He bru:.tally atta:.cked his wife while she was six months pregnant, all to satisfy his mistress. What he never anticipated was that she had three powerful brothers who were CEOs—and once they learned the truth, their calculated revenge was only just beginning.
Chapter One: The House That Held Its Breath
The quiet inside the Hawthorne residence was not the comforting silence of a home at rest but the brittle, trembling stillness that hangs in the air when something has already cracked and is only waiting for gravity to finish the job, and Lydia Hawthorne felt it in her bones as she sat alone at the oversized oak dining table, her palms wrapped uselessly around a porcelain cup of ginger tea that had long since gone cold, while the digital clock on the stove blinked 1:27 a.m. in aggressive red numbers she refused to acknowledge because acknowledging the time meant acknowledging that her husband was not coming home when he promised he would.
