Beyond the Divorce

Chapter 85 A Trojan Horse I had to keep Johnson here.

He was my ace in the hole.

As for why I didn’t insist on keeping everyone else, I wanted to leave myself an escape route.

I wanted Matthew to reconsider his actions without pushing him to the point of no return.

To my surprise, the next person to speak up was Henry, Matthew’s father.

“Why bring this mess into the office? Can’t it be discussed at home? It seems like people have lost their sense of decorum,” Henry said in a commanding tone, his nose in the air.

I spoke respectfully but firmly, “Dad, is that directed at me? You’ll see soon enough if I have ‘decorum.” But you should listen and watch closely.

Who lacks decorum here?‘ Matthew immediately grew uncomfortable.

Perhaps it was because I had never spoken like this since joining the Murphy family.

used to my

Do you think I’m a

believed the ATL Empire project was in the bag, so

husband and was ready to throw me under the

seemed taken aback

me, trying

yelled at me to deflect attention, “Chloe,

who ran off with another man,

special? “You’ve been meeting another man

make stuff up? Then she looked at Henry and said, “Dad,

Ivanna blocked Melanie’s path

you feeling guilty now? You jumped in with someone else’s man

think you are? You have no right to meddle!” Though Melanie protested, she avoided

I grew visibly imitated.