The CEO’s Billion Dollar Bride
Chapter 802 - 781 My Father Has Lived Through Over Twenty Years of Sexless Marriage!

Chapter 802: Chapter 781 My Father Has Lived Through Over Twenty Years of Sexless Marriage!

Alya Larson seemed to be infuriated, speaking recklessly in her anger, "You can’t speak for Uncle Gordon; after all, Skyler is Uncle Gordon’s son!"

At this moment, clinging to this blood relationship was imperative, the only bargaining chip to save Risa Scott and Skyler Gordon. She was banking on the possibility that Michael Gordon might not know it was just a speculation she had made.

"Who told you that Skyler is my father’s son?" Michael Gordon frowned, speaking with some annoyance, "You really won’t cry until you see the coffin, will you? Even at this point, you dare to bring this up. Whose child is your brother, truly? You know better than anyone. Risa Scott has been married to my father for over twenty years without a single conjugal act. So, where does this child come from? Did he just pop out of a stone?"

"To say he popped out of a stone is not quite right; Risa Scott did give birth to him. It’s just that the child’s father, Alya Larson, you should go back and ask your own father. How can he, as the head of the esteemed Larson family, tolerate his son calling another man ’dad’ for over twenty years? He went to prison and still doesn’t want to admit it?"

Even though Ivy Aretha had already mentioned it, Michael Gordon’s words were so blunt and merciless, leaving her no room for retreat. It was as if he nonchalantly carved out the darkest side of her heart and laid it bare under the sun to scorch.

As the truth was exposed, it wasn’t her but her mother who was seared by the sunlight. Alya Larson dared not look into the eyes of those present. She knew Michael Gordon was stating the facts, yet her mouth instinctively retaliated, "Who... who said that? Don’t make wild guesses. My mother did have a relationship with my father, and then she gave birth to me. Afterwards, she married Uncle Gordon and bore the second Young Master for the Gordon family. She is already the lady of the Gordon house!"

"The lady of the house? The eternal lady of this household has only ever been the rightful wife of the Gordon family. It was my mother before, and now it’s Ivy. Risa Scott? She is far from it. What right does a woman have to be the lady of the Gordon house when she married into the family with ulterior motives and even coveted her own husband’s life?"

Upon hearing the term "lady of the house," Michael Gordon laughed as if hearing a hilarious joke. When did it become the turn of Risa Scott, a woman so fixated on the Gordon family’s property, to be the lady of this house?

"Let me tell you this," he continued, "when my mother passed away, my father followed her dying wish to find a woman, establish a family, and give me a complete household so that I would not grow up in a single-parent family. Because it was my mother’s dying wish, my father followed through. At that time, just so happened Risa Scott was pursuing him, so he agreed!"

This was the honest confession Calvin Gordon made to Michael Gordon after having faced death. Previously, Michael Gordon was unaware of why Calvin Gordon had married Risa Scott so swiftly after his mother’s death—it was to provide him, a young child, with a complete family. However, things did not progress as his mother had hoped, and instead this matter became a divide between father and son, which lasted for many years until they finally had a heartfelt conversation and understood the full story only after the recent tragic events.

Only then did Michael Gordon come to truly understand his father’s profound love for his mother—a love so deep it was no less than his feelings for Ivy. However, it was expressed in the wrong way, creating a profound rift between father and son that lasted for years until the tragedy made the depth of Calvin Gordon’s devotion clear—he was just a man deeply in love!

"For all these years, my father has been mourning the loss of my mother. Even though he married Risa Scott, he has not stopped missing my mother for a single day. And so, my father has spent over twenty years in a sexless marriage!"

Hearing this, Ivy Aretha was so frightened that she bounced straight out of the wedding bed. Over twenty years of loveless marriage? Calvin Gordon was only in his fifties now, and only about thirty then, at the prime of a man’s youth and strength when physical needs were often at their peak. It was normal to endure for a while, but to hold out for over twenty years truly seemed incredible!

To Ivy, these words were full of affection, but to Alya Larson, they represented nothing but naked humiliation. It was not just a disgrace, but also a fatal blow, the final straw that broke her, and at the same time, she deeply realized the grievances her mother had suffered over the years!

"Scoundrel! Your father is just as much a scoundrel as you are!"

Her mother had remained a widow for over twenty years for this old man, only to be sent to prison by him and his son in the end. Alya had come to plead for mercy, but upon hearing these words, she collapsed in an instant, "Your whole family is a bunch of scoundrels!"

This was the first time Alya Larson had ever completely lost control of her emotions. She had initially come to seek Ivy’s help, but ended up having the most tender part of her heart ruthlessly torn open by Michael Gordon. Yes, the Larson family had been declining over the years, and their so-called prominence was maintained only by Risa Scott’s use of the Gordon family’s aid.

But she never knew that her mother had traded twenty years of sexless humiliation in exchange for that aid!

"Scoundrel?" Michael Gordon looked at her indifferently; his lips curled into an increasingly mocking smile, "It was your mother who took the initiative to marry my father. Our Gordon family neither forced the marriage nor mistreated your mother. She led a life of luxury for over twenty years in the Gordon family, and my father preserved her dignity as his wife. He even recognized her child with another man, giving a son with the Larson surname the right to carry the Gordon name. As long as he didn’t court death, our Gordon family would still support him for life. Yet, he courted death, not in an ordinary way but in trying to kill his own father. Should we let a murderer go free to harm others? Is the Gordon family supposed to be the scoundrels here?"

"Alya Larson, don’t even talk about them. I’m very aware of what you’ve done yourself. Call me a scoundrel, but I can be even worse and send you in there to accompany them," Michael Gordon threatened.

Calvin Gordon’s doting on Skyler Gordon was also a way of repaying Risa Scott for the many years of her sexless life. It was indeed quite brutal to expect a woman to remain a widow for so long.

Hence, he had always known Skyler wasn’t his biological son. Risa Scott had secretly been providing financial support to the Larson family. He had turned a blind eye to it all, even attempting to unite Michael Gordon and Alya Larson in marriage, to take her daughter into the Gordon family.

In doing so, he thought he had justified the woman’s years of sacrifice!

The underlying reason for it all was his love for Michael Gordon, not wanting him to grow up without a mother, in an environment where his father had become abnormal!