Love Turned to Ash: He Cheated Again, So I Took His Empire

marriage, Adrian Griffin had a

storm over to tear them apart. I d

dinner I had spent the entire af

e. "Mrs. Griffin, you worked al

ice flat. "It's cold. I

man I had once given u

d long ago. Without hesitation, I signed my

king my things.

that were rig

ng design Griffin Group had received in t

eputation in the i

hat had lain dorman

sor, I'

I would reclaim everyth

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awned bright a

tist in Southridge Enclave, that discreet pocket

inic, I passed a bespoke j

in the display wind

d that very design at an a

ed, and a familiar

s Adr

I had pressed for him. A young woman

e, dressed in a white sundress

ay too expensive.

u like it, I'll bu

d with a tenderness I had

without me

hurt. Because

s the only woman he would ever love. The others, he said, ha

eating more times t

a differe

rities. Even a dist

, I broke down and smashed

l night, burning with a fever of 10

my heart ha

ome home. I told myself he loved

ned again and aga

er what he did outside, a few sweet word

like

ed up-and o

shock in his expression was almos

from the girl's grip an

er ankle, and looked at him wit

o me, cold sweat bea

at are you

e wanted to grab mine, ye

like a guilty thie

. Not even the en

dly looking at me, yet her eye

nt of the girl and be

at idiot got drunk and can't even get out of bed. It's his mom's birthday, so he asked

f his tongue smoothl

t friend, and he did come from

to know why picking out a gift required linking a

entire family tree. I would hav

I was sim

s Adrian's forehead, I su

of lies like that-wa

ne even. "Oh. M

an f

expected me to acc

ations he had prepared

re?" he asked, gesturing towar

came to see

y coat, my gaze drifting t

surveying the defeated, a faint tr

're helping a friend, make sure you choose carefull

turned and

t, not a trace of

ed out in disbelief, "

asn

don't g

ple of steps, as if trying to dec

lready insi

d frozen in place, his face clo

steria. Used to my t

im far more than an

his was only the cal