THE DIVORCE GAMBIT From Dumped Wife to CEO's Forever novel Chapter 812

Dowager Vance continued, "Do you know why I'm making you kneel?"

Carey kept her head down and said nothing.

Dowager Vance never followed any rules in her words or actions, so Carey had no idea how she had managed to upset her this time.

Dowager Vance pressed her temples and cried, "I dreamed of Quinton again just now! My poor son, he wasn't even thirty when he died. You little harlot, it's all your fault, you little harlot! If it weren't for you, my son wouldn't have died so young."

As she spoke, Dowager Vance, still sitting on the bed, kicked Carey squarely in the chest.

Thud!

Carey was knocked to the ground and struggled to get up.

Her body was already frail, and she had been on medication recently. Coupled with the mental and physical torment from Dowager Vance, Carey was covered in wounds, both seen and unseen.

"Mother, I'm sorry," Carey sobbed, lying on the floor as tears streamed down her face. "It's all my fault, all my fault! I'm the one who killed Quinton..."

To this day, she still couldn't understand why Quinton had saved her.

Why Quinton had to die for her.

If only she had been the one to die back then.

This life was just too painful.

She couldn't live. She couldn't die. Every day she woke up to despair.

Watching Carey like this, a look of satisfaction flashed in Dowager Vance's eyes.

So what if Carey was the eldest daughter of the Richards family?

So what if she was the matriarch of the Gonzales family?

Now she was forced to live out her days as a widow—all for the sake of her precious son! This was her atonement for her beloved son.

This was Carey's retribution.

If the Richards and Gonzales families knew that their daughter and daughter-in-law was still alive, yet they could never find her, they must be in agony, right?

They would never dream that Carey was still alive, but that she had become Flavia Cartwright.

She had become the daughter-in-law of her Vance family!

Dowager Vance looked at the kneeling Carey and narrowed her eyes. "Tonight, you will kneel here before my bed. Kneel and atone for my Quinton. You are not to leave until morning!"

"Yes, Mother."

With Carey kneeling before her, Dowager Vance had no more nightmares.

Rosemary looked at her mother. "Lord Will is coming too!"

Will? She had to be kidding!

Will was the youngest Lord in the Windsor family. In previous years, he had always shown disdain for Rosemary's birthday.

But this year...

This meant that Will was gradually being drawn to Rosemary.

It seemed their Vance family was truly going to produce a Lady.

Heaven knows how excited Dowager Vance was right now.

Dowager Vance's eyes widened instantly. "Really? Rosemary, don't you dare tease me with something like this!"

"I'm not teasing you," Rosemary said, finding it a bit incredible herself. "It was Ham, Lord Will's personal aide, who called to tell me. Ham even told me to prepare well."

Dowager Vance immediately clasped her hands together. "God be praised, truly, God be praised! Rosemary, from now on, the future of our Vance family rests on your shoulders!"

Rosemary nodded with a smile. "Mother, I will certainly not disappoint you. Since Lord Will is willing to grace my birthday party with his presence, it means I hold a special place in his heart. Perhaps he's liked me for a long time but was just too shy to express it."

Otherwise, there was no other explanation for why Will would attend her birthday party this time!