Divorced and Pregnant My New Life with a Billionaire Drives My Ex Crazy novel Chapter 586

“This is the legacy your grandparents built with their own hands. Even at the end of her life, your grandmother was still protecting you, still paving the way for you. And what did you do with all of it?”

“You ruined everything. You destroyed the entire Salisbury family. This is all your fault.”

“You’re just as foolish as your mother. It’s her genes that cursed me with a son like you.”

“You're nothing but a burden, a curse on this family.”

Jace kept his head down, just listening to the endless stream of insults. He could take it, barely, until Daniel turned the blame toward Alona as well. Something inside Jace snapped. He looked up, eyes burning, and shouted, “Enough!”

“How can you just shove all the blame onto my mother and me?”

“Were you such a saint back then?”

“You cheated, you had affairs, you lived it up. If I turned out bad, maybe I just inherited it from you.”

“If my mother had ever felt loved or safe in her marriage, do you think someone else would have had a chance to come into her life?”

“You hurt her. You hurt your mistress.”

“My mother made mistakes, but what about you?”

“You hid your own son overseas for years. Is that what loyalty looks like to you?”

“You couldn’t keep your own vows, so what gives you the right to judge my mother?”

“You can have an illegitimate son, but she can’t have an illegitimate daughter?”

“I’m trying to fix what I’ve done. What about you? Have you ever tried to fix anything?”

“If I’m a mess, what does that make you, father?”

Isaac, standing off to the side, pretended to calm Daniel down. When Daniel started coughing blood again, Isaac finally called out, “Jace, just stop.”

“I get that you hate us.”

“But Dad is like this now. Can’t you just let it go?”

Jace bit back his anger and looked at his half-brother. Honestly, he didn’t hate Isaac. If anything, he pitied him.

He felt bad that Isaac had lived his whole life as the hidden, unwanted son of the Salisbury family, never able to show his face or claim his place. Compared to him, Bianca had it easy. Maybe it was the blood they shared, but Jace never found it in himself to seriously resent Isaac.

“I’m not coming back,” Jace said quietly. “Take care of him.”

He turned and started to leave, but Daniel grabbed something from the bedside table and hurled it at the back of Jace’s head without even looking.

Rebuild? Maybe in another lifetime.

Isaac’s mouth curled into a cold little smile, though deep down, he wasn’t so sure. He couldn’t find Bianca. He couldn’t find Jean. It was like they’d disappeared off the face of the earth. He’d even hired a private investigator, but there was nothing. Those two were like ticking time bombs. Any day now, they could show up and blow everything wide open.

He needed to move fast. He wanted his dear father to know what real suffering felt like, to taste the pain and regret his own mother had known before she died...

“Dad, it’s time for your medicine.”

“Here, take it slow.”

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After that day, Wiona returned to Hawthorne Hall and didn’t leave the mountain again. Madison and Tina visited her a couple more times. They’d all heard about what happened at Jace and Kellen’s wedding. The story was everywhere, all over Stonehill, even across the country. People gossiped about it like it was the juiciest drama of the year.

When the Salisbury family finally declared bankruptcy, the city began to snap out of its daze. The family that used to be Stonehill’s shining star, the center of the business world, had fought for months and still couldn’t make it back. When they first went public, everyone thought they were unstoppable. But their downfall was just as spectacular, and a lot more humiliating.

Three generations had built up that empire, and in the end, it barely left a mark. In the rush of history, their legacy was just a flash, gone in an instant. Soon, no one would even remember their name.

No one would even care.

“Ma’am, Ms. Salisbury says she’d like to see you.”