Chapter 239: This ends with him being defeated.
At the farmhouse...
It was almost ten at night when Keith finally arrived at the farmhouse. As he stepped inside, he found Claudia waiting for him in the dimly lit hall, a half-empty glass of wine clutched tightly in her hand. She looked tense, her posture rigid, her gaze cold and piercing as it landed on him.
"Claudia!" He stopped short, squinting at her in frustration. "Why did you drag me here at this hour? I told you to be patient, to wait a few days."
Claudia glared at him, his words intensifying her simmering fury. With a sharp movement, she slammed the glass down on the table, spilling a splash of wine. "Wait?" she hissed. "You think I can afford to wait? Do you have any idea how serious things have gotten?" Her voice was low and urgent. "Theodore is all set to expose me. He knows everything about me – my lies, the secrets we kept hidden for so long. And he is threatening me now to hand me the footage. Or else, he will show Gina the paternity test result."
"What are you talking about?" Keith growled, stunned by the revelation. "How did he find out?"
The two of them had spent years weaving a careful web of lies, ensuring that no one in the Reid family would ever know the truth. And yet, somehow, Theodore had uncovered it all, destroying everything they had worked to conceal.
Keith’s anger boiled over as he took a step toward her, his expression hardening. "This is all because of you," he spat. "I warned you to be careful, Claudia. But you never listen. Certainly, you did something that made him suspicious and investigated you furtively."
"Stop blaming me," she shot back, her face contorting even further. "I did nothing wrong. Theodore never liked me. Remember when he tried to run a paternity test on Franklin? We thought we were lucky to find out and destroy the report before he saw it. But we didn’t know someone from the hospital had called him and informed him about the result before he met the accident."
Keith’s expression froze, leaving him speechless. Shocked, he couldn’t react as if he had lost his voice.
"He had been watching me all this time, waiting to bring me down," Claudia added. "Now he knows everything. He blocked my cards and locked me out of the properties I bought... All those years, all our work, wasted."