His Gilded Lie, Her Golden Revenge

His Gilded Lie, Her Golden Revenge

REGINA HUTCHINSON

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My life was perfect: a loving husband, a beautiful Charleston home, and a crucial grant to restore a historic house. But my lawyer' s words shattered it all. "There's an issue with the spousal disclosures," he said, pushing a marriage certificate across his desk. It wasn't mine. It was Ethan' s, marrying his assistant, Chloe Vance, five years ago. My seven-year marriage was a lie. Chloe was always there, her presence dismissed by Ethan as "purely professional." I had wanted to believe him. Then I overheard them: Ethan confessing he needed me for "legitimacy" and Chloe for "something vital." The betrayal was colder, more calculated than I imagined. He left me for dead, tortured and disfigured, in a damp basement, after Chloe orchestrated the attack using his men. He even gave her my great-grandmother' s locket-my heritage-as if replacing me, piece by precious piece. How could he? How could the man I loved, my soulmate, be so monstrously manipulative, so blind, so cruel? My body screamed in pain, but my heart felt nothing but an echoing emptiness. My entire existence was a charade, a cruel joke. But as I lay there, broken and discarded, a chilling resolve took root. Amelia Hayes was dead. It was time for Grace Thorne to be born. I would not just survive; I would rise from the ashes and dismantle every last piece of his gilded empire. This was not just revenge; this was rebalancing the scales, permanently.

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My life was perfect: a loving husband, a beautiful Charleston home, and a crucial grant to restore a historic house.

But my lawyer' s words shattered it all.

"There's an issue with the spousal disclosures," he said, pushing a marriage certificate across his desk.

It wasn't mine.

It was Ethan' s, marrying his assistant, Chloe Vance, five years ago.

My seven-year marriage was a lie.

Chloe was always there, her presence dismissed by Ethan as "purely professional."

I had wanted to believe him.

Then I overheard them: Ethan confessing he needed me for "legitimacy" and Chloe for "something vital."

The betrayal was colder, more calculated than I imagined.

He left me for dead, tortured and disfigured, in a damp basement, after Chloe orchestrated the attack using his men.

He even gave her my great-grandmother' s locket-my heritage-as if replacing me, piece by precious piece.

How could he?

How could the man I loved, my soulmate, be so monstrously manipulative, so blind, so cruel?

My body screamed in pain, but my heart felt nothing but an echoing emptiness.

My entire existence was a charade, a cruel joke.

But as I lay there, broken and discarded, a chilling resolve took root.

Amelia Hayes was dead.

It was time for Grace Thorne to be born.

I would not just survive; I would rise from the ashes and dismantle every last piece of his gilded empire.

This was not just revenge; this was rebalancing the scales, permanently.

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