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Chapter 84: Desperation
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Divorce the Cheat, Return for Revenge Chapter 188: The Box
The statement from Mills Corporation was released at exactly nine a.m.Not a minute earlier, not a second late.Petra first saw it on her phone, the notification lighting up the screen while she stood by her kitchen window, staring out at a morning that felt oddly quiet. She already knew what it would say, she had been told the night before but knowing something intellectually and seeing it declared publicly were not the same thing.When she finally tapped the screen, the words were formal, measured, unmistakably corporate.'Mills Corporation has concluded its internal and external reviews regarding past dealings with Jordan Group. Following extensive investigation, interviews, and forensic audits, we confirm that Ms. Chapman bears no responsibility, direct or indirect, for the financial manipulations uncovered. Her conduct throughout her tenure met and exceeded professional and ethical standards.'Petra read it once.Then again.Her breath left her in a slow exhale she had not reali
Divorce the Cheat, Return for Revenge Chapter 187: Testimony
The courtroom was colder than Petra expected.Though the air-conditioning hummed relentlessly but emotionally. The kind of cold that stripped warmth from voices, that flattened expressions into something careful and unreadable. Petra felt it settle over her as she took her seat, hands folded neatly in front of her, posture straight.From the gallery, murmurs rippled, journalists leaning forward, pens poised, cameras restrained only by court order.When her name was called, she rose slowly.The walk to the witness stand felt longer than it was. Each step echoed softly, measured, final. She didn't look toward Pete's side of the room. She didn't look for Oscar, though she knew he was there.She focused on the polished wood ahead of her, the microphone waiting, the oath that would turn memory into record.Once seated, she lifted her chin.The first questions were simple. Name. Role. Professional history. Petra answered them evenly, her voice steady, carrying clearly through the room. Ye
Divorce the Cheat, Return for Revenge Chapter 186: Steps Toward the Truth
Petra had always believed she was prepared for this moment.She had survived public scrutiny before; boardroom whispers, quiet character assassinations, polite smiles that hid sharp judgments. She had learned how to sit straight under pressure, how to answer questions without revealing the tremor beneath her voice.But preparing to testify was different. This was not about performance. It was about excavation.She woke before dawn, the sky still dark, her body already tense. The house was silent, but her mind was loud, replaying moments she thought she had buried properly.She lay still for a while, staring at the ceiling, feeling the familiar weight settle in her chest.By the time she got out of bed, her hands were already shaking.Petra spent the morning reviewing documents with Oscar and her legal team. The dining table had been converted into a temporary war room; files stacked neatly, tabs colour-coded, timelines printed and reprinted. Each document carried a memory, each date
Divorce the Cheat, Return for Revenge Chapter 185: The Architecture of Ruin
Oscar had stopped counting the hours.The documents on his desk blurred into each other — timelines, legal drafts, archived emails, financial trails that curved backward and forward through years of carefully buried decisions.The deeper he went, the clearer one truth became, and it unsettled him more than outright malice ever could.Zoe had planned.Not in panic. Not in desperation. Not in the emotional chaos people expected from a woman whose health was failing.This had been deliberate.Oscar leaned back in his chair, rubbing his temples as he stared at the screen. The timestamps told their own story. Legal consultations logged months, no, years, before Zoe's condition worsened publicly. Drafts of contingency instructions saved, revised, resaved.Correspondence with intermediaries framed carefully, never explicit, always insulated.She had not been reacting to fear of death.She had been preparing for it.And she had anticipated consequences.The room felt colder as the realizatio
Divorce the Cheat, Return for Revenge Chapter 184: The Weight of Unspoken Truths
The corporate mediation office was built to feel neutral.Neutral colours. Neutral scents. Neutral silence.Petra noticed it the moment she stepped inside; the beige walls, the glass partitions, the low hum of the air-conditioning meant to soothe nerves before difficult conversations.Even the art on the walls was generic, inoffensive landscapes that demanded nothing from the viewer.It felt almost insulting, how deliberately calm the place was, considering the storms people brought into it.She adjusted the strap of her bag on her shoulder and took a slow breath, filling her lungs with the recycled air.Then she saw him.Pete stood near the reception desk, speaking quietly to a woman in a navy suit. He looked thinner than she remembered. His shoulders were slightly hunched, as though he had grown accustomed to bracing himself for impact.The light from overhead cast shadows beneath his eyes, deepening the hollows there.There were encounters you could prepare for and encounters that
Divorce the Cheat, Return for Revenge Chapter 183: Not Everyone Is Accounted For
The email arrived just after dawn.Pete saw it before he even sat up in bed, the glow of his phone cutting through the half-light of the room. He stared at the subject line for a long moment before opening it, already knowing what it would contain.Chapman Corporation Audit Committee. Formal Interview Notice. His name typed neatly beneath the header, followed by dates, compliance language, and a carefully worded assurance that the inquiry was "routine."Nothing about it felt routine to him.He dropped the phone onto his chest and exhaled slowly, staring at the ceiling as if answers might be written there somewhere. The paint above him was unmarked, blank as his immediate future felt.This was the part no one warned you about, the quiet phase, where consequences no longer screamed but crept instead. Where everything you said, everything you forgot to say, could be rearranged into something damaging against you.Corporate investigations had a rhythm of their own. They moved with the
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
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 4: "Let's Get a Divorce"
“There, there,” Petra murmured softly, her voice warm and calm. “Mommy is here.”The baby made a small sound and kicked his tiny legs against the blanket.Petra lay on the hospital bed, her back slightly propped up with pillows.Her face still looked pale, but there was a soft smile resting on her
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