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[I don’t understand. Nicola slept with Damien first so why did she insist on marrying Joel later? To ruin his life?]
[I’m not sure. Damien is crippled and he doesn’t have much inheritance in the family. Joel has always been the president of Yule Corporation. The Wicks family was unknown in Canberra before Nicola married Joel. Today, they’re one of the city’s most wealthy families.]
[I heard that Joel fell into a deep coma after an accident three years ago and he almost lost his life. I bet Nicola and Damien were behind that too.]
[I mentioned three years ago that Nicola could be the mastermind behind it but no one believed me.]
“…”
“Ahh, Cate you b*tch!” Nicola yelled hysterically without caring for her manners.
Charlie had his jaw clenched as well. It appeared that Cate had already anticipated this to happen.
Honestly, he would not have married Melanie if he knew she was Damien’s daughter. He had thought of slowly taking over Yule Corporation after her promotion.
Cate’s unexpected return messed up his plan.
…
The sound of footsteps echoed in the vast parking lot.
Cate retrieved her car key to unlock the white sports car in front of her.
“Cate Cox.”
Shaun’s deep, indifferent voice rang behind her.
Joel turned around immediately and positioned himself in front Cate. “Shaun, please stay away from my daughter.”
Shaun continued walking toward her as if he did not hear the man.
He had been rather surprised by her calm composure in the banquet hall earlier when she was dealing with the country’s most wealthy and powerful people.
It was evident that she had planned this thoroughly with caution.
She had successfully exposed Damien, Nicola, and Melanie’s true colors in front of Australia’s most influential people.
Perhaps those slow-witted people had yet to realize that the news reporters present tonight would be streaming the whole ceremony in real-time.
Anyone who cared about their reputation would undoubtedly steer clear of the trio once they came to that realization.
Having good connections was more important than anything to a businessperson.
However, Cate had destroyed all of that for the trio effortlessly. That was certainly impressive.
Shaun only remembered her as the annoying and aggressive woman from three years ago.
Today, she had returned more beautiful and powerful than ever, as though she was a completely different person.
It seemed that she had been living well in recent years.
On the other hand, he had been deceived by her all these years like a fool. He had even felt guilty for what had happened to her.
He had not been sleeping well in the past thousand or so nights because of her.
“You lied to me. You’re not dead.”
Shaun’s dark eyes overflowed with rage within seconds.
As if having lost control of himself, he reached out an arm to grab her but was stopped by Joel immediately.
“Uncle Joel, move.”
He warned coldly.
Enraged, Joel was about to yell back when Cate pushed him away softly. She glanced at Shaun’s handsome face nonchalantly. “You’re right. I lied to you.”
“Very well. Who was in it as well? Mireya? Or the people from the hospital?” Shaun felt like a fool the more he thought of how she had deceived him for the past three years.
She cocked her head before twitching her lips into a smile. “President Lyons, if I hadn’t pretended to be dead then, I’m afraid I would’ve really been burned into ashes.”
“What do you mean?”
Despite the dazzling smile hanging on her face, the sarcasm hidden beneath filled his narrowed eyes with indifference.
“I’m sure you know what I mean.”
Cate smiled before retrieving a pair of sunglasses from her purse and putting it on. She instantly looked fashionable and confident. “I was just a normal person yet you threw me into the mental hospital. Every day, I was forcefully injected and fed with medicine. I was trapped indoors, living a life more restricted than a prisoner in jail. You all would have driven me crazy for real in no time.”
A lump formed in Shaun’s throat as he spoke in a hoarse voice, “You weren’t mentally stable back then…”
“Do you know the difference between mental disorder and extreme anger?” She scoffed. “I lost my children and was being confined indoors yet you were being intimate with Sarah before my eyes every single day. How could I not have gone mad? Did you think I should’ve been calm and polite with you then?”
“Shaun, how could you have treated my daughter like that?” Joel was heartbroken to learn this. When he first came out of the coma, he had also thought Cate was suffering from a mental disorder. Little did he know it was all because of Shaun.
“You b*stard!” Joel could not hold it in anymore and tried to punch him in the face.
Shaun blocked the man’s fist effortlessly and even held it back by force.
“Let go of him.” Cate’s beautiful eyes turned cold instantly. “You threatened me with my dad so many times three years ago and now you’re trying the same old trick?”
Shaun’s arm froze immediately. He pursed his thin lips before slowly loosening his grip on Joel.
A look of surprise washed over the latter’s face. “How did he use me to threaten you?”
“…”
Shaun remained quiet. Cate lifted her head to look at him, smiling. “Eldest Young Master Lyons, why don’t you explain? Weren’t you quite confident in threatening me back then?”
The sight of her dazzling smile frustrated him. He remembered she used to hate him for doing this. However, she could now talk about the past indifferently with a mocking smile.
“Everyone made mistakes then. Your friends weren’t innocent either.” Finally, he replied in a deep voice.
“Yes, your girlfriend’s elder brother is the only innocent person.” She turned around to smile at Joel. “Dad, the reporters caught him cheating with Sarah behind my back. He felt bad for that woman when everyone was insulting her so he forced me to tell the public that we were already divorced. Otherwise, he would prohibit Dr. Angelo from treating you. In the end, Sarah’s elder brother barged into my friend’s house and fought with her violently. One of my friends was stabbed and the other one was almost raped. After that, he used you to threaten me again so that I would give up on bringing his girlfriend’s brother to justice.”
Joel was frightened to hear that. How much had his daughter suffered because of him?”
He felt like a complete failure the more he thought about this. His eyes were overflowing with rage.
He hated himself for being old and too weak to fight with that man.
“Shaun, you animal! No, you’re worse than an animal!”
Shaun frowned. When had he promised to take good care of Cate, anyway?
However, he felt embarrassed about the past.
This was why he could not forget Cate all these years. It was out of guilt.
“Dad, forget it. It’s all in the past.”
She slightly pushed Joel toward the car, smiling faintly. “Let’s go. There’s no point wasting our breaths with someone like him.”
“Cate, don’t worry. I’ll get revenge for you,” Joel said angrily.
Shaun twitched his brows into a frown while Cate laughed before saying to her father, “What revenge? I don’t want him to think I’m mad and trap me in the mental hospital again. It’s probably for the best that we stay away from him in the future.”
Then, she walked around to get into the driver’s seat.
Shaun was still standing in front of the car.
Cate poked her head out the window. “President Lyons, do you mind?”
He looked at her strangely. The woman’s sunglasses sat elegantly on her beautiful nose. He shifted his gaze downward to look at her arrogant yet delicate lips.
It was as if this woman had changed completely.
She felt unfamiliar to him yet he could not bring himself to take his eyes off her.
Shaun had no idea what was happening, as he was not a man easily seduced by women’s beauty.
A few seconds later, he finally stepped aside.
The white sports car sped past him.
Hadley returned to him. “Eldest Young Master Lyons, it’s time to go.”
“Look into how she faked her death and left the country. I want to know who helped her.” Shaun turned around to glare at his assistant all of a sudden.
The latter shuddered instinctively and quickly nodded.
Shaun read Cate’s Facebook post after getting into the car.
This woman… was impressive to have struck first and gained the upper hand.
The corners of his lips twitched into a smile. He froze by the time he realized what was happening.