Chapter 812

After his outburst, Raleigh looked at Stewart with a meaningful smirk. “You really do treat her incredibly well. But it’s a real shame that all your protectiveness and blind devotion will only end up making you a laughingstock!”

Everyone in the room, including Vesta, Maureen Spencer, Corinne, and the rest of the guests, froze at his words.

Before anyone could process what he meant, Raleigh tapped his phone. The massive screen behind him flickered to life, and a series of photos flashed across it.

The moment the images appeared, gasps erupted from the crowd, and the venue instantly exploded into an uproar.

Charlene and Thorne!

They were actually—

The photos showed Thorne and Charlene acting extremely intimate. In one shot, Thorne was even taking Charlene back to his place late at night.

This… this…

Jaws practically dropped to the floor.

No one had ever imagined there was an illicit affair going on between Thorne and Charlene!

York Watson, Gaylord Hearst, and Dalton Ramirez had been quietly listening to the confrontation between Raleigh and Stewart.

When Stewart humiliated Vesta, claiming Dr. Wagner had called her ‘mediocre,’ Dalton had been just as furious as Raleigh.

He had wanted to step forward and defend her.

After all, if someone with Vesta’s resume was considered mediocre, what did that make everyone else? Idiots?

But before he had the chance to speak, Raleigh slapped the intimate photos of Charlene and Thorne right in front of everyone.

When the pictures appeared on the screen, Dalton paused, especially surprised to see some of his own photos in the mix.

However, he quickly regained his composure, finally understanding why Raleigh had

the nerve to publicly demand justice for Vesta in such a setting.

For York and Gaylord, seeing the photos was like taking a blow to the head.

They snapped their heads toward Charlene and Thorne.

But as York looked over, a sudden flash of realization hit him, and he stumbled back

a step.

Suddenly…

He understood everything.

He stood frozen in place.

He had never once associated Charlene with Thorne.

So… Thorne was the husband she had always kept a tight lip about!

Kelvin Scott and Dalton already knew about the ‘affair’ between Charlene and Thorne, so after a brief moment of surprise they remained relatively unfazed. But they both noticed York’s reaction.

Seeing looking so utterly

shocked and in denial, they

assumed he was crushed by

the

revelation of Charlene’s true colors.’

Dalton didn’t want to kick a man when he was down, but—

He looked at York and said quietly, “I’ve known about them for a while. That’s what Kelvin and I were trying to telly you earlier. York, she really isn’t the person you think she is

Kelvin nodded in agreement. “Yeah, exactly.”

On the other side, Gaylord was just as astounded when he saw the photos.

His mind went blank for a second.

But quickly, the possibility that Thorne was actually Charlene’s husband clicked in his head.

It was just…

If Thorne really was the unmentioned husband, didn’t that mean… they weren’t officially divorced yet?

And if he wasn’t divorced, then what was going on between him and Vesta―

At that thought, he sharply turned his gaze to Thorne and Vesta. Meanwhile, Granger Harden and Moran Albright had also been watching the standoff between Stewart and Raleigh.

When the photos suddenly flashed on the screen, they were equally dumbfounded.