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    Precisely after 3 days, Bonnie returned home, unwilling to test her brother’s patience. His threats


    were always enacted so she dared not dy.


    Surprised to see her daughter back suddenly with no notice, Michelle was nevertheless


    delighted, fussing over Bonnie immediately while filling her in on recent incidents, including Sylvia


    daring to reim her gifted items.


    At that, Bonnie grew agitated. “Where is Sylvia now? I need to settle ounts with her! If not for her


    tattling, my brother wouldn’t have summoned me back!”


    rmed by her outburst, Michelle also red up hearing Sylvia had caused more trouble.


    “I’ve no idea where that shameless woman is now! But ever since the divorce, she’s been


    insufferably arrogant, acting above her station! As if we’ve all forgotten the deceitful means she


    used to marry into this family!” raged Michelle. Just thinking about it and Caroline and everything


    recently infuriated her.


    That woman was no good either, causing her son endless headaches handling her online scandals


    which were surely authentic. Why else would they have emerged?


    “What did Sylvia do?” whimpered Bonnie, already tearing up. “I don’t know what she told my brother


    but he insisted I return! And she even took my things worth millions!”


    Hearing the value made Michelle gasp despite their wealth now. Still, such extravagance was


    uneptable.


    “Outrageous! Call your brother back immediately! We must confront Sylvia! Divorced yet still


    clinging to our assets. I warned she was up to no goodst time but your brother refused to see


    reason!” Michelle dered, already grabbing her phone despite urging Bonnie


    to call.


    Secretly thrilled to witness the imminent confrontation with her brother, Bonnie was about


    to dissuade her when Cyril’s icy voice cut in.


    “Sylvia had nothing to do with summoning you back. Yet here you are, ndering her instantly. If


    this is what you learned abroad, perhaps you shouldn’t have gone at all.”


    Both women jerked in frightened surprise, unaware of Cyril’s silent arrival or how long he had


    overheard.


    Squirming under her brother’s frigid gaze, Bonnie knew she was cornered. As Cyril settled into a


    solitary seat, his assistant handed over an investigation report.


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    “Shall I summarize the findings or would you prefer to make your own confession?” Cyril asked, his


    domineering tone leaving Bonnie struggling to breathe. Given the options, she naturally feared the


    revtions in that report more.


    Copsing to her knees, Bonnie clung desperately to Cyril, weeping and insisting on her temporary


    lack of control abroadpared to Sylvia’s theft.


    Disgusted by her shamelessness, Cyril shook free his hand and pped her sharply.Content is ? 2024 N?velDrama.Org.


    Michelle screamed and rushed to embrace her daughter, casting furious looks at Cyril’s callousness


    especially when he always favored Sylvia. What misdeeds could her precious daughter have


    possiblymitted?


    Seeing Michelle coddle Bonnie protectively only aggravated Cyril further. He flung the file


    contemptuously between them.


    “Then you both take a look at exactly what your daughter was up to overseas! And that ne –


    don’t pretend otherwise! I know you sold it off for millions!”


    A million-dor piece sold for only hundreds of thousands and she dared use Sylvia of stealing


    and pawning it? The implication of what happened to the othervish gifts over the years was


    obvious.


    Hearing Cyril’s usations, Bonnie knew denial was useless. “Nothing else, just that ne!” she


    still insisted. “Who knows if Sylvia orchestrated this herself back when she married in. She never


    had good intentions…”


    “Intentions?” Cyril interrupted derisively. “As if you have anything she would bother scheming for!


    Every gift she gave you and Mother are worth at least millions. Yet you vilify her for allegedly


    stealing and selling your tacky ne?”


    After handling Caroline’s scandal, Cyril had checked on the value of Sylvia’s gifts. Each one, ran


    over a million easily. Far exceeding what Bonnie had gotten for selling her chain. Yet his sister still


    dared make such usations? Preposterous!


    Wailing despairingly now before Cyril’s stony countenance, Bonnie knew she was doomed.


    Seeing her daughter’s distress, Michelle didn’t dare confront Cyril anymore but began cursing Sylvia


    instead until Cyril interrupted in dismay.


    “Is this how you’ve been treating her all these years, Mother?”


    It had never urred to Cyril that Sylvia might have suffered such awful treatment from his family.


    Remembering how she had remained stubbornly adamant about divorcing him, Cyril wondered if


    there were things he truly failed to understand.


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    If even his own mother acted so atrociously, how would outsiders have behaved? But the root cause


    was his own attitude enabling such toxicity against Sylvia in the first ce. If only he had been


    better to her. Unfortunately, Cyril stillcked that self-awareness even now.