Nathan didn''t understand what she meant. All he knew was that this time, Natalie had to pay a heavy price, and Sebastian had to marry Joanna. Only then could his n proceed smoothly. Sebastian was his biggest cash cow.


    "What''s there to dare? It''s because of you..."


    "Bullshit. You, old man, know better than anyone whose fault it is. Go ask Joanna


    if she dares to take my blood. If she does, I''ll release the video of her and Larry in bed. She''s the mistress who destroyed my marriage with Sebastian. You care so much about reputation, don''t you? If your precious daughter''s name is tarnished, I''m afraid you''ll jump off a building."


    "You... you... Natalie, have you lost your mind? How dare you call me an old man? Don''t you forget, I''m your father!"


    "You, my father? I know exactly how I got lost as a child, and so do you."


    Nathan was so angry he couldn''t speak. Why was she saying this? What did she know?


    "Get lost! You can''t even speak straight, and you want my blood? Aren''t you afraid I''ll take your life instead?" Natalie angrily hung up. Bastard. Who was he trying to disgust?


    She stood by the floor-to-ceiling window, looking out at the city. Wendy hadn''t bothered her recently. She must have believed her words and discovered the truth about Joanna, Nathan, and the woman he kept on the side. Joanna also had a brother. That meant Nathan had been a fraud from the very beginning.


    In her past life, Joanna had also attempted suicide. Because of that, Sebastian hadn''t divorced her. That n failed, so a few monthster, she drugged Sebastian. Natalie became the victim that night, and that was how she had gotten pregnant.


    This life, she would never let that happen. She would not bring a child into a broken home. Whether she could divorce Sebastian now depended entirely on Joanna''s skills.


    At the hospital, Joannay weakly in bed, pale from blood loss. Her eyes were cold. She had tried to kill herself, surely Sebastian would.


    divorce Natalie now. She couldn''t


    read his mind anymore,


    but she


    knew she had to marry him.


    Nathan stormed into the room, his heart aching at the sight of Joanna''s fragile state.


    "Joanna, Natalie haspletely lost


    it! She refuses toe to the hospital to give you blood. She said if she did, she would release the video of you and Larry, and expose your rtionship with Sebastian. Can you believe the nerve?"


    "I''ve already called Jerome and told him to drag Natalie over here to apologize to you."


    Joanna''s face paled further. The things she had sent Natalie to provoke her were nowing back to bite her. She had only wanted to drive Natalie away from Sebastian. But now that Natalie was gone, Sebastian refused to let go. And it had only been one time with Larry. How could Natalie have gotten a video?


    A sudden realization hit Joanna, and her face turned green with fury. It had to be Larry. He had a habit of recording things. Larry had drugged her that day, but she hadn''t resisted. That bastard. He could rot in jail forever.


    "Dad," Joanna asked, "how many shares do you have now?"


    Nathan, still fuming, replied, "I have twenty percent. Your mother gave them to me."


    Joanna sneered. "After Jerome gets into trouble, take his five percent. I have five percent here. That will give us abined thirty percent, more than Wendy holds."