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Chapter 1

Zane's POVThe rain poured heavily. My son, Asher Frost, collapsed on the pavement, his skin burning against my palms as his eyes rolled back into his head. I did not care about the rules anymore. I scooped his feverish body into my arms and bolted toward the front door.A bulky guard lunged forward to block the entrance. "Miss Nyla said the kid had to stay outside for ten hours. He has three hours left. You cannot take him inside."Panic spiked through my chest. I shoved past the guard with everything I had, my voice cracking into a raw scream, "Asher is burning up! If he stays out here for another three hours, he’ll die! Did Nyla order you to kill him?"Seeing my son limp and unconscious in my arms, the guard froze. He stepped aside, letting us burst through the doorway, but immediately pulled out his phone to call my wife.I ignored him. I wrapped Asher in a thick blanket, tore through the medicine cabinet, and pressed a cold compress onto his forehead. Just as I reached

Chapter 2

What none of us saw coming was that her high school sweetheart would choose to end his life that exact same day.Nyla was consumed by gut-wrenching regret. She convinced herself that Asher and I had colluded to mess everything up, deliberately ruining her reunion with him. She even pinned his death directly on us. Her grief turned into a poisonous hatred directed entirely at my son and me.To punish us, she staged a car crash, faked a permanent disability, and spent three agonizing years tormenting us. As if that wasn't enough, she hired a dead ringer for her ex to act as our live-in doctor just to keep him by her side.Now, solely because Kieran’s face looked ninety percent identical to her dead ex, Nyla bought every single word coming out of his mouth. She concluded that Asher wasn't running a high fever at all, but was just faking a sickness to trick her.Her orders? I had to go outside and stand in the torrential rain for another ten hours.A fury hotter than hell surged throug

Chapter 3

I was furious. "Their lives matter, but my son's doesn’t?!"I threw myself toward the crowd of bodyguards.That was when I caught sight of two all-too-familiar faces. Kieran was surrounded by doctors, a tiny, barely noticeable scratch marring his cheek. Beside him, Nyla wasn't even using her wheelchair. She stood tall, bellowing at the medical team, "If you can't erase every trace of that scar on his face, you're all fired!"Asher was literally dying, yet she pulled every life-saving doctor in the room to fix a microscopic scratch on Kieran's face.The rage nearly choked me. Before I could scream, a bodyguard clamped a heavy hand over my mouth, pinning me in place.I could only watch in terror as my son violently convulsed, frothing at the mouth, his eyes rolling back into his head.The nurse panicked, frantically dialing number after number for backup, but every call was met with cold, dismissive barked orders.Time blurred into a nightmare.When an emergency doctor finally sp

Chapter 4

"No!"I lunged forward, desperate to break inside.Nyla snapped her fingers, summoning her bodyguards to tackle me back down to the floor.I fell to my knees, begging her through broken sobs, "Asher is already dead. Please, I’m begging you, don’t let them desecrate his body."Looking down at me in this pathetic state, a rare flash of pity softened Nyla’s cold eyes. She grabbed my hand, about to comfort me, when her gaze landed on my bare left hand.Shock instantly turned her face pale. "Where’s your wedding ring?""I sold it to get..."Before I could explain that it was to pay for our son’s emergency care, Nyla raised her hand and slapped my face."You're spoiling him again!" she shrieked, "The only reason I cut off your allowance was so you two wouldn't turn into lazy, spoiled degenerates! I can't believe you sold our wedding ring just to take him out to an amusement park! Unbelievable!"“Slap!”Slap after slap rained down on my face.I couldn't bring myself to say another

Chapter 5

I had no money to buy my son a burial plot in the city, so I returned home only to grab his documents and bring his ashes back to my hometown for burial.I gathered the paperwork and turned to leave, only to find Kieran standing in my path.With Nyla nowhere in sight, he dropped his whole innocent act, a cruel smirk plastered across his face. "You really are pathetic. You could never measure up to her dead ex, and now you can't even hold a candle to a replacement like me."Now that your son is dead, you've lost the absolute last leverage you had to beg for her love."And you know what? I ruined your kid's face on purpose during the postmortem examination. He looked way too much like you, and I despise you."My hands clenched into tight, trembling fists, my breath ragged.Right as the sound of approaching footsteps echoed down the hallway, Kieran suddenly reached out and slapped the urn straight out of my hands.The last thread of my sanity snapped. I lashed out with a vicious ki

Chapter 6

Third-Person POVWhen Nyla felt something warm and wet splatter across her cheek, she reached up and wiped it away.She looked at her hand. It was blood.She looked up into the sky. Nothing hung from the tail of the helicopter except a frayed, snapped harness.The man tied to it was gone.A crowd of security guards and staff rushed past her in sheer panic.Through the roaring ringing in her ears, Nyla barely registered her assistant shouting right beside her, "Ma'am! Something happened to your husband..."Her legs felt like they were dragged down by concrete blocks, every single step forward an agonizing struggle.As she approached, the crowd parted, creating a silent path for her.Some eyes were wide with horror, others filled with pity, and some held a conflicted tangle of emotions.They had witnessed this couple go from head-over-heels in love to this monstrous nightmare. They had seen every dirty game Kieran played.However, Nyla was the boss who signed their paychecks.

Chapter 7

So, Nyla made the heartless decision to break up with her first love. The two were in a cold war that seemed endless.Then her father fell critically ill. His single dying wish was to see her married and settled down.That was when she met Zane, an ordinary, down-to-earth guy with a heart of gold and a quiet devotion to family. She pulled out every trick in the book to win him over, making him believe they were soulmates. She played him so well that Zane willingly married, took her family’s name, and handed over everything he had.In the beginning, Nyla genuinely thought Zane was great. He never pried into her personal life and gave her all the space she needed.Still, she could never scrub the memory of her high school sweetheart from her mind. He was her first love, the one who taught her what love felt like in the first place.Seven years slipped by in the blink of an eye. One afternoon, right after promising her son a trip to the amusement park, her phone buzzed. A single

Chapter 8

The assistant's face went chalk white, eyes darting to Kieran with sheer terror.Nyla lunged forward like a woman possessed, her fingers digging violently into the assistant’s shoulders. "Tell me! What happened to Asher?"The assistant swallowed hard, forcing himself back to reality with a heavy sigh of remorse. "The little boy is fine," he stammered, "Everything I said before was a lie. Mr. Zane forced me to say it. He just wanted to make you worry so you'd finally stop punishing him."Kieran smirked, fanning the flames with a smooth, hypocritical tone. "I mean, really. Mr. Zane was the boy's father. How could he use his own kid like that, making up sick lies just to win back your attention?"Nyla arched an eyebrow. Zane’s manipulation rubbed her the wrong way, but with him already dead, she had no energy left to hold a grudge.Instead, a massive wave of relief washed over her. Thank God it was a lie. It meant her son was still breathing."Find Asher and bring him back to me r

Chapter 9

As Nyla frantically struck her own chest in despair, Kieran suddenly grabbed her hands and wrapped her in a tight, suffocating hug."Nyla, stop! It's in the past now. Mr. Zane just had terrible luck, okay? You did everything you could for him. Forget about him. Let us be together, please?"…Instead of calming her down, his words snapped something inside her. Her eyes went wild with a feverish, unhinged intensity."What do you mean, luck?" she shrieked, "Safety harnesses don’t just snap out of nowhere! Someone tampered with it. I'm going to find whoever did this, and I’m going to destroy them!"A sudden adrenaline rush surged through her. She threw herself into investigating Zane's death with a manic focus, completely blind to the ghostly white, terrified expression on Kieran's face beside her.Nyla sent the snapped tether and the official medical examiner’s report off for review. At the same time, she put out search parties for her son. Days passed with zero news about Asher, an

Chapter 10

Nyla was both shocked and furious. "I never did that! Who the hell was behind this?"She was about to launch a full investigation to track down the culprit when she suddenly froze. She turned toward the butler, her face draining of color. "Who did you say couldn't hold on?"The butler let out another heavy sigh, unable to watch her keep searching for a ghost. He had to tell her the brutal truth. "Your son is dead. A few days ago, you forced him to stay outside in the rain as punishment, and you punished Mr. Zane too."By the time Mr. Zane finished his punishment, the boy was burning up with a lethal fever and had already passed out. He was barely breathing."Nyla's entire body trembled violently. "What are you saying? Asher wasn't faking it? He was actually sick?"She bit her lip until it bled, her heart feeling as if it were dripping fresh blood.It all made sense now.That day, Asher’s face had turned purple, his entire body shivering uncontrollably. She had genuinely assume

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