Dumped My Cheating Ex. Now I'm Sleeping Next to a Billionaire CEO novel Chapter 1702

Madeline's tone was fierce and overbearing. "This country estate must go to your brother for renovation. Stop causing trouble where there is none."

Sylvia stared quietly at her mother. Her eyes held no warmth, dark and heavy like ice forged blades.

Madeline inexplicably felt a chill crawl down her spine under that intense gaze.

Taking a step forward, Sylvia enunciated every word clearly. "I have already told you that Grandpa left this estate to me. Without my permission, no one is allowed to touch a single blade of grass here."

Infuriated by her daughter's unyielding attitude, Madeline raised her hand to deliver another slap. "You ungrateful wretch!"

But before the blow could land, it was intercepted in midair. Sylvia grabbed her mother's wrist and violently flung it away.

"It is true that you were Grandma and Grandpa's only daughter, but inheritance rights have never been strictly about generational order," Sylvia said, her eyes full of mockery and bitter disappointment. "Grandpa made a legal will long before he passed, leaving the estate entirely to me. It is a designated inheritance. Do you honestly have the nerve to call yourself their beloved daughter? You never showed them a single day of filial piety after you got married. When I was just three months old, you tossed me to them because you despised having a girl. From beginning to end, Grandpa and Grandma were the ones cleaning up your messes and raising your daughter for you."

Pointing toward the memorial stones in the backyard, Sylvia's voice trembled with rage. "They knew exactly what was fair. It was because you broke their hearts first that they bypassed you and left the estate to me. You are simply not worthy of this inheritance."

Madeline trembled with anger, pointing a shaking finger at Sylvia for a long time without being able to squeeze out a single word.

Harrison's face darkened as he strode forward and shoved Sylvia's shoulder. "Sylvia! Is that how you speak to our mother?"

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