What She Overheard in Her Own Marriage novel Chapter 550

"Mom, do you suspect Rafael's death was because she broke his heart?" Finnian's heart skipped a beat.

Elaine wiped the tears from her face, her voice steeped in grief. "Actually, there's something I've been hiding from you—the real reason your brother married her."

Finnian was stunned. "Rafael loved her."

"That is true, but the reason they rushed the wedding was because he slept with her. Rafael was only twenty-four, and Noelle was twenty-one. They were way too young. I was twenty-five when I married your father. Why was Noelle in such a frantic rush to marry your brother?" The more Elaine spoke, the colder her blood ran, realizing this all reeked of a young girl's deeply calculated manipulation.

Josephine had a sharp eye for character. She scoffed coldly. "I saw right through that girl's rotten intentions from the start. I never wanted her to marry Rafael. I only agreed because Rafael and all of you nodded along."

"Mom, it's all my fault. I was completely blinded by her lies. I regret it so much. If I hadn't agreed to let her be with Rafael, my son would still be alive today." Elaine pounded her chest in agony. In that moment, no one could fathom the devastating grief of a mother who had lost her child.

Finnian quickly stood up, walked over to his mother, and grabbed her hand. "Mom, please don't do this to yourself. I just saw Noelle's true colors too. We treated her like family, but she treated us like fools. She thought she could manipulate all of us to get whatever she wanted."

Josephine sneered, "She never manipulated me. I hated her from day one. Finnian, if you hadn't stopped me, I would have shipped her overseas years ago. We wouldn't be dealing with any of this mess! Your divorce from Kaia? Oh, she definitely played a huge part in that."

Finnian's handsome face turned deathly pale. That was one of his deepest wounds. He had never, ever wanted to divorce Kaia.

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