Twenty-Six receipts of betrayal Novel novel Chapter 69

Chapter 14

I slumped back against the seat, completely drained.

Aunt Annie appeared beside the car and tapped lightly on the window.

“All sorted?”

I rolled down the window and gave her a bittersweet smile.

“Aunt Annie, this was always an impossible equation.”

“If I went back, it wouldn’t be fair–not to me, not to Charlotte, not to those two innocent kids.”

“Someone had to end this mess.”

“So I’m putting a period on it. For good.”

After leaving Africa, I followed Aunt Annie across the globe.

We traveled to the Amazon rainforest and photographed anacondas coiled in the canopy.

We went to Antarctica and chased humpback whales breaching through icy waters.

I threw myself into photography completely.

But I still caught glimpses of Sean–every now and then, in the business sections of international news outlets.

Things between him and Charlotte had deteriorated fast. It got ugly.

During one heated confrontation, Charlotte fell. She lost the baby.

Finally, Sean’s parents intervened. They forced an end to the chaos and had him confined to the estate.

But they underestimated how far he’d go.

He went on a hunger strike to force them to let him divorce.

Eventually, he collapsed and was rushed to the hospital.

He won.

Chapter 14

He got his divorce.

He was free now.

But he never found me again.

I changed all my contact information and disappeared from his world completely, like I’d never existed.

And the label attached to my name was no longer “someone’s mistress” or “sugar baby.”

It was *Lanie Brooke, renowned wildlife photographer.*

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