Between Ruin And Resolve: My Ex-Husband’s Regret

Chapter 991:

To fortify their position, the Higgins family had “accidentally” funneled every damning piece of evidence pointing to Ophelia straight into police hands. The Johnson family now faced an avalanche of consequences from which they could never hope to escape unscathed. Contemplating the current situation, Nathan felt a delicious lightness bubble up inside him, replacing the earlier dread.

“Oh, and thanks to Ophelia’s spectacular downfall, my dear brother’s carefully crafted reputation at the company lies in smoking ruins. After all, Ophelia is still his wife. The senior executives have convened an emergency meeting to burn the midnight oil plotting damage control, while Jarrett’s position hangs by a thread.”

He could almost visualize Jarrett’s humiliating descent from power, the mental image flooding him with a perverse satisfaction that warmed him from within like aged whiskey.

Sadie absorbed his words in calculated silence, a ghost of a smile dancing at the corners of her lips. The elaborate chess game unfolded precisely according to her meticulous design.

The Johnson family now crumbled like a house of cards, Jarrett’s power slipping through his fingers like water, and Nathan—the overlooked heir to the Higgins family—

ascend to the position of

silken voice. “It appears the crown of the Higgins Group will soon rest upon your ambitious

words, a self-satisfied smirk spreading across his

over the Higgins Group filled his mind—soon no one would ever dare cast a disparaging glance in his

now

neither having more to discuss now that

with practiced nonchalance, dismissing it as easily as she dismissed those who

she extracted a crisp slip of paper Nathan had given her before, a cryptic string of numbers scrawled across its

toward Samuel, who sat ramrod straight behind the

she instructed, her eyes darkening to the color of storm clouds gathering on the horizon. “Once you’ve located