Divorce Failed My Wife's Secret Identities Shock the World novel Chapter 834

Maeve truly was a tough nut to crack.

Halfway through their meeting, Audrey excused herself to use the restroom.

Maeve propped her chin on one hand, idly scrolling through her phone out of pure boredom.

An incredibly amusing headline suddenly skyrocketed to the top of the trending list.

Spark Industries and Grover Group Poised for Potential Marriage Alliance.

The article featured a high-res photo of Benjamin Bright lifting Nancy Grover's chin with one hand in the middle of a restaurant.

Maeve instantly recognized the background—it was the exact same restaurant where Benjamin had treated her to lunch.

It seemed that right after she and Andres left, Benjamin had orchestrated this little stunt behind her back.

A fabricated scandal like this had undoubtedly been published under Benjamin's explicit orders.

His blatant motivation for creating this media circus was to thoroughly assassinate Nancy's reputation.

Maeve quickly fired off a text to Benjamin, warning him not to derail her master plan.

Benjamin replied almost instantly: Just playing around. I know what I'm doing.

Just as Maeve was about to type another response, she noticed a group of sleazy-looking thugs marching straight toward a nearby table.

She hadn't been paying attention to the other patrons until now.

Once she got a clear look at the table, her eyebrows shot up in surprise.

It was Sarah Foster, a girl she hadn't crossed paths with in a while.

Sarah was dining with a female friend when the men suddenly surrounded them and splashed a full glass of alcohol right into Sarah's face.

Absolute chaos erupted, terrifying the surrounding diners.

Sarah's friend jumped up to defend her, but one of the men backhanded her so hard she collapsed to the floor.

Sarah snapped.

"Who the hell are you? You can't just attack people!"

A man grabbed a fistful of Sarah's hair and delivered two vicious slaps across her face.

Sarah's cheeks swelled instantly. Drenched in alcohol, she looked utterly pathetic.

As the violent altercation escalated, Maeve, watching from the sidelines, began to piece the puzzle together.

These men shouting about extortion were deliberately acting with malicious intent.

They were publicly assaulting Sarah to aggressively spread career-ending rumors.

To the uninformed public, it would genuinely look like Sarah was a desperate woman who sold her body for cash.

Moreover, the men weren't speaking with local Aethelburg accents.

Maeve vaguely recalled that one of Landon Hart's personal bodyguards spoke with that exact same dialect.

This deduction was entirely thanks to Maeve's terrifying photographic memory.

Even though she rarely interacted with Landon and barely knew his inner circle, she vividly remembered hearing that specific accent from one of his men.

Considering the brutal bankruptcy currently crushing the Hart Family, she refused to believe the Fosters hadn't played a hand in it.

Just as the men yanked Sarah by the hair, preparing to drag her out of the restaurant, Maeve finally made her move.

"Gentlemen, assaulting a defenseless girl in a public space, regardless of your fabricated reasons, is going to guarantee you a very lengthy lawsuit."