunt everywhere except for the prominent swell of her stomach. She was a walking shadow, held together by nothing but the rhythmic kicks of the life inside her.Harold, however, could no longer tolerate the sight of his mistake. The scandal was a ticking bomb, and he decided to defuse it. He cornered her in the secluded wing of the upper gallery."I’ve made arrangements, Mill," he said, his voice as cold as a winter grave. "A clinic on the outskirts. They’ll take care of the... problem. It’s too late for a simple procedure, but they are discreet. You’ll be rid of it by morning."Millicent clutched the railing, he
CHAPTER 756
Martha squeezed Millicent’s hands one last time, her eyes burning with desperate resolve. "Don't move. Don't even breathe loud," she cautioned, before vanishing into the corridor’s shadows.The darkness of the basement didn't stay empty for long. Hardly a minute had passed when the heavy door at the top of the stairs groaned on its hinges. These weren't Martha’s hurried, scuffling steps; these were slow, rhythmic, and heavy. The sound of expensive leather soles striking the wooden treads sent a fresh jolt of terror through Millicent’s body.Harold stepped into the dim light of the cellar. He had shed his suit jacket, his white shirt sleeves rolled up as if for labor. The kind benefactor was gone, replaced by a man whose eyes held the flat, dead sheen of a shark. He walked into Millicent’s small room and loomed over her cot, his presence sucking the oxygen out of the cramped space. He didn't look down at her with pity, or even the lust that had once fueled his pursuit. He looked
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