Ch. 541..545: Divorced My Scum Husband, Married His Evil brother Chapter 541-545

Chapter 541

"After that day, my family was in shambles. My brothers and I had to help our Mom to do odd jobs and part times to earn money and survive," Diamond continued. "I had to stop thinking like a teenager. I buried my dream to go to university and become a part-time model since I was fifteen."

"I'm not as smart as the oldest of my brothers, Desmond. He got a scholarship and achieved what he wanted by going to law school. But that also meant he couldn't help us to earn money, because he was busy studying and working part-time to support himself in a new city."

"So the responsibility fell to my Mom, and naturally me as well. I didn't want to see my Mom getting too exhausted, so I worked hard to do casting as a young model. Did you know what kind of harsh world I have to enter just to earn money?" Diamond paused for a moment.

The topic was too upsetting for her because she had to dig up all the painful memories she had working as a teenage model. Knowing how cutthroat the industry was was especially painful for a poor black girl like her.

"Did you know all the sleepless nights I have to endure because of depression? I hated working as a model, but I had to do it because I need money," Diamond said. "It was thanks to my boss who took me in when I was twenty-- five years into the modeling industry-- he noticed my talent of reading people's intentions and hired me as a secretary."

"Because of that one person-- Carter Fallingham-- I have lost my innocence, my childhood, my teenage years, and also lost my dream to go to university," Diamond said. "Now you know how much I hate a bastard like him, right? Those bastards who would use someone's vulnerability for their own gain."

"Carter knew that Derik was too young and mentally unstable to understand most of his actions, so he influenced him to earn as much profit as possible. That man was really sick in the head, and I can't wait to kill someone just like him."

Shailene was instantly reminded of Chloe. That woman was the kind of woman Diamond would hate the most since she was manipulative to young Vernon.

'This woman is undoubtedly dangerous. I need to make her my friend, no matter how messed up she is,' Shailene thought. 'She will hate Chloe for what she did, and she might channel her hatred by killing that manipulative bitch instead.'

Shailene was still scared that someone might send Diamond to attack her. But Shailene could tell that Diamond was messed up in her head, so Shailene could use this to her advantage and gain more allies.

"It's Chloe!" Shailene suddenly mentioned.

Diamond frowned, "Huh?"

"Yes! Chloe Gray! She is the one behind everything in the Gray family! She is a bitch who manipulated young Vernon to submit to her. He was a mentally unstable kid with a lot of trauma in his head, and Chloe used the chance to groom him!" Shailene yelled as she continued slandering Chloe. "She is the worst kind of woman on earth! If you want to hurt someone real bad, then you should attack her instead!"

...

There was a silence from Diamond, and Shailene thought it meant Diamond was contemplating whether she should believe it.

"You don't believe me? Then you should ask Madam Gray about this! Look at her current mental condition, she is in a deep depression! You can also look at Mr. Vincent Gray, he got messed up in the head! Now the most obvious one, Vernon. If Madam Gray hasn't told you yet, he got together with Chloe and became her love slave. She manipulated that poor young man by grooming him! I bet she also molested him when he was young!"

Diamond's eyes turned frigid as she continued listening to Shailene's words. Not because she believed her but because she was full of bullcrap.

This woman was exactly the type of person that Diamond hated. She was no different than Carter Fallingham.

Shailene was convinced that Diamond's silence meant she was contemplating, probably forming a scenario about Chloe's sin inside her head. Shailene felt a triumph in her heart, 'As expected, I still have the touch. It's not hard to influence a mentally unstable woman like this one.'

"Y--You see, all I want to do is to free the Gray family from that woman's clutch, especially Vernon. He has been abused, and groomed since he was a child, don't you think that he deserves a better person by his side rather than Chloe?"

"And that better person is you?" Diamond asked.

Shailene choked on air as Diamond suddenly asked something she tried to conceal as much as possible. She tried to stay silent, but Diamond pulled her hair harder. "Ouch--Ouch, stop pulling my hair!"

"ANSWER!" Diamond snapped.

"Y--Yes! I admit, that's me! I am a better person than Chloe. I love Vernon much more than she could ever have, and I'm not a manipulative bitch like she is!" Shailene admitted. "Besides, I work to help people! Don't you see that I'm a renowned psychologist? Everyone wants to go to me because they know that I'm a good person!"

"I see," Diamond finally released Shailene's hair, and Shailene's upper body fell to the front. She hit the ground face-first and grimaced in pain for a while.

Diamond circled around Shailene, who was still trying to recover until she stood right before her, with her stiletto tapping the floor.

"I never knew that you had that kind of opinion about Chloe Gray," Diamond said. "It's never been on my mind before."

Shailene propped herself with her arms and lifted her head to look up at the crazy black lady in front of her. She believed she had convinced Diamond, "I know you don't like a manipulative bitch like Chloe, and so do I! Let's join forces and we can kick that toxic woman away!"

Chapter 542

Diamond stared down at Shailene. Her eyes couldn't get any more intense and more malicious than this. Her hatred for this woman had been doubled-- no, ten times more than before.

'It's funny that she tried to convince me with that crazy eyes and grin she has. Maybe she doesn't realize how deranged she looks right now. She doesn't have any grace and professional aura in her as a psychologist,' Diamond thought. 'Or maybe she could pretend to have one, but all of her pretense vanishes when she is in a desperate situation.'

'Hmm, maybe I shook her conscience too much with my story. Which is funny, since she doesn't feel an ounce of pity for that boy she killed.'

There was a long silence between them, and Shailene waited until she got an answer from Diamond.

However, instead of a straight answer from her, what Shailene got was a smirk. Diamond gave her a mysterious smirk full of meaning, and Shailene dared not to think about the worst possible scenario in her head.

"Wow, Miss Walsh, you're so good at convincing people, I almost believed you for one second there," Diamond said.

"R--Really?"

"Mhm," Diamond nodded. "But you must know one thing about me."

Diamond's mysterious smirk turned malicious as she continued, "I am Chloe Gray's best friend."

Shailene's eyes almost popped out of their socket. She thought she misheard it just now, "W--What did you just say?"

"I am Chloe Gray's best friend," Diamond repeated. "I am her closest confidant. She is my sister from another mother. She is the only person I can ever feel at ease. Do you know why?"

Diamond bent her back until her face was so close to Shailene's that the tip of their nose almost touched. It gave a zoomed-in effect on Diamond's pair of malicious black pupils, making her ten times scarier than before, "Because she is the kindest woman I've ever met. All you did is judging and slandering her, you piece of shit."

Shailene felt that blood had been drained out of her body. She felt so weak and limp that she almost fainted, "B--But Dorothea recommended you. You must be one of her people, right? How could you befriend Dorothea when you are Chloe's best friend?!"

"Haha! Now, this is funny," Diamond ridiculed. "Do you think you know everything that is happening inside the Gray family, when you're not even within their picture? All you did is just judging and pulling conclusion out of your ass."

"Well, if you want to know about Dorothea. Then you should know that Dorothea is all well right now. She is on Vernon's side, and she is the one who told us about you," Diamond said. Of course, this one was just a lie, or maybe wishful thinking as well. Since there was no movement from Vincent, Dorothea hadn't told him about Chloe and Vernon's relationship yet. So she believed that Dorothea was on their side.

"N--No way," Shailene shook her head in disbelief. "H--How could this be? I already told Dorothea that Chloe is a poison that needs to be eliminated!" Shailene's voice was shaky, but she clung to the hope that Diamond was bluffing.

"Well, maybe she just got a moment of clarity and realized that you're just full of shit," Diamond shrugged. She stood straight again. She crossed her hands in front of her chest and raised her brow. She acted high and mighty in front of Shailene as she should.

"I guess you already guessed by now, I do not work for Vincent Gray. I do in fact-- work for Vernon Gray, the man you fall in love with," Diamond stated boldly. "And if you know how crooked he is, you won't fall in love with him. But I guess, a stupid woman like you has a rose-colored glass in your eyes, so you see him as a perfect man, not a crooked bastard who only has his eyes on Chloe."

Shailene was in complete shock that her body simply shut down. She was unresponsive while staring at Diamond with her mouth gaped wide.

Diamond could end it here. She believed that Shailene's dream about Vernon had been shattered already.

But she wasn't satisfied. She came here because of a personal grudge and would be satisfied once the blow had been delivered.

"Now, let's return to our main topic. I'm here for therapy, remember?" Diamond smirked. "Well, as you know, I really, really hate someone who's similar to Carter Fallingham. He was manipulative, evil, and greedy, just like you."

Shailene's heartbeat accelerated as she guessed where this topic would lead them. She shook her head vehemently, "I did nothing! I'm not as evil as him! I've always been compassionate!"

"Compassionate? Are you kidding me?" Diamond scoffed. "Let me tell you all of your sins, Miss Walsh."

Diamond took a deep breath and dropped the bomb one by one, "First, you're the one who manipulated Vernon until he believed his love for Chloe. You slandered Chloe in front of Vernon, Dorothea, and me. You called her a toxic bitch, manipulative, a groomer, and a poison. Do you not realize that you're projecting your own sin to an innocent lady?"

"Second, you told Dorothea about Chloe and Vernon's relationship. You've crossed the line as a professional. You shared another client's secret, and you should be jailed for it. Because you don't know the risk that you put towards all of us just because of your stupid obsession towards Vernon."

"Third, and well, this is a personal matter I simply cannot let go," Diamond said. "I know what you did, Shailene Walsh. I know that you failed during your internship as a young psychologist."

"I don't know why you were so cruel back then, maybe because you're just inherently heartless. But I know that you pushed a boy around the age of fourteen to suicide, right? You got a fourteen years old boy who was bullied at his school, just like my brother, at your mercy, and you killed him with your words."

Chapter 543

"I—I didn't—" Shailene wanted to refute it, but Diamond didn't give her a chance to do so.

"But because you're in a bad mood, you told him that his life is worth nothing, and no amount of therapy will help. So he should just kill himself, right?" Diamond said ruthlessly. "He was a kid suffering from depression and self-esteem issues. He got bullied badly, and his parents sent him to your Dad's hospital where you worked after you graduated."

"Since he suffered from extremely low self-esteem, he kept on pitying himself until you got annoyed by him," Diamond said. "Realizing that he will not get better anytime soon, you started getting annoyed by his constant visit. No matter what you did, his depression never got better, and he kept his pity party."

"Then, that day… maybe you haven't had your morning coffee, or maybe you woke up at the wrong side of the bed, but you said a heartless— no, many heartless comments to him when he was doing his therapy session with you," Diamond said. The image of Derik inside her head only got Diamond angrier about what Shailene did to that poor boy.

Shailene kept on shaking her head. She knew it was all true. It was her who killed that teenage boy with her sharp mouth. But she still wanted to forget it. She wanted to act like she did nothing wrong!

"Well, since you keep shaking your head like an idiot, then I will let you hear something I recover from that boy. This is his last voice recording before he commited suicide, just like what my brother Derik did."

Diamond fished out the phone from her blazer pocket and quickly found the voice recording of a fourteen-year-old boy. It was stored inside a small memory card inside the document that the agent gave to Diamond before, just to make sure that Diamond got everything ready for this big reveal.

—Recording—

Hello, this is Erik. If you— I mean, Mom and Dad are listening to this recording right now, that means I'm dead.

I know I'm not a good son, and I don't know if my death will affect you two. I hope you can forgive and forget about me. I have been nothing but a failure for you two.

I want you to know that it's not your fault. It's my fault for being a failure. I've been trying my best not to be a burden and to be confident, but no matter how hard I try, I just know that I'm not good enough for this world.

But if you want to blame someone else for this, you can blame my psychologist, Miss Shailene Walsh.

She told me yesterday that I'm a worthless piece of shit because I keep coming to her. She told me I should just end myself because I kept pitying my life.

She also told me that she got bored treating me because there is no use in helping someone who's just born sick, and I'm only a burden to everyone around me.

She's usually not mean to me, but maybe she's just having a bad day.

No, she's right. She's definitely right about this.

​ There is no use in helping a person who is born sick like me. In the end, I will only be a burden to everyone, just like what she said.

So this is my last message to my family. I hope you two can forget me.

Goodbye.

—Recording End—

Diamond waved her phone before Shailene's eyes to taunt her, "Do you remember everything now? I got this recording from one and only Erik's parents. They told me that the court can't give them justice because of your father's connection, you bribed the judge and buried this case until nobody knows about this, and you can walk out without any guilt or shame."

"Really, how evil can you be, Shailene Walsh. You pushed a kid to end his own life, then tried to cover it up because you don't want your reputation and career to get ruined. What a scum," Diamond scoffed. "Now I understand why you overreacted when I told the story of my deceased brother. It's because you have the same sin as Carter Fallingham."

"You may not know about Carter personally, but damn, you're basically the female version of him, hahahahaha!" Diamond laughed heartily for a while before her laugh suddenly stopped abruptly. Her gaze got colder, and her lips thinned. "And I hate everyone who acts just like Carter Fallingham. It makes me want to kill them just like my father did to that bastard."

"No!" Shailene started shaking her head like a madwoman. The image of herself getting shot repeatedly because of what she did was utterly terrifying. "NO! NO! I'M NOT EVIL! I DIDN'T KILL THAT KID! HE KILLED HIMSELF!" Shailene yelled as she didn't want to die.

Diamond crouched in front of Shailene until they were at the same eye level, then she put her finger gun on Shailene's chin, "I could kill you with one shot from this spot. I guarantee that your head will explode with your brains bursting out like a horrible pinata."

"Or do you want me to shoot you in here?" Diamond moved his finger gun to the spot between Shailene's eyebrows, then she scoffed, "Heheh, it doesn't matter, in the end, you will die a gruesome death, and you will probably meet with Carter Fallingham in hell. You two can get to know each other, and maybe you can date him in hell!"

Shailene imagined all the gruesome stuff that Diamond would do to her, and her stomach turned out of fear and disgust.

"Urp— uupp— URK!" Shailene retched a few times, and Diamond quickly retreated by getting up and taking a step back. She watched as Shailene puked her guts on the floor.

Diamond grinned in satisfaction. Watching someone who acted like Carter Fallingham puke her guts out of fear was amusing and satisfying.

Chapter 544

'If only I could kill her,' Diamond thought. She asked for permission from her boss on the call. She told her about everything, and Vernon vehemently refused, much to her surprise.

-Diamond's call with Vernon-

'You can hurt her, but don't kill her. She has a strong backing of her own. You might get killed as an act of revenge from her father, and I don't want to lose my best employee,' Vernon said. 'Try to do something less risky, but with bigger reward. Try to scare or traumatize her, you can also use the information that my agent gave to your advantage. I know that you can think of something that can absolutely traumatize her.'

'Are you sure, Sir? I mean, Shailene is a threat. She might have told Vincent something that'd harm us,' Diamond said.

'No, she won't,' Vernon replied confidently. 'She has no channel whatsoever with my Big brother. She only has a channel with Dorothea. All I need to do is to eliminate that old bitch.'

'… So far there is no movement from her, maybe you should postpone your plan to eliminate her.'

'Stop overstepping your boundary, Diamond. She is my problem, just do your job.'

-End call-

'Well, I feel like he should be less hostile to Dorothea, since she doesn't seem to be causing anything dangerous these days,' Diamond thought. 'Oh, well, not my problem. Let's just focus on this one bitch first.'

Diamond waited until Shailene finished puking everything. Her appearance was unsightly now, especially since she tried to wipe her mouth with her sleeve.

The stench of her vomit filled the air, and Diamond took another step back just to get away from a disgusting woman like her.

Shailene felt nothing but dread right now. There was an extreme amount of dread filling her heart that she would rather faint.

But she couldn't. The existence of Diamond in the same room prevented her from fainting because she was afraid that Diamond would gun her down when she was unconscious.

"Look up, trash," Diamond said after she had waited long enough.

Shailene instinctively looked up to stare at Diamond. To say that she was scared was an understatement. Right now, the existence of Diamond was enough to make her piss herself.

At first, Shailene thought that Diamond was just trying to intimidate her. But maybe it was the mix of guilty conscience in her heart and how terrifying Diamond was right now. Shailene finally broke down in tears and despair.

What if Diamond snapped and killed her because Shailene reminded her so much of Carter Fallingham?

What if she decided to torture her first because she wanted to hurt someone who acted like Carter Fallingham?

Those thoughts filled Shailene's head, and she was hopeless about it.

Because no matter what she did to save herself, Diamond would always remember her as the second Carter Fallingham, so Diamond's hatred towards her was innate.

"P—Please… please I beg you…" Shailene started begging with her hoarse voice.

"For what?" Diamond raised her brow. She liked taunting this woman, just like how Shailene taunted that poor boy just because she felt like it.

"D--don't kill me. Please just let me go. I won't do it anymore…."

"Do what?" Diamond kept on pushing Shailene to admit all of her sins. To Diamond, she enjoyed the look on Shailene's face.

Her face filled with horror, and her lips trembled as she tried hard to admit her sins one by one.

"I—I won't slander Chloe again, and I won't have any contact with Dorothea anymore. I will never have any contact with the Gray family, I promise," Shailene murmured. "I—I regret what I did to that boy back then, I know I was in a bad mood and made a rash and stupid decision to say those mean things to him. I—I just didn't expect him to kill himself."

Diamond scoffed full of contempt. This woman was still trying to defend herself even in such a state, truly shameless.

"No matter how many times you claimed that you didn't mean it, the damage has already been done. That kid is dead, and I want that to be engraved in your mind forever," Diamond said. "And by the way, you still have one more sin that you haven't admitted."

Shailene was trying to remember everything she did involving her past sin to that kid named Erik and the Gray family.

She shook her head and murmured, "I—I don't think I have anything else to admit…."

Diamond smiled and gave her an order by tapping her heel on the floor twice, "Come here."

Shailene felt she was treated like a dog in front of this woman. But she realized that she wasn't the one in control right now. This woman had Shailene's biggest secret that would instantly ruin her reputation and career. As a psychologist, Shailene knew that Diamond was naturally a little fucked up in the head.

So the possibility of Diamond murdering her was still high.

Shailene swallowed her saliva as she started crawling toward Diamond. She dared not look up and stopped when she could finally see the tip of Diamond's stiletto.

"Do you still not remember your last sin?" Diamond asked, and Shailene replied by shaking her head. She genuinely didn't know what she had done wrong. "I see. Well, I'll help you to remember. Look up."

Shailene looked up, and before she could register the terrifying sight of Diamond's hateful eyes, she felt a sharp pain on her cheek.

"AHH!" Shailene shrieked when Diamond kicked her left cheek until she fell to the side. She got dizzy because Diamond kicked her hard.

"If you still don't know your sin, then let me tell you," Diamond slid one foot towards Shailene's head and nudged Shailene's face with the tip of her shoe.

"You dare to covet Vernon's love, you worthless thing. Just becuase you're in love with that equally-fucked-up man, doesn't give you the right to slander my best friend."

Chapter 545 "You should also know that the kick is personally ordered by my boss. Vernon said I should kick you for slandering his beloved woman," Diamond said, adding salt to the injury.

Because it was a clear sign that Vernon hated her, and there was no way for them to reconcile and become a pair of lovebirds again.

Shailene was still in both physical and mental shock after getting kicked in the face by Diamond. She was still trying to process what was happening, then started regretting all the decisions that led her to this condition.

Had she know that she would be disgraced like this, with her deepest secret getting dug out, she would never stay in New York.

Diamond was finally satisfied, looking at the despair in Shailene's eyes. She loved seeing this bitch break down both physically and mentally. After all, Shailene didn't seem to be bothered when she said all those horrible things to Erik, the boy she killed with her words.

So let her taste despair, just like what she inflicted on everyone around her.

"You must know that you are at my mercy, Shailene Walsh. I own you with this recording. I can publish this and have your life, your career, even your family ruined. But I am a merciful woman," Diamond said. "I do have one requirement for you though."

Shailene finally recovered after hearing there was a requirement. She got nervous again. She got up and sat on the floor, staring at Diamond submissively, unlike her usual conceited arrogance hidden beneath her kind smile, "W—What is it?" she asked nervously.

"It's an easy requirement, really," Diamond smirked maliciously. "I will give you two days to leave New York and return to your hometown in Stockholm, Sweden. You're not allowed to return, and you're not allowed to contact Vernon or anyone related to him again."

"Remember, if you dare to break this requirement and tell some stuff to the press about Vernon's relationship with Chloe, then you will see your family— your father and mother and their hospital business crumble in front of your eyes. Surely, you don't want to see your parents suffering because of your foolishness, right?"

Shailene paused for a while. She was conflicted right now.

Of course, she didn't want her own life, and her parents' as well, to get ruined because of one minor mistake she made a few years ago.

But she also didn't want to completely let go of Vernon.

She knew it was foolish to wish Vernon would love her back, especially after he sent his secretary to deal with her.

But love was foolish to begin with, and she happened to love a crazy man with a mental issue.

"ANSWER!" Diamond yelled and snapped Shailene out of her dilemma.

Shailene felt hopeless right now. She had to give up on her love because there was no way out other than leaving this country.

So she nodded reluctantly, "I—I will pack up and leave in two days. I will never return to New York ever again, and I will never talk to anyone related to Vernon…."

"Good, I will take that promise, but if you break it, then prepare to get ruined," Diamond's threat was effective enough that Shailene shook her head vehemently. She was already scared, thinking about all the horrible things that Diamond would do to her if she broke this promise.

Diamond finally let out a simple smile after long intimidation, but somehow it was even more terrifying for Shailene, "Good, I will check in two days to see you leave New York for good."

Diamond pocketed her phone into her blazer pocket and walked to the chaise lounge. She grabbed her bag and strutted past Shailene to the door.

"W—Wait!" Shailene interrupted before Diamond opened the door. "W—Where are you going?"

"Huh?" Diamond looked over her shoulder and stared at Shailene as if she had just heard the stupidest question ever. "To home, duh!"

"Do you think I will stay for the whole night here? With that rancid puke on the floor? Ew," Diamond rolled her eyes. "I'll be damned to spend the night here. I'm already a little messed up, I don't want to get full blown crazy because I have to talk with a manipulative bitch like you for too long."

"Anyway, I'm leaving, adieu~."

SLAM!

Diamond left and slammed the door behind her. She strutted and left the apartment in a happy mood.

She knew what she did was a little fucked up. She basically used intimidation, guilt, and fear to break someone.

'But it's well deserved,' Diamond convinced herself. 'I don't want her to continue her dirty work in the name of being a psychologist. She doesn't qualify as one. She is just a manipulative woman taking on this job to get benefits all for herself.'

Diamond was still a little disappointed that she couldn't kill Shailene for what she did. Because honestly, if she followed what her heart wanted, she'd be planting a knife deep inside Shailene's heart and leaving as if nothing happened.

She might get in trouble or even be jailed for murder.

But she didn't really care.

She hated Carter Fallingham to the bone for ruining her family, but she couldn't get the satisfaction because her dad killed him first.

So when she saw Shailene and all of her similarities to Carter Fallingham, she couldn't help to feel the drive of vengefulness taking over her heart and logic.

But her boss told her something that always kept her sane for now.

-

'Don't kill Shailene, and we shouldn't publish her secret right now.'

'But why? Wouldn't it be better to ruin her career as soon as possible?' Shailene asked.

'No, she might do something reckless, like getting all the attention that she could get to tell Vincent about the whole thing as a way for revenge,' Vernon said. 'You know there is nothing scarier than a person who has nothing to lose. It's better to keep her in a leash for the time being.