She Left She Thrived She’s Worth Billions novel Chapter 498

The lawyer bolted, thoroughly terrified by her psychotic breakdown.

He was just a hired gun doing his job; he had delivered Dominic's message, and the rest was just prep work for a lost cause.

Pleading guilty meant zero pressure on his end.

Whatever twisted drama had unfolded between her and Dominic was none of his business, and frankly, he didn't care.

Evelyn had no memory of how she was dragged back to her cell.

It felt like her soul had been violently ripped from her body.

She collapsed onto the cold concrete floor, numb to the freezing grime beneath her.

In that suffocating silence, regret clawed at her throat.

If only she hadn't targeted Dominic back then, maybe her life wouldn't be this waking nightmare.

Fat tears pooled in her eyes before spilling over, dropping like shattered glass.

Her thoughts drifted to Everett.

For the longest time, her absolute worst enemy had been Melanie.

But taking down the heiress of the Royce family was an impossible task.

She remembered the days before Dominic and Melanie tied the knot.

Back then, she had honestly believed she still had a fighting chance.

So, she played dirty, intentionally getting pregnant with his child.

She was certain that giving him an heir would be her golden ticket, assuming he would break his engagement, stand up to his parents, and make her his wife.

But the reality had been a brutal slap in the face.

He forced her to marry Everett.

And Everett, fully aware that she was carrying another man's baby, actually agreed to it.

As the adopted daughter of the Hale family, a sister in name only, she had zero leverage.

She had no choice but to say yes.

Once they were married, Everett wasn't exactly cruel to her or Lila.

But she knew the truth: he felt absolutely nothing for her.

His heart belonged entirely to Melanie.

Dominic was the one who actually loved her.

She realized her marriage to Everett was just a cage.

If she stayed, she would spend the rest of her life playing the mistress, waiting to be tossed aside the second she lost her looks.

She lived by one rule: look out for yourself, or let the world crush you.

To her, Everett was nothing but a roadblock.

That was when she decided he had to die.

And her plan had worked perfectly.

Once he vanished, she played the role of the tragically abandoned mother, using Lila to guilt Dominic into spending every waking moment with her.

Finally, she had managed to claw her way out of Bresford and into Averin.

Every move had been calculated.

The life she had dreamed of was right at her fingertips.

She couldn't understand it.

How did she end up rotting in this concrete cell?

Burying her face in her hands, she sat on the filthy floor and sobbed uncontrollably.