Chapter 4

Chloe's face flushed crimson.

Before I could expose more of her ugly deeds, someone suddenly pushed me from behind.

I fell, hitting my head on a table corner. A warm trickle of blood flowed out, and my vision blurred with pain.

Opening my eyes, I saw a woman dressed to the nines smash a piece of cake into my face:

"Pfft! What rubbish are you spouting!"

"Chloe clearly looks like a lady from a good family. With your housekeeper's poor, trashy appearance, how dare you lust after Mr. Julian?"

Chloe's face was full of smug satisfaction:

"Exactly! I secured three multi-million dollar cases in one month. If a mere housekeeper like you could easily impersonate me, then my Oxford Law PhD would be meaningless."

Haha, Chloe was trying to steal every single bit of my identity!

"Yeah! Housekeepers should stick to housekeeper duties, not try to seduce the master."

"Chloe, we can't keep people like this around. If she dares to impersonate you today, who knows what she'll do tomorrow!"

"If you love seducing men so much, stop being a housekeeper and go sell yourself instead."

I looked at Julian. He was cold-faced, nonchalantly swirling the wine in his glass.

"Julian, do you remember what you said when you were pursuing me? You said you'd love me forever, protect me forever."

"Now you just watch them humiliate me?"

Julian's expression quickly shifted, until finally, his voice, cold and unfamiliar, pierced through me:

"If you hadn't insisted on making a scene, would it have come to this?"

Chloe got even more emboldened:

"Julian told me you've been constantly harassing and seducing him. He only tolerated you because your mother worked for his family for over a decade."

"But fabricating rumors about Julian's bigamy is just too much!"

"I declare, I declare Seraphina dismissed. Sterling & Associates does not keep ungrateful vipers!"

Ungrateful viper?

I looked at Julian:

"Are you sure Chloe was the one who secured those deals?"

"For Sterling & Associates to be where it is today, who was it that went out and developed clients? Who burned the midnight oil organizing case files? And who secured ten multi-million dollar deals, one after another, to solidify the firm's position?"

"Julian, do you dare tell everyone?"

Julian's face showed a flicker of apprehension and hesitation.

The next moment, I heard Chloe say:

"To give you a chance to develop, we did let you talk to these clients in the early stages. But all those cases were problematic, and Julian and I had to clean up your mess in the end."

Hearing this, Julian seemed to genuinely believe that he and Chloe had saved the day and secured the deals.

His expression turned cold:

"Seraphina, I've indulged you too much. You actually dare to claim Chloe's achievements as your own!"

After Julian's words, everyone's gaze turned even more contemptuous:

"A mere administrative assistant who just makes coffee and prints documents, trying to steal credit from Miss Chloe? That's like a fly growing wings and thinking it can touch the sky!"

Julian gripped Chloe's hand:

"If you resign now and hand over Mr. Sterling's contact information to Chloe, we won't pursue the bigamy rumors against you."

My heart turned cold. My husband, who had shared my bed for five years, was waiting here to scheme against me?

So they were eyeing the nearly twenty million dollars in legal fees from the three massive cases I brought in!

He'd played such a grand game to please his mistress!

I shook my head, chuckling. Julian had miscalculated.

His mistake was in underestimating my family. They were too low-status to realize that my family, the Sterling family, *was* the wealthiest family in the city!

And the clients for those multi-million dollar cases? They were all my Grandfather!

As Miss Sterling, it was time for me to deal with these imposters who had sullied my name.

I smiled and said:

"You'll get the number right away."

"But, you two wouldn't possibly think that a couple of incompetent fakes like you could land Mr. Sterling's cases, would you?"

"Julian, you can use me up and toss me aside? But let me remind you, ungrateful vipers never come to a good end!"

"I'll send the divorce papers to your email shortly."