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

Chapter 1075:

Nearly thirty minutes later, the crunch of tires on gravel announced Noah’s arrival.

Hailey burst from the living room the instant he appeared at the door. “Noah!” She latched onto his waist with desperate fingers, as though he represented her sole stability. “I’m terrified about my father…” Her words emerged strangled, as convincing tremors rippled through her body, a masterful portrayal of fear.

Noah maintained his icy composure, unmoved by her apparent distress. His frigid gaze swept the living room, registering Forest’s conspicuous absence.

As words formed on his lips, blinding pain exploded across the back of his skull, the impact of something substantial connecting with devastating force. Darkness swallowed his consciousness as the crushing realization dawned—he’d walked straight into a trap!

His legs buckled beneath him as his body crumpled helplessly onto the unforgiving floor with a sickening thud.

Hailey’s features at the violence of the attack. Her alarmed gaze darted to Forest, who loomed behind Noah’s fallen form, clutching a jagged shard of a porcelain vase. Glittering fragments of the shattered

knees beside Noah, fingers frantically checking

she detected the shallow

her concern. “If

that typically governed Forest’s demeanor had vanished completely. Contempt twisted his features as he gazed down at Noah’s unconscious form, prodding the limp arm with the toe of

restoration of the Burgess family, your rightful position of wealth and influence!

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icy deluge, snapping her back to their ruthless

The undeniable truth in Forest’s words crystallized in her mind. Sentimentality would only obscure her purpose. Nothing endured except family prestige and the power she