• Chapter 6

  • Chapter 6

  • Finally, I opened the file Daniel had given me.

  • Inside were photos of the three men who had assaulted me.

  • My breath quickened, and a wave of hatred surged through me.

  • I flipped through the pages, finding detailed records of their recent activities and phone calls.

  • Key information was highlighted.

  • From these details, I pieced together the truth:

  • The collapse of Wilson Group had originally been a straightforward acquisition.

  • But Olivia and Ethan’s assistant had conspired to leak damaging information, cutting off loans and

  • forcing the company into bankruptcy.

  • The timing, coinciding with an economic downturn, had driven my father to suicide.

  • The three men who had assaulted me had been hired by Olivia.

  • Afterward, they had been paid off and sent to a remote island, their identities hidden.

  • That’s why Ethan had never been able to find them.

  • It was Daniel who had uncovered the truth.

  • I had been wrong about Ethan.

  • I had believed he was responsible for my father’s death and my assault.

  • But now I saw that while he had betrayed our marriage, the business sabotage and the attack had been orchestrated by Olivia.

  • I stumbled out of bed, desperate to catch Ethan.

  • now. What if he did something drastic, like

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  • hospital exit just in

  • could call out, a disheveled woman, her clothes torn and bloodied, rushed out from

  • shadows.

  • It was Olivia.

  • eyes were wild, and she held a sharp object. She lunged at Ethan, stabbing him in

  • as people

  • were at a hospital, and Ethan was quickly taken into surgery.

  • soon reported that the three men who had assaulted me

  • times their original

  • were quickly arrested, but their accomplices, believing Olivia had double–crossed

  • revenge on her.

  • pregnant, had lost her

  • she had turned on

  • had thought that without me, Ethan would

  • he had lost

  • sacrifices had been for nothing.

  • fury, she had attacked him, then tried to kill herself, but was stopped by bystanders.

  • later sentenced to

  • the doctors said it might affect his

  • children.

  • in

  • the misunderstandings cleared, Ethan asked: “When I recover, can

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  • man now sounded humble, almost pleading.

  • replied calmly: “I went to a fortune teller.”

  • was the worst

  • covering his face, sobbing.

  • wasn’t completely destroyed.

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