Married First, Loved Later : A Flash Marriage with My Ex’s "Uncle" - Chapter 582

Chapter 582: Rot in Prison!

“Ah!” Amelia’s hair was yanked out in a fistful as she slapped Paula across the face again and again.

“You dare look down on Owen? Apologize to him! Owen is a son of heaven—born to trample the whole world under his feet! And what are you? Malicious, fake, ignorant—how could there be a woman like you!”

“You hit me? You actually hit me!” Paula didn’t hold back either.

“Owen always talks in that fake sweet-tea tone—just listening to him makes me want to throw up! He can’t manage a company, he can’t run a business, but he sure knows how to play the victim. Only an idiot like you would think Owen is pitiful. It’s hilarious!”

No one expected it—these two women, who once acted as close as sisters, were actually brawling in public. Jaws dropped all around.

This… this only confirmed what everyone suspected: Paula had been trying to break up Mr. Reid’s marriage from the start, and Amelia had been plotting against Logan all along.

How humiliating…

“Enough! Let go of her, Amelia!”

With a sharp kick, Duke William sent Amelia sprawling, then pulled Paula protectively back to his side. His face was thunderous as he looked down with disdain.

“You still have the nerve to discipline my daughter? Worry about yourself! The business alliance is canceled. The twenty billion—forget it. Reid Family, you’re on your own!”

He shot a glare at Logan and Selina before storming out with Paula in tow.

Selina arched a brow. “Ah, sorry, guess I pushed it too far. Looks like Duke William hates you even more now.”

Logan was calm. “He’s always despised me. If anything, you’re just getting dragged down with me.”

To him, the marriage alliance wasn’t just about Paula’s obsession with marrying him—Logan suspected Duke William had orchestrated it to keep him close.

As for why…

Logan gave a dry laugh. “I’m curious myself. Just what did I ever do to offend the Duke?”

Selina narrowed her eyes. William’s background was a secret. Could it be…

The thought popped into her mind, and she blurted out, “Could Duke William also be… adopted?”

Logan glanced at her. “Why would you think that?”

“Nothing.” Selina shook her head. “I just feel like the ones who’ve always wanted you dead… they’re all adoptees. As if they’re part of some organization.”

Logan inclined his head but said nothing more. Before he could speak, Amelia, frantic and furious, rushed at him.

“Logan—ah!”

Logan slipped an arm around Selina’s waist and turned aside, letting Amelia crash to the floor with a thud.

Her face twisted with rage, no longer even pretending to hide it.

“No one is allowed to breathe a word of what happened today! If you do, I’ll tell everyone you orchestrated Owen’s kidnapping—then you’ll be the one rotting in prison!”

“You ungrateful bastard! After all the years I raised you! Let Owen go, shut these people up, and maybe I can still—”

“You’re missing one thing.”

Logan lowered his gaze slightly, his eyes never truly landing on Amelia, as if she wasn’t even worth looking at anymore.

“Do you know why I had Jaxon pretend to be the kidnapper? Do you know why, despite all the noise, the police never showed up?”

“What… what do you mean by that…”

“You still don’t get it?” Selina smirked. “It means that everything you just said to Jaxon—every single word—has already spread across the internet.”

“Now the whole world knows Owen is your biological son. Congratulations, you two can finally be reunited as mother and child. Happy?”

“Ah!” Amelia screamed as realization hit.

“As for the kidnapping…” Selina sighed. “Why don’t you think back to Logan’s earlier question?”

His earlier question?

Why, with everything blowing up so wildly… hadn’t the police shown up?

“You thought Jaxon was lying?”

Logan let out a cold laugh. “Do you even know how many lives Owen has taken? You probably don’t. I simply staged this whole ‘kidnapping’ with the help of the police. What did you think?”

In other words, the kidnapping was a setup orchestrated by Logan together with law enforcement.

Amelia staggered back a step, her face twisted with hysteria. “No, that’s not true. Even if Owen killed a few people, so what? If Owen took a liking to them, that was their blessing… Owen is a son of heaven, every woman in the world belongs to him, and those bitches dared to—”

“Disgusting!”

A reporter suddenly shouted from the crowd, his voice booming. “So this is what Mrs. Perry thinks? This is the kind of ‘education’ from the Perry Family? I recorded everything—time to show the world!”

“This is the first time I’ve ever heard that a murderer’s noble identity makes the victims deserve it. What kind of twisted logic is that?”

“What century is Mrs. Perry living in?”

The curses poured down from all directions. Amelia froze for several seconds, dumbstruck.

“Amelia! You bitch—you’ve destroyed the Perry Family!”

A fat figure suddenly stormed forward—it was Mr. Perry the Second. The brother who once adored Amelia most now grabbed her by the collar and slapped her across the face, again and again.

“The Perry Family took you in, pampered you, raised you with everything you ever wanted, and you repay us like this?! It’s gone—everything’s gone! From now on, we’ll all be left to starve with you. Are you happy now?!”

At that moment, Mr. and Mrs. Perry rushed up as well, wailing and beating their chests.

“You cursed jinx! Ruining Reid Group wasn’t enough, now you’ve dragged Perry Group to ruin too. Perry Group is bankrupt—bankrupt! What are we supposed to do now? My company was finally recovering, and now it’s over. Everything’s over…”

“It’s all your fault, all because of you! Why did you steal Anna’s place, why did you kill her? If Anna were still alive, she would have found a way to save the Perry Family… but because of you!”

“For the sake of one adopted daughter, we sacrificed the entire Perry Family—what a sin, what a crime…”

Grandpa Perry wept bitterly, jabbing his finger at Amelia’s nose. “You owe me my daughter… you owe me my Anna…”

Amelia never imagined that, in the end, the ones cursing her most viciously would be the very ‘family’ who once doted on her.

Selina watched the scene unfold, expressionless. To her, it was nothing but Amelia reaping what she had sown.

She turned to Logan. “Shall we go?”

Logan nodded. “Yeah.”

And just like that, the farce ended in a way no one could have predicted.

Logan’s true identity was finally revealed. Owen and Amelia were facing prison, and Daniel was inevitably dragged into an investigation as well—Logan and Daisy, as Anna’s blood relatives, demanded a reopening of the case into her so-called ‘suicide.’

Both Reid Group and Perry Family were now shrouded in disgrace.

But none of it had anything to do with Selina.

After a few days of rest, Selina suddenly received a call. She sounded surprised.

“Hm? Cousin?”

A strange man on the other end introduced himself as her cousin.

The man chuckled softly. “Yeah. How about meeting up?”