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CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY-THREE_ CLAIRE’S POV
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The Wife He Threw Away CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-TWO_ NATHANIEL’S POV
The atmosphere at KVEK was subdued after the verdict.The firm was too quiet. Too stiff. Associates who normally moved through the halls confidently now spoke in lowered voices. Phones rang less and noticeably, conversations died much faster. Losing a case that publicly—especially to Sinclair & Co—had hit the firm’s pride hard. And Victoria Merlyn’s mood certainly wasn’t helping. I stood inside my office, reviewing the documents spread across my desk again. Claire’s original infertility diagnosis. Eva Sterling’s original report. Claire’s latest medical results. Three documents. One life destroyed by a lie. My jaw tightened as I thought about it. This Dr. Ramon was finished— completely finished. I had no intention of negotiating with him privately anymore. No quiet settlement, no warning, no courtesy.He didn’t deserve any of that kindness. What he had done went beyond malpractice. It was cruelty— pure, calculated cruelty. Claire had mourned children she could have h
The Wife He Threw Away CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-ONE_ CLAIRE’S POV
The courthouse felt colder than usual that morning. Or maybe it was just me. I stood near the counsel table quietly flipping through my notes even though I already knew every argument by memory at this point. Victoria Merlyn sat on the other side of the courtroom, beside the Virex legal team looking immaculate as always. Except today, she didn’t look untouchable. As someone who had spent a good amount of time studying her, I could tell she looked tense. That alone was satisfying. I spoke to the other lawyers on my team, calm and steady, the complete opposite of the storm currently brewing inside my chest. Because despite everything happening today, my mind kept drifting backward. To last night. To Lucian standing in my apartment looking completely shattered. “We could’ve had a family.” I swallowed hard and forced myself back into the present. Not now. I couldn’t think about that right now. The courtroom settled immediately the judge entered. Everyone st
The Wife He Threw Away CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY_ EVA’S POV
Listening to the fire crackling from across the massive marble fireplace was a unique kind of therapy. Everything around me was elegant and controlled. Exactly the way I liked it. I sat cross-legged on the cream-colored sofa with Margot Sinclair’s file spread open on the glass table in front of me. Claire’s phone rested beside it. Claire Moreau. Margot Sinclair. Lucian Dhark. All of them had become so exhausting lately. I flipped another page of the file. Victim testimonies, timelines, connections. Notes were scribbled across every page in Margot’s sharp handwriting. The woman had been thorough— annoyingly so. My eyes scanned another page before stopping on a familiar name. Elise Sinclair. I stared at the first photograph paperclipped to the file. Elise at twenty-one. She had always had that innocent beauty about her. Bright, radiant, ascending too quickly. I remembered how directors started mentioning her name constantly back then. The tablo
The Wife He Threw Away CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY-NINE_ CLAIRE’S POV
I stared at the screen for several long seconds before finally pressing the unlock button. The click of the door unlocking sounded far too loud than it was supposed to be, in the quiet apartment. And suddenly, as the door opened, I wasn’t sure if I had just made the biggest mistake of my life. Or not. By the time I opened the door, Lucian was already standing there. Tall, but exhausted. And still devastatingly composed somehow despite looking like he had not slept in days. His dark eyes met mine, and for one dangerous moment… everything between us felt exactly the same. But neither of us spoke immediately. I stepped aside quietly, letting Lucian enter. The familiar scent of him followed instantly, wrapping itself around memories I had spent months trying to bury. I closed the door carefully behind him, and the silence afterward was unbearable. Lucian glanced around the apartment slowly, then his gaze returned to me. “Nathaniel said it was part of Eva’s schem
The Wife He Threw Away CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY-EIGHT_ CLAIRE’S POV
Nothing was wrong with me. The thought repeated endlessly in my head during the drive back to Nathaniel’s house. Nothing was wrong with me. No part of me was damaged. I wasn’t incapable of conceiving, carrying and birthing a child. My fingers remained tightly wrapped around the test results sitting in my lap. I must have reread it twenty times already. I still couldn’t stop looking at it. Like somehow, the words might just rearrange themselves if I looked long enough. But they never did. I stared at the papers again after we entered Nathaniel’s house. Then again after sitting down on the couch. And somehow, the truth still didn’t feel real. It felt like a lucid dream I would soon be woken from. Nathaniel loosened his tie quietly before crouching slightly in front of me. “Claire.” I looked up slowly as he held my hands. And suddenly— everything shattered. A small, broken sound escaped me before I could stop myself. Then tears came immediately
The Wife He Threw Away CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY-SEVEN_ LUCIAN’S POV
Nathaniel’s call came just after midnight. I almost ignored it. Because honestly, at that point, every call felt like another disaster waiting to happen. Another investor withdrawing or another division bleeding money. Maybe even another board member questioning whether I was still capable of holding Dhark Holdings together while the world watched it collapse. I sat alone in my office at the mansion with my laptop open in front of me, as unread emails crowded the screen. The whiskey from earlier still sat unfinished beside my hand. Rain pressed softly against the windows again. Everything felt cold lately.Camilla believed I had caught a small cold the night I spent outside Claire’s apartment. But that was the least of my problems. “What now?” I said as I answered the phone. Nathaniel didn’t respond immediately. And that silence was what made my chest tighten first. Then he finally spoke. “We confirmed the report.” I frowned slightly. “What report?” Another pause.“T
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