MasukShe lost everything—but she's about to take it all back. Betrayed by her husband and stepsister, Juliette Winchester watched her world crumble. Her thriving company—a legacy inherited from her mother—was stolen, her children were ripped away, and the life she'd built was reduced to ashes. Left with nothing but her will to survive, she disappears into the shadows, vowing to return stronger. She fulfills that vow five years later when she emerges as a woman transformed—powerful, confident, and ready to reclaim what’s hers. But what she doesn't expect along the way is an unexpected ally in the form of a rich investment mogul who has always had feelings for her. When he reignites feelings she thought were long buried, Juliette must choose between the vengeance she craves and the future she deserves. This is her reckoning—and no one will stand in her way.
Lihat lebih banyakNovember 15th
10 pm. The despair finally got to me after one week, the drugs and treatment dissolving my resolve after much resistance and fights, and I actually started to see things in the very white and confined room I was in. The shadows that were always in the corner, mocking me and laughing. You are a failure. You fell for his trick. You are such a fool. I laughed hysterically, mocking myself too because I had seen the signs but ignored them. I had thought maybe I was just overthinking things, but here I was now, tied to a bed while they got to live my life forever. "Ha ha ha ha ha," I laughed hysterically again, feeling myself start to go mad as the thoughts ran through my head again, and I scowled when a nurse came in to give me another dose of drug. I wondered what it was. A drug to make me actually feel better or a drug to make me mad. Probably the latter since that is what they want, right? I protested a little, feeling myself resist as she injected the liquid into my blood, and I felt its contents rush to my head right before I crashed out. I fell unconscious. Or maybe not, since it seemed to me like I was floating. God, it felt good. My arms felt light, and my brain... Good, good. I couldn't get that out of my head till my eyes popped open, I don't know how many hours later, and I blinked my eyes when I saw the room door open. Huh? A person was standing there. All-black outfit. Face cap and a nose mask. I tried to move when he started to approach me. Oh my God, no, they're going to kill me. I couldn't move, though. I couldn't talk either. What's going on? The person proceeded to inject me with some other liquid, and just like that, I was out again. This time, not floating but actually getting surrounded by darkness, and it was dark all over again. No. **** The ground beneath me was moving. Wait, no, that doesn't feel like the cold, hard surface of the bed where they had kept me confined for days or the ground. It felt more... cushiony. I reached beneath me to feel whatever it was and gasped when I noticed my hand was free. It wasn't tied down. Neither my legs. I knew that when I moved it around. Then where... I opened my eyes to take in where I was and saw it to be a... car. It was moving, and a man was driving it. The same man who had injected me with something earlier. Panic immediately flooded my chest. They're going to kill me. Get rid of my body and make the media I had committed suicide. God no. The rest was adrenaline. My arms going around the driver's neck, tightening against it, squeezing and holding on tightly even as the car started to swerve dangerously. I don't care. I'm not going to go down like this. Then boom, we hit the curb, the force throwing me back against the back seat, and I immediately reached for the door once I got myself. "No. Juliette." The man seemed to shout as I made my way out of the wreck, and I ran into the woods nearby, making sure to never look back. I wouldn't know if the guy ran after me, if there were more people after me, but I didn't stop until my legs gave way and made me collapse on the crunchy leaves and ground. No one came to hold me. One minute. Two minutes. Five minutes. Ten minutes. Okay, I had made it. They weren't after me anymore. I think that thought made it easy for me to accept the darkness that started to surround me again, and I felt a single tear run down my cheek. The last one that would ever run down for that bastard. He had betrayed me and taken everything away from me, and even though it seems like he had won now, he had better be on his toes because I'm coming back for him. And not just him, but everyone who had done this to me. I'm coming back for blood. I embraced the darkness.Good day my lovely readers, I know it has been a long time since I updated this book and I want to say sorry for that. When I started this book, I had a vision for how I wanted the story to start till the way it was going to end, but along the way, I diverted, which led to me having writer's block and rewriting and rewriting a whole lot of the chapters again and again. I thought I could make it work but it has been proving difficult so I wanted to ask for your patience and understanding till I'm able to trace back my steps and rewrite most of the chapters again. It might take a lot of time, but hopefully, soon, I'll be done with the edit and release more chapters. Thank you and sorry once again. Ruthiana.
DominicThe business plan was good, exceptionally good, to the extent that I actually wondered how James had convinced her to be a housewife."Dom." I picked up the papers she had proposed to me again and glanced at Luke, who walked into the study."How was it? What did she say?"I shrugged and handed him the papers. He looked through it."What is this?""A proposal. She wants me to invest in her company.""She does?""Yes. A real estate company with 10% returns for me. I think she's planning to square off with her—with James. You know, even the playground.""That's actually quite smart."I nodded. "And—"RingRing.Huh?We both turned surprised when the doorbell at the front door rang, indicating that someone was around, and I turned back to glance at Luke."Does anyone else know about this place?""No, except Miss Winchester and her friend who just left.""Shit. You don't think he knows about this place, do you?""Who? James?"I nodded, already placing the documents in a safe drawer
Juliette."Summer?""Summer..." I called quietly as I stepped into the house, probably an hour later. I couldn't tell the time since I had no means of checking it, coupled with the fact that it was dark."Sum—" I had no time to prepare myself in the dark before a body was attacking mine in a hug."Jules. I'm sorry. I didn't mean to scare you or make you wary of me. I just thought...".I wrapped my arms around her and let myself settle into the hug. It was familiar, warm, and reassuring.God, I still couldn't believe I had accused her."No, I'm the one who is sorry. I wasn't thinking and had just been spiraling right before you came, so it kind of just overflowed."She pulled back in the still dark living room to peer at my face before pulling me into another tight hug."Oh! Summer...""I can't lose you. You can't lose you. The bad bitch we knew before that asshole came along. You can't lose that.""And I won't." She smiled when she pulled back again, and I noticed the streak of tear
Juliette"Ugh!"I threw the most recent paper I had cut out from the note beside me on the floor alongside the other ruffled papers I had tried to work on.God.I couldn't just think of something.Going public? Sure, that would probably cause a lot of damage and bring up a lot of questions he wouldn't want surfacing, but it could also go sideways real quick. I had to think of my kids, the plot of my revenge, and how deeply I wanted it to hurt—and I wanted it to hurt really badly.I had to think of the best way to hurt them.But to do that, I needed to know why he had done it. Why he had pretended for years...*"Your marriage was planned, meeting him was planned, everything was planned, even the amount of children you're meant to have. All of that was planned."*I mean, if it had been planned, why did he...I sucked in a breath and stood up to go get a bottle of wine from the cabinet before returning to the living room, where I gulped down half of its contents. I shouldn't be thinki






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