Chapter 3

When I brought it up first, Victor actually breathed a sigh of relief.

His voice moved closer to the receiver, carrying a deliberately crafted intimacy.

“Lily won it at the company’s annual party.”

He paused, then added,

“Although it’s the same style as yours, hers is fake. I forgot to tell you back then, so don’t mind it.”

He forgot, huh? Then his memory must be pretty terrible.

Not only did he forget to tell me about that, he also forgot that they went to the penthouse suite of a hotel that same night.

And he forgot that they stayed there for three days and three nights.

I sneered inwardly.

“Why didn’t you come home the night of the annual party?”

His eyes panicked. “I got drunk that day. Don’t you hate it most when I drink? I was afraid the smell would bother you, so I asked Lily to take me to a hotel.”

“She sure is enthusiastic. She knew you had a wife, yet she still dared to take you to a hotel.”

Victor clearly paused on the other end, his breathing skipping half a beat, before he laughed it off.

“Right? Girls these days are pretty bold. But I really only treat her as a subordinate.”

“Look at you, always getting suspicious. You’re the only one in my heart.”

His voice moved closer to the receiver, carrying a deliberately crafted intimacy.

“When I’m done with this busy stretch, I’ll take you to the Maldives for a makeup vacation, okay? Just the two of us.”

That tenderness once would have made my heart soften, but now, I only felt disgusted.

“Sure.”

I looked at the neon lights flashing past outside the window, my tone as calm as if I were talking about the weather.

“But take care of your serious business first. Don’t let me delay you.”

“Nothing matters more than spending time with you.”

Victor’s voice was full of eager appeasement, but my heart only grew colder.

It was not because Victor had betrayed me and cheated.

It was because I could not understand how I had let them act right under my nose for so long.

My grip on the steering wheel tightened, and I forced down the urge to confront Victor right then.

I wanted him to admit his relationship with Lily with his own mouth, then ruin both of them completely.

I gave a few perfunctory replies and hung up.

Less than two days later, Lily’s social media account updated again.

In the video, she wore a Chanel haute couture wedding gown, her eyes and brows full of joy.

“A homewrecker came to make trouble a few days ago, and to make it up to me, Mr. Hale is finally going to marry me.”

“I only said I wanted a seaside wedding, and he actually bought an entire island for me.”

She curled her lips, and the camera casually swept over the island ownership documents.

“He said this will be our home from now on, and no one can take it away.”

“And he even insisted on giving me one billion dollars so I could build an amusement park and a resort hotel on the island.”

“I’m such a silly little thing and don’t know anything about business, but Mr. Hale said that as long as I’m happy, it doesn’t matter how much money we lose.”

Looking at the ownership certificate in the video that had my name on it, rage surged straight up inside me.

That island was a birthday gift from my stepbrother!

Victor had actually taken my island to hold a wedding for his little mistress!

Fine, they wanted to get married?

Then I wanted to see how he and the other woman would get married right in front of his actual wife!