The Ex-Wife's Burning Elegance novel Chapter 1302

Coleman also shot Stella a derisive look. "It seems a little success has really gone to your head."

Even Skyler looked at her with disapproval. "Star, did you really hit Queenie?"

Stella had neither the time nor the patience to argue with them. She pulled out her phone, cued up the surveillance footage from the hallway, and tossed it onto the rug in the center of the room.

Israel's vile, unfiltered tirade began to play, the volume turned all the way up.

"Are you secretly hoping that Gibson tears your son to pieces? Get rid of the dead weight so it doesn't interfere with your next romance? I say, you knew you had enemies out there, but you took him out anyway. You were probably trying to use them to get rid of your own son, weren't you?"

Hearing this, both Jonathan's and Coleman's faces darkened.

Their nephew had been kidnapped, and instead of offering a single word of comfort, Israel had chosen the cruelest things imaginable to say. Dislocating his arm was getting off easy; anyone else would have tried to kill him for that.

After listening to the rest of Israel's rant, Skyler was trembling with rage. He adored Keen and had been sick with worry ever since the kidnapping. Yet his own son, instead of helping, was making cruel remarks from the sidelines.

Skyler hurled his teacup at Israel. "You bastard!" he roared. "Your own nephew is in danger, and not only do you refuse to help, you stand there gloating!"

The cup hit Israel square in the chest, and he yelped as the hot tea scalded him.

Coleman knew his brother's exaggerations had put their father and older brother in an impossible position. "Israel, why don't you go change your clothes?" he said pointedly.

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