Chapter 100

KIMBERLY'S POV The room was absolute chaos, screaming, accusations everywhere — and I was there, rigid with shock, my heart hammering in my chest so loudly I could hardly see. Every utterance, every confession, agony. And then Michael's anger was loose. He hit her, his face ablaze with fury as he seized Madison's hair and pulled back her head so she would have to lift her eyes up to meet his. "Madison!" His voice burst out like a whip, ringing in the hospital room. "I believed you to be a liar and use this incident to set up Kimberly and create further dispute between our family, but never, I swear, thought you would sink so low! You paid somebody to attack your own parents! Your own parents, who have been with you for more than two decades!" That bolt of lightning in Madison's gaze, anger and sorrow, only makes me so much more satisfied with myself. Ethan stood before me, so lost, pale. The fear in his eyes is one too familiar to me. The brother who'd defended Madison, who'd stayed wi