"No, it wasn''t fraud! I told you, you were the third party between us! My daughter is three days older than yours!"


    "You''re the one who ruined my entire youth and made me live in misery!"


    Sophia denied it frantically, but seeing Wendy''s tear-streaked face filled her with a profound sense of satisfaction.


    This was exactly what she had wanted to see: Wendy weeping, utterly destroyed.


    "Tsk!" Wendy clicked her tongue. "My mistake. For a second, I almost mistook you for a human being. Ruined your youth? You''re long past your prime, yet you talk as if you''re some spring chicken. No wonder you spent so many years in the kitchen— you''re an expert at spicing up stories."


    The crowd of onlookers was growing.


    Joanna was so mortified she wanted the ground to swallow her whole.


    Nathan, who had just finished parking the car, saw the spectacle and felt an urge to kick Sophia into the stratosphere.


    But he knew that his appearance would only make things worse. Wendy was an expert at seizing an advantage and never letting go.


    She was a formidable force in the business world and equally ruthless when it came to dealing with people.


    Sebastian and Natalie had also heard the entire exchange.


    Sebastian, who had been investigating the circumstances of Natalie''s abandonment, was stunned to hear the bombshell revtion.


    How could they have deliberately thrown Natalie away? And all this time, they had acted as if Natalie deserved it.


    He shot a nce at Natalie. She stood there, her face an emotionless mask, as if she were a detached observer.


    His heart twisted with a pain that felt like a cat scratching from the inside.


    Sophia had alreadyid everything bare. She didn''t care what anyone said; their gossip couldn''t hurt her.


    As long as she had money, she could ovee anything.


    What was dignity?


    If she had cared about dignity, she never would have been able to live afortable life all these years.


    Everyone had their own way of surviving. Her goal was simple: to continue enjoying her wealth and luxury in her old age.


    She leaned in and whispered to Wendy, "You can bark all you want, but you have no bite. You may think you''re impressive, but I don''t have to respect you."


    A strange smile crossed Wendy''s face. Her eyes scanned the crowd and locked onto Nathan. "Nathan what are you doing hiding back. there? When you were pursuing me, you never mentioned you had a wife! All knew was that you were penniless. I never imagined you would deceive me like this, bringing the daughter you had with this woman for me to raise while you threw away my own child! Nathan, Natalie is your daughter too! How could you do something so monstrous?"


    "You don''t even deserve to be called human!"


    Wendy''s usation was loud and clear, putting him on the spot.


    After all, most people in Yaro knew that she and Nathan had been married for over two decades.


    Sophia was the secret, the rat hiding in the shadows.


    Nathan, now the center of attention, felt so humiliated he wished he could disappear into a hole. No matter how you looked at it, he was at fault.


    Sophia had thrown all the me onto him. Heughed coldly. So, he and Sophia were the same kind of people after all.


    "Wendy, it was my fault. I shouldn''t have been involved with her while marning you it was all my mistakes. At the time didn''t know she was pregnant with my child."


    Joanna was stunned. What an idiot.


    Sophia stared in shock at Nathan''s innocent act. The damn man waspletely unreliable.


    Wendy was on a mission to get


    justice for her daughter. She yelled furiously, "Nathan, then why did you throw my daughter away? What gave you the right to throw away my daughter?"