Shattered Vows: Call Me Auntie Now novel Chapter 296

Vivienne had been secretly in love with Dante for years, but he had never even given her a second glance. As long as Quinn was in the picture, she knew she'd never have a chance to get close to him.

So, when she was at Silverpine Lake and saw Quinn pass out alongside an unconscious Dante, a thought had suddenly possessed her—when Dante wakes up, if he sees me, will he be so moved by gratitude that he finally looks at me differently?

That was why she had deliberately cut her own wrist to fake injuries from the jagged ice. With Yasmine and her brother backing up her story, Dante had bought it without a shadow of a doubt.

And the truth proved that weaponizing a man's guilt was wildly effective.

For seven whole years.

For seven years, Dante had stopped keeping her at arm's length. He allowed her into his orbit, and she weaponized that guilt over and over again, deliberately calling him away from Quinn just to prove she could.

She reveled in the feeling of being chosen. She thrived on the high of watching Dante ignore and neglect Quinn, all for her.

If... if this secret hadn't been exposed, she absolutely would have become Dante's wife.

They were already divorced! She was only one step away from having it all!

Clutching her burning, violently throbbing cheek, Vivienne's eyes overflowed with toxic resentment. Even now, she refused to accept defeat, gritting her teeth and doubling down:

"So what if I did?!"

"Even if I did steal the credit, Dante's seven years of devotion to me were real! The two of you can never go back to how you were!"

"The only person to blame is yourself for being so stupid! You didn't even know how to call for help. You just kept pulling and dragging him by yourself until you lost too much blood and froze to the point of passing out."

"You almost died, but Dante never even considered that it was you who saved him! Even when he got out of the hospital and saw your injured wrist, he still believed Yasmine's lie. He thought Cynthia Yates had injured your hand to punish you."

"Quinn, you were always just in the way! You were an eyesore to Yasmine in the Yates family, and you were an eyesore to me!"

"If you want to blame someone, blame yourself for standing in my way. With a background like yours, do you honestly think you deserved to monopolize Dante? What happened at the lake was just me taking what was rightfully mine!"

In Vivienne's twisted mind, she was utterly incapable of doing any wrong.

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