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"

grip on the phone tightened, her knuckles turning white from pressure. Her heart pounding wildly against her ribs. Who was this person? How did he

again, her voice lower but

silence followed as though contemplating the answer, when Vera thought

want." He said,

"why do you

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

she wouldn’t let herself flatter anymore. "So what do you want?" She questioned with a more

like you."he said. The answer coming so fast that it took Vera some second

momentarily and as she opened it again it was glazed with coldness. "How do you know I want

definitely not a coincidence but rather someone has been keeping

I want to know, your mission in the Allen family set by your father is the Allen

her mind raced

had always been discreet

with irritation. "If you really know everything, then stop wasting my

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

clenched, but

my help, you can take down the Allen family and ensure Davis has

scoffed. "And

brief pause, then

Allen family falls, you won’t

benefit?" She asked taking interest in the offer but

knowing. "Smart question, Vera. I like that. My benefit? Let’s just say I have my own grievances with the Allen