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

Chapter 1068:

His face emerged from behind the veil—angular, striking, and familiar. Nigel’s features lived in him, but the warmth was gone; what remained was sharper, colder, honed by loss and time.

Ralph did not flinch.

He merely reached for his cup and took a slow, measured sip, as though he had known this moment would arrive.

“Blaine already told me why you’ve come,” he said calmly.

Noah set the mask down on the coffee table with quiet finality. His expression remained unreadable. “But I want to hear it from you,” he said. “What really happened five years ago?”

once fierce, flickered with a weary complexity. A sigh slipped past his

with old grudges and the wreckage left by the generation before yours,” Ralph said, his voice low and lined with weariness.

how the empire should be run—drove a wedge between him

leave Wall Group of his own accord. Later, he married Laura—Sadie’s grandmother. From that union came a daughter, Brenda. Brenda eventually married Dederick,

her back on finance entirely, choosing the pursuit of science instead. But when the Hudson empire collapsed into ruin, Brenda and Dederick vanished,

grew more

live now at

asked to meet me at Faron Retreat. It was there that Brenda entrusted Sadie into my care. She didn’t offer many details—only that if something ever went wrong, she wanted someone

sat in silence, the furrow between

with what he had pieced together, but it left critical gaps. Why did Ralph abduct Sharon? And why had

what happened after that?” he asked, his