The Ex-Wife's Burning Elegance novel Chapter 1468

Israel instinctively clutched his stinging cheek, hissing, "Are you crazy? What did you hit me for?!"

"To stop you from embarrassing yourself," Violet said coldly. "Israel, if you don't want the Williams family to be known for selling out their own mother for profit, you'll shut your mouth. You and your brothers know perfectly well whether Stella is a Williams or not. I'm just curious to see if you're really willing to ruin your own mother's reputation, to accuse her of having an affair with another man, and to trample her name into the dust, all for the sake of 'business.'"

"What nonsense are you spouting?!" Israel sputtered. "Mother would never have an affair! Stella must be an imposter who tricked us..."

"Israel," Coleman Williams cut in, his voice like ice. "Shut up."

Israel froze. Seeing the cold warning in Coleman's eyes, he didn't dare say another word. The realization hit him like a ton of bricks. If Stella insisted she was Nora's biological daughter, but claimed Nora was adopted and therefore not a biological Cameron, and then a test showed she wasn't a Williams either… it would lead to only one conclusion: Nora had cheated and given birth to Stella. It would imply that Nora had fled the Williams family out of fear that Skyler would discover her infidelity.

That would completely destroy Nora's reputation. No matter what, Nora was the mother of all three brothers, and she was long dead. They couldn't allow their own mother to be posthumously branded an adulteress. And if the truth later revealed that Nora had been faithful, their willingness to slander their own mother for the sake of shares would make them utterly contemptible. What kind of person wouldn't defend their own mother from such an accusation?

The same logic held true for Skyler. For years, he had painstakingly maintained the facade of a devoted widower, never remarrying.

If it came out that Nora had cheated on him, his years of devotion would become a public joke. Nora was, after all, his lawfully wedded wife. If the story was confirmed, The Williams Group's stock would plummet the next day.

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