Semua Bab Here's to Your Forever… Without Me: Bab 1 - Bab 8

"Elisa, what tricks are you playing now?"Wade Grant stepped forward and pulled Rose Barrymore firmly behind him, shielding her."Tricks?" I set down my wine glass. "Isn't this exactly what you wanted?"Wade let out a cold laugh."You know full well that Rose has depression, yet you choose today, of all days, to put on this show of generosity. Are you trying to make everyone think she's the one who drove you away?"I looked at his face. Familiar, and yet a stranger's.It had been the same in my last life. One tear from Rose, and every accusation landed on me."Wade, don't talk to Elisa like that..." Rose tugged at his sleeve, her eyes reddening. "It's my fault. I shouldn't have come. I'll go now.""You're not going anywhere." Wade caught her wrist and held it fast.Levi Grant slammed his palm on the table and pointed at his son."You insolent brat. Do you even know what you're saying?""Dad, I'm perfectly clear-headed." Wade didn't back down an inch. "If it weren't for Elisa

A week later, a crisis broke out in the Cloud Project, the joint venture between the Rodneys and the Grants. The Rodneys had provided the land; the Grants, the technology. The project had already reached its final review stage when Grant Group's core data was suddenly leaked, forcing the whole thing to a halt.As the Rodneys' project lead, I marched into Grant Group's conference room with legal counsel in tow. Wade sat at the head of the table, flipping through documents, not even lifting his head."Wade, the Cloud Project's core data has been leaked. The Rodney Group stands to lose nearly 300 million dollars." I slapped a report down in front of him. "We need an explanation."Only then did Wade look up, his gaze sweeping over me and my legal team. He gave a short laugh and pushed a document across the table toward me."An explanation? Elisa, you don't actually think a 300-million-dollar hole can be pinned on someone else, do you?"I looked down at the document. A data authoriza

Three days later, Nick pushed open the door to my hospital room. He set several documents down on the table. A unilateral divestment notice: the Rodney Group's withdrawal from the Cloud Project.I picked up a pen and signed my name on the last page. Every piece of land and equipment the Rodneys had put into the project would be reclaimed in full. Grant Group would be left to face the project's collapse and the massive penalty fees alone."Ms. Rodney, the representatives from Grant Group will be here this afternoon." Nick closed the folder. "Cyrus Statham's deal is settled. We're paying him exactly what the Barrymores owed him back then."I changed out of the hospital gown and walked toward the elevator, bag in hand.On the ground floor, Wade's car blocked the exit. He leaned against the car door, his gaze settling on me. Rose sat in the passenger seat, only half her face visible."Elisa." He straightened up, blocking the exit, his eyes flicking to the bandage wrapped around my wri

Three days after the press conference, Grant Group collapsed entirely. The media ran story after story on the scandal: Rose hiring someone to kidnap Wade's mother, and the data fraud behind the Cloud Project. Grant Group's stock hit the daily limit down, day after day, wiping out more than half its market value. The Barrymores went completely bankrupt, every asset seized for forced liquidation.Late that night, I sat in my study looking over the financial reports. Nick walked in and set down a stack of files."Ms. Rodney, Rose got into a car accident while trying to flee. She hit a truck."I turned a page in the report. "Where is she now?""She's lost both legs, ruptured her spleen. Still in the ICU. "Wade was in the car too."I looked up."He went after her. His right hand is shattered."Fate really was fair. In my last life, to get his revenge, he'd made sure I could never hold a paintbrush again. Now, his hand was ruined.When Grant's father, Levi, learned the truth, h