The Perfect Wife's Perfect Revenge novel Chapter 575

Hawthorne shot Thorpe a cool glance. “Nothing? He did plenty, more than you can imagine.”

It all started that year, right after the championship. The Langford Group began hounding the Everhart family, nearly destroying a legacy built over a century.

Chris and Celia rarely got to hear their mother discuss their father with anyone else. They especially loved the parts about their parents' romance. Their older sister always claimed Mom and Dad were hopelessly in love—a couple straight out of a fairy tale.

Thorpe sighed. “Back then, Vicky and McNeil had just gotten divorced—”

“Divorced?”

Chris and Celia blurted it out in unison, wide-eyed as they turned to look at Gwyneth.

Victoria immediately dropped her gaze. She’d always insisted in front of the kids that she and McNeil were the picture of marital bliss, till death do them part.

“Oh, that. Just the usual little arguments every couple has.”

Thorpe realized he’d let something slip and tried to cover it up, chuckling awkwardly. “Not important, really. Ha—”

But Hawthorne’s expression had turned frigid.

“You may think it’s unimportant, but what McNeil did nearly wiped out the entire Everhart family.”

It wasn’t as if they were all killed—no, but their century-old foundation was nearly razed overnight. His parents both died not long after. The Everhart legacy was left teetering on the edge—how was that any different from utter ruin?

Victoria’s apology came out in a whisper, barely audible. “I’m sorry. I truly didn’t know what was happening at the time.”

If she had, she would have done something—anything—to help.

Chris, however, couldn’t help but gloat a little. “Dad probably just loved Mom too much. He saw you giving her flowers and thought you were making a move. Of course he was going to make trouble for you.”