His expression darkened to something murderous.
"You... you're completely unreasonable. Vulgar. Keep this up, and I'll only despise you more."
A laugh escaped me before I could stop it. After everything, did he actually think I still cared what he thought of me?
I turned, my voice dropping to ice.
"Your precious Fiona is so refined, so above it all. She's certainly not above spreading her legs underneath you to save the Prescott family, though."
"So stop forcing yourself to pretend you ever loved me. Go marry your little two-faced princess."
Crash.
A cup shattered against the floor. "Ava Henson, I truly misjudged you. All that love you showed me was the real act. You were only ever after the Calloway fortune."
"You've destroyed this partnership. I'd love to see how you explain it to the shareholders. To the board. Are you going to tell them it's because I helped the Prescott family?"
I lifted my gaze to meet his, and I knew he was seething. After all, I'd always been the obedient one, soft-spoken and compliant.
What he couldn't stomach was the idea that my love for him had been a lie all along.
He assumed I couldn't let go of him, couldn't walk away from the Henson Group.
But after two lifetimes of groveling, two lifetimes of suffering, he could forget about getting so much as a kind word from me.
If he and Fiona Prescott shared some deep, unbreakable bond, he should have just said so. I was the Henson family's only daughter. It wasn't as if he was my only option.
What he should not have done was covet my family's assets with one hand while chasing his own pleasure with the other.
That kind of selfish, despicable greed? If I let him off the hook in this lifetime, the universe itself would owe me an apology.
"Dominic, you want me to explain things to the Calloway board?"
"You're the one who needs to explain. Go tell them how you schemed and lied for your little mistress and destroyed the Henson-Calloway alliance all by yourself."
I walked over the shattered glass without slowing down and headed upstairs.
Word of the Henson Group's moves spread fast. Rumors about the divorce tore through every boardroom in the city's upper circles.
Ava Henson and Dominic Calloway's marriage collapses. Calloway Group stock in freefall.
The Henson family goes all in. Has the Henson heiress lost her mind?
Everyone was calculating the cost of this split, convinced I was acting on impulse.