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“Ahhhh!!!!
Zachary had just wiped the blood from his face when Caleb kicked him a few more times.
Everyone followed behind Caleb, coldly watching this scene unfold.
Mr. Reed! No… Dad, save me!”
Father turned away in disgust.
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Father turned away in disgust.
“Don’t call me Dad! I don’t have such a disgraceful son!”
Caleb stopped beating him and stood up, allowing everyone to witness Zachary’s shameful behavior.
“A freeloader daring to covet the Reed family fortune, serves him right!”
“The eldest Miss Reed spent so much money on them, yet he secretly flirted with the second Miss. Even after getting engaged to the second Miss, he’s still not satisfied and wants both sisters.”
“It’s a good thing Miss Reed has good judgment, otherwise she would have been the one deceived today…”
Seeing the microphone in my hand, Zachary finally realized he had been set up by me.
His true colors exposed to the public, he tried to grab me in a rage but was pinned down by Xavier and Felix, each with a foot on him.
“You encouraged us to string Aria along and not marry her, yet you had the nerve to pursue her behind our backs!”
“You said that after marrying Lily, you’d make us executives. We’ve been ruined because of you! Now we can’t get a penny!”
“Why don’t you just die!”
Lily ran over crying, begging for mercy: “Stop beating him! Zachary is almost dead!”
Father was fuming: “Even at this point, you’re still pleading for this beast?! Didn’t you hear what he just said?!”
Tears streamed down Lily’s face as she glared at me viciously.
I gave her a smug smile, which made her lose control and charge at me.
“It’s all your fault!”
“You seduced Zachary! If it weren’t for you, we would have been married long ago! I wouldn’t have had to fight for the Reed family fortune, it
would all be mine!”
“You slut, isn’t it enough that you sleep around outside? You had to come and seduce my husband too! Get out! Get out of the Reed family!”
Father swiftly slapped her.
Lily trembled.
“Dad… you hit me because of her?”
Father looked utterly disappointed: “I never imagined you would turn out like this.”
“For a man, you slander your own sister and even try to get physical.”
“If I had really handed the Reed family over to you, within two days, Reed Enterprises would have become Hunt Enterprises!”
He asked the secretary to bring the paperwork and contracts.
“There’s no need to wait for a child to be born. From today, Reed Enterprises is officially handed over to Aria. Don’t harbor any more delusions.”
With this move, even though it broke the previous agreement, no one raised any objections.
I pressed my fingerprint, took the contract representing the Reed family’s authority, glanced at the half–dead Zachary on the ground and the still–fighting Felix and Xavier, and said: “Throw these three out.”
The bodyguards immediately tossed Zachary out. Felix and Xavier, unharmed, slid to their knees in front of me, pleading.
“Aria, I was wrong. It was all Zachary’s instigation before, I didn’t realize my true feelings.”
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“I truly love you. Even if I can’t marry you, I’d be happy just to stay by your side! I only want you as a person!”
I sneered: “You mean you only want my money, right?”
The two were stunned, their true intentions exposed.
“I said before that I wouldn’t take back the money I’ve already spent, but now I’ve changed my mind.”
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“All the investments I made in you didn’t meet the expected returns, and I never received any dividends. You’ll pay back every cent to me.”
The two men knew exactly how much money I had spent on them.
When receiving money, they complained it wasn’t enough. Now that they had to
pay it back, it was as if I was asking for their lives.
Felix’s face turned red with anger: “On what grounds?! You gave us that money willingly!”
“On the grounds that my purpose for investing in you was for marriage. But you explicitly rejected that, didn’t you?”
Felix was left speechless.
“What about Zachary? Why doesn’t he have to pay back?”
I chuckled lightly: “Because he’s my brother–in–law now.”
