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Chapter 584
Chapter 584:
The maître d’ maintained his professional composure with visible effort, a muscle flickering along his jaw. “Madam, I sincerely apologize. Your reservation was made at very short notice, and we are fully committed this evening. That table is the only availability we have p>
“I don’t care!” Susan’s face had gone a deep, mottled red. “I will call my son-in-law — Cole Compton! I’ll have him purchase this entire restaurant tomorrow and have you dismissed on the spot p>
The surrounding patrons — old-money New York aristocrats in quiet, understated dress — turned their heads. They regarded Susan with the kind of undisguised revulsion that requires no words.
June stood near the coat check, ten feet away. Her expression was completely flat. A cold wave of disgust moved through her, but she had no intention of engaging with what was in front of her.
She turned to Brogan and lowered her voice. “Please check on the car. Let’s get Dr. Zhang out of here p>
But fate operates on its own timeline.
Susan spun around to berate Richard — and as she turned, her sharp, sweeping gaze crossed the lobby and locked directly onto June.
Her eyes widened. Her mouth fell open. Then a slow, grotesque sneer spread across her face.
“Well, well, well!” Susan abandoned the maître d’ entirely and stomped across the marble floor toward June, her sequined gown catching the light with every heavy step. “Look who it is! The dumped, pathetic ex-Mrs. Compton p>
ѕ𝗵a𝗋e 𝗒𝗈𝘶𝗋 𝘧a𝘷𝗈𝗿𝘪𝗍е𝗌 𝘧𝗋o𝗺 𝗀𝘢𝗅ո𝗈𝘃𝖾𝗅ѕ.𝖼𝗈m
Richard lumbered after her, his stomach straining against his suit jacket, looking June up and down with a sleazy, contemptuous sneer.
June stopped walking. She turned to face them slowly.
The temperature around her seemed to drop.
Susan planted herself two feet away and crossed her arms, chin raised.
“What’s the matter? Disappointed to see us standing here?” she spat, flecks of saliva visible in the lobby light. “You thought you could hire a fancy lawyer and lock us in a cage forever? Look at you. You are nothing p>
June took a deliberate half-step back, physically repelled by the wall of cheap perfume.
“Exploiting a procedural loophole doesn’t make you innocent,” she said, her voice a low, precise whisper that cut through the ambient noise of the room. “You have the blood of an innocent animal on your hands. Karma will collect its debt p>
Susan threw her head back and let out a barking, hysterical laugh.
“Karma?!” she shrieked. “My wonderful son-in-law spent ten million dollars to pull us out of that jail! That is your karma, you stupid woman p>
She leaned in, her eyes glittering with undisguised malice.
“Cole loves our Alycia. You were always just a temporary placeholder — and he finally figured it out. He doesn’t even think about that disgusting, dead rabbit of yours p>
Dead rabbit.
The words struck June’s brain like a physical blow.
Her pupils contracted sharply. A blinding surge of rage detonated somewhere deep in her chest — a kind of fury she had not felt since the night everything fell apart. Her hands, hanging at her sides, curled into fists so tight her fingernails pierced the skin of her palms. Warm blood welled at the pressure points. She didn’t feel it.
Before she could move, Dr. Zhang stepped forward.