The Divorced Heiress’s Revenge

Ryan lowered his eyes, spinning the pen of power between his slender fingers.

The others glanced at Mrs. Hoffman's outburst, shaking their heads with a hint of contempt in their eyes.

"Zoe disappeared on her way to the hospital for treatment, and no one has seen her since then! You must have taken her!"

Mrs. Hoffman stormed up to Ryan. She slammed her hands on the table repeatedly, ignoring the presence of the board members.

"Ryan! Send my daughter back to me! Or else... I'll call a shareholders' meeting and kick you out of the Hoffman Group! Send Zoe back to me!"

Ryan stopped spinning the pen in his fingers. However, he did not lift his gaze to look at his distressed mother.

"Mrs. Hoffman, what are you doing?"

Unable to bear the scene any longer, a fellow director spoke up. "Ms. Hoffman might've disappeared because she jumped out of the car when the officers weren't looking. If you want to make a fuss, go to the police."

"Exactly. We're in the middle of a board meeting. You shouldn't bring up your trivial family matters here. It will damage the Hoffman Group's reputation."

"Trivial family matters?"

Mrs. Hoffman's eyes widened. She looked as if she was about to attack someone. "Is that all you can say about this matter? Are you heartless? If it were your child, would you still be so indifferent?!" The directors fell silent, shocked by her words.

The directors thought that Mrs. Hoffman, the matriarch of the Hoffman family, had never been so irrational when her husband was still alive. Being a young widow seemed to have driven her to the brink of madness.

As the key person behind Claire's outburst, Ryan finally spoke with calm authority.

"That's all for today. Meeting adjourned."

"Yes, Chairman Hoffman!"

and left the room, eager to escape the

like a blow to her head. It made her earlier outburst

the meeting room grew

you kidnap Zoe? Where did you take her?!" Mrs. Hoffman demanded, her eyes red

dispose of filthy garbage," Ryan responded with cold indifference,

Zoe back to me! She's my

voice was hoarse with desperation. "You've already abandoned me as your mother. Zoe is all I have

silently watched her madness

knew how to spoil her daughter without any proper upbringing, had been weak and easily

said Zoe was her flesh and

she had forgotten that he

husband's death, her son bore the family's burdens on his shoulders, ensuring his widowed mother and orphaned

"You won't comply, will you? Fine... I'll go to the police and report you then! I'll expose your abuse

Clatter.

A video began to play on the screen. Zoe's desperate cries and pleas for mercy echoed throughout

stared at the phone, her face turning deathly pale as she watched the three men assault her daughter repeatedly. She felt her heart

"My daughter... My daughter!"

She's the monster you've

video. His cold, pale lips curled slightly. "Since you couldn't properly raise your daughter, the cruel world will have to teach her how to be a human being. Mrs. Hoffman, I know you must be heartbroken right now. Well, She is your daughter after all. Go ahead and cry since you'll never see

Hoffman completely lost her

tears, cursing and gnashing her teeth. Her legs gave out, and Dean called two bodyguards to

VIP parking lot. I guarantee she won't encounter anyone along the way," Dean

that. Let her walk out through

"Since she walked in through the main door openly, let her leave the Hoffman Group's building in