Kaelen's face turned ashen, and his lips trembled as he struggled to make a sound.
He kept murmuring to himself, over and over, "So it was all because of me... Everything was because of me..."
Chloe's complexion was equally pale.
For years, she had hurled insults at me and hated me on Kaelen's behalf, never imagining that I was the one who least deserved any of it.
I had no desire to linger and watch their disgrace. I walked to the microphone, cleared my throat, and officially began the press conference.
Finally, the focus shifted away from the tangled web of love, hate, and resentment between the three of us, returning to the matter at hand.
I laid out clearly before the public my ambitions, and the business empire I have built and expanded over the past ten years.
"The acqui
