Her Wedding, My Husband novel Chapter 8

Seeing my unwavering stance, my former classmates finally cracked.

No longer daring to confront me, they turned their collective fury on Victoria.

"This is all your fault, you delusional psycho! You jumped to conclusions and dragged us into this!"

"Really! You're the actual homewrecker here, yet you had the nerve to accuse her and get us involved!"

"Pretending to be the CEO's fiancée of Global Prime? How pathetic can you get?"

"We only kissed up to you because we thought you had connections! Now you expect us to pay for your delusions? No way in hell!"

"Exactly! You should be responsible for that $790 million! Don't try dragging us down with you!"

Faced with their accusations, Victoria snapped.

She fired back instantly, "You spineless social climbers dare blame me?

"Since Dalton, you've all been encouraging me to put others down!

"If it weren't for your desperate networking attempts, I wouldn't be in this mess!

"You treated me like Upper East Side royalty when you thought I was marrying a CEO, but now you're throwing me to the wolves!

"Look at yourselves—born to be brown-nosers! None of you are walking away from this!"

Victoria and her former minions went at each other's throats. If the NYPD hadn't stepped in, they might have recreated a Real Housewives fight scene.

After the screaming match, the classmates tried claiming innocence, saying they hadn't damaged anything personally.

But when the cops pulled up the security footage, their false bravado evaporated.

Each person faced their individual charges.

Some, desperate to avoid Rikers Island, liquidated their assets and begged their networks for loans, only to crawl away broken after settling.

Others received divorce papers from their spouses and found themselves cut off from their social circles.

With no one willing to touch their GoFundMe campaigns, they were left to face justice in detention.

As for Victoria, she'd been the ringleader of the destruction.

Naturally, her portion of the debt was the largest.

Faced with this crushing financial burden, she turned to Nathan in desperation.

"Nathan, after everything we've shared, can't you help me? I couldn't pay this off even if I sold my organs!" Victoria sobbed, mascara running, voice breaking.

Nathan, feeling a flicker of guilt, hesitated before giving me a pleading look.

"Darling, maybe we don't need to go nuclear. Could you show some mercy? Just this once, for old times' sake?"

I shot him an arctic glare. "Show mercy?

Nathan, have you lost your last shred of dignity? You think you have any say with me right now?

"Every time I think about how you played me with your fake devotion all these years, I feel nauseous.

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