Forced Marriage: My Wife, My Redemption by Lilyheart

Chapter 310: Let’s begin

Hearing the comments—pretended to be murmurings yet loud enough to be heard by everyone—Vera’s face twisted with bitterness. Her fists clenched, and her eyes blazed as she took a deep breath to calm her nerves.

For some time now, she thought she had overcome the pain from every jab concerning this incident. But in this moment, she had to admit: she never healed. And she never stopped regretting. Indeed, it’s quite pathetic.

Even Trevor, with all his patience, affection, and loyalty, had failed to break down the walls she’d built.

Aaron, her husband on paper but a stranger at heart, had tried to provide her a semblance of stability.

Still, none of it mattered. Because that one goodbye—that final, quiet departure from Davis—had undone everything destiny might have prepared for her. That single step had upended her life.

And now, watching Jessica—a girl she once dismissed as a naive outsider—stand gracefully, confidently, beside Davis, Vera couldn’t deny the bitterness coiling in her chest.

She had to admit she was completely envious of Jessica. A country bumpkin. A rejected daughter. A girl without worldliness or sophistication. Yet with Davis, she held the entire Allen empire in her hand. She had Davis’s loyalty. His admiration. Perhaps, even his love.

With her smile, she had succeeded in stealing the one man truly worth loving.

"But then, do I get to blame her? She was never in the picture when I left... but I can’t help being bitter," she mused to herself.

Noticing a cold, piercing gaze trained on her for a while, Jessica turned her attention away from Davis. Her eyes locked onto Vera’s. A brief silence lingered between them. Then, with a soft sigh, Jessica stepped forward.

"Sis-in-law, are you okay? Why are your eyes red?" she asked gently.

Vera hadn’t realized her emotions had spilled so freely onto her face. She blinked rapidly, trying to clear the tears forming in her eyes. With a single thought "I can’t let them see how much I hurt due to my foolishness.

Taking a deep breath "Nothing much. You don’t have to worry," she said, her voice composed but barely hiding the storm underneath.

Jessica tilted her head and sighed dramatically. "I thought something might be wrong. Maybe my husband could help you fix it."

"You don’t have to bother, thank you," Vera replied, meeting her gaze head-on. Jessica nodded at her challenge.

"Jessica nodded at the challenge in her voice. "Mr. Aaron, maybe you should step out and get treated. Otherwise..."

Without finishing her sentence, she pulled away from Davis and walked confidently, her head held high toward the head of the table.

Her posture changed completely; serious and commanding, as though all the drama that had just unfolded was a weird figment of everyone’s imagination.

breath,

women of the Allen Group, I want to thank you for your patience throughout this tumultuous period, and for

with clarity

propose that this meeting reconvene tomorrow.

But to the majority who had backed Desmond, it felt like a trap. Her tone, the

and the

cleared his throat. "With the media and the people of Country Y waiting eagerly for the outcome of this meeting, it might be

public and reassure investors. The company stock has taken significant

room. She gave it a second thought

well," she said.

in his eyes as she confidently introduced the

and shook their heads in silent resignation. Some

continued, her voice

of today’s meeting still in view, and considering the clause which states that the largest shareholder assumes power as the group’s president and acting head, I hereby

dropped like a

Silence blanketed the hall, and shock colored every face and some others

exactly was running through their minds. "Do they really think it’s that easy

surprised? Though I am the

but not mocking.

exploded in hushed

"Is she that easygoing?"

in the end, it

Downstairs

building, the scene was far

avoiding contact, fixed on the pavement below. His

the open space with reporters struggling for better

for space as security officers pushed

Group going

Allen be

plotted against

to the public about Elder Allen being critically ill when he was healthy