Chapter 517 Stripping Away Her Power
Wendy no longer bothered to hide her true thoughts.
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If it hadn’t been for the last thread of blood ties between them, she would have sent Henry to his grave long ago. Who could have imagined that nineteen years later, this boy would become her greatest obstacle?
“You still care about me, I know,” Wendy said coldly. “So I’ll give you a way out. As long as you surrender and resign from all your positions in the Foster family, I won’t make things hard for you.”
You really think I’m stupid? If I give up every position, I’ll have no connection to the Foster family. When trouble comes, who among you will protect me?”
Wendy understood well that her crimes were beyond what the Foster family could shield her from. If the truth ever came out, not only she, but the entire family would be implicated.
For years, her elder brother Felix had protected her, covering for her and even putting on the mask of charity to hide her sins–not out of affection, but out of guilt and a desire to protect the Foster family from collapse.
Henry, she realized, thought the same way.
The difference was, Henry was far more ruthless than Felix. At least Felix had retained a sliver of familial feeling and hadn’t tried to destroy her outright. Henry, however, wanted to dismantle all her influence in the Foster family, then expose her and send her to prison.
“You really are clever,” Wendy said with a sneer. “I can’t hide anything from you.”
Henry knew Wendy wouldn’t yield so easily, so he dropped all pretense.
He wanted the position of head of the Foster family so he could sweep out all her spies. Now that he held. that seat, his first move was to go after her people.
At that moment, Henry’s assistant brought in a group of people.
Wendy instantly recognized the faces–her informants in the city hospital, key contacts, even some of the Foster family’s shareholders and senior executives.
Henry had rooted them all out.
“You know these people,” Henry said, his smile sharp as a blade. “They were begging me to get you to save them when I brought them in.”
Wendy clenched her fists but said nothing. She couldn’t admit in front of Henry that they were her planted agents.
Henry studied her expression, then smiled faintly. “Looks like you remember who they are. As the head of the Foster family, I’m firing them all. Do you have any objections?”
Please, Mr. Henry! Ms. Wendy! Save us!”
Ms. Wendy! We’ve served you for years–you can’t abandon us!”
“Ms. Wendy! Don’t burn the bridge after crossing it!”
The voices grew louder and more desperate.
Chapter 517 Stripping Away Her Power
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They all knew that if the Foster family dismissed them, they would be finished in Westbrook. The family was the city’s most powerful medical dynasty; once cast out, no other company would take them in. Worse, the Fosters might actively make sure they never worked again.
Now, their only hope was that Wendy would speak for them. If she could save them, they might still hold onto a place in the family–and in Westbrook.
But Wendy could barely protect herself.
Henry had engineered this scene deliberately. By forcing her to fail in front of her own people, he made sure everyone saw that she had no power in the Foster family.
Even her most loyal followers would eventually be stripped away, left with no future,
“Not going to save them?” Henry asked, already knowing her answer.
“In that case,” he said, “take them all away.”
“Yes, sir.”
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