23 CHAPTER 23
“I don’t know what those other families did to get punished like that. I don’t know what
offense they committed. I don’t even know what kind of power or connection would lead to something like this happening so fast, so clean, and so brutal…”
She was something else, someone else.
James shook his head slowly. “No… I mean… I didn’t know… I didn’t think—”
His breath caught in his chest. His lips parted, but no sound came out. He couldn’t believe
what he had just remembered. Cora again.
His mind raced through the chaos of the last few days, rewinding every conversation, every expression, every detail he had ignored. It didn’t add up. Cora was just his ex-wife. A woman he had once believed he had the upper hand over, the same woman he dismissed and betrayed without even blinking. But now… it felt like he had been playing
with fire without realizing it, and now everything was burning.
