As my grandfather walked in after I gave birth, his first words were, “My dear, wasn’t the 250,000 I sent you every month enough?” My heart stopped. “Grandpa… what money?” I whispered. At that exact moment, my husband and mother-in-law burst in with arms full of luxury bags—and froze. Their faces drained of color. That’s when I realized something was terribly wrong…

my future. But I knew the decisions I was about to make wouldn’t come without consequences.

The next day, Edward took me to the lawyer’s office. It wasn’t a decision I had taken lightly, but after everything that had happened, after the threats, the manipulation, the lies, I knew I couldn’t go back to the life I had once known. Mark had proven he would continue reading …