Chapter 251


    Chapter 251


    At ElitePinnacle, the rumor mill had been churning with whispers about the CEO, Mr. Richardson. The


    latest buzz? His wife, they said, was a knockout beauty. Word on the street was that their marriage was


    on the rocks, and she’d given him the cold shoulder. Some even imed she’d left him in tears after a


    heated argument in his office.


    Caught in the act by Joy while idling by the printer, an employee mistook her for the infamous “Mrs.


    Richardson” because she dared to call the CEO by his first name. But upon closer inspection, they


    were underwhelmed. “She’s average. What’s with all the hype?” they thought.


    “Mr. Richardson is in a meeting…” stammered the employee, trying to convince Joy


    otherwise.


    Unfazed, Joy stormed toward the conference room, leaving a trail of stunned employees in her wake.


    No one could stop her.


    After barging into the meeting, she was nothing like Leanne, who would’ve politely asked outsiders to


    leave before speaking her mind, always keen on preserving Curtis’ dignity in public. But Joy? She


    didn’t care about keeping up appearances.


    In front of over twenty shocked attendees, she grabbed a coffee from the table and hurled


    it at Curtis.


    Gasps filled the room as the meeting descended into chaos.


    “Mr. Richardson, are you okay?”


    “Get a towel, quick!”


    “Who do you think you are, throwing coffee at Mr. Richardson?”


    “Why not?” Joy stood defiantly, hands on her hips, in enemy territory as if she owned the ce. “That’s


    who I aimed for, that heartless jerk!”


    Drenched in coffee, Curtis remained expressionless. With his designer suit spoiled, he sat silently, his


    aristocratic demeanor untarnished.


    Caleb rushed over with a towel, quickly ushering everyone out of the room.


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    While wiping away the coffee, Curtis’ gaze turned icy. “Joy, the only reason you’re still here unscathed


    is because of Leanne. There’s a limit to my patience. Don’t push it.”


    “I don’t care about your limits! You hurt her, and I won’t stand for it! You promised a divorce. Why did


    you fool her?”


    Curtis didn’t want to waste his breath and retorted impatiently. “It’s between Leanne and me. What’s it


    to you?”


    Their confrontation escted, with Joy using Curtis of bullying Leanne because she


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    had no family to defend her. “Well, I’m her family now, and I won’t let you get away with it!” Curtis was


    already at his wit’s end. Since Leanne left ElitePinnacle, she’d cut off all contact, leaving him in a worse


    ce than before.


    He had no desire to entertain Joy’s foolishness but found himself having to be polite for Leanne’s sake.


    It was as if he had a little mother-inw without actually having one.


    His frustration simmering, Curtis clenched his jaw. “I love her, and I won’t divorce her. My tolerance is


    only for Leanne’s sake. If you had any sense, you’d stay out of it.”


    “Love? What good is your love? You’ve hurt her once. She was so in love with you. You were her first


    love, but you just threw her away without a second thought.”


    Joy recounted the bleak days after their breakup, when Leanne was struggling with depression,


    questioning her worth and even thinking about ending her life.


    Joy shared the heart-wrenching moment she found Leanne by the roadside, in tears, and the fear that


    she might have lost her to despair.


    In the heated exchange, theplexities of their rtionships wereid bare, revealing the deep scars


    and unhealed wounds beneath the surface.


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