The Abandoned Wife Dumped Him First (Victoria and Elias) novel Chapter 423

But the reality was, whenever it came to five years ago, whenever it involved Genevieve, he would still side against her.

How ironic.

Even more laughable was that, for a fleeting moment, she had actually deluded herself into thinking he would believe her.

Victoria let out a cold laugh. “You don’t have to say it. I already know the answer.”

The嘲讽 smirk on her lips was like a sharp dagger stabbing into Elias’s heart. The overwhelming fear of losing her washed over him again like a tidal wave.

He swallowed hard, his Adam’s apple bobbing. He wanted to explain, but though his lips opened and closed, he couldn’t find the right words.

After a long moment, he finally said in a low voice, “Victoria, Hawk has already sent people to check the security footage. We’ll have answers soon. Just calm down.”

“Calm down again!”

As if she’d heard the world’s biggest joke, Victoria pointed a trembling finger at Genevieve, who was cowering on the floor. Her voice broke with anguish as she demanded, “At the funeral, when I said Genevieve killed Grady, you told me to calm down. Now, with my dad in the ICU, who else but her would want him dead?”

“I know she’s the one who took my father, that she wants him dead, and you’re still telling me to calm down?”

“Elias, you tell me, how am I supposed to calm down?”

Her eyes were red, each word torn from the depths of her soul, filled with endless pain and grief. As she spoke, tears finally broke free, streaming down her face.

Elias was taken aback. He instinctively raised a hand to wipe her tears away, but Victoria turned her head to avoid his touch, wiping them away herself. She gripped the handle of the knife tighter, and through gritted teeth, she said, one word at a time, “Elias, if anything happens to my father, I don’t care who tries to stop me. I will kill Genevieve and make her pay with her life.”

With that, Victoria’s gaze snapped back to Genevieve.

Genevieve trembled, looking at Elias and shaking her head, denying it through her tears. “It wasn’t me, Elias, you have to believe me! It wasn’t me! I didn’t take Garnett! I’ve been in the hospital this whole time, there’s no way I could have taken him! Elias…”

Her wrist was still in Elias’s grip. She struggled twice, suppressing a surge of fury, and snarled, “Let go!”

Elias paused for a moment, but instead of letting go, his grip tightened. He tried to soften his tone. “Victoria, I can vouch for Genevieve. She really has been in the hospital the entire time. A nurse has been in her room watching her since last night.”

“She can’t be the one who took your father.”

Victoria looked at him, the irony thick enough to taste. It wasn’t long ago, at Grady’s funeral, that Elias had sworn to her with the same conviction that Genevieve couldn’t possibly be the killer.

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