From Forgotten Wife To Fierce Queen - Chapter 237: Chapter 237

As soon as Leo said this, the banquet hall fell into a brief silence.
Then, Daisy's eerie voice rang out. "Huh? So her biological father is that stinking murderer?"
Her words were so shocking that the guests erupted into discussion. They felt lucky to have attended this banquet, witnessing such an astonishing drama unfold.
The twists and turns, and the tightly woven conflicts—no one could predict how it would end.
Brittany listened to the murmurs around her, feeling the countless gazes directed at her—contemptuous, mocking, pitying, and gloating.
"No!" Brittany howled, desperately denying everything. At this moment, she felt like she had fallen from heaven straight into hell.
Christina looked at Brittany's wretched state, her heart aching unbearably. "Brittany, I'm sorry. I'm so sorry. If only... If only..." Her bloodshot eyes then turned toward Paisley. "If only I had strangled you in the beginning—"
Yes, she regretted it—more than ever before. She regretted not killing Paisley the moment they swapped the children.
Instead, Christina had indulged in her twisted sense of revenge, giving Paisley the humiliating name "Grass" and keeping her by her side just to torment her.
If Christina had just strangled Paisley at the start, she wouldn't have had to go through the trouble of abandoning her three years later. She wouldn't have been forced to report the incident out of guilt and fear that Gregory would notice something was wrong.
If Christina hadn't reported it, Paisley wouldn't have been found by the police years later and returned to the Sullivan family.
Paisley wouldn't have met Dominick, wouldn't have become an artist, wouldn't have become a screenwriter, and wouldn't have had the chance to reunite with Tyson.
If only Paisley had never existed, all of this would have belonged to her daughter, Brittany.
Christina was filled with regret—an overwhelming, crushing regret. But what she regretted most was trusting the man beside her—Zain.
Christina turned to him, using all her strength to shout, "Didn't you swear you'd never betray me? Didn't you promise that for Brittany, for me, you'd rather die than sell me out?"
Zain shook his head with tears in his eyes. He opened his mouth, but he couldn't form a complete sentence.
"He didn't betray you. He just can't speak for now," Paisley said calmly. She had tampered with Zain's vocal cords and nerves, rendering him temporarily mute.
Paisley paused before delivering the final blow to Christina. "In fact, from start to finish, he never exposed you. Even when I had undeniable evidence of your meetings with him, he didn't give you up. Instead, he took all the blame upon himself."
That was why, in the beginning, Bruce had only mentioned Paisley's case in public and hadn't brought up the murder of Enya twenty-five years ago.
It had been so long, even if there was solid proof that Zain had killed Enya, as long as Zain insisted that he had acted alone, there was no way to bring Christina to justice.
At most, it could only prove that she had obtained a sample of Paisley's hair from him. So the only way to make Christina confess was to force her into a breakdown.
Paisley had gambled—she bet that seeing Zain would cause Christina to snap. She bet that once Brittany lost all hope of pretending to be Tyson's daughter, Christina would completely collapse. And judging by the current situation, Paisley had won the bet.
She met Christina's murderous glare and said, "Everything you just confessed—you said it yourself."
Christina seemed to age ten years in an instant. Her body, once full of arrogance, now sagged lifelessly.
"Christina—" Zain rasped, his voice hoarse. He wanted to help Christina up, but his restrained body wouldn't allow him to move closer.
"I remember now." Gregory suddenly shot up. "He was your first love! You dumped him back then because he was broke, and then you came to me! And to think... I've spent my whole life raising a bastard born from you two adulterers!"
The word 'bastard' sent a jolt through both Christina and Zain.
Zain let out a guttural growl, glaring at Gregory like a wild beast.
Christina's eyes, filled with hatred, locked onto Gregory. "That's right! Brittany is my child with Zain. Gregory, you're nothing but a useless waste of a man! You can't even have children of your own, and you dare blame me?
"You're selfish, always thinking about yourself. You were too scared to offend that bitch Paisley, so you heartlessly threw out the daughter you raised for so many years.
"And the moment you thought Brittany might be the Godard family's heiress, you ran right back to her, wagging your tail. You're nothing but a slave—you'll go wherever there's food."
Christina hated Enya most, then Paisley, and then Gregory.
Back then, Christina had chosen Gregory over Zain, just to prove that she was better than Enya.
However, Gregory did not bring her much honor. Instead, his overwhelming stench of money was even more unbearable when compared to Tyson, who was a university professor at the time.
After getting married, Gregory became entirely focused on running his business. She lived in a home without love and without much money.
If it weren't for Paisley—who was still called Grass back then—being around to occasionally suffer her abuse and serve as an outlet for her emotions, Christina would have suffocated in that stifling house.
She had gained nothing in her entire life. Her only wish was to give her daughter, Brittany, the best the world had to offer. And yet now, Gregory had actually called Brittany a bastard child.
"Gregory, you piece of shit. You deserve to be cheated on. You deserve to die alone!" Christina's words were too vicious. Gregory was so agitated that he gasped for breath, his eyes rolled back, and he clutched his chest before collapsing straight to the ground.
The scene erupted into chaos, and someone shouted, asking if there was a doctor present.
Meanwhile, Paisley stood there indifferently, making no move to help Gregory.
Morris and Julia had long since hidden behind the crowd, not daring to show their faces. They were terrified that Byron would notice them and desperately tried to make themselves as invisible as possible.
At that critical moment, it was Diana who stepped forward and told the butler, "Go call the family doctor, and get an ambulance as well."
The butler immediately obeyed.
With a clear leader taking charge, order was gradually restored at the scene.
Brittany watched as the man who had raised her for over twenty years lay unconscious on the ground, but she showed no reaction. Instead, she walked toward Christina with a glimmer of hope in her eyes.
"Tell me this isn't true, right?" She desperately wanted Christina to give her a reassuring answer.
But Christina only looked at her with tear-filled eyes, full of regret. "Brittany, I'm sorry. This is all my fault. I'm so sorry."
She apologized to Brittany over and over, pouring out all the guilt and remorse in her heart.
But Brittany suddenly lost control. "I told you—I don't want your apologies. I want you to tell me this isn't true. How could I possibly be that man's daughter? You made a mistake, right?"
Brittany would rather acknowledge Gregory as her father than accept the truth—that she was the daughter of this filthy, disgusting murderer.
Zain looked at Brittany, his biological daughter, who was filled with nothing but disgust for him. Tears streamed down his face. "My daughter, I'm so sorry."
"Shut up, you disgusting thing. You think you have the right to call me your daughter? Why don't you just die? Both of you should just die." Brittany turned around and ran, afraid of having any connection to that filthy murderer.
But her words were like a knife slicing into Zain and Christina, cutting them again and again.
Christina was utterly devastated, to the point that she lost the will to keep living. The excitement and anticipation she had felt before today had now turned into despair. Nothing was more crushing than thinking she was about to grasp happiness, only to fall straight into hell.
Christina suddenly turned to Paisley. "You did this on purpose, didn't you? You showed up at this exact moment on purpose.
"You wanted me to reveal the truth when Brittany was at her happiest. You wanted to shatter her dream. You wanted me to watch her suffer. You're using her to get revenge on me."