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    Cecilia descended the stairs and entered the living room. “Finished?


    Can we leave now?”


    Her face was pale and detached.


    Wesley replied with a curt “Mm,” wrapping his arm around her slender


    waist.


    Today was meant for bringing Cecilia home–he wouldn’t waste another moment here.


    They departed.


    While the Carlton family was in turmoil, the Wilburn household was equally chaotic.


    Tania had barely stepped inside when her husband’s p struck her face.


    She leaned against the doorframe, dizzy for seconds before slowly lifting her eyes to Dillon.


    Dillon stood red–faced and furious, consumed by rage.


    “Tell me,” he demanded through gritted teeth, “whose child is Larissa?”


    He’d been at the hospital entrance earlier, intending to visit her.


    After all, Larissa had legally married Johan, making her the rightful Mrs. Johnson. He wanted to build a good rtionship with Larissa to


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    Never did he expect to discover his wife’s cheating right outside the hospital


    Tania straightened up, her voice dripping with sarcasm. “Since you already know, why bother asking?”


    She made no attempt to deny it.


    Dillon snarled, his hands closing around his wife’s throat. “You bitch! How dare you cheat on me? I’ll choke you to death!”


    Tania struggled, her face flushing crimson from suffocation.


    “If you weren’t so ipetent, Dillon, would I have sought someone else?”


    His pride stung, Dillon tightened his grip. “Who are you calling ipetent, you slut?”


    If he were truly incapable, how could he have gotten another woman pregnant?


    Tania burst into hystericalughter. “You actually believe that woman‘ s carrying your child?”


    “Dillon, are you really this eager to raise someone else’s bastard?”


    “Impossible!” Dillon refused to believe it


    Releasing his wife, he barked at the maid, “Fetch the mistress downstairs!”


    The maid hurried upstairs, returning momentster trembling. “The mistress….she’s not in her room.”


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    Dillon froze, then charged upstairs like a madman.


    The room stood empty–she’d vanished, along with the jewelry.


    He opened the safe only to find it equally empty.


    His mistress had vanished with all his money.


    Dillon couldn’t withstand the blow, his vision darkened.


    “Call the police.”


    “Get me the police.”


    He roared with every ounce of strength left in him.


    Tania heard it andughed hysterically. “Dillon, serves you right.”


    A selfish man like him deserved retribution long ago.


    Dillon’s eyes turned bloodshot, as if ready to devour someone whole.


    “Three hundred million.”


    He demanded an astronomical sum.


    “Tell Larissa to give me three hundred million. Otherwise, I’ll expose every dirty deed you’ve done online and ruin you all.”


    Right now, he craved nothing but money.


    Tania was stunned by the demand. “Dillon, have you lost your mind?


    Three hundred million? You might as well rob a bank!”


    Dillon sneered viciously. His most cherished daughter was the result of his wife’s affair.


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    His true children–his son imprisoned, his daughter dead.


    Now he stood truly alone, a man utterly without kin.


    If not money, what else remained?


    “I want this sum in my bank ount within a week. Or none of you will be spared.”


    He delivered his ultimatum and stormed out.


    Tania copsed to the floor, her face ashen with exhaustion.


    Three hundred million–she couldn’t produce it even if beaten to death.


    Not daring to linger at home, she rushed back to the hospital.


    Larissa was feeling down and could only cry when she saw Tania.


    Tania was heartbroken,forting her for a long while.


    “Though the wedding didn’t happen, you and Johan are legally married. You’re the rightful youngdy of the Johnson family. Don’t dwell on trivial matters–pull yourself together. Don’t let othersugh


    at us.”


    Larissa bit back tears and nodded painfully.


    Tania then mentioned Dillon demanding 300 million.


    Larissa stopped crying, utterly bewildered.


    “After all these years of treating him as my father and showing him respect, I can’t believe he’d turn so cold.”


    300 million.


    They could never afford it.


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    Cecilia’s belongings had long been packed, and together with Gwendolyn, they moved into Chaston Vi.


    The staff uniformly reverted to addressing her as Mrs. Carlton, visibly delighted.


    Wesley presented gifts to both Cecilia and Gwendolyn.


    The luminous pearl ne draped around Cecilia’s neck set off her skin, making it appear even more fair and delicate.


    These three months, she’d taken excellent care of herself.


    Without further words, Wesley settled them in and left.


    Cecilia knew he was going to see Larissa.


    Though half–siblings, they were still blood–rted.


    Blood–rted?


    A sarcastic twist touched Cecilia’s lips.


    Now he could openly champion Larissa without pretense.


    After putting Gwendolyn to sleep, Cecilia drove herself to the hospital.


    She went to see Corrine.


    At the hospital.


    Larissa and Tania sat grim–faced over the three hundred million debt.


    They couldn’t scrape together that sum.


    If Dillon leaked those matters to the press, Larissa dreaded the vicious gossip that would follow.


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