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.

in on her step by step. The concentrated beams of light made the night as bright as day,

one path left-she had to

determination. She launched herself forward, her dagger slashing directly at

with full force and astonishing

for a moment, stunned that such a seemingly

to the ground as

the opening, turning and fleeing with all her might.

the mountain, waiting to strike. But a gnawing sense of foreboding churned in her chest-that she might

chance to escape. This was her sole

immediate pursuers appeared, Yvonne pulled

dagger to dig a small hole beneath a

cross-shaped mark on the tree trunk,

answered, her voice slightly fatigued yet still gentle enough to

"Yvonne?"

parted, but