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Chapter 050

Author: Theafricangirl
last update Last Updated: 2025-06-18 01:18:31

My knees buckled as Atlas paced to and fro, his soft breaths loud, but not enough to block out the newscaster’s voice.

“… Investigations are ongoing to determine whether Business Mogul Atlas Volkan is responsible for assaulting Adeline Mars, his childhood friend turned lover…”

She was his childhood friend.

She was not a stranger. I shut my eyes as reality washed over me, stabbing me in the chest like a thousand daggers.

I pressed my hand against what was left of my heart, tears clouding my eyes.

Everything rushed back to me, his disheveled appearance, the marks on his skin, the hickey and lipstick.

Darn it.

“Julia…” Atlas was in front of me now, but I couldn’t be sure because of the tears rolling down my cheeks.

“You… you don’t think I did this, right?”

He dared to reach out, shaking me for a response. “Julia, I’m not a rapis—“

“You said she was a stranger, Atlas.” Our eyes met. “You lied…” My bottom lip wobbled as I spoke.

Lovie’s words echoed in my mind. Atlas fell into her
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    9 months later. “Call him again!” I shrieked as the nurses wheeled me into the OR. Greta sniffled. “I’ve called him already, he’s coming Julia—““No!” I cried, my hands digging into the stretcher, my lower half aching as if a trailer crashed into me. “You’re lying so I stay calm, right?” I hiccuped. Greta shook her head, wiping my tears. “Just hang on, okay?” She begged: “They have the best doctors here and—““I want my husband, Greta!” I sobbed as we got closer to the operation theatre. I wasn’t sure if I was referring to the Atlas from the courtroom or the one who returned from that trip nine months ago. Greta and I had narrowed down multiple possibilities. It was so bad, that we considered it a split personality disorder. Because that’s how pathetic I’d become. I found myself searching for the same man who saved me in the courtroom and made me feel special for the past nine months.I hadn’t found him. Atlas vanished after the doctor left and when he returned, he had the same

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