"Nicholas, when the Bishop family was falling apart, I begged you to help Chloe. You told me the company was in crisis, that you were overwhelmed and had no energy to step into their mess."
Nora's voice trembled, raw with the betrayal she had suppressed for weeks. "I believed you. I trusted you! But what did you do?"
"You turned around and entangled yourself with Cindy. Do you even know what kind of people her father and brother are? Do you think a daughter raised by the Chen family could ever be 'innocent'?"
"Nora!"
Nicholas’s eyes turned predatory, a cold, dark aura radiating from him that would have silenced anyone else. "What happened to the Bishops was the work of her father and brother. It has nothing to do with Cindy. You can’t take your anger out on her just because of Chloe. S
