All Chapters of The Revenge They Never Saw Coming: Chapter 1 - Chapter 10

I started choking almost instantly as the ice water slammed down on me.Someone had locked the glass conservatory from the outside. The walls were transparent on every side. The lights out there were blinding, leaving no place to hide how wretched I looked.The terrace of the banquet hall below was packed with people. They held champagne flutes as they watched me struggle to survive.Some laughed. Some whistled. Others held up their phones and pointed the cameras at my rain-soaked face."This is wild.""Mr. Jay really knows how to have fun. A surprise like this for his fiancée the night before the engagement? Wow.""What surprise? Didn't you hear Sabrina? It's a test.""A test of whether she's worthy of the Harrison family!"Their jeers cut through the sound of the rain and into my ears.My fingers locked around the door handle.It wouldn't open.An electronic lock hung on the outside, its screen glowing red.Sabrina stood just beyond the glass in a clean, lovely gown,

My heart lurched.Sabrina's smile turned sweeter. "Did you really think he'd keep your secrets? Sorry to break it to you, but he spilled everything when he was coaxing me to sleep. He said you were trapped as a kid, so you never sleep well when it rains. "He said you act tough, but deep down you're still that little girl who's afraid of the dark and the water."My ears rang.Her words were colder than the downpour.I had been with Jay for three years.I had stood up to the board when they tried to oust him.I had secured overseas financing for him.I had stayed up until four in the morning revising his acquisition proposal.I was the one who kept vigil till dawn the night he was hospitalized with a bleeding stomach.I was the one who found the holes in the account books and dragged his tattered reputation out of the mud when the Harrison family's eldest son framed him for embezzling company funds.He had knelt in front of me and vowed, "Melanie, I wouldn't be the man today

The broken glass sliced across my calf, and the pain turned my vision white.However, I didn't stop.Instead, I swung my leg at the shattered glass until it broke apart further.Shards tore into my shoulder as I ducked through the hole. Blood ran down my soaked evening gown.Everyone went deathly quiet. They probably never imagined I'd manage to escape.Sabrina instinctively stepped back and asked tremulously, "Melanie, w-what do you think you're doing?"She screamed her head off when I grabbed her wrist, "Jay! Help me!"Only then did Jay stride over."Melanie, let her go."I looked up at him. "Were you deaf when I begged you to save me earlier?"He stopped short.Sabrina burst into tears. "I was only joking! Yet, she's trying to hurt me. Jay, I'm scared."His face went cold. "Melanie, don't make this into a big deal."I stared at him upon hearing his words. "A big deal? She imprisoned me, turned on the sprinklers, made a show out of my fear, and let all these people film

"Understood." Tania nodded sternly.Jay's expression instantly changed. "Melanie, have you lost your mind? If Starwish Capital pulls out, the funding chain for Harrison Group's new-energy industrial park will snap. Do you know how much damage that would do to us?"I looked at him calmly. "I do. The preliminary estimate would be 3.7 billion."He lunged a step toward me. "You know full well that this project is Harrison Group's lifeline this year.""Why, yes, I do." I smiled. "After all, I'm the woman behind it. Jay, you didn't really think that sitting in the chairman's office and signing a few pages made the project yours, did you?"The color drained from his face bit by bit.Three years ago, Jay had almost nothing in his corner at the height of the infighting at Harrison Group. Kyle Harrison, the family's eldest son, held the old clients, and the board stood behind him. It was I who walked into Harrison Group with the new-energy park proposal. I spent three months winning gove

Jay's face changed instantly."Melanie, did you investigate me?"I kept my expression blank as I replied, "Mr. Harrison, as the project's leader in risk control, what I investigated was the project's money. The fact that it led to you only shows that you've overextended yourself."The board members quickly leafed through the documents. The more they read, the uglier their faces got.One of them demanded, "Mr. Harrison, why wasn't this money approved by the board? Payton's cultural tourism city was put on the banks' risk watchlist long ago. Why keep pumping money into it? Do you know this could drag down the entire new-energy project?"Jay forced himself to stay calm as he replied, "It's only short-term working capital. The Paytons will pay it back soon.""They can't." I tapped lightly on the table. "Construction on their project was halted last week. I'm talking contractor arrears, bank collections, and a default on the land payment. They hit all three of the big no-nos in busine