Chapter 56

Brittany clutched her stinging cheek and stared at her father in shock and disbelief. "Dad—" "Don't you dare call me that!" Alfred trembled with rage, pointing a shaking finger at her. "This is all because of you, you shameless witch!" He threw a briefcase onto the floor with a thud, papers scattering everywhere. "Just now, every business partner we had called to terminate their contracts with us! Do you have any idea what that means? Our company's cash flow is about to collapse! In less than two weeks, we'll be bankrupt!" Alfred's eyes burned red with fury, like an enraged predator. "You've pursued Callum for all these years, and this is what we get? The whole internet is calling you a homewrecker and a slut! Now, our entire family is paying the price! Yet you're here crying? Crying won't save you, you useless trash!" Her father's screaming, her mother's scolding, Callum's silence, and the online abuse… Every one of them cut into her soul like a thousand knives. Brittany's bl