Forced Marriage: My Wife, My Redemption by Lilyheart

Chapter 338: It is over...

At the realization of what just happened, Tricia felt her world crumble.

"No, it’s impossible... No, it’s... it can’t be true..." she whispered over and over, her voice hollow, her expression dazed.

She could feel her world falling apart. Everything she had once controlled; status, money, reputation were slipping from her fingers faster than she could grasp.

Her position on the board had been revoked. Her cards were frozen. Her power stripped.

She dared not think about it, She dare not imagine the implications.

A worthless daughter... That’s what she had become in the eyes of her family, friends and the society.

Sonia stood silently nearby, stunned by the turn of events. She looked down at the phone in her hand as though it might offer some explanation.

How could it have gotten to this point, she wondered.

Something didn’t add up.

A gnawing feeling settled in her chest. There is no doubt something had resulted in this.

It couldn’t be a coincidence with everything unraveling in one fell swoop.

This series of actions seems to be a targeted plot, a backlash of an action, but then what action?

"Tricia," Sonia said carefully, "did you offend anyone? Otherwise... how did things fall apart this fast? Why would your family be so quick, so eager and fast to cast you out?"

Tricia let out a slow, trembling breath. "It must be that bastard’s doing."

Sonia frowned, shaking her head in denial. "T, you need to think clearly. Your stepbrother has always been there even when things were stable. Why now? Why do you assume he’s behind this?"Sonia tried to help her understand.

She had only heard snippets about Daniel Watts, the so-called illegitimate heir.

But from what Tricia had told her, he hadn’t seemed like the type to lash out vindictively, at least not without provocation.

And when the Watts family was on the verge of collapse, it had been him who helped salvage it.

Sonia thought for a while as a thought flashed through her mind, something Tricia had once mentioned in passing. Her eyes snapped up.

"Tricia," she said slowly, "you told me once that J&D Globals had stakes in the Watts Group, right?"

Tricia nodded. "Yes."

Sonia leaned forward. "Then don’t you think... maybe the decision to revoke your position came from them? Your grandfather only needed to approve it. Just like when they helped oust you from the CEO seat."

froze, her expression slowly changing. Her breathing grew

grandfather’s earlier phone call—brief, cold, without explanation. The kind

Davis... his ties to J&D... and

and she collapsed into the couch, her eyes wide and unblinking.

over?" Sonia asked,

me? I need to return to Noveira

doesn’t like to ask from her but at the moment, she is

the time and nodded. "There’s a flight in two hours. I’ll book it now... but I have to rush. I’m

purchasing the ticket. "Done," she said, patting Tricia’s

as she reached the handle, her phone buzzed again. She picked up

"Dad," she greeted.

voice on the

We lost

stomach dropped. "What? How? That’s

bid was weak," he snapped. "We lost

from her face.

pause. "If you don’t

Click.

The call ended.

Sonia stood frozen.

she still manages

carefully prepared...As

the loss of this bidding which

watched her, a smirk tugging at her

she asked, feigning innocence

hurried rush, then bolted out the door,

behind her, Tricia chuckled bitterly. "Quite refreshing," she murmured.

her head against the couch cushion. "Finally... I’m not the only one paying the price."

door Sonia had just

See how this plays out," she said with a cold smile. "Let’s see how far she really gets. The partnership deal...

over to the TV, turning it on just as the news began to

in Creek Smart City bidding sends

rises amid unexpected loss by longtime

appeared onscreen,

a sip of water, eyes

a sigh of

~Zak Group~

sat at the head of a large brown polished mahogany table, his computer

has just finished a shareholders’ meeting, pacifying them with the promise to find a way out of the mess. That they had just left; angry, anxious, demanding

file for the Creek Smart City project. His