All Chapters of THE DIVORCE AND HIS BETRAYAL, MY REVENGE: Chapter 21 - Chapter 30

134 Chapters

A Dangerous Closeness

Sarah insisted on a secure location after what happened at the docks, somewhere off the grid where Vance's people couldn't find us, and she found an old farmhouse about an hour outside the city, surrounded by fields and woods and absolutely no neighbors for miles. It was isolated and quiet and it felt like a prison, but at least it was a safe one."You'll stay here until we figure out our next move," Sarah said, checking the locks on every door and window. "No calls, no texts, no contact with anyone outside this house unless I approve it first.""I'm not a prisoner, Sarah.""You're a target, Mrs. Debbie, and right now, this is the only place in a hundred miles where you're not in immediate danger."Merald arrived an hour later with bags of groceries and a first aid kit and a look on his face that I couldn't quite read. "Sarah called me," he said, setting the bags on the kitchen counter. "She said you needed protection.""I didn't ask for you to come.""I know." He started unpacking th

The Past That Was Hidden

The days after Marcus Thorne's death blurred together, a fog of grief and guilt and sleepless nights spent staring at the ceiling. I couldn't stop thinking about Charles Whitmore's body hitting the floor, about the blood on my face, about the way Anabel had crumbled when she learned her sister was dead. The Circle had taken everything from her, just like they'd taken everything from me."We need to go through your grandfather's files again," Sarah said one morning, sliding a stack of boxes across my kitchen table. "There has to be something we missed.""I've been through those files a hundred times.""Then we go through them a hundred and one."I opened the first box and pulled out a folder labeled with my brother's name. My hands shook as I opened it, pages of handwritten notes and photographs and documents I'd never seen before."What's this?" I asked, pulling out a photograph of my brother standing next to my grandfather, both of them smiling like they didn't have a care in the wor

No More Running

The hospital room was quiet except for the beeping of machines and the soft hum of the air conditioning, and I sat by the window with my hand on my stomach and my eyes on the city below, trying to remember who I was before all of this started. Merald had left an hour ago to get coffee, Sarah was in the hallway talking to the police, and Anabel was still in custody, waiting to find out if she would be charged as an accomplice or a victim.The doctor had said I needed rest, said the baby was fine but I wasn't, said if I didn't slow down I would lose everything I was fighting for. But how could I slow down when the people who killed my brother were still out there, when my grandfather's murderer was still walking free, when every day I waited was another day they had to cover their tracks?My phone buzzed on the table beside me, and I saw Mr. Lawson's name flash across the screen. "Mrs. Debbie, I have news.""What kind of news?""The financial records you asked for, the ones connected to

The Face Behind the Curtain

Daniel Cross drove me to a building on the outskirts of the city, a place I'd never seen before with no signs and no windows and no way for anyone to find us unless they already knew where to look. He didn't speak during the drive, didn't answer any of my questions, just kept his eyes on the road and his hands on the wheel."Where are you taking me?" I asked for the fifth time."Somewhere safe," he said. "Somewhere we can talk without Vance's people listening.""And why should I trust you?""You shouldn't. But you're here anyway."He was right, and I hated that. I had climbed into the car of a man I didn't know, a man who had admitted to killing my only witness, a man who worked for the same organization that had murdered my brother. But I was tired of running, tired of hiding, tired of waiting for answers that never came.The building was cold and dark inside, and Daniel led me through a maze of hallways until we reached a room at the very end. He opened the door and stepped aside, g

The Line She Crossed

I didn't sleep after meeting Victor Vance, couldn't close my eyes without seeing his cold smile and hearing his threats against my child. Daniel dropped me at my house and promised to stay nearby, but I didn't trust him any more than I trusted Vance, so I locked every door and window and sat in the dark with my hand on my stomach until the sun came up.Merald arrived at dawn, his face pale and his eyes worried. "Sarah told me you met with Vance. Are you insane?""Probably.""He could have killed you, Debbie. He could have killed the baby.""But he didn't." I stood up from the couch and walked to the window. "Because he's scared of me, Merald. He's been in control for so long that he doesn't know what to do with someone who won't bow down to him.""So what's the plan?"I turned to face him, and I saw the fear in his eyes, the same fear I'd seen the night he handed me the divorce papers, the same fear I'd seen every time he looked at me and realized I wasn't the woman he married anymore

The Consequence of Fire

The news spread faster than I expected, the explosion at the Circle's financial hub was on every channel by morning, reporters shouting questions that no one could answer and politicians making speeches about justice and accountability that no one believed. I sat on my couch with my hand on my stomach and watched it all unfold, the footage of the burning building playing over and over again like a nightmare I couldn't wake up from."Mrs. Debbie, you need to see this," Sarah said, walking into the living room with her laptop. "The authorities are calling it terrorism."I leaned forward and read the screen, the words blurring together in a haze of shock and disbelief. The FBI was involved now, and the Department of Homeland Security, and half a dozen other agencies I'd never heard of, all of them searching for the person responsible for the attack."Do they know it was us?""Not yet, but it's only a matter of time. The building had security cameras, Mrs. Debbie, and even though we disab

The First Retaliation

I felt it before I saw it, that cold feeling in my chest that something was terribly wrong. The safe house was supposed to be empty, just a backup location in case things went bad, but the door was open when we pulled up, swinging loose on its hinges like someone had kicked it in."Stay here," Merald said, reaching for the gun in his waistband."No." I opened my door and stepped out before he could stop me. "If they're inside, I need to see it.""Debbie—""I said no."I walked toward the open door with my hand on my stomach and my heart pounding, and I could hear Merald behind me, his footsteps heavy on the concrete. The safe house was small, just a single room with a bed and a table and a few cabinets for supplies, but it had been our emergency fallback, the place we were supposed to run to if everything else fell apart.The first thing I noticed was the smell, copper and thick, the smell of blood. The second thing I noticed was the bodies, two of them, slumped against the wall with

Cracks in the Alliance

The days after the safe house raid were quiet, too quiet, and I knew that meant something was coming. Vance wasn't the kind of man to lick his wounds in private, he was the kind of man who struck back twice as hard when someone crossed him, and I had crossed him in ways no one ever had.But the silence was eating at me, and not just because of Vance.Something was off with Merald.He had been distant since the night of the explosion, pulling away when I reached for him, avoiding my eyes when we talked, disappearing for hours without explanation. I told myself it was the stress, the pressure, the weight of everything we were carrying, but I didn't believe it."Have you noticed anything strange about Merald?" I asked Sarah one afternoon, watching him through the window as he paced back and forth on the porch."Strange how?""I don't know, Different. Like he's hiding something."Sarah looked at me for a long moment. "You think he's the leak?""I don't know what to think anymore."The ten

The Man Who Walked Into the Fire

I couldn't stay in the house after Merald disappeared, couldn't sit in the same rooms where we had argued and cried and almost found our way back to each other. Every corner held a memory, every shadow held his face, and I needed to get out before I lost my mind completely.Sarah didn't want me to leave, told me it was too dangerous, told me Vance's people were everywhere, but I didn't care anymore. Let them come, let them try, I was done hiding."I'm going to the office," I said, grabbing my keys. "I have work to do.""Mrs. Debbie, please—""I said I'm going to the office."She didn't argue after that, just nodded and called for a security detail to follow me.The meeting was with a potential investor, someone Sarah had vetted and cleared, but I couldn't focus on the numbers or the projections or any of the things that used to matter. My mind kept drifting to Merald, to the photographs of him meeting with Elais Vance, to the text message that said he was with them now."Mrs. Cole?" T

No more secrets

I didn't sleep after Merald's call, couldn't close my eyes without hearing his voice, ragged and desperate, warning me away from the man who had saved my life. James was sitting in the living room when I walked out of the bedroom, his eyes fixed on the window and his hands folded in his lap like he had all the time in the world. "You heard from Merald," he said, not looking at me. "How did you know?" "Because you have the same look on your face that I had when David Chen called me for the last time, scared and confused and not sure who to trust." I sat down across from him, my hand on my stomach. "He said you're not who you say you are." James turned to face me, his expression unreadable. "And you believe him?" "I don't know what to believe anymore." James leaned back in his chair, his eyes never leaving mine. "I've been tracking the Circle for seven years, Debbie. Longer than Merald, longer than your brother, longer than anyone. I know their operations, their people, the

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