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Chapter 451
Chapter 451:
Cole’s body went rigid. He threw the ice pack to the floor, lunged forward, and grabbed a heavy crystal ashtray from the coffee table.
Julian stepped directly into his path, both hands slamming into Cole’s chest, shoving him back onto the sofa.
“Enough!” Julian roared.
He was exhausted, frightened for both of them, and entirely out of patience. He stood over Cole and decided to rip the bandage off entirely.
“When are you going to sign the divorce papers, Cole?” Julian demanded. “When does this end p>
Cole’s jaw locked. “Never. I will never sign them. She is mine until the day I die p>
Julian stared at him in disbelief, the sheer, toxic entitlement turning his stomach.
“You have a pregnant mistress sitting in your penthouse!” Julian shouted, his voice bouncing off the soundproofed walls. “You are having a child with Alycia! How much more are you going to torture June before you let her go p>
“This is my family business,” Cole growled, his voice dropping to a warning register. “Keep your mouth shut, Julian p>
The vodka and the adrenaline collided catastrophically in Julian’s brain. The anger overrode his loyalty.
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He spun and pointed directly at Crawford, then looked back at Cole, his eyes wide with manic frustration.
“You think you’re hiding it so well?” Julian shouted. “You think you’re the only one who knows what kind of man you are p>
He drew a breath, and the words came out before he could stop them.
“Crawford saw the hospital report. He knows about the pregnancy, Cole. He knows you’re the reason she almost died — the reason she can’t have children anymore p>
The silence that followed was absolute.
Julian’s face drained of all color. His hand dropped to his side. He understood, one second too late, that he had just detonated a bomb in the center of the room.
Crawford’s head snapped up. His gray eyes locked onto Julian, blazing with fury and betrayal. He had put that secret in a safe. He had never intended for Cole to know he had seen it.
Cole stopped breathing.
His entire body turned to stone. The crystal ashtray slipped from his fingers and landed on the Persian rug with a dull thud.
He slowly raised his head. His bloodshot eyes moved from Julian to Crawford.
The realization hit him like a physical dismemberment. His deepest, darkest sin — the shame that kept him awake at night, that hollowed him out from the inside — laid bare in front of his worst enemy. Crawford Love had seen the report. Crawford knew the full, unvarnished truth of what Cole had done to June.
Crawford saw the raw, animalistic humiliation flash in Cole’s eyes and held his gaze without mercy.
“So that is how you treat a woman,” Crawford said, his voice a low, contemptuous drawl. “By destroying her. Pathetic p>
A wave of humiliation so violent it burned Cole’s throat surged through his chest. It wasn’t anger anymore. It was the sensation of being stripped bare and flayed alive in front of his greatest rival.