The Heiress He Threw Away Came Back to Bury Him
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I'm two months pregnant with Tristan's baby when Brielle, the woman he'd do anything for, shoves me down the stairs.
She calls it an accident. I lose the baby.
I beg my husband to do something about it. Instead, he shields her and turns it around on me.
"Brielle saved my life in that fire. The whole Merrick family owes her. So drop it."
That debt. Always that debt.
Three years. No matter how many times Brielle humiliates me, degrades me, Tristan only ever has one answer: "I owe her my life."
But the truth about that fire? I'm the only one in the world who knows it.
I tried to tell him once. He laughed in my face. "Adeline, you're so desperate for attention you'd make up something like that?"
So I shut my mouth. Buried the truth. Buried whatever was left of my heart along with it.
The man I trusted with my life just handed my child to the woman who killed them, and called it loyalty.
I'm done.
I pull up the number I blocked three years ago and hit call.
"Dad. I'll take over the company. I'll go through with the engagement to Everett. But I have one condition. I want Tristan and Brielle ruined beyond recovery. Nothing and no one left."
She calls it an accident. I lose the baby.
I beg my husband to do something about it. Instead, he shields her and turns it around on me.
"Brielle saved my life in that fire. The whole Merrick family owes her. So drop it."
That debt. Always that debt.
Three years. No matter how many times Brielle humiliates me, degrades me, Tristan only ever has one answer: "I owe her my life."
But the truth about that fire? I'm the only one in the world who knows it.
I tried to tell him once. He laughed in my face. "Adeline, you're so desperate for attention you'd make up something like that?"
So I shut my mouth. Buried the truth. Buried whatever was left of my heart along with it.
The man I trusted with my life just handed my child to the woman who killed them, and called it loyalty.
I'm done.
I pull up the number I blocked three years ago and hit call.
"Dad. I'll take over the company. I'll go through with the engagement to Everett. But I have one condition. I want Tristan and Brielle ruined beyond recovery. Nothing and no one left."

















































