Chapter 276: The brutal truth
Hugo didn’t respond right away. He just stared down at Oliver contemptuously.
"Yes," he said calmly a while later. "I’ve always been with Susan. She is my woman... my girlfriend. The mother of my children."
Then, without a hint of shame or hesitation, he wrapped an arm around Susan’s shoulders and drew her close. She leaned into him, her lips curling into a triumphant smile.
Oliver blinked, stunned, as if the words hadn’t quite landed. "Your girlfriend?" he repeated, befuddled. "You are saying... she is with you?"
He looked at Susan, then back at Hugo, his mind racing, unable to compute the revelation. The woman he had once trusted had been living a double life, and he had never even seen it coming.
"When?" he asked with growing alarm. "Since when have you two been together?"
Hugo’s gaze darkened, but he never looked away. "Long before she ever walked into your office. Long before she ever became your secretary."
A violent chill shot through Oliver’s spine. It was as if someone had ripped open a hidden vault of memories and turned every truth he thought he knew upside down.
His mind reeled, diving back into the past—the day Susan was hired, shortly after he had won that high-profile case, the one where he had buried Hugo under accusations of tax evasion and money laundering, thinking he had finally crushed the one man he had always loathed.