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The Dead Girl Still Had Secrets
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2026-08-12 03:58:36
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HIS FORSAKEN WIFE HIS GREATEST REGRET The Jealous CEO
Roberta’s POV I sat at my office desk with the city glittering far below and formed an image in my head. The image of the Grand Central Tower that I had been creating at Brett's home. Its been four days. Four nights. Foam dust in my hair, glue dried in the creases of my fingers, the deep ache in my shoulders that had stopped feeling temporary. I had cut and sanded and fitted every piece myself, pouring everything I had into something solid. Grief. Fury. The stubborn need to prove I was still here. The Grand Central Tower rose from the base like a held breath. Eighty stories. Mixed-use. The tallest building in the city. Mine. Almost done. I'm so close. I can't stop now. I have to finish this. I have to show them what I can do. I looked out the window. The city stretched below me. Buildings. Streets. People living their lives. None of them knew what I had been through. I have to prove that I'm not just the woman who lost her daughter. I'm the woman who designed what would be the
HIS FORSAKEN WIFE HIS GREATEST REGRET The Dead Girl Still Had Secrets
Millie's POV I stared back at him, confused. "Why not?" "You mean like... a wedding? With actual people? Coming to celebrate?" "Of course. What else would a wedding be?" Jace laughed. It wasn't a happy laugh. "Are you fucking kidding me, Millie?" "Jace—" "You made me go on national television. You made me announce to the world that I was married to you for eight years. Everyone knew I was married. No one knew who I was married to. Roberta was my secret wife. I let people believe it was you. I introduced you and Nolan as the family I have been living with for the past eight years. I told everyone you were my wife. Not Roberta. You. So what fucking wedding are you talking about? What guests? Who exactly do we invite to celebrate a marriage everyone already believes exists?" I opened my mouth. Closed it. I hadn't — I had not thought it through that far. I had thought about the dress. About the photographs. About the thing I had always wanted, the public declaration, the undeni
HIS FORSAKEN WIFE HIS GREATEST REGRET Everything She Fought For
Millie's POV Eleven o'clock. I lay in the dark and stared at the ceiling and listened to the house, and Jace was not beside me. He hadn't been there for hours. He had said he was going to his study to work. That was at eight. It was almost midnight now. Three days had gone by since I sat across from Roberta in that restaurant. Three days, and I still couldn't believe my eyes. I pressed my hand to my cheek. The skin was normal. Cool. Completely fine. And yet. I pressed harder. Like I needed to feel it. Like if I pressed hard enough, I could find the outline of what Roberta had done — the shape of her hand, the specific humiliation of it, the fact that it had happened at all. How dare she I clenched my fingers into a fist. The memory of that moment burned through me. The way Roberta had caught my wrist. The way she had looked at me like I was nothing. The way she had slapped me. I threw the blankets off. I walked out of the bedroom. I went downstairs. I walked toward the study
HIS FORSAKEN WIFE HIS GREATEST REGRET The Blueprint of Revenge
Roberta's POVSaturday morning light came through the windows. Pale. Quiet. The house was still.I woke up and knew.Not gradually. Not the slow assembly of a decision made over coffee. I opened my eyes and the ceiling was there and the thought was already fully formed, sitting in the centre of my chest like something that had been waiting for me to catch up to it.I pushed the blankets off. I got up.Today, I start. Today, I take back what's mine. I can't meet Aslı Karahan empty-handed. I couldn't sit across from one of the most formidable women in the development world and say I designed the building you're about to put your name on and hand her empty air. She would look at me the way everyone had always looked at me. The way the nurses looked at me in that hospital. The way Irene looked at me across every room she had ever allowed me to stand in.Like nothing.I was done being looked at like nothing. I lost the proof in Jace's house. But I still have my hands. I still have my mind.
HIS FORSAKEN WIFE HIS GREATEST REGRET Brace Yourself
Roberta's POV The car rode in silence all the way home.I watched the city pass and thought about Nolan's face when the slap happened. The way his eyes had gone wide. Too young to understand what he had witnessed. Old enough to be frightened by it.I'm sorry you saw that.I meant it. I had meant every word I said to Millie and I did not regret a single one of them, but Nolan — Nolan had done nothing. He had sat in that chair with his tablet and his glass and his innocent, uncomplicated aliveness and he had not asked to be brought there.It's already done, I told myself. You can't take it back.I couldn't take any of it back.The car stopped.I got out.***Brett was in the sitting room.He stood when I came in — stood up from the sofa like he had been waiting, or like he had been trying to look like he hadn't been. He looked at me and something moved in his face and for one second — one full, complete second — I thought: he's going to ask me what happened. He's going to see it on my
HIS FORSAKEN WIFE HIS GREATEST REGRET What She Brought To The Table
Roberta's POV I made her wait.Twenty minutes. I sat in the car outside the restaurant and watched the time on my phone and let Millie sit inside alone with whatever she had planned for this meeting, whatever she had arranged, whatever she thought was going to happen tonight.Twenty minutes.Then I checked my lipstick in the driver's mirror. Straightened the collar of my jacket. Picked up my bag.Then I took a breath.This is not the same woman she betrayed. This is not the same woman who cried in her kitchen. This is not the same woman who trusted her.I walked in like I owned the floor.I saw her before she saw me.Millie. At the corner table she had chosen — the one with the best view of the entrance because Millie always chose seats with sightlines, always wanted to see people arriving. That hadn't changed.What I hadn't expected was the small figure beside her.Nolan.He was sitting with a glass of something in front of him, legs dangling off the chair, looking at his tablet. Da
HIS FORSAKEN WIFE HIS GREATEST REGRET The Stranger 's Arms
Roberta's POV "Come out of the car." His voice was low. Firm. Not asking. I looked up at him. He was standing outside the open door. My legs wouldn't move. He didn't ask again. He reached in. One hand under my arm. The other around my waist. He pulled me out gently. I stumbled. My knees buc
HIS FORSAKEN WIFE HIS GREATEST REGRET The Betrayal Behind the Comfort
Roberta’s POV"Mommy." Ziva's voice was very quiet. "I want to save Nolan.""Ziva""I want to." She looked up at me. Her eyes were dry, but her face was doing the thing it always did before the real cry came, the way she held everything in with every muscle. "I saw him today. He's not okay. He does
HIS FORSAKEN WIFE HIS GREATEST REGRET His Life in My Hands
Ziva's POVDaddy came to my classroom.I saw him through the window first. His suit. His shiny shoes. His hair looked like a movie star.My heart jumped."Mrs. Alvarez, that's my daddy! That's Jace Riggs!"Mrs. Alvarez looked. Some kids looked too. I sat up straight. I wanted everyone to see. I alw
HIS FORSAKEN WIFE HIS GREATEST REGRET Her Only Crime Was Being a Girl
Roberta’s POVThe second I saw Ziva standing at the bottom of the stairs, her little face pale and frightened, something inside me broke.I crossed the room before I even thought about it and pulled her into my arms.“Grandma?” Ziva whispered.But Irene looked straight at her.“You have a brother,
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