เข้าสู่ระบบI am Serena Blake, a young woman who believed love could conquer anything. But for Ethan Blackwood, I was just a temporary convenience, a wife to be discarded. Three years of cold treatment, silent humiliation, and empty promises ended the day he handed me divorce papers… while I was carrying his child. I vanished, swallowed my heartbreak, and rebuilt myself from nothing. Now, five years later, I return no longer the powerless woman he abandoned, but a self-made business strategist with secrets of my own… and a child he never knew existed. Ethan watches helplessly as I rise, as others admire what he once rejected, and as the truth of my survival slowly shatters his perfect world. He wants me back. He wants forgiveness. He wants the family he never valued. But I’ve learned that power isn’t given, it’s taken. And this time, the woman he lost holds all the cards. Will Ethan finally realize what he threw away, or is it too late for regret to undo the past?
ดูเพิ่มเติมThe divorce papers were placed in front of me like a business contract.
Clean. Cold. Final.
“Sign it.”
Ethan Blackwood didn’t even look at me as he spoke. His attention remained on his phone, long fingers scrolling, as if ending our three-year marriage was nothing more than approving a budget report.
I stared at the papers, my vision blurring. Divorce.
No apology, no explanation, no hesitation.
Just like that.
“Why now?” I asked quietly.
He finally looked up, his sharp eyes impatient. “Because it’s over.” Those three words cut deeper than anything else.
I had been Ethan Blackwood’s wife for three years, not his lover, not his partner, barely even his companion. Just a name on paper, a role I played to perfection while enduring his indifference, his absence, and the whispers that followed me everywhere.
She married him for money, She doesn’t belong in his world.
Maybe they were right.
I swallowed and forced myself to stay composed. “Did I do something wrong?”
His lips curved into a faint, humorless smile. “You existed.”
The room went silent. That was it. My crime. My flaw. I lowered my gaze to the documents again, my hands trembling. At the bottom of the page was my name "Serena Blake Blackwood" printed neatly, as if mocking me.
“Sign it today,” Ethan continued. “You’ll receive compensation. A house. Money. Enough to disappear quietly.”
Disappear. My fingers tightened around the pen.
He stood up, already done with the conversation. “I’m busy. Don’t drag this out.”
As he turned to leave, something inside me snapped, not loudly, not dramatically, but completely.
“Ethan.”
He paused at the door.
I opened my mouth… then closed it again.
What was the point?
Telling him I had spent the morning throwing up?
Congratulations. You’re pregnant.
I signed the papers.
The sound of the pen scratching against paper felt louder than my own heartbeat.
Ethan glanced at the signature, nodded once, and walked out without another word. The door closed.
And just like that, my marriage ended. I placed a hand over my stomach, tears finally spilling down my cheeks.
“I won’t beg,” I whispered to the empty room. “And I won’t stay.”
He had thrown me away without regret.
One day…he would learn what it truly meant to lose me.
I left the Blackwood mansion with nothing but a small suitcase and a hollow ache in my chest.
No one stopped me.
The guards at the gate lowered their heads politely, as they always did. The staff avoided my eyes, pretending not to notice the woman who had once been introduced as Mrs. Blackwood now walking out alone, without jewelry, without dignity, without a place to return to.
I supposed this was how I had always existed in this house quietly, temporarily.
The driver opened the car door. “Where to, ma’am?”
For a moment, I didn’t know how to answer.
Home? I no longer had one.
My phone vibrated in my hand. A message from Ethan’s assistant lit up the screen.
The compensation has been transferred. The lawyer will contact you regarding property arrangements.
So efficient. So heartless.
“Just… the hospital,” I said at last.
The driver nodded and pulled away.
As the mansion disappeared behind us, my hand drifted to my stomach again. The doctor’s voice replayed in my mind, gentle and oblivious to the storm it had unleashed in my life.
Early pregnancy. Around five weeks.
Five weeks.
I let out a shaky breath and stared out the window, watching the city blur past. Somewhere between the skyscrapers and the crowded streets, my tears dried. I had cried enough for one lifetime.
Serena believed the hardest part was over because she was wrong.The invitation arrived on thick, cream-colored paper looking elegant, understated, deliberate. No logos. No unnecessary words. Just a date, a time, and a location overlooking the river. And a single line at the bottom:Your presence is requested.Not invited, but requested.Serena folded the card slowly, a familiar instinct stirring in her chest. Power always announced itself softly, as if daring you to ignore it.Ethan noticed the change in her expression. “What is it?”“An offer,” she said. “The kind that pretends to be harmless.”The venue was quiet. Too quiet. Glass walls reflected the city lights, and the room smelled faintly of polished wood and expensive restraint. Serena counted three exits before she even sat down.Across the table sat a woman in her late forties, impeccably dressed, eyes sharp with practiced neutrality.“Ms. Blake,” the woman said, smiling. “I’m Claire Halston.”Serena didn’t offer her hand. “I
The world didn’t end. That was the strangest part.After weeks of tension, sleepless nights, and carefully calculated moves, Serena woke up to sunlight filtering through the curtains and the soft sound of Leo humming in the kitchen. No breaking news alerts. No urgent calls. Just morning.For a long time, Serena lay still, staring at the ceiling, waiting for the familiar rush of anxiety. It didn’t come. Instead, there was quiet.At breakfast, Leo chattered about a school project, his hands animated as he explained an idea that made perfect sense only to him. Serena listened, nodding, smiling at the right moments, her coffee cooling untouched.“You’re thinking again,” Leo said suddenly, narrowing his eyes.Serena laughed softly. “Is it that obvious?”“You do that face when you’re solving big problems,” he said.She reached out and brushed crumbs from his cheek. “No more big problems today.”“Promise?”She hesitated just for a second, then nodded. “Promise.”Later, after Leo left for sch
Serena didn’t leak everything, she leaked enough.At precisely nine a.m., a single document surfaced, verified, timestamped, and impossible to dismiss. It wasn’t an accusation; it was a map. Funding routes, Editorial overlaps, Boardroom connections that explained influence without ever naming it.Readers did the rest. Within minutes, analysts began drawing lines. Journalists asked sharper questions. Comment sections erupted, not with outrage, but with recognition.This wasn’t gossip. It was structure.Ethan stood beside Serena as the news spread across screens. “They’re seeing it.”“They always do,” Serena replied. “Once you give them the lens.”Phones rang. Messages stacked. Requests poured in from outlets that hadn’t been part of the smear outlets that valued credibility over access.Serena declined interviews.“Silence forces them to read,” she said.By noon, Aurelius Grant’s name trended, not as an accusation, but as a question.Why does a philanthropist fund companies that benefi
The truth didn’t arrive all at once, It surfaced slowly, like something long buried finally running out of air.Serena stared at the screen as the last data point locked into place funding routes, editorial influence, and quiet boardroom connections disguised as coincidence, as the name appeared.She went still. Ethan noticed immediately. “You found them.”“Yes,” Serena said quietly. “And it’s worse than I thought.”He moved closer. “Who is it?”Serena didn’t answer right away. She leaned back, eyes distant, as memory surfaced, handshakes, shared dinners, a smile that had once seemed genuine.“Aurelius Grant,” she said at last.Ethan frowned. “The philanthropist?”“The visionary,” Serena replied. “The man everyone trusts. The one who built his reputation on transparency and ethical leadership.”Ethan exhaled sharply. “And he’s the one pulling the strings.”“Yes,” Serena said. “Indirectly. Cleverly. He never touches the mess, he just benefits from it.”Aurelius Grant had been everywher






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