Unwanted Wife, Hidden Genius: Her Rise As A Tech Queen

earcher Award is Melany Cooper, recogni

fted across the stage, and Jillian

r proudest achievement. How did

the patent registry. When the page finally appeared, she could not move.

, Dennis urged Jillian to withdraw and let Melany take the award instead. She stood her ground and argue

agined he would go as far as claiming her patent an

illian's ears, and the shar

ller, stepped forward and placed

last thing she could still call her own. Why

she forced herself upright and said abov

s suddenly appeared at her sides. One locked her arms in

m. Mr. Miller gave strict instructions.

um. A deep ache spread through her chest, and it felt as

t. He sided with Melany, helped her claim the work,

did not belong to her, while Jillian was discarded as if she

nto the parking lot. Inside a black car, Jillian sat in the back seat while

climbed in beside her. With a sharp motion, he

er hold back the storm she had kept buried fo

ting through the silence. "Tell me

t his eyes away from her and spoke without co

eep it contained. "That belongs to me. What gives you

onable. "I already warned you ahead of time. You have given in

ick to her core. All the things she had given up just to h

t... because Melany liked our house, I was the one who had to leave. Since she said my wedding dress would u

d a broken sob stopped

into her thoughts, each o

he was, she fell for D

etolia, where she found him wounded and unable to see. Sh

, she took the punishment meant for him and ended up with a shattered rig

a crisis forced her to return to her home co

Dennis's grandfather, Ricky Miller, sought her out and proposed a marriage arrangemen

rom what she imagined. Dennis looked at her like a strang

refused to walk away and c

d her in a hollow marriage where she

throat, and Jillian forced

three years of my life to Quantum Glue, and I failed more than a hundred times before I finally made it work. Th

eyes, she continued to fac

like you are the one being wronged? You knew exactly what you were doing when you

y. At twenty-five, when he nearly lost his life in Cletolia, it was

he saw. She couldn't speak at the time; her leg was

once doubted that she was

lped her recover. Eventually, her voice cam

rry her, Jillian entered the picture by persuading

e again. "Answer me this, Jillian. Is there anythin

like a dull blade, draggi

g that had already happened. "I'm not trying to fight abo

happen." Dennis refus

side the car, and it pressed

u really placed her above everyone else, did you not? What if I

u. To them, you might as well not exist. Who would believe anything you say?

ian. He was willing to go to any length just to pro

s she spoke. "Living as your wife feels like

ion was immediate, and his ga

ou think marriage is something you can play with? You pushed your way in when i

is not what you have been aiming for all along? Once we end this marriage, y

ou're doing something selfless. You were the one who forced

it. Now I am choosing to fix what I should not h

utside. Holding onto the edge of the door, she glanced back at him, and an