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Her position on the board had been revoked.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."

slowly changing. Her breathing

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

recalled Davis... his ties to

knees gave out, and she collapsed into the couch, her eyes wide and unblinking. "It’s all over,"

Sonia asked, stepping

need to return to Noveira immediately. I have no money. No access.

at the moment, she is only

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

"Done," she said, patting Tricia’s shoulder before

as she reached the handle, her phone buzzed again. She picked up without

"Dad," she greeted.

voice on the other end

We lost the

dropped. "What? How? That’s

the bid was weak," he snapped. "We lost because you

drained from her face.

was a pause. "If you don’t know, then get your ass

Click.

The call ended.

Sonia stood frozen.

business, she still manages

tender, she had carefully prepared...As not to lose

going to happen with the loss of this bidding which had been the expectation of every member

still on the couch, watched her, a

happened?" she asked, feigning innocence

rush, then bolted out the door,

her, Tricia chuckled bitterly. "Quite

"Finally... I’m not the only one paying

door Sonia

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

TV, turning it on just as the news began to flash financial headlines across the

in Creek Smart City bidding

amid unexpected

appeared onscreen,

water, eyes locked on the

expected," she said, a sigh of

~Zak Group~

a large brown

a way out of the mess. That they had just left; angry,

document on his right: the tender file for the Creek Smart City project.