Clara Whitfield

Adeline's world collapsed in a single day: her boyfriend caught cheating, her best friend the accomplice, and a reckless, regrettable night with her powerful boss.

Hitting rock bottom wasn't enough—then came the police call.​​

"Adeline? You and your boyfriend are suspects in distributing illicit videos. Get down here."

At the station, her horror peaked: the video evidence wasn't what they implied, but a graphic betrayal—her boyfriend and her best friend. Shattered didn't cover it.

But fate intervened that very night.Drowning her sorrows, she locked eyes with Ronald Williams. He saw her pain, and before the night was over, he offered a lifeline wrapped in audacity: "How about becoming Mrs. Williams?"​​

The question wasn't a proposal; it was a revelation.In that instant, amidst the wreckage of her life, Adeline felt the terrifying, electrifying pull.

She wasn't just tempted—she was already addicted.

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For six years of marriage, I sacrificed everything for my family.

Yet my husband, Arthur Smith, spent his days tending to another woman, while my children wished I would permanently vanish from their lives.

As my fingers brushed away the dust from my mother's Nobel Prize medal, a resolution crystallized within me: from this day forward, I would live for myself!

Husband? Don't need him. Children? Don't need them either.

Back in the laboratory, I stood at last on the podium everyone looked up to.

But when I shoved the divorce papers into Arthur's hands, he and the children completely broke down.

I tore myself free from their clinging grasp. Arthur suddenly snapped, collapsing to his knees before me with bloodshot eyes, his voice breaking as he begged, "Elaine ... don't leave me..."

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The day my daughter Lily Brown turned three, I came face-to-face with Edward Thomas—the man I’d put behind bars.​​

​Surrounded by his admirers, he pointed at the wine spilled at my feet. His voice was ice-cold. “Get on your knees. Lick it off the floor.”

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"Chloe, if I ever did something terrible, would you forgive me?" he asked.

I flashed a confident smile. "Absolutely not. I'd run far, far away and you'd never see me again."

Because I always believed I was Arthur Williams's one and only love.

But when I discovered Arthur had a child with my sister, I realized it had all been part of a scheme from the very beginning.

Said and done. I vanished from his life for good.

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Chloe Brown was Howard Miller's biggest regret.

So when he discovered Chloe wasn't happy, he didn't hesitate to take her from Arthur.

Already married? Pregnant with someone else's baby? So what?

To Howard, Chloe was and always would be the one.

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