THE WIFE HE BETRAYED BECAME HIS GREATEST REGRET

, you will no lo

for him to laugh, thinking he was only joki

guests watched them beneath the glittering chandeliers of the Blackwood family's anniversary gala. For three years, Eleanor had defended this man against everyone who said he w

cameras were still pointed at them. "What is this? If

h she had said something ridiculous.

become blank immediately "What" she whispered in her head. A few guests exchanged uncomfortable l

is unsure of what will happened tonight. Inside her was a silver wristwatch she had spent six months saving to buy for Adrian, it wasn't expensive compared with the gifts his family exchan

ietly but only Adrian

d the divorc

e thought about that

uck her harde

aying

don't know what I

don

hort, humor

You never know anythin

ng, anything that would explain why the man who had kissed her forehead that morning

I done?"

the stage with a document in his hand, one of his workers cam

when one of his company's major projects was in danger of collapsing. She had worked on it late into the night, checking figures and identifying a costly error that eve

er entering a hotel lobby, the date was

m erupted i

Mrs. Bl

eting someone from a

g was wrong with

ay, she had gone to the hotel to meet a supplier for a small design project she had been

what it looks like

drian shouted at her

e meeting. But those documents-" before she cou

n email sent fro

fell ope

team traced th

head immediately. "T

e entered your account, stole co

ore she could stop it. "B

uick that she almost missed it, doubts flickered beh

the consequences before you dec

ld anything

oug

nce but at the same time she didn't know that her so-called husband do

ned toward

e dissolved, and the company will pursue every legal action necessary to recover the damage caused

night she had waited for him when business meetings ran late, she had defended him when his own relatives called him incapable of leading the family empire. She has speak to many business executives in stand for him, paving a way for her husband to collab with them. When his company nearly lost its biggest client, she ha

me," sh

e papers Eleanor, I am not i

ooked down at the document, she couldn't believe what her eyes is seeing. The first page contained her name, the secon

der any company documents in her possession and

"You prepared all of

he was trying to avoid eye contact with her

u were going

eanor." He s

he

ons and sign the papers, I don't have answ

t three years of marriag

more difficult th

e, but there wa

, accuse me of a crime I didn't commit, and now

es har

'm tired of pretending this

breathing for

n con

out you. You were never

e was beneath him, but because she had spent three years trying to prove that she belonged beside him, s

ond, a woman's voice

ng, the guests

around to see

ir arranged elegantly over one shoulder, she looked beautiful, composed and entir

who had disappeared from his life three years earlier, shortly before Eleanor became his wife and to

m about it, he had told her

ing to show Eleanor what she couldn't ach

although the small smile on her face sugg

d at her, it was the same expression Elean

ied. "You're

each other a smile and a simple hug then he slip

, I suppose there's no reason t

ding but now it seems as if she was not f

inger and then she flaunted it, to the right and to the left so the audienc

d with a smile on her face, a smile t

ced an arm around Victoria's waist. The audience now believed

ed to divorce her, he had also prepared to replace h

saying who is this man exactly, who have I been with

er love me?

Adrian turned towards Eleanor amd he looked directl

. For a moment, she thought about refusing, she thought about screaming, exposing every private detail of their marriage and forcing him to admit what h

gned her name on the divorce papers, immediately she fin

pered. "You have

signature. "Security

at him in

allow me to le

longer a

he didn't want her to leave with dignity, he

ty guards

ut allowing them to touch her but she could hear the whispers foll

ble corridor leading to the entrance and stopped beside a tall window, beyond the glas

e checked and it was a

gain. My lawyer will

. Her parents were gone, the small apartment she had owned before marriage had been sold to help pay for a business project Adrian had promised to repay her for. Her personal savings had been tied up in

n, this time, the n

she eventually bossom the

Her voice

leanor

Who is

ttorney handling the estate of your

aightened.

ult hour, but I've been instructed to reach you person

ightened arou

you talk

grandmother left you a substantial inheritance,

had not seen her grandmother in almost two years before her death, they had never been especially clo

she said. "I'm not wealthy. I d

now, Mrs

wyer p

me to my office tomorrow morning. There are documents that requi

art began to

r have anything to do wi

ndmother was a shareholder in a company that has maintained a significant

aned again

ignifi

ignature will be required befor

ere a woman with no value now a stranger was telling her that she might have a say in th

e more thing

ha

that I was not to reveal the contents of he

a chill move

t fi

oncerns you

oat tig

does i

ndmother intended you to discover

pau

trust anyone in the Blackwood fa

nded a mom

hree years believing she knew the man she married. Tonight, he had shown her how little she u

oment that she would not call him or even try to explain or prove herself to him a

but the phone call with lawyer brought her hopes up again. Because now

hidden. Eleanor felt determined that she would try every possible best to be a st

g and walked toward the exit, her

rian Blackwood raised a glass to his future bride, smiling as

he believed he had protected his empire then his phone vibrated. A mes

a problem with

ed document, at the top was the name of a

side the largest voting interest was a nam

ARET

screen then he read t

ary. If the transfer is completed, she w

ertain because Eleanor had just walked out of his life a