Sign the Papers Mr. Langford novel Chapter 53

Wren looked at him.

In that fleeting second, she realized she wasn't even angry anymore.

She just found the entire situation absurd.

"I'm backing her into a corner?"

Wren repeated the words softly.

"Dad, when we were kids and she wanted my bedroom, you told me to yield. When she broke the fountain pen my mom left me, you told me to stop being petty. When she needed connections to study abroad, you made me introduce her. When she returned and wanted a job at Langford Medical, you made me pave the way."

"Now she's living in my husband's house, letting people call her Mrs. Langford, and you want me to support her."

"She wants to sink her claws into the Stellaris project, and you want me to pull the strings."

Wren's eyes finally reddened.

Not out of weakness.

But because the weight of everything buried in her chest for years was finally ripping its way out.

"When does it end? When will you stop asking me to give things up?"

Quentin froze.

Lydia's grip around Willow's shoulders stiffened.

Wren stared them down, her voice trembling slightly, but she stood her ground.

"If there comes a day when Willow wants my life, are you going to look at me and say, 'Wren, you're the older sister, be the sensible one'?"

A deathly silence suffocated the living room.

Willow sobbed louder.

"Wren, how could you say something like that? I would never want your life..."

"But you want my life's work."

Wren cut her off.

Willow went rigid.

Wren met her gaze, addressing her more bluntly than she ever had before.

"You want the undivided devotion of the Whitaker family, Lawrence's protection, Leo's affection, and the prestige of being Mrs. Langford. And now, you want the credibility of my career."

"Willow, it's not that you have nothing."

"It's just that you constantly fixate on everything I have."

Willow's face went completely white. Tears clung to her cheeks, making her look fragile enough to shatter.

Lydia immediately broke into a wail. "Wren, do you want to drive her to her death by speaking to her this way?"

Quentin finally snapped out of his shock, his rage boiling over.

"You've gone too far!"

He raised his hand, fully intending to strike her.

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