The Jilted Wife's Ruthless Wall Street Return

Chapter 3

Word Count: 940 | Released on: 20/04/2026

She kept her voice low, her words coming out in rapid,

filthy name in the book, her voice shaking with rage. "I'm call

ercial trust documents," Adriene instructed, her to

over to the large bay window and stared out into the pitch-black estate gro

ed the silence of the night. It came from the di

ax. The purebred Golden Retriever her father had given her before his bankruptc

heavy wool coat and snatching a heavy metal flashlight from the desk, and sprinted out of the bedroom. She ran down

e freezing wind hit her face, carrying with it a thick,

the glass doors of the greenhouse. She flicked on the flashlight.

brain shor

stomach had been sliced wide open. Thick, dark blood soaked

ay and casting crazy shadows against the glass. She reached her trembling hand out, her

ushed her lungs. But before the first sob could rip from h

oked at the dead dog, threw her hands over her mouth, and

heavy footsteps of bodyguards and staff echoed across the lawn. Fl

g finger straight at Adriene. "She did it!" Elaina sobbed, her words tum

the room. The staff stared at Adriene, t

he didn't look at the staff. She looked straight th

th the fake tears, Elaina's eyes were shining with

heek. The grief didn't vanish; it crystallized into something harder, colder. A promise. Her mind became terrifyingly c

using the scattered beams of the flas

she

a's white silk nightgown. A single,

her mouth twitched into a slow, chilling smile. It was a smile so devoi

b Adriene's arm. "Mrs. Morales, please come with me.

manded. Her voice wasn't loud, but it cut through the room like a

the entire room. Even the butler stopped

ol coat and gently, respectfully draped it over

aina. She didn't stop until she was stan

a fatal mistake," she whisper

e tried to maintain her innocent act, letting

llin's massive frame filled the doorway of the greenhouse. His chest w

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“For three years, Adriene Rodgers gave up her brilliant Wall Street career to be the perfect, devoted wife to billionaire Dallin Morales. But one night, she overheard him talking to his lawyer, a confession that shattered her world. "Adriene is exactly what I need her to be. A perfect social shield to keep the cameras busy so Elaina can live in peace." Elaina was his late brother's widow. Dallin coldly admitted that touching his wife made him physically sick, and he only stomached it by closing his eyes and thinking of Elaina. From that moment, the nightmare escalated. Elaina framed Adriene at every turn-slashing Adriene's beloved dog to death and throwing herself into a pool to play the victim. Dallin blindly believed the widow. He shoved Adriene so hard she cracked her head open on the marble deck, leaving her bleeding on the ground while he tenderly carried Elaina away. The ultimate betrayal came when Adriene's father went into sudden cardiac failure. Desperate, she begged Dallin for the life-saving hospital funds. Instead, Dallin ruthlessly froze every single one of her bank accounts. "Go get on your knees and apologize to Elaina. Do that, and I will unfreeze your cards." Standing in the freezing rain while Dallin's Rolls-Royce sped off to comfort Elaina's fake panic attack, Adriene's heart finally turned to ice. How could she have wasted three years of devotion on a man who would use her dying father as a bargaining chip for a manipulative parasite? She didn't shed another tear. After borrowing money to save her father, she secretly signed the divorce papers and left them in a Hermès anniversary box on his desk. Then, she pulled out her old resume and sent it directly to his biggest corporate rivals. The submissive wife was dead, and it was time to burn his empire to the ground.”