Chapter 6
On the television news, Blackwell Industries‘ headquarters was surrounded by an impenetrable crowd.
Countless creditors held banners, shouting “Calvin Blackwell, pay your debts!”
The camera panned across his face.
In just one short week, he had withered dramatically, gaunt and hollow–eyed, with no trace of his former confident demeanor.
The butler approached me from behind, bowing respectfully.
“Ms. Reid, Mr. Blackwell is here, waiting outside.”
My hand paused mid–sip on my coffee cup before I let out a cold laugh:
“Don’t bother with him. He won’t get in.”
Sure enough, the security camera showed Calvin being firmly blocked by two tall guards at the iron gates of the Reid mansion.
When he tried to force his way in, the guards tossed him out like a rag doll. He stumbled and fell hard.
The next moment, the once–arrogant Calvin Blackwell knelt pathetically on the ground. He clutched the cold iron bars of the gate, screaming my name until his voice turned hoarse:
“Violet! Violet Reid! Come out and see me!”
Tm begging you! Please come out!”
“How can you be so heartless!”
My father’s face turned ashen with anger as he grabbed a golf club from nearby and headed for the door.
“I’ll drive that bastard away myself!”
I stood up, gently restraining his arm:
“Dad, don’t get upset over someone like him.”
Til handle this.”
I walked to the main gate and signaled the guards to open it, coldly regarding Calvin kneeling on the ground.
His designer suit was completely wrinkled, his hair disheveled, his face tear–streaked.
When he saw me, hope instantly blazed in his eyes as if he’d grasped the final lifeline.
“Violet! You finally agreed to see me!”
He crawled forward on his knees, desperately kowtowing until his forehead struck the hard stone pavement.
Violet, I was wrong! So wrong! It was all that bitch Naomi’s manipulation! I was a fool!”
He confessed with tears streaming down his face, his words seemingly sincere.
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“Vialer, we’re husband and wife! We rise and fall together! You can’t do this to mete
If Blackwell Industries goes under, it hurts your tool Plener ask your father to stop! For the sake of what we thre hade
As he finished speaking, a car screeched to a halt at the gate
Calvin’s parents tumbled out, carrying numfuls of expensive gifte
His mother immediately fell to her knees before me, wailing dramatically
“Violet! We failed as parents! We’ve wronged you terribly! Piense spare Exdvin just this onent
His father glared furiously at his son before delivering another stinging stop across his face
“You fucking disgracet Completely goddamn USELESSE
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The crisp sound echoed as Calvin’s father continued ids firades “It’s all because of that manipulative fine WHORE! She destroyed you and wrecked the relationship between om familiest Violet, please give this pathetic excuse for a man one more chance our family will kiss the ground you walk on for the rest of our lives!”
I listened silently to their theatrical performance until they were hourse and exhausted, then finally spoke
“Too late,”
My voice was glacial:
“Calvin Blackwell, I gave you so many chances. Did you ever trensure a single one?
“You even mistook my tolerance for weakness, allowing Naomi to take credit for my work and humiliate me”
I pulled out the divorce decree and threw it in Calvin’s face,
“Open your fucking eyes and look at this! What the HELL do you think this is?!”
Who do you Blackwells think you are? Worthy of rising and falling with the Reid family?”
From today forward, our families have NO connection whatsoever!”
looked at their ashen faces and pronounced each word distinctly:
You reap what you sow.”
Your family made this bed–now lie in it.”
With that, I turned away without another glance,
Butler, show them out!”
The Blackwells‘ cries, curses, and pleas faded into the distance.
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