Chapter 10
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When I saw Elaine again, ‘she was no longer the elegant woman she once was. Her skin was wrinkled, her hair tangled and crawling with lice, and her entire body reeked of rotting stench.
She hissed, “Isadora, you won–you stole Dad, Mom, and Quentin. And now, you even took Andy. You must be so proud now, aren’t you?”
Stole them? My parents were mine to begin with, and Andreas was the fiance Grandpa had arranged for me. Unfortunately, I no longer wanted any of them.
Elaine lunged at me like a madwoman, but the prison guard held her back behind the bars. She screamed in disbelief, voice cracking, “No! There’s no way! You gave Andy up? You actually gave him up? That’s impossible!”
I had only come today to tell her that what she treasured was what I had discarded. Like me, my husband, Callum Beaumont, was a core rocket program member. And unlike Andreas, he could stand shoulder to shoulder with me at the very top.
“The Wilde family has disowned you,” I told Elaine, then gestured at the person beside me. “By the way, this person next to me is the lawyer Andreas hired.”
As for how Andreas wanted her case handled, he had only given his lawyer one instruction. “Do whatever it takes- just don’t let her walk out of prison alive.”
The shock was too much for Elaine, and she fainted on the spot.
d, Wilder
After Quentin took over the Wilde family, he donated three billion dollars to my project in the family’s name. On the day the project launched, he brought my parents to see me.
Mom could barely walk, stumbling forward with tears covering her aged skin as she gripped my hand. “Isadora, sweetheart. Mommy’s here-
I pulled my hand away and interrupted her, “I’m no longer a Wilde. My name is Isadora Landon.”
I had severed ties with the Wilde family 20 years ago. The next day, I followed George and changed my surname to Landon.
Quentin stared at me in shock. Mom was crying uncontrollably, and even Dad, who was always cold and distant, couldn’t stop his lips from trembling.
