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Chapter 21

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Robert trembled as he spoke. "You ungrateful daughter! Throwing your own father out of the house! Don’t you fear karma coming back to haunt you?"

Yara frowned. “Are you cursing me?”

Startled, Robert fell silent, unable to respond.

Yara smirked mockingly. "If a lowlife like you, who betrayed his own wife and daughter, hasn’t been hit by karma, why would I have anything to worry about?"

With that, she turned and walked away.

As she passed the bodyguards, she stopped and issued a cold command. “Give them three minutes. If they refuse to leave, throw them out and make sure they’re far from the gate. I don’t like trash piling up at my doorstep.”

Yara returned to her room.

Her thoughts wandered to Herman.

At the gala tonight, when the woman handed her a drink, Herman took it instead, downing it in one go without hesitation. He was probably suffering the consequences by now.

She stood up, intending to take a shower, when her phone rang.

Glancing at the screen, she was surpri
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