Too Late For Regret: The Ex-Wife's Escape

Chapter 5

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ick with the scent of dust and stale, expensive potpou

filled with her old life: designer clothes, handbags, and jewelry,

out a worn, old suitcase. It had belonged to

hodical. She took only a few of her mother's thing

owns. She would show Carter, through her actions, t

, retrieved her personal documents, her passport

ivorce agreement she had commissioned that morning. The lawyer had sent it to her

he last page and

se K

firm, without a tr

enter of the expensive glass coffee table, where

arter's arrival time. She had no intention of seei

hat had imprisoned her youth, then grabbed her

he doorknob, she heard the sou

her throat. He was back.

into the hallway leading to the kitchen. There wa

all frame filled the doorway. His eyes immediat

up the document, and saw the words "Divorce Agreement" abo

ivorce papers? She dared t

hrowing the scraps into the air. They

sistant. "Ethan. Immediately. Freeze every single one of Eloise Knight's accounts. Bank

urvive a single day in New York. He would force he

hallway, Eloise heard everything. The

les turning white. She had expected him to be ang

engthened h

ed animal. He could feel it-the presence of another pe

ence ans

n he saw that only the old suitcase was gone, while all the valuables

worthless junk. It was a deeper insul

oise was already slipping out the se

rk stairs, her shoes making sharp

e knew a more brutal war had just beg

Carter's car still parked out front. He would be look

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Too Late For Regret: The Ex-Wife's Escape

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“After three agonizing years in prison, Eloise Knight finally walked out of the heavy iron gates. Waiting for her was her billionaire husband, Carter James. He didn't come to welcome her, but to see if prison had finally broken her into an obedient wife. Three years ago, he stood in court and presented the very evidence that condemned her for murdering her best friend-a vintage letter opener he knew was a gift from her late father. When Eloise turned her back on his luxury car and walked away, Carter's ruthless nature was unleashed. "Freeze every single one of her accounts. I don't want one cent flowing to her." He cut off her credit cards, her bank accounts, and even the trust fund left by her mother. He wanted to leave her penniless and starving on the cold streets of New York, absolutely certain she would soon come crawling back to beg for his mercy. In the freezing night, clutching only an old suitcase, Eloise felt a bitter clarity. She remembered her murdered best friend's secretive smile, boasting about a way to steal Carter's heart just days before her death. She realized she had been framed by the two people she trusted most. Why did Carter hate her so much? How could they destroy her life so easily without a second thought? But she was no longer the naive Mrs. James. Eloise signed the divorce papers, left them on his pristine coffee table, and vanished into the night. She disguised herself as a mute cleaner at the exclusive Elysian Club, stepping right into his playground to find the truth and clear her name.”