PARTE 2: HE GUARDED THE DELIVERY ROOM WHILE I WALKED AWAY WITH THE ONLY THING HIS EMPIRE COULD NEVER REPLACE
Gabriel entered the code. The report opened. He read the first line. Then the second. Then the conclusion. Probability of biological paternity: excluded. His hand dropped. —Gabriel?…
PARTE 2: HE FAKED AMNESIA FOR SEVEN YEARS UNTIL I FINALLY FORGOT TO WAIT FOR HIM
The next morning, I stopped doing the first thing I had done every day for seven years. I didn’t check whether Nathan remembered me. I didn’t ask…
PARTE 2: SHE SENT ME PROOF MY HUSBAND LOVED HER, SO I SENT HER HUSBAND THE RECEIPTS
Daniel Chen replied almost immediately. How long have you known? I looked at the screen. Three days. Another message arrived. I’ve suspected for eight months. Then he…
PARTE 2: HE CALLED ME A NUISANCE UNTIL THE DAY I DISAPPEARED AND STOPPED ANSWERING
The next morning, Ethan acted as if nothing had happened. Vanessa was still asleep in the guest room. He stood in the kitchen drinking coffee while I…
PARTE 2: HE DIVORCED ME FOR HIS LOVER TEN MINUTES BEFORE HIS EMPIRE STOPPED BELONGING TO HIM
Sophia lifted her wrist deliberately. —Do you recognize it? Of course I did. Ethan had given me that bracelet on our first anniversary. Two months earlier, I…
PARTE 2: HE FINALLY ASKED WHY I WAS HURT WHEN I NO LONGER NEEDED HIM TO KNOW
Daniel stared at me. The rainwater still ran from his hair onto the collar of his shirt. —What did you say? I took another napkin. —Divorce. He…
PARTE 2: HE SENT BODYGUARDS FOR MY TWINS UNTIL HE DISCOVERED THE HARVARD DOCTOR HIS COMPANY NEEDED WAS ME
Adrian stared at me. Then at Noah. Then Emma. His voice came out rough. —How old are they? I smiled. —Old enough to know not to get…
PARTE 2: THEY PLANNED MY WEDDING WITHOUT ME UNTIL THE WEDDING DAY ARRIVED AND THERE WAS NO BRIDE
Ha Kien looked at me for several seconds. —What did you say? I closed the suitcase. —Nothing. Kieu Tuong immediately smiled again. She probably thought I had…
PART 2: HE HID HIS GENERAL’S STARS FROM ME—THEN THE MILITARY RECORDS REVEALED WHO HE HAD LISTED AS HIS WIFE
Aaron’s face changed when I said divorce. Not because I was leaving. Because of my last sentence. “What you stole from me… I’m going to get it…
PART 2: HE SIGNED THAT BETRAYAL WOULD COST HIM EVERYTHING—THEN FORGOT I STILL HAD THE ORIGINAL AGREEMENT
At eleven forty-seven the next morning, Vanessa entered my office carrying a black folder. Her expression told me everything before she sat down. —Olivia, this isn’t only…