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.”

and added playfully, “Or do you need me to spoon-feed

thanks.” Yvonne, already weary of the routine, shook her head quickly before

word with meticulous devotion. He not only monitored her soup intake but

following morning, Yvonne stepped into the office to find her desk swamped with paperwork. She

had been in overdrive lately, though even that whirlwind felt easier than the exhausting stretch when she had to

leafed through the stack, her gaze snagged on a familiar line—a

ago, the contract signed and

transaction logs were populated in the system—records she hadn’t expected to see. As she

Something wasn’t right.

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her temples and

brief pause, she drew a steadying breath and returned to her stack of files, flipping through

the workday neared its end, she fired off a message to Colette Astley, the head of IT. “Colette, I need your help with something. Can you wait at