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

Chapter 993:

An involuntary shudder rippled through Jack’s frame at Noah’s piercing inquiry, prompting him to hastily drop his gaze to the imported marble floor, his survival instincts screaming against meeting those lethal eyes directly.

Jack’s mind flashed back to the terrifying transformation that had overtaken Noah’s features earlier that day when the news first reached him that Sadie might have perished in a fiery vehicular inferno, her body reduced to unrecognizable ash.

Jack harbored not the slightest doubt that, had Sadie suffered even the most minor injury, both the Johnson family and Briley would have been systematically erased from existence with such devastating thoroughness that even their memories would vanish from public consciousness.

Jack hastily retrieved the comprehensive investigation report he had meticulously compiled, extending it toward his employer with both hands in a gesture that acknowledged the power disparity between them.

with exceptional caution,

penetrating gaze darkening to the color of a midnight ocean during a tempest.

He understood with crystal clarity precisely how

to the folder, his aristocratic fingers methodically navigating through the pages with deceptive casualness that belied

inscribed on the page, his expression crystallized into something beyond mere coldness—a glacial mask of controlled fury

his veins. The investigation revealed multiple lengthy telephone exchanges between her and Briley during the twenty-four hours preceding the orchestrated “accident,” creating a damning pattern impossible to dismiss

countenance, paradoxically discovered some courage and said, “Boss, perhaps… perhaps we should

speaking when Noah suddenly

of him regretting he had said anything. What had