Chapter 81 – Hunter becomes prey 2
Lester married Anne Petrova hastily and had a child.
Lester was biased towards boys and had wanted a son, but got a daughter instead.
He had converted the Petrova factory that he had received as his dowry into the Aprice Group and turned Anne into a meek housewife. Yet, his wife’s popularity still outshone his own.
By the time Anne realized that she had made an enormous mistake in seeing through Lester, Liliana was already three years old.
Anne knew she was not strong enough to shoulder her father’s responsibilities, but her daughter was already showing promising signs.
Anne spent more than a year contemplating the future.This content provided by N(o)velDrama].[Org.
Anne knew herself well. She had been heartbroken and she knew she would never be able to take over Leon’s burden. She also had health issues and she was unlikely to have another child.
As much as she hated it, Anne had no choice but to put those heavy responsibilities on her young daughter’s shoulders.
After spending months thinking, trying to change Lester’s heart, discussing with her parents all the while dealing with her guilt and heartbreak, Anne vowed to train Liliana well and asked Leon to declare her as his heir.
She refused to divorce Lester and held hope.
When Liliana was seven years old, Leon and his wife passed away in an avalanche when they were skiing.
After Leon’s death, Lester revealed his sinister colors overtly.
Lester, who had been preying on the Petrovas, became Rose and Romeo’s prey a few months after that.
Lester had never been a good man at heart, nor had he loved Anne wholeheartedly as she had loved him. It was a piece of cake for Rose and Romeo to trap Lester and use his jealousy and inferiority against him.
The vile couple had found that Anne had given birth to a daughter only and was incapable of having more children. Lester’s desire of having a son was not well hidden.
Rose used that to her benefit quite well.
And so Anne and Lilian’s misery started.
Lester was a greedy man, but if only he had treated Anne wholeheartedly, his life would have had a happy ending. After all, Anne was well trained and she had an elite group of people to handle most things.
But Lester could not even manage that.
He was too proud and conceited to realize that he had everything he had ever dreamed of in the palm of his hands but he crushed it and threw it instead.
Eventually, Anne lost her life, Liliana spent eight years suffering in Rose and Lydia’s hands.
But Karma is a bitch.
Lester who had the opportunity to live a carefree life spent his entire life trying to salvage Aprice Group which quietly floundered under his care over the years while also taking care of his vain wife who had always looked down on him for being stupid, and pampering someone else’s daughter even at the cost of his dignity.
Twenty years later, the roles were reversed and, now, it was Liliana avenging her mother while Rose and Romeo were being hunted, though they were yet to realize it.