She had brought bodyguards.
She had paid them millions to keep their mouths shut.
She had thought money could erase everything.
But she hadn’t accounted for one man.
Elena Lively.
One of the men who had witnessed it all
And a man who had once owed me a favor.
He had waited three years for a chance to speak the truth.
“Mr. Emerson, before Miss Reid died… she left a letter for you.”
Daniel’s hands trembled as he took the envelope.
I had never dared to leave it inside the villa.
If Caroline had found it, she would have destroyed it.
So I had entrusted it to Elena.
I had told him-
If he ever saw Daniel again, to give it to him.
But I hadn’t expected it would take three years.
Inside that letter-
I had written down everything.
The truth.
How Caroline was never the innocent, devoted woman she pretended to be.
How she had never loved Daniel.
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How she only wanted his wealth and power,
How she had caused her own miscarriage.
And the worst part-
The baby she lost… had never even been Daniel’s.
I had also told him one more thing.
The kidney transplant that had saved his life years ago?
It wasn’t from Caroline.
It was from me.
She had stolen my sacrifice.
She had stolen my place.
And Daniel, blinded by her lies, had believed everything she said.
He had thought I was heartless and selfish.
That I had stopped loving him.
That I had only wanted to take Jack and leave.
But in reality-
He had been so addicted to feeling “needed” that Caroline had played him like a fool.
Now, holding the letter in his shaking hands, Daniel ground his teeth in fury.
“Caroline Brantley…”
“You will pay for this.”
His grip on the letter tightened.
His voice broke.
“Chloe… I was wrong…”
But it was too late.
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One moment, Caroline had been the love of k
The next, she was his sworn enemy,
With the evidence from the drunkard and my final lentar, Daniel took Cardine to comes
And he had only one demand
“Her life in exchange for Cidor’s”
Before the trial, Daniel personally visited the hospital to investigate Caroline’s Kutney falie
And just as he suspected-
It was all a lie.
“So you’ve been playing me all these years.”
Daniel was furious.
He vowed to destroy her.
Caroline had never expected Daniel -the man who once daimed to love her more than life inself–to turn against her so completely.
Realizing she had nothing left to lose, she resorted to her final desperate act
The night before the trial, she had my son kidnapped.
Inside an abandoned warehouse, she recorded his terrified cries and sent them to Daniel
“Daniel, your son is with me.”
“If you drop the charges and agree to marry me, he will be safe.”
“Otherwise he’ll be joining that wretched woman in the afterlife.”
For the first time ever, Daniel truly cared about Jack
Perhaps it was guilt over what he had done to me.
Perhaps it was his way of atoning.
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Ile immediately agreed,
He dropped the lawsuit and began preparing an extravagant wedding.
Caroline let down her guard.
She thought her plan had worked.
She thought she was finally about to marry into wealth, becoming Mrs. Emerson.
She walked proudly into the grand wedding hall, dressed in an elegant white gown-
Only for police officers to storm in and arrest her on the spot.
Her smile froze.
Fury twisted her face as she turned to Daniel.
“You lied to me!”
Daniel didn’t deny it.
He sneered, stepping forward to personally snap the handcuffs onto her wrists.
“You deceived me first.”
“Then
you
murdered my wife.”
“And now, you dared to kidnap my son to threaten me?”
His voice turned icy.
“Caroline, you should be grateful I’m not asking for your life in return.”
“You will spend the rest of your days rotting in prison.”
Caroline was sentenced to life in prison.
For someone who had dreamed of marrying into wealth, spending the rest of her life behind bars was a fate worse than death.
