Chapter 4: The Unforgivable Sin
The room fell into an eerie silence.
I slowly turned back toward Emily.
She staggered backward until her body hit the wall.
She could barely breathe.
Because the little boy she had just locked away...
Wasn't a thief.
He wasn't simply an unwanted witness.
He was the filthy secret she had buried.
Five years earlier, determined to clear her path into my powerful family, she had abandoned her own son.
She staged his disappearance.
She played the grieving mother flawlessly.
And today, when that little boy somehow found his way back and recognized the mother who had abandoned him...
She tried to lock him away so she could finish her performance and marry me.
"You're not human," I whispered, my voice so cold it froze the room.
"You're a monster."
I tore the white rose from my lapel and threw it onto the shattered glass at her feet.
"The wedding is over."
"Call the police."
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"Right now."
At that moment, the empire of lies she had built came crashing down.
