Chapter 4 - Walking into the Light
Evelyn took one final, slow, resolute breath. She adjusted the blue-striped hospital blanket over her baby's sleeping face, holding him so securely against her heartbeat that nothing in the world could ever hurt him again.
"It's over," she whispered, her voice barely audible over the hum of the hospital lights.
Without a single glance backward at the husband who had left her to die, she walked forward through the automatic sliding glass doors into the bright morning sunshine, where a sleek black sedan was waiting at the curb.
Julian reached out helplessly in the background, screaming her name as the heavy doors slid shut, sealing him inside the cold, sterile hallway with his own ruin.
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As the sedan pulled away from the hospital bay, Evelyn looked down at her baby boy. But she wasn't running away out of fear. Inside the inner lining of her green trench coat sat an encrypted drive—one that held every financial secret Julian had spent seven years trying to hide.
👉 Read PART 5 to discover the dark reason Julian had gone to Miami with Chloe!
