PART 2: THEY THOUGHT I WAS REPLACEABLE UNTIL THE HOSPITAL COLLAPSED WITHOUT ME

Victor Salazar stood outside my apartment holding a folder so tightly that the edges had bent. Three days earlier, he had warned me never to expect the…

PART 2: SHE CAME TO DESTROY HIS FAMILY BUT ENDED UP REVEALING WHY HE HAD CHOSEN HER FOR SEVEN YEARS

Valeria was standing outside my house at seven in the morning. No makeup. No elegant clothes. Only a gray coat and a thick folder pressed against her…

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…