Chapter 2

As soon as I finished the announcement, the reporters below erupted in chaos!

"Mr. Marcus, yesterday Miss Oliver said your wedding would be postponed. Now you're auctioning off your marriage and openly targeting the Oliver Group's assets. Does this mean you're completely breaking ties with Miss Oliver?"

"Mr. Marcus, I heard Miss Oliver pursued you for three whole years, and you observed her for three years as well. Can you really bear to let her go now?"

I suddenly gripped the microphone tighter in my hand. After a long pause, I adjusted my breathing and responded: "From now on, Oliver and I can only be enemies. There's no affection left between us!"

I looked down at my phone. An unknown number had sent me a video.

In the video, Oliver's hand was removing Hernandez's last piece of clothing.

And on her wrist, she was still wearing the latest Patek Philippe watch—the birthday gift I'd given her.

I looked up, a cold smile tugging at the corner of my mouth, and pointed my phone toward the reporters.

"You've all worked hard today. I want to give you a big gift."

Oliver's cheating video was recorded by dozens of media outlets.

Three hours later, it exploded across all of Seattle.

[Oliver Family Elite Scandal! Abandons Newlywed Husband for Secret Lover, Explicit Video Leaked!]

[Shocking! Oliver Abandons Wealthy Husband, Late-Night Hotel Rendezvous with Lover, Private Photos All Exposed!]

I was reading gossip while peeling fruit when Oliver showed up at my door with Hernandez.

She swept everything off the table with one swipe, then grabbed my throat and demanded I apologize to Hernandez!

"Marcus, I only delayed the wedding a few days, and you exposed my video with Hernandez."

"He's just a recent college graduate. How can he handle all this abuse?"

I took a deep breath. "You publicly abandoned me on our wedding day. Did you ever think about how I could handle that?"

Her hand tightened around my throat. I was suffocating, my face turning red.

"You're just an illegitimate son the Williams family doesn't even want. What do you need dignity for!"

My heart suddenly plummeted into an abyss.

When we first got together, she'd said my status wasn't respected, but she would help me become a big player in Seattle.

Now, she was using what I cared about most to stab me in the heart!

If that's how it is, then prepare to face the revenge of this unwanted bastard!

Before I lost consciousness, I closed my eyes and plunged the fruit knife in my hand deep into Hernandez's right palm.

"Oliver, I've never been your plaything to summon and dismiss at will."

"Oliver, blood!" Hernandez screamed and lunged forward.

"You, you dare hurt Hernandez, you maniac!"

I grabbed Hernandez's hand, brandishing the bloody blade, tracing it across his face.

"If you want to fight me, you should weigh whether you're up to it."

"Slap..." A heavy blow struck my cheek, burning with pain.

"Hernandez is the person I treasure most. You can hurt me, but if you dare touch him, I'll make your whole family pay!"

I froze. The strength I'd been faking since yesterday shattered like spider silk.

On rainy days, when my stepmother Tillman and my brother Theo locked me outside in the rain, she'd held me and said the same thing.

She'd said, Marcus is the person I love most. If any of you bully him again, I'll make the Williams family disappear from Seattle.

How ridiculous!

I took out my phone and called my secretary.

"Spread the word—whoever can bankrupt the Oliver Group, I'll marry them!"