The Ex-Wife’s Billion Dollar Comeback Novel

---- Chapter 201: A Father's Fury ~ Calum ~ "You'd really agree to further reduce my sentence?" Claire asked. Calum nodded. "Just... tell me everything." He was in prison, visiting his cousin, Claire. She gulped and said, "Include my mom too." "If your information is worth it," Calum said dryly. Claire had dramatically changed since she was locked up. Gone was her grace. She looked pale and worn out. After taking a deep breath, she revealed, "Yes, | purposely sought her out. She fit the qualifications.

She knew how to wrap men around her finger, and you just fell right into her trap." "Don't get things wrong, Calum. She loved you. She did fall in love with you, especially since you were richer and had more to offer," Claire added. "And because she owed me for introducing her to you, she was willing to do things for me. Investing in her brand was just the start. Of course, | used that to my advantage to borrow money from her. Having you sign the truck procurement document was another attempt." "But you already know that. The only thing you don't know so far-" Claire paused, gulping.

She averted Calum''s gaze and revealed, "Is that we faked her pregnancy to pressure you to get married." "What? What did you say?" Calum demanded, his brows knitting. "I still tried to contact Rose a few months ago to get money from her. | learned that she got pregnant for real, but to get you to marry her, | helped her fake her pregnancy,' Claire ---- continued. "If you don't believe me, just go back to the clinic that initially performed her ultrasound. We paid that doctor a hefty amount of money. That ultrasound you saw was a recorded video." Calum's hands balled into fists.

Yes, he remembered that ultrasound clinic. He did find it odd that Rose had chosen a private clinic rather than a hospital. Yet, he never questioned Rose. Then, he remembered the doctor who examined Rose when she fainted right after their wedding. It was Doctor Gilbert. If Rose was just newly pregnant back then, how come he didn't say a thing? But then again, he thought, he always gave very little information. For whatever reason, it seemed like the doctor withheld something After visiting Claire, Calum went to Butter & Crumb Café and met with the manager.

The same person begged for his forgiveness, "I can show you our surveillance footage. It doesn't really show me and your wife meeting face to face, but | followed her to the restroom. | can also assure you that the phone is mine." With his hands clasped, the manager pleaded, "Please, Mr. Montclair, don't get me fired. I'm going to cooperate." If Calum were to file for divorce, it was going to get messy, and he might really need the manager's help. So, for now, he let him be.

He watched the café's surveillance video, and while he did not see them speaking to each other, he caught Rose's mischievous smile as she left the restroom. That alone was enough to tell him Rose had planned everything. Calum no longer had time to go to the Ultrasonography Clinic, the same one where Rose had her first checkup. He learned ---- from his driver that Belinda had brought Sage home. His parents were at the Montclair Group. Knowing what he knew now about Rose, he called his mother. "Mom? Why did you leave Sage alone in the house?" "Belinda should be with Sage.

Besides, | wasn't going to take long. Your father and | are heading there now. Why are you so worked up? Weren't you the one always defending Rose?" Amanda said over the phone. "Mom-" Calum nearly wept, feeling all his mistakes choking him at that moment. "I just found out that Rose isn't the person | thought she was." "Where are you?" Amanda demanded. "Let's both head to the house. I'll call Belinda!" Calum's driver sped through the road. He arrived at the mansion just in time to witness Rose hurting his daughter.

What Rose did wasn't a mere outburst; it was an act of aggression, plain and unforgivable. "Dare! Go ahead and dare tell me!" he challenged Rose. When Rose turned around and saw him and his parents following behind him, her eyes widened. But what broke Calum's heart was the fear in Sage's eyes and the tears streaming down her cheeks, where faint red marks from Rose's nails were already beginning to show. "Daddy!" Sage ran to Calum and hugged him tightly. "Aunt Rose is a bad person, Daddy! | don't want her anymore!" While Rose was still in shock, Amanda charged toward her.

" How dare you hurt my granddaughter? What gives you the right?" Amanda immediately slapped Rose, screaming, "It wasn't ---- enough that you destroyed my son's family! You slithered into his life, tore apart his marriage, and now you dare lay a hand on his child?!" She seized Rose by the hair. "You're not just poison, you're corrosion in human form. Everything you touch turns to ruin!" "You are no daughter-in-law of mine! | would rather see my son alone for the rest of his life than tied to a woman like you!" "Soraya gave us love, peace, and a child who smiled from her heart. And you?

You only shattered our peace! Even your shadow is darker than your soul!" Amanda declared at the end. Eventually, Cedric pulled Amanda back. After getting some space, Rose turned to Calum and defended herself, "Calum, | didn't mean to hurt her! Sage was being disrespectful; she kept shouting at me and saying horrible things!" "No, Daddy, | didn't! She's lying!" Sage cried harder, tightening her hold on Calum. "Can't you see, Calum? She hates me because Soraya told her to! Lately, every time | try to reach out, she throws Soraya in my face. What was | supposed to do?

Just stand there and let your daughter insult me?" "You didn't see what happened before you arrived." Rose insisted. "Sage started yelling first, mocking me, comparing me to her mother! | just wanted her to stop! | didn't hurt her, | only grabbed her because she wouldn't listen!" "Enough!" Calum yelled. He pointed at Rose and said, "GET. OUT. OF. OUR. HOUSE!" "I'M DONE WITH YOU! | WANT A DIVORCE!" "EVERYTHING | GAVE YOU-I'M TAKING IT ALL BACK!" "Sage is my bottom line!" Calum declared. "For hurting her, | will never forgive you! Get out!"