The audacity in her words sent a shockwave through the room.
Her stepmother's eyes widened, Chloe's mouth slightly open, Bernard's grip on his chair tightened, and even her father—so used to controlling everything about Valentina—was left momentarily speechless.
They had expected her to be weak.
They had expected her to bow her head just like she had always done, to accept their will without a fight.
But instead, she had just defied them all.
And for the first time in a long time… they didn't know what to say.
Then Valentina father gaze landed on Raymond, without being told he could tell it was Raymond that must have manipulated her, he couldn't believe in just a short time of him being in her life, and all of a sudden Valentina now talk back at them.
It was something unheard of.
The room buzzed with disbelief, eyes darting between Valentina and the scattered divorce papers on the floor.
