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THE CEO's SECRET WIFE IS HIS WORST ENEMY

Chapter 9 A Photograph From the Past

Word Count: 823 | Released on: 27/10/2026

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ask for lot

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window, letting the

, expensive, lonely. Only one lamp burned. The housekeeper ope

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here down a hallway that smelled like old books, and paused outside double

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desk as wide as a boat, a lamp still bent over a puzzle, stac

clicked on

past. Thomas Westwood on the left, dark hair, strong jaw, straight out of a magazine. On the rig

held shovels. Between them, a battered sign

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ble, she whisp

For once, he seemed at a loss. I walked past this picture hundreds

barely recognized her own voice. I

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our million dollars. Used the name on purpos

him. I hated him for a year after he died, he murmured. Thoug

did what her father taught her

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, yellowed slip. Handwriting, blue ink, caption: T & B, the day it was

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faint she nearly missed them. She had spent days searching for the mea

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ook the easy way out. But the cost

she said. On a sheet

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the sound. Mrs. Haldane

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THE CEO's SECRET WIFE IS HIS WORST ENEMY

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“Evelyn Hart used to believe love could fix anything even the frozen heart of billionaire Christian Westwood. Behind closed doors, she was his wife. But when they stepped into the world, everyone saw her as a traitor to his company. As rumors started flying, Evelyn counted on Christian to stand by her side. Instead, he chose to doubt her and turned his back, leaving her to face the wreckage on her own. So Evelyn disappeared. Fast forward four years. She comes back, but she's not the broken woman Christian remembers. Now she's running the show a powerful chairwoman with deep pockets, a dangerous secret, and a plan to shake the Westwood empire to its core. Christian never saw her coming. The woman he walked away from is now his fiercest enemy, striding into his boardroom with the power to destroy everything he fought for. Evelyn doesn't care about his apologies. She wants answers about her father's death. She's after justice, and she refuses to let anyone forget she refused to break. As they battle each other, old feelings don't just vanish. Secrets they never expected begin to surface, and Christian realizes Evelyn hid a lot more from him than just heartbreak. Someone in his family has been pulling the strings behind their backs all along. Now Christian has to dig up the truth before everything collapses. But can Evelyn really trust the man who abandoned her, when betrayal is hiding closer than either of them thinks? Christian wants his wife back. Evelyn wants the truth and she'll tear his empire down to get it. Neither is ready for the secrets about to turn their lives upside down. When the truth finally comes out, will their love survive? Or is revenge the only thing left?”