The Ex-Wife's Burning Elegance novel Chapter 896

For several seconds, the scene seemed frozen in time.

Then, a wave of mocking laughter swept through the crowd.

“Oh my God, look at her now! She looks ridiculous!”

“Goddess? More like a stray dog, if you ask me.”

“Quick, quick, get a picture of her like this. We have to post it online.”

Aurora had never experienced such a humiliating, nightmarish moment in her entire life.

It felt as if everyone around her was eager to kick her while she was down.

As the daughter of “the other woman,” she was fair game for anyone’s ridicule or scorn.

She didn’t even remember how she managed to walk out of the competition hall.

No sooner had she stepped outside than Sellers and Sherman came rushing toward her.

Seeing Aurora disheveled and broken, they both stopped short, stunned.

They had never seen her like this—so vulnerable, so defeated.

But once the shock faded, it was replaced by a tidal wave of anger and helpless concern.

Sellers clenched his jaw. “It has to be Stella!”

Stella’s scandal hadn’t even cooled off, and now Aurora’s parentage had been blasted all over the news.

It was obvious—this was Stella’s revenge.

Sherman hurried to steady Aurora, just about to ask if she was all right, when her knees buckled and she collapsed in his arms.

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The revelation that Aurora was an illegitimate child sent shockwaves through high society.

She had always been the reigning socialite, the one every prominent family wanted to marry into.

“Stella was just called out as an illegitimate child herself, and now, right after, Aurora’s secret is out. This is deliberate retaliation. Whoever leaked it knew every detail about Aurora’s mother. Who else could it be but Stella?”

Skyler hurled his teacup at the floor.

Crash!

The cup shattered, porcelain scattering everywhere.

“That wretched girl!” Skyler’s voice trembled with rage. “Call her. Now. Tell her to get home this instant!”

Jonathan nodded and turned to leave, but then hesitated, something occurring to him.

“Dad, do you think maybe Stella believes we were the ones who leaked her secret? That she’s doing this to drag Aurora down with her?”

Skyler’s chest heaved with fury.

“This wasn’t some spur-of-the-moment decision. She’s been planning this for ages! She resents me, she resents Aurora, she’s hated the Williams family for a long, long time!”

Skyler was rarely so unhinged. “The Williams Group—Nora poured her whole life into this company. Didn’t Stella think, even for a second, that blowing up this scandal would drag the company down too?!”