CHAPTER 4 — The Truth Behind the Mask
CHAPTER 4 — The Truth Behind the Mask
By morning, I wasn’t the woman they discarded.
I was a ghost with access.
Blackvale’s encrypted files opened everything.
And what I saw made my blood run cold.
The recording wasn’t just fake.
It was engineered using fragments of my voice from past conversations.
But the real betrayal wasn’t the fabrication.
It was Lena.
She had been inside Adrian’s company for months—feeding data, redirecting funds, setting up his father’s collapse… and making sure every trace led back to me.
And Adrian?
He hadn’t been fooled.
He had been convinced.
Because Lena didn’t just manipulate evidence.
She had manipulated grief.
His father didn’t just lose his company.
He had been slowly poisoned—financially and medically—over time.
And I realized something worse:
My pregnancy wasn’t the only reason I was kept close to Adrian.
I was the final scapegoat.
A perfect fall girl.
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But Blackvale flagged one last line in the report:
“TARGET IS STILL ACTIVE. TERMINATION OF SUBJECT KHLOE THORNE IN PROGRESS.”
