—Ethan’s POVI don't think she's after revenge. She’s after succession.Sophia was very correct, and that hit me like my father’s voice was coming back through the pages of that damned journal, I've kept for so many years. Clarissa didn’t want to destroy the family name.She wanted to rewire it.Rewrite it in her own ink.My ink.Our child.I closed the journal slowly, feeling every second thicken around me. Sophia leaned into me, her body trembling, but her grip on my arm never faltered. That grip was what kept me steady—what kept me from exploding.“She’s been building this for decades,” I muttered. “Underneath everything. The companies. The foundations. The clinic. It was all just... grooming. Preparing.”Sophia nodded, her lips pale. “Preparing for what?”I looked at her, and in that moment, I saw it clear as blood on snow.“For the perfect heir.”She swallowed. “Our Son, Irene?.”I couldn’t breathe.Not because I was afraid.But because I could feel the storm finally turning i
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