April Fools “Surprise” Husband Divorcing Me For His “Pure” Girl novel Chapter 50

Chapter 9

Chapter 9

I held up my hand and shut him down.

Mr. Sinclair, don’t flatter yourself. I didn’t come back for you.”

I walked over to that open diary and grabbed it off the floor.

Then started ripping it apart, page by page, slow and deliberate.

All that stupid teenage heartbreak. All those buried secrets.

shredded into nothing.

I came back to find out who killed my parents.”

The pieces drifted down like dirty snow.

jam’s face went dead white.

Summer’s mouth dropped open, tears frozen on her cheeks.

locked eyes with him and let every word land hard.

I joined the military for one reason-to get high enough clearance to reopen their case.”

Found something interesting when I was cleaning out their stuff. A letter they never got to mail.”

Detailed report about some chemical plant dumping poison into the water supply.”

Guess who owned that plant? Your family.”

he color drained completely from Liam’s face.

Vatching him crumble confirmed what I’d suspected all along.

le knew. The bastard had known this entire time.

and he’d looked me in the eye for seven years without saying a goddamn word.

dusted the last bits of paper off my hands.

Small world, huh?”

turned my back on his devastated face.

Summer, this place is all yours now.”

Have fun rotting here.”

walked out and didn’t look back once.

Behind me,

Summer’s screams turned hysterical.

Liam’s voice cracked through the chaos.

‘Claire! CLAIRE!”

Kept walking.

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ot in my car and peeled out.

lanced in the rearview and saw him sprint into the street after me.

le ran like his life depended on it, getting smaller and smaller until he disappeared.

floored it and left everything burning behind me.

Jack at my apartment, I fired up my encrypted laptop.

unched in my security code and pulled up the file that’d been buried for twenty-three years.

official story? My parents died in a car accident.

runk driver. Dead on impact. Case closed, move along.

ullshit.

clicked through the evidence photos.

hat truck that “accidentally” plowed into them? Had Sinclair Group Logistics stamped right on the side.

nd that chemical plant my parents tried to expose? Sinclair Group bought it out completely one month after they died.

very pollution record wiped clean overnight.

erfect little cover-up tied with a bow.

ook me ten years of clawing my way up to finally have the power to rip their lies wide open.

ext few weeks, I started quietly digging.

racked down old factory workers. Visited the villages nearby.

very single person went silent the second I brought up what happened.

omeone had scared them real good. Or paid them off. Probably both.

didn’t quit.

wenty-three years is a long time to carry guilt around.

ong enough for some people to crack.

inally got an anonymous call.

uy claimed he used to work in the factory lab back then.

aid he’d kept the original pollution data and contaminated samples all these years.

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hapter 10

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ut he wanted serious money before he’d hand anything over.

‘e arranged to meet at an abandoned dock outside the city.

showed up alone with a case full of cash.

ight had swallowed everything. Wind off the water bit straight through my jacket.

guy in a baseball cap emerged from the shadows.

e took the case and counted through the bills.

en pulled a sealed metal box from inside his coat and handed it over.

verything’s in there.”

grabbed the box and started prying it open.

iddenly headlights blazed from every direction, blinding me.

dozen black sedans rolled up and formed a perfect circle around us.

oors flew open and guys in black suits came pouring out.

le one leading them was Lian’s personal assistant.

e walked up and gave this polite little bow.

Miss Hayes, Mr. Sinclair would like a word.”

y stomach hit the floor.

e’d been tracking my every damn move.

followed the assistant to the Rolls-Royce sitting in the center of everything.

he window slid down slow.

lam sat in the back, face buried in shadows.

e stared at the metal box clutched in my hands, voice completely wrecked.

laire, walk away from this.”

You can’t win against them.”

gripped the box tighter and fired back.

Them? You mean your father?”

jam’s eyes closed and pain twisted across his face.

He didn’t answer, just said quietly.

‘Hand it over. I’ll take care of everything.”

I’ll get your parents the justice they deserve.”

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