Family on Their Knees Heart Turned to Ice novel Chapter 540

Even a shadow of its former self, the Mercer family was still far more established than she and her daughter.

If Martin was willing, he could easily cover her losses.

So, for now, all her attention was on Martin.

Sabrina was a sobbing mess, leaning against Martin and repeating over and over how she had been in so much pain and distress that she hadn't been able to tell if Lillian's hands had pushed her or not.

Martin’s heart softened as she cried, but mostly he thought of his late-in-life child, conceived with such difficulty on their honeymoon. That child was supposed to be the fruit of his and Sabrina's decades-long, difficult love story.

He never imagined the baby would be lost just like that.

Now, with the surveillance video released, Martin felt no blame for Sabrina, only a towering rage at Lillian for leaking it at this particular moment.

He agreed with Bella. Lillian had possessed this video all along. To not release it then, but now, when everything was tied to the Mercer Group’s stock price—it was intentional.

This was a bombshell that the Mercer Group probably couldn't withstand.

What mattered most was that this time, every single member of the Mercer family had invested money.

His sons, Sabrina, Bella, and he himself had all put in every available cent.

It seemed they had all borrowed some, too.

If they couldn’t reverse the situation over the next two days, if they couldn’t win back public opinion, Martin could already imagine the terrifying direction things would take when the market opened on Monday.

Martin, already biased in Sabrina's favor, naturally wouldn’t investigate the root cause. He simply went along with their logic, pinning everything on Lillian.

Of course, he would never reflect on his own actions, on how he had hurt Lillian and tried to rake in profits while the world condemned her as disloyal and ungrateful.

At this moment, he deeply hated Lillian. It was because she had this weapon in her hands and chose to release it now, of all times, that things had gotten this bad.

The mother and daughter reflected on their performance and their narrative, confident that Martin had judged the situation exactly as they had intended.

For the time being, they could both breathe a sigh of relief.

“As long as Martin still trusts me,” Sabrina said, “our position in this family won’t be shaken.”