Chapter 62 - the audacious demand
Lily was reviewing international architectural blueprints in her glass-walled executive office when her security director escorted the frantic man into the room. Clara was already there, her face instantly turning to absolute stone as she recognized her former abuser.
Richard looked around the lavish, multi-million-dollar office with greedy, wide eyes. The pathetic man who had run off to Florida with another woman decades ago was now broke, desperate, and radiating a deeply toxic sense of entitlement.
"Look at you both, living like absolute royalty," Richard sneered, tossing a fabricated legal document onto Lily's mahogany desk. "I am your biological father, Lily. I am legally entitled to a massive percentage of the Vance estate."
Lily didn't panic or flinch. Inheriting Arthur's terrifyingly cold composure, she sat perfectly still, staring at the pathetic man with pure, unadulterated disgust.
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"You want fifty million dollars, or you will go to the press with fabricated stories about my mother illegally manipulating Arthur Vance," Lily stated, reading the extortion letter with a deadly, unbreakable calm.
👉 read part 63 to see the iron matriarch strike back.
