Kiara spent that week recovering from surgery in the hospital, and Hugo never once showed up.

Gwynne informed her that Dorothy said Utah’s air was unhealthy for the child, so Hugo took her to Vermont to play for a week.

Hearing that, Kiara could not tell whether to laugh or cry.

She had once been pregnant, too, but to secure a contract for Hugo, she drank over a dozen cases of alcohol in one night, which led to a ruptured intestine and a miscarriage.

Hugo always claimed she was unable to have children, which was why he chose Dorothy.

But he forgot that her infertility was caused by him.

Indeed, conscience survived only when there was love.

On the day she was discharged, Gwynne called her, crying, “Kiara, Hugo promoted Dorothy straight into the company as a director to please her. The moment she arrived, she dismissed me.”

“Besides that, I saw Hugo sign over the first house you shared with her, and transfer all the vehicles and shares listed under your name.”

“Kiara, he has emptied everything that belonged to you.”

A cold sensation rose through Kiara’s feet and her whole body.

Once she ended the call, she grabbed a taxi and headed straight to the former home.

The memorial tablet she had placed for the child had been smashed to the ground, and the small garments she offered were torn apart.

She could endure anything else, but the child was her final boundary.

After learning Hugo’s whereabouts, she went straight to the company in anger.

Seeing the anger in Kiara’s eyes, Hugo’s secretary moved to stop her.

“Ma’am, let me inform President Craig first. If he agrees to meet you, I’ll escort you inside.”

Kiara shot them a cold look. “Move. This company was built by Hugo and me together. Half of what stands here carries the Chavez name. Who do you think you are to block me?”

She walked straight inside. Just as she reached the door, a man’s heavy breathing came from within.

Though Dorothy could not fully serve him, she was kneeling, pleasing him in her own way.

The secretary behind advised, “Ma’am, you can see President Craig is not available to see you now. Why don’t you step aside with me….”

Before the assistant could finish speaking, Kiara pushed the door open and entered. She stood across from them, staring coldly.

She was not the one who betrayed the marriage, nor the one who should feel embarrassed.

Hugo, however, showed no embarrassment seeing Kiara enter. Instead, he angrily scolded, “Who told you to come in? Leave!”

However, Kiara did not leave. Instead, she stepped forward and placed the photos from the old house before him.

“Give me an explanation.”

Hugo’s expression darkened. He hesitated, helped Dorothy to her feet, then rose and straightened his pants.

He cast a brief glance at the images on the phone. “Just because of this, you forgot your dignity and barged in?”

Seeing the man’s cold attitude, Kiara grew angry again.

“Hugo, the child remembered in that house was yours, too!”

For Dorothy’s sake, have you forgotten you’re human?!”

Hugo’s expression instantly hardened.

He had originally refrained from arguing since she had just been discharged after a week in the hospital, but her words were becoming harder to tolerate.

Hugo stared at her like she was insane.

“Kiara, that child has been gone for years. I’ve endured your act long enough. Now that I finally have another child, what’s wrong with buying a house for my future baby?”

“Kiara, I didn’t plan to tell you before because I knew you would hold on to it. Since you’ve found out, stay quiet and accept it. Causing trouble in front of me will only make me dislike you more and change nothing.”

His cold expression made Kiara feel as if he were a stranger.

Hugo had become someone she no longer knew and hated.

The child they once awaited with hope was now mentioned so casually.

Her tears streamed down, not for him, but for that dead child.

“Hugo, you are truly disgusting.”

“How did I once go blind and love you?”

His pride was wounded, and his expression darkened instantly. Raising his hand, picked up the ashtray beside him and threw it at her.

Kiara’s forehead split open, and the ashtray broke into fragments on the ground.

That ashtray had once been her gift to him. For years, he treated it like something precious.

When a cleaner once damaged a corner, he felt heartache for a long while.

Yet now, he destroyed it.

Hugo’s eyes were dark. “Kiara, know your identity. If I hadn’t pulled you out back then, would you still be alive?”

“I went to prison for you for a year. Now I just want to give my child something good. Why are you causing trouble here?”

“I don’t want to see you. Go home and think about yourself.”

His assistant entered and asked Kiara to leave.

She looked at him for a long moment and smiled coldly.

She was forced out of the company. Downstairs, the assistant even warned the front desk that she must not return upstairs without Hugo’s consent.

Hearing that, Kiara laughed with deeper sarcasm and called her father from the mafia family overseas.

“Dad, the money I asked you to put into Craig Group three months ago, withdraw it.”

Her father responded cheerfully, “Alright, I’ll handle it at once. I’ve told you before, Hugo’s skills are ordinary. After all these years, the company has barely grown. The young men I’ve chosen for you are top talents from every field, far better than him.”

Kiara said, “Okay, thank you, Dad.”

After ending the call, Kiara glanced back at the president’s office upstairs.

“Hugo, since you care for Dorothy that much, then you two can go live hard days together.”

Since Kiara had caused a disturbance at the company, Hugo deliberately stayed away for several days as punishment.

He assumed she would contact him constantly, just as she used to.

However, for three days in a row, Kiara stayed quietly at home, showing no interest in anything related to him.

Eventually, Hugo decided to return on his own.

As soon as he returned, he seized the business newspaper from her grip.

“Kiara, stop acting. I’ve been gone for days, you must have missed me, yet you still pretend not to care.”

“I won’t bring up what happened at the company. There’s an auction tonight. You’re coming with me.”

She initially intended to refuse, but since she hadn’t met her parents yet, she thought she could buy them something there.

Seeing her agree, Hugo snorted quietly. He knew she was only pretending not to care.

That evening, Hugo arrived first. When Kiara showed up, she realized Dorothy was there as well.

Hugo held Dorothy’s hand. “Dorothy will be the mother of my child in the future. There will be many events like this going forward, so I brought her to get used to the setting beforehand.”

Kiara no longer paid any attention. Without replying, she walked straight inside.

After sitting down, the first lot presented was a gentleman’s brooch that had once belonged to the British royal family.

Kiara lifted her paddle. “One million.”

A subtle smile appeared on Hugo’s face. He thought Kiara intended to purchase it as a way to reconcile with him.

However, in the next second, Dorothy lifted her paddle as well. “Two million.”

Kiara frowned and bid again. “Three million.”

Dorothy did not have much money and looked at Kiara with a pitiful look. “Sister Kiara, I really like this brooch. Could you let me have it?”

Kiara mocked. “Now you remember to talk about giving way? Where was that attitude when you were taking what belonged to me? If you’re capable, add money and purchase it yourself.”

Dorothy’s eyes immediately turned red with grievance as she glanced toward Hugo.

Hugo’s expression hardened, and he lifted the paddle on Dorothy’s behalf. “Five million.”

Kiara bit down hard. “Eight million.”

“Ten million.”

Ten million for a brooch was indeed overpriced, and that was all the cash she currently had, so Kiara could only stop bidding.

In the end, Hugo won the brooch at ten million.

For every lot afterward, whenever Kiara showed interest, Dorothy would step in and take it.

Hugo thought naming prices was a waste of time. If Dorothy wanted something, he would send up a sky lantern right away.

Until the last item, it was a top-quality herb that could help her father’s heart problem.

Kiara bid again. When she saw Hugo about to send up another sky lantern, she could not stay quiet anymore.

“Hugo, are you going to take everything and leave nothing for anyone else?”

“Remember, that’s our shared marital property you’re using!”

He looked at her coldly. “If you understand that, then don’t compete. That way, I do not need to release another lantern.”

Compete?

Who was truly fighting over the items?

Every time she liked something, Hugo had taken it first. Because of that, she had not won a single thing.

And now he claimed she was the one fighting for it?

Kiara had her own pride. She lifted her chin and said, “This herb belongs to me this time!”

She directly offered ten million; it was every bit of her savings.

Hugo had just planned to continue lighting the sky lantern, but he learned there wasn’t enough money in his auction account.

In the end, the item went to Kiara for ten million.

Dorothy was so angry that her teeth clenched, and she began stirring up trouble from the side.

“Brother Hugo, all the cash in this house is yours. Sister being able to take out that much money is also because you make a lot.”

“So this herb should belong to you as well.”

Kiara had met shameless people before, but never anyone this shameless.

“This cash is entirely mine. It has nothing to do with Hugo, not even a single cent.”

“Hugo, if you are still a man, you should not be eyeing a woman’s money.”

After saying that, Kiara picked up her things and was ready to leave, but Hugo blocked her. “Hand the item to Dorothy. I will buy you something else later.”

Kiara said, “What if I refuse?”

Hugo’s eyebrows drew together. “Kiara, I am not asking you.”

As his voice dropped, Hugo directly told the bodyguards to snatch the item from Kiara’s hands and hand it over to Dorothy.

“Kiara, why can you never learn to behave?”

“Since you are like this, then go back and cool off properly.”

The bodyguards forcefully dragged Kiara back to the house and shut her inside.

Kiara was scared of darkness, so Hugo purposely locked her in the cellar to make her remember the warning.

She shook without control again and again in the dark, but did not plead with Hugo for forgiveness.

Just hold on a little longer. The next day, she would be able to receive the divorce certificate. At that time, she would fully settle every score with Hugo.

But before she could wait for the divorce certificate, she first faced Hugo’s blame.

Early in the morning, Hugo rushed over in anger.

“Kiara, what did you do to that herb last night? Dorothy lost the baby because she touched the herb you purchased!”

“Kiara, you hurt her!”

Kiara felt her mind ring upon hearing it.

But even more than that, she felt Hugo was insane.

“Hugo, is something wrong with your head? That herb was taken by your people. Now that she lost the baby, what does it have to do with me?!”

Hugo said, “Only you touched that item. Other than you being jealous of the baby in her stomach, I cannot think of anyone else who would hurt her!”

“Kiara, because you cannot have a child yourself, you are jealous that others can, isn’t that so?!”

Kiara kept explaining again and again, “It was not me! Hugo, I no longer love you. Why would I hurt her?”

Hugo gripped Kiara’s throat hard and shouted in anger, “Liar! You obviously love me desperately. Everything you did was because of jealousy!”

“Kiara, you really went too far, you really let me down!”

“One life for one life. Since you dared to harm someone, then go to jail and think about it properly!”

Kiara almost felt like she was hearing things. “You mean you are going to send me to jail?”

“Yes. Everyone has to face the cost of what they have done, and the wrong things they did can only be paid for in prison.”

Hugo did not allow her to speak. He grabbed her collar, pulled her up, and shoved her into the car, then closed the door.

Kiara hit the glass like she had lost control and tried hard to explain, “Hugo, it wasn’t me. It wasn’t me. You did not even investigate. What gives you the right to judge me?!”

“Let me out. I don’t accept this!”

No matter how Kiara cried out or asked for help, nobody answered her.

Until Dorothy came downstairs by herself to meet her.

Kiara said, “Dorothy, I may not like you, but I truly did not hurt your baby!”

Dorothy stood across from her with a bright smile. “Of course, I know you did not harm my baby, because I was never pregnant at all.”

“Anyway, you do not have many good days left, so I will simply tell you the truth.”

“From the start, I was not carrying a child. I lied to Hugo. I did it for his money. But I did not expect him to care so much about this baby. Since there was no child, I had to find someone to take the blame.”

“And you just happened to be the sacrifice I found. After you are locked up, I will truly be with Hugo. When I give birth later, by the time you are released, what position will still belong to you in the Craig family? Everything there will belong to me.”

“Kiara, don’t worry. I will live well outside for you. I will use all this money on your behalf.”

Kiara was so angry that she lifted her hand to hit her.

But before her palm could land, Hugo hurried over and grabbed her arm to stop her.

Dorothy immediately leaned into his chest and cried pitifully, “Hugo, my sister not only hurt my baby, but she even tries to hit me.”

Kiara pointed at Dorothy and told the facts. “Hugo, she lies to you. She was never carrying a child. She sets me up!”

Even after hearing this, the man still refused to accept it. “Enough! I understand what kind of person Dorothy is. Stop trying to blame her!”

“Kiara, since you will not admit your mistake, then go to jail and think about what you have done!”

Hugo directly told the driver to move the car. No matter how Kiara tried to explain, it made no difference.

Inside the car, Kiara got ready to call her Dad for help, but her cellphone was taken from her by the man next to her and tossed outside. At the same time, the vehicle came to a sudden stop.

A few men pulled Kiara out.

Right away, a bad feeling rose in her, and she stepped back again and again. “What are you going to do?”

The man gave a dirty smile. “Of course, we’re going to have you.”

“Miss Hilton told us that before sending you inside, we can enjoy ourselves first.”

“Ma’am, we’ve guarded you for many years. Truth is, we’ve always liked you. Anyway, sir doesn’t want you anymore, so why not let us play a little?”

Kiara picked up a rock from the ground and threw it at them. She broke down and yelled, “You’re crazy! If Hugo finds out, he won’t spare you!”

Everyone glanced at one another and laughed. “Ma’am, you don’t really think you’re going back, do you? After we’re done, we’ll get you a proper coffin.”

Kiara’s heart turned cold. They were actually planning to kill her!