"Why did you come back so suddenly? And you didn't even tell me in advance."
I pointed at my son who was dying on the stretcher with a sneer, "If I hadn't come back suddenly, my son wouldn't even know he was being bullied to death by the mistress and her son!"
Isabella said to him with tears in her eyes, "This bitch keeps calling me a mistress. She just threatened to make us die together and said that she told you to get lost. Ethan, is that true?"
A dark flash appeared in Ethan's eyes.
"Don't listen to her nonsense. I came here because I was worried about you and Aaron."
He patted Isabella's back soothingly and pulled me aside with disgust on his face.
"You secretly came back and instruct your son to perform this self-torture trick just to humiliate me and Isabella in public?"
He lowered his voice and said sarcastically, "Chloe, you haven't been back for five years, so it's normal for me to have a woman outside! You should be grateful for my contribution to the group over the years instead of showing off your big sister's temper here!"
I was so angry that I was shaking all over. “So you just let the mistress and her son bully Noah, your own son?!”
He grabbed my wrist and seemed to want to crush my bones.
"If you have anything to say, let's talk about it when we get back! Do you want everyone to know that Isabella is the third party?"
I shook him off violently: "What, you dare not admit it?"
He looked at Adrian who was holding Noah, and said maliciously:
"I was just wondering, you refused to let your son take my last name, and you always brought this pretty boy with you to the streets. Could it be that Noah is your and his bastard?"
These words stabbed my heart like a knife.
"Ethan, how dare you!"
I raised my hand and slapped him hard, and his expression became even gloomier.
"If you want to make Noah's condition worse, try it!"
I knew very well that if I exposed Isabella and her son now, he would maliciously slander Noah's identity.
My poor Noah will be devastated since he adores and loves his dad so much!
He is now in a critical condition and must not suffer any more blows!
Seeing that I was relaxed, his voice softened a bit: "When things calm down, I will compensate Noah and make him a new robot."
"Compensation?" I laughed in anger. "What compensation are you going to give me? My money?"
"Ethan, stop disgusting me and get a divorce. Take your mistress and illegitimate child and get out of Blackwood Enterprises!"
Ethan raged behind me:
"Don't be ungrateful! Do you think the Blackwood family is still yours? All the executives of the group have been mine over the years! If you dare to divorce, don't even think about getting a dime!"
I didn't look back and got into the ambulance.
The moment the car door closed, I finally couldn't hold on and collapsed into the seat.
"Ms. Sterling..." Adrian hesitated.
"Go find Liam." I took a deep breath.
Half an hour later, Liam appeared in the hospital corridor, trembling with tears in his eyes.
"Miss, you are finally back!"
I only found out from his intermittent narration.
It turned out that during the years when I was developing overseas markets, Ethan gradually eroded the real power of the Blackwood family on the grounds of joint property of the couple.
In the name of optimizing management, he gradually marginalized the old ministers left by his father.
Liam, as the vice chairman of the group, was forcibly sent to a nursing home deep in the mountains with no signal by Ethan due to health reasons!
"Liam, if that's the case, then there's no way we can get the Blackwood family back?"
At this moment, I deeply regretted giving the position of the head of the Blackwood family to that despicable man Ethan.
As if knowing what I was thinking, Ethan called me.
"Chloe, do you think taking that old man Liam away will help you? Don't dream!"
