Boss, Your Wife Signed the Divorce Agreement Before the Wedding novel Chapter 818

In that moment.

Ian deliberately kept his suspicions about Sebastian sabotaging the Yves-Hudson alliance buried. It was better for Raelynn to stay completely in the dark on that front.

Raelynn suddenly saw the terrifying depths of calculation running through Ian's veins. He knew absolutely everything that was happening, yet he was weaponizing the crisis to 'persuade' her.

This wasn't persuasion.

This was extortion.

"And you expect me to be stupid enough to put my trust in you and the Hudson family again?" she fired back.

Ian knew that whatever fragile trust they had built was entirely pulverized. He kept his tone level. "If the ceremony doesn't proceed as scheduled, starting tomorrow, the Hudsons will pull every political string and greenlight every fast-track channel to help the Croix family finalize Lily's transfer. Even if you try to leverage the Yves family to stop it, the impact will be negligible. The Croix and Hudson empires have joined forces. They are united by mutual greed, standing as an impenetrable wall. If the Yves family tries to intervene, what are your actual odds of winning?"

"Ian!" Raelynn snapped, her temper flaring.

She stared at him in utter disbelief as he laid out the brutal, inescapable reality.

Ian held her furious gaze. "Even if the Yves family mobilized their legal teams, it's already too late. Unless they are willing to burn their entire empire to the ground in a suicidal three-way war... Lynnie, is that really the outcome you want?"

The timing was disastrously against her.

With the Croix and Hudson monoliths working together, they were practically untouchable.

Raelynn understood the lethal logic perfectly. Ian was merely stating the facts, but it was a thinly veiled threat all the same.

He was forcing her down a single, narrow path.

She had to play the good little bride.

Only then would he be willing to go behind his family's back and legally secure Lily's paperwork for her.

Raelynn couldn't form a single word of rebuttal.

She was forced to admit it was the absolute truth.

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