LOGIN"Clara, if we divorce I promise that you will never see Luke again!" A cold smile ran from ear to the other, curling my scarlet lips, "Who says I'm fighting for custody anyways? I'm kicking both you and your son out of my life." In a former life cut short, Clara Winston had been the perfect wife-obedience and selflessness wrapped with a ribbon of loyalty. But after eight years her husband's first love, her twin sister Cassie returns because she needed a kidney donor, both him and her stepson pressured Clara to offer hers. Then after she saved Cassie's life she bled to death losing her own. She opens her eyes to a second chance, a second shot at life and this time she will be no one's doormat.
View MoreSilas's POVI drove to meet Clara.She was standing outside the cafe when I arrived, the folder under her arm, her face doing the specific controlled thing it did when she was processing something large.I took the folder and read it in the car.The financial records. The account. The name.Mara Luther.“Edmund found the platform connection to Gideon," I said. "But he did not find this account."“It is registered through multiple layers," she said. "Hannah worked inside the structure. She could see what Edmund could not see from the outside."“Another illegitimate child," I said. The words felt strange. "Another one my father did not acknowledge."“Or acknowledged privately and kept completely hidden," Clara said. "Unlike Adrian who was known to at least some people, there is no record of Mara Luther anywhere. Not a birth certificate under that name in any accessible system. Not a social security registration. Nothing."“Which means either the name is fabricated," I said, "or someone
Clara's POVNick's account arrived at eight-forty-seven.Handwritten and photographed by Luke, who had written me a single additional line at the bottom: He told me everything. He is devastated. I will make sure he is alright.I read Nick's account.It confirmed what I had suspected. Marcus had asked about Luke's treatment, which was a pretext. He had asked which ward, which floor, what the layout was. Nick had answered all of it because Nick at that time was willing to tell Marcus anything if it felt like building an alliance.Marcus had never met me at the hospital. But he had built a detailed description of how such a meeting could have occurred, gathered the spatial details from Nick without Nick understanding why they were being gathered, and handed the fabricated meeting to Gideon who had handed it to Callum Priest.``The article had published at nine.Priya's platform counter went live at nine-seventeen.Mine was not a rebuttal. It was a full account. Everything I had already
Clara's POVEdmund called at eight twenty-two.“The platform was incorporated eighteen months ago," he said. "The founding director is listed as a media holding company registered in a jurisdiction that does not require beneficial ownership disclosure. But the holding company has one registered advisor on its public filing.""Who?" I said."A man named Paul Gideon," Edmund said. "He was Marcus Luther's personal solicitor for eleven years before Marcus's conviction. He is currently in private practice."I sat very still."Paul Gideon," I said."Yes," Edmund said. "He was not named in the conviction proceedings. He was not implicated in any of the documented activities. But he was Marcus's lawyer for over a decade.""And he has spent eighteen months building a platform to publish this," I said.“Callum Priest has two previous publications," Edmund said. "Both ghost-written opinion pieces in small outlets. He is not an investigative journalist. The depth of this article is not consistent
Silas's POVShe came back to bed at three-fifteen.I was awake but I had waited because I had learned the specific difference between Clara needing me and Clara needing forty minutes alone with a problem before she could tell me about it.She sat on the edge of the bed.“An article is published at nine," she said. "It claims the rebirth story is fabricated. That I had insider information from Marcus before his arrest and invented the rebirth narrative afterward to explain why I knew things."I sat up properly.“Callum Priest," I said.She turned to look at me. "You know the name."“Edmund flagged the platform three months ago," I said. "It appeared in our monitoring because it had published two pieces connecting Luther Corporation to offshore structures that do not exist. We did not take action because the pieces were too thin to warrant a response." I paused. "Someone has been building toward this."“How long has the platform existed?" she said.“Eighteen months," I said.“And two pi
Nick's POVI had told myself I would not need to use the tracking device that I planted in Cassie's phone but as the day Drew into night and she had not showed up I was forced to do it after giving her several calls only to be sent to the vacuum of unanswered calls eventually I twist her to some su
Clara's POVI had hoped that I would never have to hear about Mr Luther uncle Marcus Luther again, that's despicable old perverts that tried to get me fired on my first day on the job to think that I had been here waiting to see how he was doing a complicated mixture of emotions formed in my stomac
Clara's POVAs we all stepped out of the school building into the parking lot everyone headed to their own respective cars the officers went into their own cop car and Nick was heading toward his which look like luxury on the surface but you needed a million difference fixes because of one major re
Silas POV"Good morning, Mr. Luther." Her voice was more lukewarm than the coffee she handed to me, easing out like an automated response from a machine rather than my enthusiastic secretary."Morning, Miss Moore. How was your night?""Fine, sir. And yours?""Well..."I kept up with the small talk












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