Chapter 25-Baseless Accusations

Caroline’s POV:

I was shocked at the speed in which William returned, but despite witnessing the anger on his face, I was unafraid. He had been lying to me for all these years, scheming against my father. Did I ever truly know the man I married?

“I knew you were in dire straits, Caroline,” William sneered, “but are you seriously this poor? You’re resorting to stealing trade secrets from me now, is that it? How dare you?”

In the face of such ugly accusations, my disappointment in him only grew. The wretched man before me was nothing but a complete stranger. I feared to think that the man I loved had been nothing but a facade.

Instead of indulging his baseless accusations, I snagged the laptop and turned it to face him. Surprise and anger flitted across his face as the video was shown to him again. “What is this?” I demanded.

A sneer tugged at William’s lips. “You tell me.”

Anger roared like a fire in my core. How could he speak to me like that in the face of all the evidence laid befo