Chapter 3 - The Decade of Lies
To understand the absolute, earth-shattering shock paralyzing the billionaire, one had to look at the meticulously orchestrated tragedy of his past.
Ten years ago, Lucas and Jessica were deeply, fiercely in love. They were engaged to be married. But Lucas’s incredibly wealthy, toxic mother, Eleanor, despised Jessica. Eleanor believed Jessica was just a gold-digging peasant who would ruin the family’s elite bloodline.
One night, Jessica mysteriously vanished.
Eleanor had handed Lucas a forged, heartbreaking letter, claiming Jessica had taken a massive bribe from the family trust to leave him forever. Lucas had spent the last decade entirely broken, hardening his heart into cold titanium and building his massive corporate empire out of pure, unadulterated spite.
He genuinely believed the woman he loved had sold his heart for cash.
But as Lucas stared at Jessica in the pale silk gown, holding the hand of a nine-year-old girl who looked exactly like him, the horrific, devastating truth began to snap into place.
"You didn't take the money," Lucas choked out, his chest heaving as the cinematic tension crushed the air out of the ballroom. "You didn't leave me for the money."
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Jessica backed away, tears of pure terror and suppressed agony welling in her eyes. "Lucas, please. Let us go. She didn't know."
👉 Lucas ordered his guards to lock the ballroom doors, realizing his own mother was the true villain of the story.
