Forced Marriage: My Wife, My Redemption by Lilyheart

Chapter 84: Trust is earned, not given...

"Vera..." The voice on the other end despite coming from the phone speaker sent chills down her spine.

Vera quickly scanned through her memory, trying to identify the speaker. But no matter how hard she tried, the voice remained unfamiliar.

The silence over the phone was thick, filled only with the sound of their breathing. A strange, suffocating tension settled in her chest.

Then, as if sensing her frustration, the voice on the other end chuckled coldly.

"Don’t stress yourself trying to remember," he said smoothly. "You’ve never met me. But I know all about you."

Vera shivered from the biting coldness of the voice, her breathe coming out in gasps as she struggled to breathe, her hands tightening over the phone.

While the voice continuously chuckled at her raspy breathe

"Vera Louis, 26, the secretly adopted daughter of Louis.

Formerly engaged to Davis Allen but lost him due to the Louis family insistence of fostering relationships with the viable branch of the Allen family

Still secretly in love with Davis..." He smirked with a chuckle.Vera’s anxious voice cut him off before he could proceed further.

"Stop! Stop!!, who are you? Why are u investigating me? what do you want?" She shouted with frustration.

"Ah, Vera... as impatient as always," he mused. "You should know better than to demand answers without offering anything in return." He chuckled his voice remaining unfazed by her outburst, but deepening with amusement.

"Oh! You hurt me", he smirked dramatically. "I know what I want to know as long as it is on the surface of the earth"

knuckles turning white from pressure. Her heart pounding wildly against her ribs. Who was this person?

want?" she asked again, her voice

though contemplating the answer, when Vera thought he had ended

want." He said,

hitched but she quickly regained her composure "why do you think I want the same thing as you

through the phone speaker. "Vera, let’s not play the hide and seek game.

stumped at his response but she wouldn’t let herself flatter anymore. "So what do you want?" She questioned with a

want the Allen family to crumble just like you."he said. The answer coming so fast

closed her eyes momentarily and as she opened it again it was glazed with coldness. "How do you know I want the Allen family to crumble?"

a coincidence but rather someone has

voice laughed so hard that Vera began to think he had gone crazy "I know everything I want to know, your mission in the Allen family set by your father is the Allen

curled into a tight fist as her mind raced with questions—questions that needed

had always been discreet about their

laced with irritation. "If you really know everything, then stop wasting my time and get to the point. What

"Now that’s the Vera Louis I expected. Sharp, calculative and

but she

my help, you can take down the Allen

scoffed. "And

brief pause, then

Allen family falls, you won’t be the only

taking interest in the offer but skeptical about the outcome since she

other end chuckled, dark and knowing. "Smart question, Vera. I like that. My benefit? Let’s just say I have my own grievances