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Chapter one-hundred & forty-five
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DIVORCED Back To Claim What’s Mine Chapter one-hundred & sixty-six
The heavy steel doors of the Metropolitan Detention Center slam shut. The deafening CLANG reverberated through the damp, fluorescent-lit concrete intake corridor, sealing off the outside world, the flashing press cameras, and every last shred of luxury Lydia Vane had ever known.Lydia stood shivering violently on the cold linoleum floor, her soaked emerald gown sticking to her skin like a bag of wet garbage. Her hair hung in matted, foul smelling strands over her face, and her dark mascara had dried into crusty, hideous streaks down her cheeks."Step up to the desk, inmate!" a thick-set female corrections officer barked, pointing a black baton at a steel counter."I am not an inmate!" Lydia shrieked, her voice cracking into a ragged, pathetic squeak as she clutched her arms. "I am Lydia Vane! Do you have any idea who my family is?! You can't keep me in this filthy place! Damn it, I demand to speak to the warden immediately!"The guard didn't even look up from her computer terminal. Sh
DIVORCED Back To Claim What’s Mine Chapter one-hundred & sixty-five
Inside Suite 302 of St. Jude’s Private Clinic, the air was thick with the stench of sweat, stagnant lavender oil, and total defeat. The flat-screen television mounted above the marble mantlepiece was still blasting the live federal broadcast. On the screen, Prosecutor Vance Sterling was holding up Dr. Mercer’s signed confession while side-by-side graphics displayed the altered 2023 ultrasound metadata and the $1.5 million offshore wire ledger that Lydia had tried to hide in the Caymans.Lydia sat curled on the edge of the luxury hospital bed, her bloodshot eyes staring blankly at her own ruined face on the news. Her hands were shaking so violently that her fake acrylic nails clicked continuously against each other. The silk covers of the bed were wrapped tightly around her waist the same silk sheets she had pulled up to her neck hours earlier while putting on her pathetic, weeping performance for Evelyn and the press.Suddenly, a loud, violent boom echoed down the quiet medical wing.
DIVORCED Back To Claim What’s Mine Chapter one hundred & sixty-four
When truth finally speaks on a global frequency, every lie ever uttered is crushed into worthless dust. At two o'clock in the afternoon, every broadcast television network across the globe abruptly broke away from their scheduled programming. From the flashing digital billboards of Times Square to the high-end trading floors of Wall Street, millions of screens flickered simultaneously, displaying the official seal of the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York. Lead Federal Prosecutor Vance Sterling stepped up to the mahogany podium inside the press room of the federal courthouse, flanked by senior investigators and armed Federal Marshals. Federal prosecutors release the official medical audit live on national television. The press erupts as Lydia’s "miscarriage" is exposed as the most grotesque, fraudulent deception in high-society history, completely destroying her standing in New York. "Good afternoon," Prosecutor Sterling spoke into the wall of m
DIVORCED Back To Claim What’s Mine Chapter one-hundred & sixty-three
Deep inside the windowless, stark interrogation room on the twelfth floor of the Daniel Patrick Moynihan Federal Courthouse, the air was cold, heavy, and thick with the suffocating scent of panic and stale sweat. A single fluorescent overhead light buzzed softly, casting harsh, unforgiving shadows across the steel table.Sitting in a metal chair, his white lab coat stripped away, was Dr. Julian Mercer. His hair was a wild, tangled mess, his eyes bloodshot and wide with sheer terror. Hyperventilating, his trembling hands were tightly bound in heavy steel handcuffs anchored to an iron ring on the center of the table.Standing on the other side of the glass were Lead Federal Prosecutor Vance Sterling and Special Agent Marcus Cole, flanked by Sarah, who held her high-tech diagnostic tablet displaying real-time data feeds.Faced with federal prison time for medical fraud and money laundering, the corrupt clinic doctor breaks down under federal questioning, submitting a full written confess
DIVORCED Back To Claim What’s Mine Chapter one-hundred and sixty two
Evelyn Vane stood in the center of the sterile room, her body shaking with an intense, suffocating mixture of rage and grief. She glared down at Lydia, whose hands were still trembling against the hospital sheets, her tears of fake sorrow drying into salty, ugly crusts on her pale cheeks. "You will hear from me, Lydia," Evelyn said tearfully as she left with her doctor. Her voice carried a terrifying, final weight as Dr. Harrison took her arm and guided the heartbroken matriarch out of the room, slamming the heavy mahogany door shut behind them. The moment the lock clicked, the room fell into a heavy, suffocating silence. Lydia didn't burst into tears. She didn't collapse in shame. Instead, she slowly wiped her face with the back of her hand, her bloodshot eyes narrowing as she looked toward the open door. Lydia looked at her doctor with a different plan in her head, still calculating. Dr. Mercer was still kneeling by the wall, weeping pathetically, his hands covering his face in
DIVORCED Back To Claim What’s Mine Chapter one-hundred & sixty-one
Evelyn pov Inside the quiet, sterile gloom of the intensive care unit, the digital heart monitor continued its rhythmic, hollow beep. Charlie lay completely still beneath thin hospital sheets, his skin a ghostly gray, plastic tubes forced down his throat to keep his damaged lungs breathing. Evelyn Vane sat by his bedside, her hands trembling as she stared at the glowing tablet screen in her lap. The live television news anchor was delivering a tragic breaking update: Lydia Vane admitted to St. Jude’s Private Clinic following a catastrophic, stress induced miscarriage. Evelyn seeing the news about Lydia miscarriage , she speaks to Charlie body. "Look at you, Charlie..." Evelyn wept softly, her voice cracking into a dry, bitter sob as she reached out to brush a cold lock of hair from her son's forehead. "I told you to stay away from that family, but you would not listen! Now see where it has landed you! You lie here like a corpse, with no memory of your child lost... no chance to ho
DIVORCED Back To Claim What’s Mine Chapter four ( her return)
Six years later.They say time heals all wounds, but they’re wrong. Time just gives you the tools to sharpen your blade.I stood at the window of my penthouse suite, watching the skyline of the city that had spat me out like trash. I wasn't that shaking girl in the oversized blazer anymore. My body
DIVORCED Back To Claim What’s Mine Chapter three
The rain was a cold, relentless weight as I stumbled up the driveway of my childhood home. My clothes were shredded, my face was bruised from where the reporters had shoved their cameras, and my heart was a jagged hole in my chest.I pounded on the heavy oak door. "Dad! Please! Open the door!"The
DIVORCED Back To Claim What’s Mine Chapter forty
The Gilded Scoop smelled like childhood dream waffle cones, toasted sugar, and that sharp, freezing scent of industrial refrigerators. After the suffocating, sterile walls of the hospital, the bright pops of pastel colors and the sticky floors felt like the most beautiful things I had ever seen. I
DIVORCED Back To Claim What’s Mine Chapter five
I shouldn’t have come. I told myself I was doing it for closure, but as I stood in front of the Vance mansion, the air felt just as poisonous as it did six years ago. Beside me, Leo gripped my hand, his small fingers warm against my palm."Mommy, why are we here?" he asked, his voice echoing in the
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