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Divorce the Cheat, Return for Revenge Chapter 195: The Apology That Came Too Late
"What do you want, Pete?"Oscar's voice cut through the night with barely restrained fury as he turned fully to face Pete, his hand closing the car door with a sharp click that echoed briefly against the quiet of the parking lot. His jaw was tight, shoulders squared, every line of his body defensive, coiled like a man bracing for something he had already anticipated. "Haven't you done enough damage already?"Pete stood there beneath the muted glow of the parking lights, hands hanging at his sides, shoulders slumped in a way that looked deeply unfamiliar on him, a far cry from the composed executive he had once been.For a moment, it seemed as though he was weighing his words carefully, deciding whether speaking at all would only worsen things, whether silence might have been the wiser choice after all.Inside the car, Petra remained seated, watching through the windshield, her fingers curled lightly around the edge of her seat. She hadn't decided yet whether to step out or let Oscar
Divorce the Cheat, Return for Revenge Chapter 194: Questions and Shadows
"Let's get married, Petra."Oscar said it calmly, but there was nothing casual about the way he looked at her. His eyes held hers across the small table, steady, unflinching, full of an intention he had clearly been carrying for longer than she realized.The words settled between them, heavier than the clink of cutlery and the low murmur of other diners moving through their own evenings, unaware of the small earthquake that had just occurred a few tables away.It was the kind of moment that happened only once in a lifetime, the kind that could not be rehearsed for or fully prepared against, no matter how many times a person imagined it happening.A proposal was not something easily undone, not words that could be taken back or softened later once they had already left the safety of someone's chest.It demanded response. It required acknowledgment. And Oscar knew this as he sat there, watching her face for any flicker of the joy he had hoped to find, the kind of joy he had pictured so
Divorce the Cheat, Return for Revenge Chapter 193: The Words Unsaid
Petra cancelled three media requests before the afternoon wore thin.The first came through her assistant's tablet just after midday, flagged as high priority. A national business outlet wanted an exclusive; leadership after crisis, redemption arcs, a woman reclaiming power in hostile spaces.Petra glanced at the summary, listened to the pitch relayed softly across her desk, then shook her head once."Decline it," she said, already turning back to the document in front of her, her attention settling once more onto the careful rows of figures waiting for her review.The second arrived less than an hour later. A televised panel discussion, framed as a conversation but structured like a spectacle. Her assistant hesitated this time, fingers lingering on the screen."They're saying it would be good visibility," she added carefully. "It positions you as—""I know how it positions me," Petra replied, not unkindly. She reached for her pen, annotating a margin with quiet precision. "Please t
Divorce the Cheat, Return for Revenge Chapter 192: The Message She Almost Missed
The conference room hummed with low, contained conversation as Petra took her place at the front. It was not the restless noise of impatience, but the steady murmur of people already engaged, flipping through briefing folders, adjusting seats, exchanging short remarks under their breath.The projection screen behind her glowed to life, its first slide clean and unadorned.Petra waited.She stood with both hands resting lightly on the edge of the table beside her, shoulders squared, posture relaxed. Gradually, the room settled.She tapped the remote once.The slide changed.Columns appeared, clear, precise. Lines connected processes instead of departments. Risk assessment flowed into accountability rather than being boxed off as an afterthought.Petra began to speak, her tone even, her words measured.She walked them through a system where compliance did not sit at the end of operations like a checkbox, but at the centre of decision-making. She showed how internal audits would no lo
Divorce the Cheat, Return for Revenge Chapter 191: Between Two Griefs
Petra arrived at the cemetery just after dawn, when the gates had only recently been opened and the grounds still belonged more to silence than to people.The air was cool enough to cling to her skin, carrying the faint scent of damp grass and stone, a scent that seemed to seep into her clothing and settle there, patient and unhurried.A thin mist hovered close to the earth, softening the outlines of headstones and trees, making everything feel slightly removed from the rest of the world, as though the cemetery existed in a pocket of time that the rest of the city had long forgotten.She walked slowly along the narrow path, her heels sinking faintly into the wet soil at the edges. The sound was barely audible, but she noticed it anyway, the subtle resistance beneath each step, as though the ground itself remembered every weight it had ever carried, every grief that had ever passed across it.There was nowhere else she needed to be.The sky above was muted, a pale stretch of grey-blue
Divorce the Cheat, Return for Revenge Chapter 190: The Offer
The offer didn't arrive with drama as one may have expected.There was no announcement dressed in ceremony, no speech crafted to sound inspiring, no pause for applause. It came during an ordinary executive briefing at Mills Corporation, on a morning that looked no different from many others before it.Sunlight filtered through the glass walls of the conference room, catching on the polished surface of the long table. Tablets lay open. Coffee sat untouched beside leather-bound notebooks.Voices moved steadily through projections and numbers, calm and efficient.Petra sat halfway down the table, listening, observing. She had learned long ago that power rarely announced itself loudly. It showed up in pauses, in glances exchanged across tables, in moments when conversations slowed just enough to signal a shift.She felt that shift before she saw it.The chairman adjusted in his seat, fingers tapping once against the armrest. He didn't proceed to speaking immediately. Instead, he reach
Divorce the Cheat, Return for Revenge Chapter 14: An Unworthy Mother?
Elizabeth had marched halfway into the grand hall in a storm of fury, but the moment she reached the center and noticed the cluster of reporters standing only a few steps away, she halted so abruptly that Kevin almost bumped into her from behind.The microphones stretched toward her like thin black
Divorce the Cheat, Return for Revenge Chapter 5: The Long-Lost Heiress
Pete collected the file from Petra’s outstretched hand, his fingers tightening around the edges as his eyes dropped to the bold letters printed across the first page.The words DIVORCE AGREEMENT seemed to hit him harder than anything Petra had said that morning.For a brief moment he just stared at
Divorce the Cheat, Return for Revenge Chapter 2: The Hundredth Mark
Martins and Eric flinched at the same time, their bodies jerking backward as if someone had just fired a gun in the room.For a second, nobody moved.The dirty diaper had landed squarely on Zoe’s face. Brown stains smeared across her cheek and nose, sliding slowly downward.Her eyes widened in disb
Divorce the Cheat, Return for Revenge Chapter 1: Betrayal
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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