The Divorce That Brought Us Back novel Chapter 295

Maisie stood up, ready to head out.

"No need," Nora called out, stopping her. "Don't ask."

She forced a tight smile, pulled out her phone, and opened the app for The Pearl & Petal. Handing the phone to Maisie, she said, "I'm buying coffee for everyone in the executive office. Go ask what they want."

"Yay!" Maisie cheered, happily taking the phone and leaving the office.

The moment the door clicked shut, the smile vanished from Nora's face.

She stared blankly at the neat stack of documents on the table.

This orphan adoption project.

It was about rescuing the girls trafficked by The Cole Family and Lucius Vane.

They were funding these girls.

Providing resources for the very people who had shielded them from the storm.

Maisie couldn't read between the lines.

But Nora knew the context. She understood it at a single glance.

Some things couldn't be stated plainly.

Orphan adoption and sanctuary were just sanitized terms to gloss over the brutal reality of the crimes.

Years ago.

Nora had almost become one of those girls.

Why had Bella Monroe been so vicious and calculated since childhood?

Because it wasn't her first time doing something like that.

Why had Maloney chosen to spin a complex web of lies rather than tell her the truth?

Because he didn't want her exposed to the darkest corners of society.

The world was far more rotten than she had ever imagined.

She had always believed her childhood was merely filled with hardship, thinking she had fought her way to survival through sheer effort alone.

She hadn't realized that without silent protectors, she would have died a hundred times over.

Cassidy Quinn used to tell her that her older siblings shouldn't have abandoned her.

Nora had felt a deep sense of loneliness over that for a long time.

Later, she convinced herself that they had no obligation to raise her, and that helping her occasionally was already more than enough.

Looking back now, forget David Dodge—if Diana Dodge hadn't exerted her influence, Vivian Cole would never have let Nora live to see today.

And then there was Arthur Dodge.

Nora had never understood why her grandfather insisted she marry Sebastian Sinclair.

He knew Sebastian wasn't a good match.

He knew she wouldn't be happy in that marriage.

Arranged marriages were nothing but archaic garbage.

She hadn't wanted a powerful backer; she just wanted to carve out her own piece of the sky.

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