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Chapter 426
Chapter 426:
The air on the sidewalk was so thick it was difficult to breathe. Alycia knew she was losing. She knew that if she didn’t fight back, she would be destroyed right here on the pavement, in front of every camera in the city.
The suffocating silence outside the hospital entrance stretched until Alycia felt like she might shatter.
Finally, Eleanor moved.
She reached into her vintage crocodile-skin handbag with slow, deliberate care and withdrew two items.
The first was a crisp, folded piece of thick paper — a blank Swiss bank cheque. The second was a stack of legal documents bound in a brown folder.
Eleanor did not hand them to the guard. She did not offer them to Alycia.
With a flick of her wrist, she tossed both items out of the open car door. They fluttered through the air and landed on the dirty concrete, directly at the tips of Alycia’s expensive heels.
It was the ultimate, unforgivable insult — the gesture of someone discarding scraps for a stray.
Alycia’s entire body jerked as though she had been electrocuted.
“The cheque is blank. Fill in whatever number you believe your dignity is worth,” Eleanor’s voice cut through the cold air like a scalpel. “The document is an NDA. Sign it. Then go upstairs, terminate the pregnancy, and disappear from New York forever p>
She paused, her eyes flashing with absolute contempt. “The Compton bloodline will not be polluted by a parasite p>
𝖴𝗉𝖽𝖺𝗍𝖾𝗌 𝖾𝗏𝖾𝗋𝗒 𝗐𝖾𝖾𝗄 𝗈𝗇
A dark, toxic fury detonated behind Alycia’s eyes.
She stared at the papers on the ground. She was cornered. She had absolutely nothing left to lose.
Slowly, she bent down. Her knees cracked loudly in the quiet air.
She picked up the documents. She didn’t even glance at the cheque. Instead, she gripped the NDA with both hands and tore it violently in half.
She dropped the pieces back onto the concrete, looked up at the dark window of the car, and let a twisted, manic smile spread across her face.
“You have it completely backward, Mrs. Compton,” Alycia said, her voice trembling with venom. “It is not about whether I need the Compton family. It is about whether the Compton family needs an heir p>
Eleanor let out a cold, mocking laugh. “From you? A gold-digger trying to trap my grandson p>
Alycia’s smile grew wider. It was a frightening thing to look at.
“It doesn’t matter what I am,” she hissed. “What matters is that I am the only one who can give you one p>
She reached into her designer clutch.
Her fingers closed around a thick manila envelope — her ultimate weapon, the nuclear option she had obtained by illegally accessing confidential hospital archives. The real, agonizing truth about June’s body.
She pressed the envelope hard into the chest of the guard blocking her path.
“Give this to her,” Alycia said, her eyes burning. “I think she will change her mind p>
The guard glanced into the car. Eleanor gave a microscopic nod. He passed the envelope through the open door.
Eleanor took it. A strange, cold prickle of unease moved through her.
She opened the flap and pulled out the paperwork.