Chapter 10 - Disowning his toxic mother inside the hospital lobby as a loving husband chooses his pregnant wife over a billionaire corporate empire late tonight in Chicago.
Eleanor chased Ethan out into the sunlit hospital lobby, grabbing his sleeve with manicured fingers in a final frantic plea.
"Ethan! You can't let her destroy our family empire! Everything I built was meant to belong to you!" Eleanor sobbed.
Ethan stopped walking, unpinning his gold Sterling Global executive lapel pin and dropping it directly into his mother's open palm.
"You tried to murder my wife and child to save your corrupt stock portfolio, Mother," Ethan said, his voice quiet.
"As of this moment, I resign as Chief Financial Officer, and I am cutting all personal ties with you forever."
Eleanor stood frozen as her only son walked away, wrapping his arm protectively around Charlotte as they left together.
The empire she had spent forty years building had cost her the only thing that truly mattered in her life.
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She stood alone in the bustling hospital lobby, surrounded by strangers who recognized her face from the morning news broadcasts.
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