Cold Husband Burning Regret: The Divorce He Couldn't Handle novel Chapter 536

"I never thought you'd be the one waiting for me," Kate said, her tone hostile. She assumed Charlotte was there to gloat. "What, is your family that desperate to see me humbled? Too bad. I don't give in that easily."

Charlotte offered a faint smile. "I'm not here to laugh at you."

When Kate turned her head away in arrogant disbelief, Charlotte continued calmly, "The accident, the attack on my brother… I don't believe either of those was your doing."

Kate's brow furrowed. She glanced at Charlotte but said nothing.

"All you wanted was to keep your daughter from marrying into the Lowe family, which is why you tried to make me take her place. If you'd intended to kill my brother, you would have done it long ago."

"What are you talking about?" Kate asked, referring to the last part.

"My brother found out the men who attacked him work for Mrs. Lowe. But if her target was me, it makes no sense for her to go after my brother," Charlotte said, turning to face Kate directly. "What's more, Mrs. Lowe never contacted those men. It means they work for her, but she didn't give the order. And within the Rayburn family, you were always the one closest to Mrs. Lowe."

At this, Kate flared up. "I admit to the things I've done, but don't you dare pin things on me that I haven't!"

"Exactly. Doesn't it strike you as odd? You didn't do these things, yet all the evidence conveniently points toward you and Mrs. Lowe."

Charlotte took a step closer. "Perhaps someone wants to use these events to frame you. That way, we would focus all our attention on you, and we'd go for the jugular in a fight to the bitter end. Meanwhile, the real culprit slips away scott-free."

Kate was stunned. The words hit her like a lightning bolt, illuminating a possibility she had never considered. She had never questioned why everything had been so perfectly coincidental.

"You're my aunt," Charlotte pressed. "No matter what, I would never want to see my cousin marry a man like Tobias. Beyond that, what other feud could be so deep between us? A fight over the inheritance? With so many people in the Rayburn family, what makes you so sure you or I would be the ones to get it in the end?"

After she finished, Charlotte watched Kate closely.

She was hesitating. It was the beginning of doubt.

After returning from detention, Kate couldn't stop thinking about what Charlotte had said, though she couldn't fully trust her yet.

Just then, her daughter, Loretta, called.

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