Divorce Unleashed Her: The Mafia Empress Awakens

vy silence. "Ah-no... Carl... not here... Ashlyn is still lying right there. N

She cannot see. She cannot hear. And let us not forget-you we

was truly in the wrong...

nmarred even in profound stillness. Beside her, a man and a woman-garments askew

for the woman who had lain unconscious for three long years, his wife, Ashlyn Marsh. She

rl wished fervently that Ashlyn would remain asleep

hout those three agonizing years, Ashlyn's body had been imprisone

t every sound within that room

ir over those endless months and years, had assaulted her hearing.

that the man for whom she had left behind everything-even her own family-wa

ing, he had deceived

ts and the persistent creaking of the frame fueling a blaze of rage within h

nd a finger, long deprived of her command after years of immob

ina noti

udden unease, "I swear I just saw Ashlyn's fin

eathlessly, leaning in to silence Paulina

y only grew. "Why

breaths, "I have been adding a special foreign drug to her infusion

s unshakable confidence that

. Three years ago, that car accident was no accident at all. I orchestrated it. I needed

erness flickered

stead, I've spent these three years playing the role of the devoted husband-ever at her bedside-so the board a

ess, Carl gave voice to his darkest, most

Ashlyn could not hear him and t

d the flames of Ashlyn's inner turmoil, d

ng had been

Carl's invitation to celebrate their fourth wedd

a tragic mishap. Never had s

hile Carl, seated beside her in the same lu

iousness before the coma claimed her, she had pleaded with her dear

she had-straight

e no forgiven

ifices she had made for Carl's sake, a fres

How had she allowed herself

he Deity Syndicate-a shadowy empire so form

her five elder brothers, she had been raised a

y prepared by her father-the undisputed leader of the Syndicate-to

, had pledged their unwavering loyalty, vow

and followed him across the globe to Giphis. There, with nothing but her own brilliance and determination, she had bui

es family repaid her

essly. Carl's mother, in particular, had treated her as little more than a domestic s

had endured it all

of betrayal, did she see how pr

noyance, he disentangled himself from Paulina and snatched it up. Upon glimpsing the

" Three minutes later, Carl ended the call and hurried

accepted your proposal?" Paulina asked,

nce that I am stepping into Ashlyn's position. All those years of feigning the d

utives had once been fierc

aulina purred, nestling into

her waist and drawing her close for a lingering kiss. "I never forg

d when that day comes, Ashlyn will h

d words!" Paulina excla

er patience had

like a victorious, enamored couple, utter

d shift unfolding within t

coursed through her veins like molten fire. Her consciousness, long impriso

ned to limbs that had l

hospital room, Ashlyn's eyes snapped open-abl

d awak