Lahat ng Kabanata ng He Chose My Sister, So I Married His Enemy: Kabanata 31 - Kabanata 34

Chapter 31: Before You Knew Me“Start at the beginning,” I said.Damien took a breath, the kind he took when he was deciding exactly how much room a sentence needed before he said it. His mother, he told me, had built a women’s centre years ago, a place for women who’d lost everything to divorce, widowhood, or family abandonment, somewhere they could find work training and small business funding and a reason to start again. She’d folded a scholarship foundation into it eventually. The building itself sat on land that had grown more valuable than anyone intended.After his mother died, Ethan’s family saw an opportunity. They proposed what they called an expansion, a glossy plan that actually meant closing the original centre, moving the foundation into something smaller, and turning the property into luxury development. Damien said it the way he said most painful things, flat, controlled, like keeping his voice even was the only way to get through it at all.“I was asked to review the

Damien read the message over my shoulder, quiet for a moment before he spoke. “She knew what Ethan was hiding from you.”I checked the date again. Months before the engagement party. Possibly before the date Ethan had claimed, the night he stood in front of everyone and called it a year-long affair like the timeline was something fixed and certain.“I need to ask her,” I said.Damien asked whether I wanted her brought here, called, or met somewhere neutral. I chose video. I wanted to see her face.She answered already tired, already suspicious, the way she’d sounded every time I called since the wedding. “If this is about Ethan—”“This is not about whether he loves you,” I said.I held up the message instead. I watched her face change before she said a single word, and that change told me everything the printed page already had.“Why did you remove Damien’s letter?” I asked.“Ethan said Damien was manipulating you,” she said. “I thought I was protecting your engagement.”“Why didn’t y