Chapter 543

He still remembered the day when Powell cornered him at the Winston Mansion and dropped the bombshell. Marguerite is the belle of the ball right now, and Maurice and Frederick were both vying for her affection!

If he actually blacklisted Marguerite, there was no doubt those two wouldn’t let him off the hook! And then there was his wife, another puzzle he couldn’t quite solve!

Yuna never expected Hackett to reject her so quickly, and in a fit of pique fueled by one too many glasses of wine, she lashed out, “Dad! How can you go back on your word like this? You just promised me you’d agree to anything I asked!”

Hackett sighed, speaking with a patience born of long suffering, “Honey, I know you’ve got your beef with Marguerite, and I don’t like her either! But your mother likes her. You want me to go head-to-head with your mom over this?

Not to mention, when Marguerite was hired, your mom laid out this crazy clause to keep her on board –

if either party breaches the contract, they owe the other fifty times the penalty fee!

If I fire Marguerite now, wouldn’t that be like throwing money at her?”

Back then, when Penelope proposed that clause, she was half-joking. Neither took it seriously, but Marguerite, seeing Penelope’s earnestness, signed on the dotted line without hesitation. She was just to give Penelope some peace of mind.

Hackett’s refusal to side with Yuna wasn’t solely out of fear of the Winston brothers’ nefarious tactics;

the main roadblock was Penelope herself.

The harmony of a household hinges on the lady of the house.

His daughter had just returned home, Robert was no longer avoiding him, and life had started to look up. He wasn’t about to throw all that away!

But Yuna’s eyes sparkled at her father’s words, “Dad, so if Marguerite quits on her own, she’d have to pay fifty times the penalty to our company, right?”

“Of course! That’s what the contract says! But why would she quit on her own? Let it go, sweetheart.”

Yuna feigned a sigh of resignation, letting the conversation drop. But she wasn’t one to give up so easily.

If that wretch couldn’t be ousted, she’d make sure to crush her at the office!

Freddie couldn’t possibly swoop in to save the day every time, and she was quite curious to see just how much Marguerite could take.

Seeing his daughter fall silent, Hackett tentatively broached another topic, “Yuna, are you really that smitten with Frederick? With your status, you could marry into any top-tier family in a heartbeat! That boy is so impetuous, even daring to defy me, his elder. You’re setting yourself up for a world of hurt.

Maybe it’s time to stop loving the wrong man, what do you say?”

Hackett’s words came from a place of concern, he couldn’t bear the thought of his daughter suffering Everyone told him Frederick was obsessed with Marguerite, whether it was love or hate, the guy had blinders on to any other woman.

What was his daughter to him then? A lovesick puppy?

He couldn’t stand the thought of his daughter debasing herself like that!

But Yuna, upon hearing this, bristled with defiance, and her tears started flowing again, ‘Dad! Freddie is the only man for me! You don’t understand how much I love him! If I didn’t, why would I have agreed to have Manley and Hayes for him? Dad! Freddie used to love me! It’s all because Marguerite meddled that we’re in this mess! She was the homewrecker everyone despised three years ago!

After Freddie found out she betrayed him, we left everything behind and started anew! I was by his side through the darkest days of his life! Just when we finally got back on our feet and planned to return and rebuild, Marguerite reared her ugly head again! Dad! How could I possibly let her reap the rewards of my suffering? Love isn’t meant to be shared!”