Everest's Guardian Hubby Watched Me Freeze My Ghost Knows Where He'll Burn novel Chapter 55

Chapter 14

I sank back into the car seat, utterly exhausted and emotionally spent.

Suddenly, Aunt Annie appeared at the driver’s side window, gently tapping it to get my attention.

“All settled?” she asked softly.

I rolled the window down and offered her a smile tinged with both relief and sorrow.

“Aunt Annie, this whole situation was never going to add up,” I admitted quietly.

“If I tried to go back, it wouldn’t be fair—to me, to Charlotte, or to those two innocent children caught in the middle.”

“Someone had to bring this chaos to a close.”

“So I’m drawing a line under it. For good.”

After leaving Africa behind, I followed Aunt Annie on a journey that spanned the globe.

We ventured deep into the Amazon rainforest, where I captured shots of anacondas coiled high among the dense canopy.

Later, we traveled to the frozen expanse of Antarctica, chasing the majestic humpback whales as they breached through the frigid, icy waters.

I threw myself wholeheartedly into my photography, using it as a way to heal and find purpose.

He won his divorce.

He was free.

But he never found me again.

I erased every trace of myself from his life—changing all my contact details and vanishing without a word.

The label that once clung to my name—“someone’s mistress” or “sugar baby”—was gone.

Now, I was simply Lanie Brooke, a respected and renowned wildlife photographer.