Chapter 279

The hatred was like lava, scalding Brielle’s heart until it trembled. She feared Cameron might take another drastic measure, but he merely gazed at her with profound intensity, barely clinging to his sanity.

“Lillian’s lost three fingers, Brielle. If you want Grandpa to live out his days in peace, you’ll tell Max to back off. Lillian should be out of the station by now. Three fingers should suffice to quench your grudge, right? If I don’t get your call by six tonight, I’ll pay Grandpa a visit.

With that, he followed the doctor who had entered, helping Miranda as they left.

The moment the hospital door shut, Aubree retched again, her face deathly pale. “Were those really Lillian’s fingers?”

Brielle leaned back against her pillow, her voice calm. “Yeah.”

This was Aubree’s first brush with such a scene, her stomach churning with acid, feeling as if her very teeth were souring. “Bri, Max couldn’t have done this, could he?”

“No, it wasn’t him.”

another side to him, but

Lillian? Her head throbbed with the effort of

into the trash can. “Could it be someone. else from the

benefit. Besides, Ryan was still searching

“I don’t know.”

of those severed fingers still lingering in her mind. And

had said, Julian was a Haywood through and through. The downfall of the Haywood family would surely affect him. Julian didn’t

feeling as though something was

Haywood’s responsibility, not yours. They have no right to use him to manipulate you. Think about all the hurt they’ve inflicted on you. Can you really let it go just

survive in the cutthroat circles of Beaconsfield, you had to let

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you discarded, the higher you rose. Those

continued to be shackled by the Haywoods‘ demands, she would indeed accomplish nothing.

mind conjured Julian’s face, kind and benevolent, one of the most significant

become leverage

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