• 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.

  • if he did

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  • exit just in time to

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

  • shadows.

  • It was Olivia.

  • were wild, and she held a sharp object. She lunged at Ethan,

  • Chaos erupted as people

  • a hospital, and Ethan was quickly taken into

  • the three men who had assaulted me had returned to New

  • times their original fee

  • their accomplices, believing Olivia

  • revenge on

  • pregnant, had lost

  • and despair, she had turned on Ethan.

  • thought that without me, Ethan would marry

  • lost everything–his

  • her sacrifices had

  • she had attacked him, then tried to

  • sentenced to life in prison.

  • the doctors said it might affect his

  • children.

  • visited him in the

  • cleared, Ethan asked: “When I recover, can we

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  • now sounded humble, almost

  • “I went

  • about you was the

  • covering his face, sobbing. We were over.

  • wasn’t completely

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