The Ex-Wife's Burning Elegance novel Chapter 2170

The simple fact that Sellers was now permanently sterile guaranteed his days as the family head were numbered.

The only reason he hadn't suspected Sherman was because Sherman was widely considered useless.

Even if Sellers was ousted, a mediocre lackey like Sherman would never be allowed to take the throne.

"Sherman doesn't have the brains to play with fire," Leonard continued. "His involvement won't stay hidden for long. When the truth comes out, the fact that he begged his father to fake the paternity test for Aurora will also be dragged into the light. Sellers will direct all his fury at Sherman and his father, convinced they sabotaged his bloodline just to steal his position. And that was Joshua's endgame all along—to spark a brutal civil war within the Burton family."

Leonard paused, his dark eyes locking onto Stella.

"The Burton empire is about to collapse. Rot from within is always far more lethal than an enemy at the gates. After this fallout, their entire hierarchy will have to be restructured. I just don't know if Joshua left any other traps waiting to spring. Meanwhile, the Williams family is barely tolerating Aurora right now. The second the Burtons find out what she did to Queenie and come demanding blood, the Williams family will throw her to the wolves without a second thought. After all the disasters she's caused, Skyler's patience is completely gone. Stella, Aurora is about to lose absolutely everything."

There was one more thing Leonard kept to himself.

He knew Stella wouldn't want to hear it.

He wanted to say that if every single detail of this catastrophe had been flawlessly calculated by Joshua, then the man was an absolute monster.

Was Aurora's pregnancy and the secret baby swap in Fisherman's Cove part of his design, too?

Miss Hayser hadn't seen through Jonathan's trap on her own, so who gave her the idea to execute a long-con baby swap revenge?

Tracing it back, Leonard remembered a dozen other terrifyingly precise details.

Skyler had personally suppressed the news of Jonathan waking from his coma.

Stella had only found out through Coleman.

Aurora hadn't known until much later, which meant Coleman had likely been kept in the dark initially, too.

That meant Jonathan had woken up much earlier than anyone realized.

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