Chapter Two: Secrets Beneath the Charity
Khloe survived surgery.
So did the baby.
The doctors called it miraculous.
Marcus called it undeserved luck.
He refused to leave her bedside.
When Khloe finally woke two days later, the first thing she asked wasn't about herself.
"Our son?"
Marcus smiled through exhausted tears.
"He's still fighting."
"So are you."
She squeezed his hand weakly.
"I thought... I lost him."
"You didn't."
Marcus lowered his forehead against hers.
"But I almost lost both of you."
Meanwhile, Detective Collins continued investigating Isabella.
The security footage had opened more than one criminal case.
Hospital records showed Isabella had visited restricted archives weeks earlier.
Financial investigators discovered payments totaling nearly four million dollars made to offshore companies connected to a private investigator.
Then another discovery emerged.
One encrypted email.
Subject:
After the miscarriage, everything becomes ours.
Marcus stared at the screen in disbelief.
There were dozens of messages.
Years of manipulation.
Isabella hadn't simply been obsessed with him.
She had been planning to destroy Khloe from the beginning.
Even more horrifying—
She had secretly paid one of Marcus's former financial advisers to sabotage company investments, hoping to create a crisis that would force Marcus into depending on her family.
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The attack in the hospital wasn't impulsive.
It was merely the final step of a carefully designed plan.
