The Divorce Prescription

"Adam, please, just hear me out," Carly pleaded, trying to defend herself.

Adam stood motionless, his gaze unwavering. "Carly, I don't want excuses. I just need to know-where is the emerald necklace?"

A cold, unsettling smirk curled at the corner of his lips. "You wouldn't be lying to me, would you?"

Carly's breath hitched. "Lie to you? About what?"

"That the woman who saved me in the cave wasn't you. That all this time, you've been deceiving me, pretending to be someone else."

His eyes bored into hers, like a predator sizing up its prey. Carly's spine tingled with a sense of dread. Adam had never looked at her like this before.

Had he figured it out? Did he know she was an imposter?

His stoic expression unsettled her more than anything. She couldn't tell how much he knew.

Despite this, she couldn't afford to confess-not when everything she had was on the line. "Adam, I don't understand. Why would you even think that?"

Her voice faltered, a trace of hurt in it. "I'm the one who saved you in that cave. You promised me you'd take me with you, that you'd be responsible for me. Have you really forgotten all of that?"

"If it really was you, that would be perfect. I've invested over a decade in you, Carly. But if you've been lying to me, you know what the consequences will be."

wanted the woman

was,

felt was

given over ten years of his life to

wasn't her who saved him... how naive would he

even worse... What if the woman in

her, then he'd spent all this time hurting the very person

a truth Adam

worry. Of course, I wouldn't lie

prove it. Show me

tonight. Seeing

necklace is the

who you are."

no way out now. "Adam, I have

gaze sharpened. "Then show it to

will," Carly said,

of shyness. "But this necklace is our symbol of

into a thin