The Night He Chose Her, I Chose My Revenge Chapter 18

The Night He Chose Her, I Chose My Revenge Chapter 18

I gave a small, humorless laugh. My voice was soft, but it was cold as ice.

“You couldn’t even control your own son. What right do you have to guarantee you’ll stand up for me if he makes another mistake?”

Catherine Croft’s face went deathly pale.

She sat there for a long time without saying a word.

My brother Liam stepped forward, standing between her and my bed. His voice was as cold as an Austin winter night.

“Mrs. Croft, how much is your reputation worth?”

He didn’t wait for her to answer.

“The Vance family will see this divorce through. And the Croft name will soon be a memory in Charleston.”

“My sister needs to rest. Please leave.”

The bodyguards silently escorted her from the room.

As expected, Julian still refused to sign. Every day, he used different numbers to call me and send meaningless apologies.

I blocked every number connected to him.

Liam’s expression was grim.

“If he won’t negotiate, we’ll use other means.”

Over the next two weeks, the legacy the Croft family was so proud of began to rot from the inside out.

A deep-dive investigative report on the Croft family’s origins landed on the front page of The New York Times, detailing how their ancestors had accumulated their original capital not through honorable plantation ownership, but through the slave trade and opium smuggling.

Julian’s father was formally investigated by the SEC for using the family trust fund for insider trading.

And the noble, elegant Mrs. Catherine Croft was subpoenaed by the state attorney general’s office on suspicion of embezzling from the charitable foundation she managed.

Liam joined forces with several Wall Street funds to launch a ruthless hostile takeover of every publicly traded company under the Croft umbrella.

The old-money Southern family, which prided itself on a century of heritage and treated its reputation as a lifeline, didn’t last a month against the hurricane of modern capital and public opinion.