Once a Doormat Now Untouchable (Caleb and Sydney) novel Chapter 591

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Chapter 591

The next second, a slap cracked across Raymond’s face. The sharp sound echoed through the room, and red marks bloomed at once on his clean-cut cheek.

Raymond frowned faintly. He licked the blood at the corner of his mouth and raised his eyes to the middle-aged man before him. He looked at him not as a father, but as a stranger.

Diana froze for a moment, then seized Raymond’s arm. When she saw the injury on his face, something shifted in her usually cold eyes.

She turned sharply toward Theodore and said firmly, “Grandfather never laid a single finger on Ray.”

Growing up, none of them had escaped Albus’s punishments. Yet no matter how often the old man complained that Raymond was unruly, Raymond remained, aside from Vivian, the one he favored most.

“When did you learn to use the old man to pressure me?” Theodore snapped. “Did you not hear the vile things coming out of his mouth? Is that how he should speak to his own sister?”

He had assumed the siblings were merely making trouble over Megan’s tampering with the paternity test.

“Sister?” Raymond curled his lips into a cold, humorless smile. “If remember correctly, my mother gave birth to only one younger sister I recognize. Vee.”

He tipped his head, openly dismissive. “What kind of sister is Megan supposed to be? Your illegitimate daughter? We do not acknowledge that.”

“What nonsense are you spouting?!” Theodore roared, his hand lifting again.

“Theodore, touch Ray again and I will divorce you.” Florence’s voice rang out from the doorway.

James stood behind her, his hands on the wheelchair.

Her gaze fixed on the injury on her youngest son’s face, and a chill swept through her. “In your eyes, my children were never important anyway.”

When Vivian had been taken away at the age of two due to Megan’s actions, Theodore had made a great show of anger, then let the matter drop.

Florence’s resolve and indifference were unmistakable. Theodore poked at her, then at his three children, and realized they all wore the same expression. All except Megan.

Only then did he truly notice how badly swollen Raymond’s face had become.

For once, unease crept into his expression. “Florence, you know I did not mean it that way. Meg has always been alone and helpless. Hearing what Ray said, I acted in the heat of the moment

“That recording,” Diana cut in. “Did you finish listening to it?”

At her words, disbelief flickered across Theodore’s face. The recording clearly described how Megan had switched the test samples.

He did not answer Diana. Instead, he turned to Megan. “Tell me the truth. Did you tamper with the paternity test samples?”

Megan stiffened. This had been traced back to her, and they clearly had proof.

After a brief hesitation, her eyes reddened. She looked at Theodore her voice trembling. “Dad, I’m sorry. I knew you and Mom were desperate to find Vee. I lost my head for a moment and thought letting Penelope stand in temporarily might ease Mom’s longing.”

Her talent for twisting facts came as no surprise to the Hutton siblings.

James spoke next, calm and direct. “Then where did you get the corect sample? If you already knew who Vee was, why did you not bring her back? Why go to the trouble of using a substitute?”

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Chapter 591

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“That was because…” Unaware that they had already identified Veel Megan continued with feigned sincerity. “I had not found her yet. The test looked correct because I treated the hair roots with a solution. That solution can make the results basically

match.”

Raymond laughed. “Since when does such a solution exist? I should call my former brother-in-law and ask whether he has ever heard of this miracle liquid.”

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