The Divorced Heiress’s Revenge

Yvonne ran toward the hidden passage at Pivotage. Her eyes were red and filled to the brim with tears. As she ran, hot tears streamed into the air behind her.

Jace had spared her. He actually let her go!

Could this mean he truly was Hugh? Was his true self still intact, merely waiting for his past memories to awaken?

Her heart surged with a mixture of joy and disbelief. Without a second thought, she sprinted forward, desperate to find Bella and deliver both the evidence and this monumental news as soon as possible.

Emerging from the hidden passage, Yvonne navigated the overgrown and treacherous trails of the mountain, utterly alone.

Suddenly, her breath caught, and her body froze.

Blinding, white light beamed down from all directions, striking her slender, frail figure.

The glaring illumination pinned her to the center of an inescapable ambush.

Her heart thundered in her chest. Cold sweat drenched her pale, almost translucent face. The veins on the back of her hand bulged as she gripped her dagger tightly.

on her step by step. The concentrated beams of light made

one path left-she had to fight her way

herself forward, her dagger

executed with full force and astonishing

that such

the next instant, his flashlight fell to the ground as blood spurted from

fleeing with all her might. This might be her only

more were laying in ambush in the mountain, waiting to strike. But a gnawing sense of foreboding churned in her chest-that she might not make it

escape. This was

pursuers appeared, Yvonne pulled the evidence from

dig a small hole beneath a large

a cross-shaped mark on the tree trunk, then

her voice slightly fatigued yet still gentle

"Yvonne?"

parched lips parted, but before she