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Chapter 213: The Man in the Parking Lot
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2026-08-24 22:38:40
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He moved around her swiftly, grabbed her arm with bruising force, and dragged her toward the back door of the car. Petra struggled, heels scraping against the concrete, leaving black marks.Panic finally exploded inside her chest like a bomb that had been counting down all day, every ounce of composure she had carried through the parking lot dissolving in an instant."Stop! Let go of me!" she screamed, twisting her body, trying to break free, her arm burning where his fingers dug into her flesh.She thought of the construction worker from this morning, thought of his body falling through the air, helpless against gravity. Now it was her turn to fall, not from a building but into something darker, something she couldn't see the bottom of, something that had no scaffolding to catch her before the end.He shoved her roughly into the back seat. Her shoulder hit the door frame painfully, a burst of sharp agony radiating down her arm, and before she could recover, the door slammed shut wi
Divorce the Cheat, Return for Revenge Chapter 213: The Man in the Parking Lot
"Who I am isn't the problem," the man said, his voice low, sharp, vibrating with something raw and uncontrolled. "It's what you did."Petra tilted her head slowly, confusion crashing into fear like waves colliding, her mind scrambling to make sense of words that carried no context she could grasp, no memory she could summon to explain the fury directed at her. Her fingers tightened around her car keys, instinctively pulling them closer to her chest as she took a cautious step backward, her body reacting before her mind had fully caught up to the danger unfolding in front of her.Her heel brushed against the edge of the parking line, the yellow paint faded from years of tire marks and weather. A small, mundane detail her mind latched onto even as everything else around her seemed to blur into something distant and unreal."I don't understand," she said, her voice barely holding together, each word carefully measured, the calm she had spent years perfecting straining now against somet
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Morning light spread across the construction site in uneven patches, filtered through scaffolding and half-built concrete walls, casting long shadows across the dust-covered ground below.Petra stood near the temporary safety railing, helmet on, tablet tucked against her side, eyes moving constantly from workers lifting blocks to supervisors shouting instructions over the noise of machinery, the whole site alive. This project mattered. Not just because of its scale, but because it carried her name on every report sent back to the board, a name that had finally, after everything, come to mean something solid again.She had barely finished correcting a foreman on safety spacing when shouting erupted from above.It happened too fast for the mind to process cleanly.A man slipped. A sharp intake of breath rippled through the site. Someone screamed.Petra looked up just in time to see a labourer tumble from the fourth floor.Her heart dropped violently.Time seemed to slow as his body fel
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Petra caught another woman carelessly flirting with her own husband right in front of her eyes, barely forty eight hours of her postpartum recovery.The baby’s cry pierced through the house again, thin but stubborn, like a tiny alarm that refused to be ignored.Petra stood in the kitchen, exhausted
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