Requiem of a Broken Heart

Chapter 1128:

Her lips parted in a satisfied grin. She pulled the contract free, made the necessary edit—changing the payment receiving account to the one Shelly had given her—then snapped a photo of the altered version and sent it off to Heidi.

With everything done, she shoved the papers back, grabbed her things, and bolted from the office like guilt was hot on her heels.

Across town, Heidi received the photo and smiled as she read Malvina’s message.

“Let’s see how you wriggle out of this, Yvonne,” she murmured with malice.

“Do I really have to keep eating this?” Yvonne grimaced at the bowl in front of her, eyeing the soup like it might bite.

She’d been chugging it for days, yet Norton insisted she keep going.

“You’re still recovering,” he said gently, nudging the bowl toward her. “From now on, you’re also getting breakfast every morning. No arguments.”

reluctance, he chuckled and added playfully, “Or do you

Yvonne, already weary of the routine, shook her head quickly before letting out an exasperated

fainted from low blood sugar, Norton had kept his word with meticulous devotion. He not only monitored her soup

Yvonne stepped into the office to find her desk swamped with paperwork. She allowed herself a faint smile as she slid into her

lately, though even that whirlwind felt easier than the exhausting stretch when she had to juggle work and

a familiar line—a slogan she had crafted for an advertising

had wrapped up long ago, the contract signed and sealed—yet the final

She opened her laptop and navigated to the backend system. To her surprise, the transaction logs were populated in the system—records she hadn’t expected to see.

Something wasn’t right.

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rubbed her temples and closed

and returned to her stack of files,

end, she fired off a message to Colette Astley, the head of