All Chapters of The Ring She Tossed Away: Chapter 1 - Chapter 10

By the bedside, my grandchildren presented a platinum ring encrusted with diamond. Lucius gripped it so fiercely that his knuckles turned ashen. Turning his head toward me, tears carving tracks through the lines on his face, he whispered. "Amara, I kept my promise to you my entire life. I never betrayed you. But if there is a next life… I will never let Planette leave my side." I stared at him blankly, my mind a blank canvas of confusion. Planette…Who was that?Before I could gather my shattered thoughts, my grandchildren laid the truth bare. When Lucius was twenty-six, he had rescued a dancer named Planette Moore from harassment at a bar, hiding her away in a secluded villa and visiting her in secret. But at thirty, she died in a car crash. Back then, Lucius had reacted with a terrifying serenity. No one had suspected anything. Everyone believed he had returned to the family for good. That was the foundation upon which our love story was built.Hearing of his hidden devotion, a deaf

"Help me… it hurts…" Planette mumbled deliriously in his arms, her body trembling violently with pain.Lucius didn’t spare a single glance for me on the floor. He scooped Planette up and bolted out the door. I slumped against the wall, my gaze empty and hollow. Blood was pouring steadily from the back of my head, soaking into the carpet beneath me. It was only then that I realized how badly I’d been hurt in the scuffle.Suddenly, a sharp knock rapped on the door. My intuition told me it was Lucius. Pulling myself up with every ounce of strength I had left, I opened it, only to find my lawyer, Julian Croft, standing outside with the divorce agreement in hand.Julian was absolutely stunned at the sight of my bloodied face. "I’ll take you to the hospital right now!""No, I’m fine. Just give me the agreement."I scrawled my signature in one swift motion. A drop of my blood splattered across the paper, but I didn’t even blink.Julian insisted on driving me to the hospital. By the time my wo

Lucius was just about to bolt out the door when a loud crash sounded behind him. Planette collapsed to the floor, her face as pale as paper, bright red blood rapidly pooling beneath her. “Shit! Is she having a miscarriage?” Lucius cursed under his breath, his brow furrowing in frustration. Without hesitation, he scooped her up and rushed straight to the hospital. The sharp, sterile scent of disinfectant made his head throb as the doctor delivered the diagnosis. Planette was diagnosed as a threatened miscarriage, requiring immediate hospitalization and observation.Standing by the hospital window, Lucius lit a cigarette, his expression dark with frustration. He recalled the day he was reborn. He had rushed to see Planette, unable to wait another second to hold her. When she had cried and thrown herself into his arms at the mere sight of him, he had completely lost control of his emotions. That was most likely when the child was conceived.But now, if Planette’s baby was born, Amara wo

I picked up the call, but there was only dead silence on the other end. Lying on the massage table, I was a little bewildered by the strange call, so I simply hung up.On the freezing street, Lucius stared blankly at the busy signal on his screen before dialing again. His voice was rough and broken. He dialed the phone number again.“Amara, where in Finland are you? I lost my phone, and you’re the only one I can reach.”A smirk tugged at my lips. “What do you want from me? We’re divorced. If there’s nothing else, I’m hanging up.”“Don’t…”I didn’t give him a chance to finish. Dejection washed over Lucius as he lowered his head. In the very next second, a pungent cloth was clamped brutally over his mouth and nose. It happened so fast that he couldn’t even struggle. His limbs went limp instantly, and his consciousness blurred into darkness.An indeterminate amount of time passed before Lucius finally regained his senses in a frigid steel carriage. Glancing around, he quickly grasped tha

Lucius fell into a heavy, suffocating silence. Only after the door clicked shut behind her did the fragmented pieces of the truth finally snap together in his mind. He dialed Planette’s number, his voice a harsh, unforgiving blade. "Was it really Amara who sent people to harass you that night at the bar?"Her silence was all the confession he needed. A low, feral roar tore from his throat. Raising his hand, he slapped himself across the face with a sickening crack. He was nothing but a complete, irredeemable bastard. Snatching her by the throat, he pinned her against the wall, his eyes burning with venom. "Aren't you afraid of retribution for what you've done?"Planette squeezed her eyes shut in agony, but a twisted, defiant smile crept onto her lips. "Lucius! If retribution really exists, you should be the first to burn."Lucius was instantly paralyzed, the breath knocked out of his lungs. He had no defense."You cheated on Amara for two years, and she never knew a thing. You liv