The Sleeper's Wrath and His Wife's Strike novel Chapter 47

Althea was the first to cry foul, her face twisted in anguish as she jabbed a trembling finger at Lindsay. “You’re only accusing me because my husband and son aren’t here to defend me! Clearly, you set this all up, and now you’re trying to pin everything on me. No wonder you insisted on marrying a man in a coma at that family dinner—you must have known Yves would wake up! You switched out the incense I gave the house staff, didn’t you?”

Lindsay just shook her head and let out a cold, scornful laugh. “You can deny it all you want, but that won’t erase what you did to Yves. I wouldn’t be confronting you today if I weren’t absolutely certain. The incense was custom-ordered by you from Aroma Lofts. I have the surveillance footage from the day you went there—everything you said to the owner was recorded.”

She leaned in, her voice low and menacing. “Do you really want me to destroy the last shred of dignity you have left?”

All the color drained from Althea’s face in an instant. She stood there ashen and hollow-eyed, terror chilling her to the bone. Her mind screamed at her to run, but her legs felt like they were made of lead, utterly useless beneath her.

“Althea,” came the sharp voice of Mr. Quigley Sr., his cold gaze cutting right through her. “Since you married into the Quigley family, I’ve treated you well, haven’t I? Why would you do this to Yves?”

Althea seemed to snap back to reality, staring at the old man with mechanical detachment. After a long, tense pause, a bitter laugh escaped her. “You have the nerve to ask me that?”

“Oh, please. You call that treating me well? That’s rich.”

“My husband, York, is your eldest son. He joined Quigley Holdings at twenty-five—maybe he didn’t achieve much, but he’s worked himself to the bone for this family. And how did you and Mother treat him? When she died, every single share she owned was transferred to Yves. Meanwhile, my husband spent decades breaking his back, and only made it to manager in his fifties.”

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