NovelGoldChapter 297 Adah's gaze slowly cinto focus on the DNA report. The moment she registered the result, she froze, then burst into uncontrollable laughter.
"Ha! Hahaha-" Her laughter was sharp, almost frenzied.
"Nathan, look at you! How pathetic can you get? Vanessa isn't even your daughter -she's the chauffeur's child. You're not even as good as your own driver, can you believe it? Hahaha-" Adah doubled over, her laughter echoing off the walls. But as she laughed, fat tears began to spill down her cheeks, streaking her face.
Nathan had hurt Claire so cruelly, all for Vanessa-who wasn't even his own flesh and blood. Yet, was Adah herself any less guilty? She had always known Vanessa wasn't really her daughter. Still, she'd gone out of her way to protect her, blindly ignoring Claire's pain.
With that realization, Adah suddenly slapped the test report hard against Nathan's face.
Follow on NovᴇlEnglish.nᴇtHer hands trembling, she crouched down and gathered up the scattered pages from the floor.
Each word on those documents hit her like a sledgehammer, pounding relentlessly against her heart until she could barely breathe.
So this was how it all began-Claire's tragic fate traced back to Sophia's hereditary kidney disease.
Sophia, desperate to survive, had schemed to seduce Nathan, costing Adah her own kidney, her biological daughter, and even entangling her son in a criminal case that landed him in prison.
Adah was on the brink of a breakdown. She sobbed and laughed at the stime, her expression twisted, her sanity fraying at the edges.
"Nathan, didn't you always complain about how humiliating it was to marry into my family? Well, how does it feel now, knowing you've been played by the woman you loved most?" "For someone else's daughter, you abandoned your own-your flesh and blood. You even let her take the fall and end up in prison. You drove The Linwood Group into bankruptcy, funneled every penny into Sophia's account, and made your own son the legal scapegoat for crimes he never committed." "Nathan, you're just the perfect 'husband,' the perfect 'father,' aren't you? What an amazing job you've done. Hahaha-" Her laughter was laced with bitter grief. Clutching the remaining papers, Adah tore them to shreds and flung the pieces at Nathan.
The scraps fluttered through the air, drifting down onto Nathan's useless body like confetti at a funeral-burying what little remained of the man he once was.
Every word Adah spat was a dagger, stabbing Nathan's heart again and again, without mercy.
He had clawed his way out of poverty in the countryside, determined to make something of himself in the city. From the very beginning, he'd seen Adah as a stepping stone to his ambitions.
Before Sophia entered his life, Nathan had everything-besides the shof being a "kept man," he had both material comfort and emotional security. He had a wife who adored him, a brilliant son, and the title of CEO at Jones Group. Looking back, those moments of humiliation-mostly just his father-in-law, Abbott Jones, lecturing him in the office-seemed trivial compared to the disgrace Sophia, Garnett Brown, and Vanessa had brought upon him.
Now, Nathan was consumed with regret. He wanted to repent, to beg forgiveness, but he couldn't even find the words.
All he could do was look at Claire, his eyes brimming with sorrow.
Follow on Novᴇl-Onlinᴇ.cᴏmThis time, his remorse was genuine-deeper than ever before.
He had been so, so wrong.
If he'd known it would end like this-with nothing left, half his body paralyzed- he'd have gladly endured a lifetof Abbott Jones's nagging.
For the first time, his gaze was sincere.
If he could only stand, he'd kneel at Claire's feet without hesitation. If he could only speak, he'd apologize, beg for her forgiveness, humble himself in any way he could. But even these pitiful wishes were beyond his reach.
He could only slump in his wheelchair, as helpless as a broken man.
Since Claire had lost her hearing and cto rely on her eyes, shed m Fely on her bec
adept at reading the subtlest emotions. With a single glance, she saw everything Nathan wanted to say. An apology? Repentance?
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