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Chapter 650
Chapter 650:
“Divorce me, Susan.” Richard’s voice was cold and flat. “Before the liquidation is complete, transfer whatever cash remains to my offshore account p>
Susan turned from the mirror and looked at him as if seeing a stranger. “You’re out of your mind. I spent thirty years beside you. You think I’ll walk away with nothing p>
As the argument threatened to ignite again, Susan’s mind drifted — pulled backward, against her will, to the underground garage. Archer, the way he had maneuvered her against the car door with such careful precision. The Aston Martin that had struck without slowing. How he had covered himself and vanished into the crowd the moment the door was torn open, as if he had rehearsed the exit.
The coincidences assembled themselves slowly in her mind, then all at once, snapping together into a single, terrible picture.
“No,” Susan whispered. “This isn’t right p>
“What isn’t right? Have you lost your mind?” Richard snapped.
“It was a setup.” She turned to him, her voice rising. “Richard, it was a planned trap. Every detail of it. The escort was bait. The car was a weapon. Someone led us into that exact spot — no cameras, no witnesses — just to destroy us in front of the entire city p>
Richard and Alycia stared at her.
“Who?” Richard demanded. “Who would have the resources and the nerve to orchestrate something like that on Astor property p>
𝘙𝘦𝘤𝘰m𝗆𝖾𝗇𝗱 𝘵o у𝗼𝗎𝗿 𝗳𝗿і𝗲𝗻𝗱𝘀
Susan’s mind went to the gala — June in gray velvet, composed and untouchable, watching the Beasley family arrive with cold, knowing eyes. Easton Hahn half a step behind her. The two of them moving through that room like something inevitable.
“It was June,” Susan said. The hatred in her voice was absolute. “Only she despises us enough. And only she has Hahn — with the legal reach to erase every camera, every record, every trace of what happened p>
The words detonated in the room.
Richard’s face drained of color. He understood now, in a way he had refused to before, that he had been dismantled by a woman he had never taken seriously.
Alycia lay in the bed, gripping the sheets until her knuckles whitened. “She didn’t just destroy you,” she said quietly. “She recorded me on the terrace. She forced the lie to become something real p>
In that moment, every conflict between them dissolved. The humiliation, the bankruptcy, the public exposure — all of it compressed into a single shared target.
“I’ll destroy her,” Susan hissed. “I’ll take everything she has left p>
Richard’s eyes went cold and deliberate. “Destroying her publicly is more effective than anything else. We use the medical report. We tell Cole that June’s scheming drove this family apart — and that it cost his heir its life p>
Alycia’s chest rose and fell with shallow, painful breaths. The injury reminded her with every movement that she had nothing left to protect and nothing left to lose.
“We use Cole’s guilt,” Richard continued. “And his money. And we make June answer for all of it p>