“Dad, Mom keeps insisting on a divorce, and I can’t stand it. But crippling her—having those thugs break her legs—wasn’t that too cruel? How will she live now?”
And Daniel’s cold laugh answered:
“This way, she’ll never be able to divorce me. Without her legs, let’s see how she manages it! If she insists on leaving, she’ll expose the secret about me buying Chloe a real designer handbag. When that happens, the stock price of the Carter Group will plummet, and my reputation as Mr. Carter will be destroyed. What about your grandmother then? What about our lives?”
“Your mother is too selfish. She’s willing to ruin everything just to satisfy herself. But even if she’s crippled, I can still take care of her for the rest of her life. She’ll never have to worry about food or clothing.”
“It was just one handbag—barely worth tens of thousands. And yet she has to compare herself with Chloe. Chloe doesn’t live nearly as well as your mother does. She wants to shame me, so I had no choice but to be ruthless.”