Lahat ng Kabanata ng The Wife He Betrayed: Kabanata 11 - Kabanata 20

The drive to Nakuru Central Hospital was a blur.Patricia barely remembered leaving the house.One moment, she was standing in shock after learning the truth about her adoption.Then next, she was racing through traffic with Alison beside her.Neither woman spoke.Too much had happened.Too much was still happening.The city rushed past them.Matatus blared horns.Pedestrians crossed busy roads.Life carried on as normal.Yet Patricia felt as though her entire world had been ripped apart overnight.Her phone remained clenched in her hand.The nurse's words echoed repeatedly in her mind."He keeps saying Fiona is trying to kill him."It made no sense.None at all.Alex had practically abandoned his family for Fiona.He trusted her.Loved her.Chose her.So why was he suddenly afraid?The hospital gates appeared ahead.Patricia's heartbeat accelerated.Whatever answers awaited her inside, she wasn't sure she was ready for them.The emergency ward smelled of antiseptic and fear.Doctors

The room fell silent.Even the sounds from the hospital corridor seemed distant.Muted.Unreal.Patricia stared at Alex.Certain she had misheard him."The flash drive belongs to me?"Alex nodded weakly."Yes.""No."Her voice shook."You're lying.""I wish I was."Patricia stepped backward.The walls suddenly felt too close.Too confining.Too real."I don't remember any flash drive.""I know.""Then how can it belong to me?"Alex closed his eyes.Pain flickered across his bruised face."Because you asked me to hide it."Patricia felt the floor tilt beneath her."What?""You asked me to.""That's impossible."Alison remained silent.Watching.Listening.Analyzing.The lawyer in her recognized something important.Alex wasn't defending himself.He wasn't manipulating.For the first time since she'd met him, he seemed genuinely terrified.And desperate people often told the truth.Several months earlier...Rain hammered against the windows of a hotel room in Nairobi.Patricia sat at th

Patricia stared at the envelope.Her hands trembled.The words written across the front seemed unreal.My Daughter.For several seconds, she couldn't breathe.Couldn't think.Couldn't move.The bustling hospital cafeteria faded into the background.The voices.The footsteps.The clatter of cups.Everything disappeared.Only the envelope remained.And the possibility that her dead mother had written to her twenty-six years ago.Joel Aliet watched quietly.He had seen this reaction before.The moment a person's reality begins to crumble.The moment truth arrives.Alison gently touched Patricia's shoulder."Open it."Patricia swallowed hard.Slowly, she broke the seal.The paper inside had yellowed with age.Carefully folded.Preserved.Protected.As though someone had spent decades ensuring it survived.Her heart pounded as she unfolded it.Then she began reading.My Dearest Daughter,If you are reading this, then I have failed to protect you.Patricia's vision blurred.Her fingers tigh

The rain continued falling.Cold.Relentless.Merciless.Patricia knelt beside Joel Aliet's lifeless body, unable to move.Unable to think.Unable to breathe.His final words echoed through her mind.You're Obadiah's daughter.Not granddaughter.Daughter.The revelation shattered everything she thought she knew.Nothing made sense anymore.Nothing.Alison grabbed her shoulders."Patricia!"No response."Patricia!"Finally, she blinked.The world slowly returned.The rain.The hospital.The blood pooling beneath Joel's body.The approaching footsteps.Danger.Very immediate danger."We have to go."Patricia looked toward the hospital entrance.Fiona stood there.Watching.Smiling.Not the smile of victory.The smile of someone who knew more than everyone else.Someone who had been waiting for this moment.Alison practically dragged Patricia toward the vehicle.Moments later, they sped out of the hospital parking lot.Leaving chaos behind.Leaving death behind.Leaving questions behind.

The words hung heavily in the office.Rose was never my daughter.Nobody spoke.Nobody moved.Even the hum of the air conditioner seemed louder.Patricia stared at Obadiah.Waiting.Hoping.Praying that he would laugh and admit this was some cruel misunderstanding.Instead, the billionaire looked away.Like a man ashamed of a secret he had carried too long."What do you mean?" Alison finally asked.Obadiah exhaled slowly."Rose Waore was adopted."Patricia's eyebrows knitted together."Adopted?""Yes."The old man rubbed his forehead."She came into my life when she was six years old."Silence."Her parents died in a fire."Patricia felt a chill.Something about those words unsettled her.A fire.Another tragedy.Another mystery.Another buried secret."Where?" Patricia asked.Obadiah hesitated.Then answered."Kisumu."The room became quiet again."Rose never knew the truth."His voice softened."To her, I was her father."Patricia noticed genuine emotion in his eyes.Pain.Love.Reg