A Widow's Poison, A Wife's Rebellion novel Chapter 626

He had already explained everything during their previous calls. He was completely outmatched by Starla.

"Excuse me?" Annika snarled.

Fairfax remained silent.

"Fairfax Yelchin, you are the head of this family! You tell me what you should say!"

"Should I go murder her and spend the rest of my life in prison?" he snapped back.

"Even rotting in a cell would be better than acting like a pathetic coward!" the old woman roared through the speaker. "I've been fielding calls from your uncles all day! How did you become so completely useless? The mighty Yelchin family, letting a single woman dictate our entire existence!"

What kind of empire was the Yelchin family? The idea of Starla holding their fate in her hands was unfathomable—yet here they were. She had flipped their entire world upside down.

"Your mother is just as useless! She's the matriarch of the household, yet she can't even keep her own daughter-in-law in line!"

Bringing up Darleen only fueled Annika's rage. She had never liked Darleen, always viewing her as unrefined and unworthy. Then her grandson had gone and married Starla, who was equally beneath them. And now, the two of them had dragged the entire family into the mud.

"Tell me, when exactly are you going to fix this mess?!" she demanded, her temper flaring out of control. She didn't want to hear excuses; she just wanted a timeline for when her nightmare would end.

When Starla first started her campaign, Annika never imagined the fallout would reach her. No access to her money, blocked from every luxury hotel... she never in her wildest dreams thought she'd be forced to rough it in an airport terminal.

And to suffer this level of humiliation at the hands of Starla—someone she had always viewed as dirt beneath her shoes—was unbearable.

"I'm handling it. That's all. Goodbye," Fairfax said abruptly, hanging up before the old woman could scream another word.

He looked at Starla, walked over, and sat down on the sofa opposite her.

"Are you really not going to leave a single way out?" Fairfax warned, his voice turning deadly cold. "People live long lives, Starla. You never know when the tables might turn."

Starla paused at the landing. A second later, she disappeared from his line of sight without a backward glance. She clearly couldn't care less about his threats.

Instead, Garret, who was standing nearby, answered for her. "Miss Lansbury doesn't need to leave a way out."

Fairfax shot Garret a venomous glare. "No one should ever be that arrogant. You never know what the future holds!"

He used to believe the Yelchins were untouchable, that they never had to show mercy to anyone. Who could have guessed that a nobody like Starla would be the one to teach them this painful lesson?

"Miss Lansbury can afford to be as arrogant as she pleases," Garret replied smoothly.

Fairfax gritted his teeth, speechless.