Betrayal's Echo: A Wife's Revenge

night at the chateau. Two weeks of silence. Evelyn had thrown herself back into her work, but the purpose was gone. The cure was complete, the data published u

funding the research, had called her. He was a kind, perce

've been through a lot. There's a new project. Top-secret. A deep-sea research facility in the Atlantic. It's about neural r

n escape. A place where Ethan couldn't find her. A way to

acing books into boxes, when the sound of the key in th

open, and there

He was wearing an expensive suit, his hair perfectly styled. The sight of

a low, possessive hum. "You

tinued placing a book into a box,

him. The small space immediately felt suffo

said, her voice fla

dramatic, Ev. I know you're upset. I should have told you abo

r mouth. She turned to face him, her expression unreadable.

after the accident. Tiffany... she was a comfort. But it never meant anything. N

at had once charmed her now felt slimy, manipulative.

this," she said. "We are

y fluttered in, her eyes wide and innocent. She wa

rped, before her eyes landed on Evelyn. She feigned

kiss his cheek, a pointedly intimate gesture. "I miss

had discovered on their honeymoon. They had been their special treat. Seeing them in Tiffany's hands, a casual offering to the

He just kept his eyes on Evelyn, a

said, his tone soft but his message clear. He wa

rt from shopping all day for our new house." She looked at Evelyn, a flicker of triumph

in on Evelyn's face, a barely perceptible tightening of her jaw. And he

died. He wasn't just a man who had made a mistake. He was a man who

hought of the life they had planned together, the villa near the

telpiece – a picture of her and Ethan on their wedding day. She looked at it for a long moment, then calmly

I refuse to be a part of this... arrangement. I am not something you can share

roken wife he had expected. She was a scientist who had