Too Late to Hold Me Back novel Chapter 1254

"So Ethan wasn't sick? His own father drugged him?"

As chaotic whispers swept through the room, Ethan spoke up with perfect timing. "Friends, partners. This is the real reason behind my sudden illness..."

"Ethan—!"

Adrian desperately tried to cut him off. If Ethan revealed that his own father had poisoned him, Adrian wouldn't just be exposed as a liar—his entire reputation would shatter.

He would be a pariah in the business world.

Yet, he never seemed to consider that if Ethan's reputation had been ruined today at such a young age, his career would have been over.

"Since my father seems eager to clarify things himself, I'll gladly step aside."

Ethan turned to Adrian. "I've already had the drug you gave me analyzed. It was a vicious poison called Cinder-Vein Toxin."

Adrian froze. "What? No, Fiona gave me a basic sedative..."

He snapped his head toward Fiona.

"The... the supplier must have mixed up the orders," Fiona stammered, her eyes darting away in panic as she tried to cover her tracks.

But Ethan wasn't going to let her wriggle out of it. "Ms. Quinn, Cinder-Vein Toxin is significantly more expensive than a basic sedative. Unless the supplier is completely brain-dead, they wouldn't just mix them up."

Ethan had figured it out. Adrian truly didn't know about the toxin. But the fact that he was willing to drug his own son using something provided by his mistress proved he was completely unfit to be a father.

However, now wasn't the time to utterly destroy Adrian. The old man still held the ultimate authority over the Mercer Group.

"Out of respect for my father, I'm willing to step back and let him explain the rest of this 'misunderstanding'."

"But on one condition, Dad. You have to tell everyone the absolute truth. Leave nothing out. Otherwise, I'll release the rest of the evidence right now."

Adrian shot a vicious glare at a pale, trembling Fiona, then ground his teeth. "Fine."

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