The Woman I Saved Destroyed Me

ark's voice was

award our firm had won, an award I had won-and moved toward the door. Olivia q

yet. I straightened my jacket, smoothed my hair, and compos

club. He stared at me, his eyes narrowed. He saw a stranger. A man in a s

he demanded. "What are

he words echo

mistake. I was told to report here for a job interview. For the new assis

up and down, taking in my plain clothes, my surgically per

fed. "You're in the wrong plac

k, don't be so harsh. He just made a mistake." She gave me a brilliant, false smile. "We're not

my ground. I needed to see more. I needed

pite the storm raging inside me. "The agency was very

n name felt like

idence now," she corrected me coolly. "Ethan Miller

a scowl crossed his face. "It's Chloe again," he mutt

eeded to "deal with." A cold

utting it on speaker. "

or Mom's funeral plot? The cemetery called. They said if we don't pay by tomorrow,

recarious they could just... move

venom. "Your mother is dead. Your brother is a vegetable. The Miller money is gone. It's ours. Stop calli

because of you! The doctors said her condition was t

d your brother was a fool. A weak, sentimental fool who thought love could conquer everything

sound. "He deserved it. And

ting off Chloe's

y hands around their throats, to make them pay for every single word. But I held mysel

the phone onto the bed and wrapped her arms around Mark's neck again

s if I were a piece of furniture, completely insignificant.

man who had been my brother, and the woman I had saved with my own body, dese

rstood the depth of their depravity. They hadn't just betrayed me. They had

at was beginning to burn away every last trace of the

for vengean