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"

from pressure. Her heart pounding wildly against her ribs. Who was

want?" she asked again, her voice

as though contemplating the answer, when Vera

you want." He said, his tone

her composure "why do you think I want the same thing as

the phone speaker. "Vera, let’s not play the

let herself flatter anymore. "So what do you want?" She questioned with a

The answer coming so fast that it took Vera some

opened it again it was glazed with coldness. "How do you know I want

definitely not a coincidence but rather someone has been keeping

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

curled into a tight fist as her mind

much did this mysterious caller truly know? Her father had always been discreet about their plans—who could have possibly uncovered

she said, her voice steady but laced with irritation. "If you really know everything, then stop wasting

the Vera Louis I expected. Sharp, calculative

jaw clenched, but she

leverage," the man continued. "With my help, you can take down the Allen family and ensure Davis

"And in

then

Allen family falls, you won’t

in the offer but skeptical about the outcome

that. My benefit? Let’s just say I have my