From Forgotten Wife To Fierce Queen - Chapter 234: Chapter 234

Christina glared at Zain, her expression furious. "Y-you actually dared to betray me!"
Zain didn't avoid Christina's gaze. On the contrary, his eyes were bloodshot as he desperately tried to say something to her, but no sound came out.
He could only widen his eyes in panic. Since he couldn't speak, he kept shaking his head repeatedly, hoping Christina would understand what he meant. But clearly, Christina completely misunderstood him.
From the moment she saw the police escorting Zain into the Beaumont estate, Christina knew she was finished. There was no hiding anything anymore.
Seeing Zain like this now, she assumed he had been scared senseless by the police and spilled everything.
In that moment, Christina felt utterly hopeless. She caved in and looked at Paisley. "So, you were prepared all along, weren't you?"
Otherwise, there was no way Paisley could have found Tyson first and even conducted a paternity test.
Paisley didn't bother beating around the bush and simply nodded. "That's right. I realized it the first time he tried to kill me with the floodlights."
Christina's face turned pale, and she looked as if all the air had been let out of her.
"What? Paisy, what do you mean by killing with floodlights?" Tyson asked, his face filled with confusion. This was the first time he had heard about it—Paisley had never told him the details.
"It's nothing. She didn't succeed." Paisley downplayed the situation, trying to reassure Tyson. Her gaze unconsciously drifted toward Dominick. She had him to thank for that night.
Dominick also recalled that terrifying night. If he hadn't shielded Paisley in time, that floodlight would have struck her head directly.
Afterward, Paisley told him not to interfere and to stay out of it. He obeyed her, refraining from investigating on his own. Instead, he quietly assigned people to protect her from the shadows. He never expected that the person trying to kill Paisley was actually Christina.
"No... what the hell is going on? Christina, explain yourself! Why did you try to kill Paisy? Speak!" Gregory had sobered up significantly by now. The moment Christina gave up resisting, he realized she must have done something.
Christina stared blankly at Gregory, then looked at Brittany with teary eyes before finally glaring at Paisley with hatred. "Why else? Of course, it was for our daughter, Brittany!"
"What did you say?" Brittany was the first to reject this outright. "Christina, you're talking nonsense. I'm not your daughter! I'm not! My mom is Enya! My dad is Tyson! Not you! You don't deserve to be my mother."
Christina was hurt by Brittany's words. Tears finally streamed down her face as she collapsed. "Brittany, it's true. I am your real mother. If I could choose, I'd wish you weren't born from me either. I'm sorry, Brittany.
"I'm so sorry; it's all my fault. I couldn't give you a good life. It's all my fault." Christina sobbed uncontrollably, devastated that she couldn't provide Brittany with the best life or everything she ever wanted.
But her so-called motherly love didn't move Brittany in the slightest. Brittany said, "I don't want your apologies. I want the truth!"
"The truth is, you are Christina's biological daughter. That's why she favored you so much." Paisley's voice was calm as she watched Brittany fall apart.
Once Brittany was trapped in her own beliefs, it was nearly impossible to wake her up. Even with evidence laid out before her, and even though she had already suspected it in her heart, Brittany still refused to accept reality.
"So—" Gregory's voice trembled as he confirmed with Christina. "Paisy isn't our biological daughter? Brittany is?"
His stunned gaze shifted back and forth between Paisley and Brittany before realization finally dawned on him. He turned to Christina in shock. "So, you wanted Brittany to take Paisy's place? Paisy is the real heiress of the Godard family?"
Christina shut her eyes in pain. At this point, there was no turning back. She could only nod weakly and admit it.
The entire room erupted in shock, but no one reacted as strongly as Morris and Julia.
"You—" Morris' face turned ashen. "You deceived us? You've got some nerve!"
The thought of how much effort he had wasted fawning over the wrong person made Morris so furious that he wanted to tear the Sullivan family apart.
Julia, on the other hand, felt sheer terror. She hesitantly glanced in Paisley's direction. In the past, to please Brittany, she had publicly humiliated Paisley and driven her away. She had completely burned that bridge.
And it wasn't just Paisley—because of Brittany, Julia had offended far too many people lately. Among them was Diana.
The more Julia thought about it, the more afraid she felt. She didn't even dare to imagine how she would salvage the situation now.
The moment Christina admitted the truth, the invisible chains binding Paisley to her biological parents finally shattered completely.
Paisley walked toward Christina, locking eyes with her.
Christina's eyes were red as she glared at Paisley with the same hatred as always. "I regret it. I regret being kind and letting you live. If I had known things would turn out like this, I would have strangled you the moment you were born."
In the past, even though Paisley had built an emotional fortress around herself, Christina's words would still shake her to the core. But now, they didn't affect her at all.
"You hate me," Paisley stated calmly, "because of my mother."
Christina didn't answer directly. Instead, she stared at Paisley with a venomous glare. "You look so much like Enya. Every time I see you, I think of her. And every time I think of her, I get furious. I hate her."
"Why? Weren't you two best friends?" Tyson asked.
Max pushed Tyson's wheelchair closer, stopping right in front of Christina. He stared at her, struggling to suppress his emotions so he wouldn't lose control and kill her on the spot.
"Best friends?" Christina sneered as she looked at Tyson. She had nothing left to hide now, so she simply let everything out. "She only stayed friends with me to show off her superiority. We looked nearly identical, but just because I was a little shorter than her, she got everything."
Tyson frowned, "That's a ridiculous excuse."
Christina said, "Am I wrong? We applied for the same job, but she became a librarian while I was stuck working in storage! We joined the same school competitions, yet she won awards while I could only sit in the audience and applaud for her.
"She was always the goddess in the eyes of our male classmates and teachers, while I... none of you even spared me a second glance.
"Why couldn't she just let me win once? Even when it came to choosing a man, she had to be better than me. Back then, my family introduced me to Gregory, who ran a small business. I treated her like a sister and told her about it, hoping she would be happy for me.
"But the next thing I knew, she brought you to meet me. What was she trying to do? Wasn't she just mocking me? Laughing at how even in finding a man, I still couldn't measure up to her?"
Christina screamed hysterically, as if she were finally unleashing years of resentment toward Enya.
"So just because of this, you hated her? You wanted to ruin her? Even kill her?" Paisley took advantage of Christina's emotional breakdown.
"Yes! I wanted to destroy her!" Christina had completely lost control. Staring at Paisley, whose features were eerily similar to Enya's, she began to lose her mind.
"Enya, you and I were practically the same, so why did I have to settle for a small businessman while you got to marry a highly educated university professor? That's why I swapped our children!
"I deliberately got pregnant around the same time as you, and when you were about to give birth, I took her to my family's rural home."
Christina laughed wildly, "You never saw that coming, did you? The daughter you and Tyson treasured like she was the most precious thing in the world is actually mine. And your real daughter? She grew up starving and freezing by my side. I even gave her a wretched name—Grass."