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Hudson's gaze burned with cruelty, and Elsa’s heart skipped hard against her ribs. Her voice faltered, softening
into fear.
“Hudson, you can’t treatlike this! We're husband and wife, we're one. | know your company’s been in trouble
these years... if John keeps caring for me, | can use the money he givesto help you-"
“Hah!”
Hudson's laughter cut her off, sharp and mocking.
Yes, she was his wife. Which meant everything Simon or John gave her also belonged to him. His company was
bleeding cash, true, but why should he beg her? A few beatings, and she would hand over what he wanted.
His lips twisted in a cruel smile. “Simon’s savior, are you?”
His tone turned venomous.
“You stole the jade pendant Simon gave to Lily when they were children. You wore it, pretended to be her, and
claimed her place in his life. That's your big ‘heroic deed‘? Elsa, you're as filthy and shameless as ever.”
Bitch!
The curse burned at the back of Elsa’s throat, but she dared not say it. Not when defiance could earn her another
brutal beating.
Hudson's perversions ran deep. He had made her confess her darkest secrets under torture, forcing her to bare
what she had buried in her soul. Lies never fooled him-one look and he knew.
Follow on NovᴇlEnglish.nᴇtShe had spilled everything just to survive. Later she'd regretted it bitterly, praying those secrets had died with
him in that “accident.”
But he lived. And now he wielded her secrets like a knife against her throat.
At the doorway, John’s face grew darker with every word.
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Elsa faking her illness had already been a shock. But this?
The girl who had once saved Simon wasn't Elsa-it was Lily.
Simon's long-cherished Lizzy had always been Lily.
“You can't tell Simon...”
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Elsa’s tears rolled heavy down her cheeks. Her pitifulness blurred truth and performance alike—John couldn't tell
if it was an act, and even Hudson paused.
Once, Hudson had admired her-her icy beauty, her aloof pride. But the day he caught her tangled with his friend,
all tenderness rotted into loathing.
He had caged her with marriage, not out of love, but out of vengeance. He would make her pay for her duplicity,
her games.
He saw through the cold mask-saw the shameless woman who warmed every man’s bed. Back home, she hadn't
changed. Still dangling, still deceiving. His hatred blazed hotter.
He released her throat suddenly, looming over her with a predator's sneer. “Please me. Beg like a dog. Do it well
enough, and maybe | won't kill you today. Maybe I'll keep your secrets safe-for now.”
The memories of foreign nights, forced to abase herself under his cruelty, flooded Elsa’s mind. Humiliation. Pain.
Fury.
Her pride screamed against it—but fear of death, fear of exposure, crushed her resistance.
Simon was her last card. She couldn't let him know his beloved Lizzy was Lily. She couldn't let him abandon her.
Her hands shook as she stripped off her clothes, her soul shattering with each discarded piece. She bent herself
to Hudson's will, drowning in pain and degradation.
The master bedroom’s window was open.
A sudden gust swept through, slamming the half-closed door wide.
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