Chapter 74

At the Whitmore Estate, Veronica's fingers clenched involuntarily. She forced herself to stay calm, fighting the rising wave of panic. Meanwhile, Yasmin gazed out the window into the night. "Veronica, just how many lies have you told?" Veronica gritted her teeth, urgency creeping into her voice. "Yasmin, are you saying you don't want to divorce Caleb anymore?" "Why don't you take a guess?" Yasmin replied, deliberately raising the pitch of her voice. Veronica stood up from the couch, her eyes locking onto her angry reflection in the nearby mirror. "Yasmin, do you really think a sapphire ring means anything? You know as well as anyone how Caleb has stood by me all these years. If you don't divorce him, everything you've suffered over the past three years—the neglect, the abandonment, the humiliation—will just repeat itself over and over!" "Damn, Veronica. You're getting desperate, huh?" Yasmin laughed, her fingers tapping rhythmically on the table. "The old you knew how to keep you