Chapter 8
It had only been a month since I last saw Ryan, but seeing him again barely stirred anything in me.
“What are you doing here?”
Ryan’s face was full of urgency.
“Lena, you can’t treat me like this. I thought I was the one you loved. Don’t you love me anymore?”
I let out a cold laugh.
“That’s right. I don’t.”
Not since the moment I found out he lied to me.
Not since I learned he had schemed to drain me of every penny I had..
Every so-called joke, every so-called test he put me through-each one had me roasting over the fire.
How could I still love someone like that?
Now, I had a father who truly loved me, and I had returned to the life that was mine from the beginning.
As for Ryan, the little stash of money he guarded so tightly, always watching me like I might take it…
It didn’t even register in my eyes.
“We’ve been together for three years,” he said.
“How can you be so heartless?”
I only learned later that after I returned to the Wynn family, my father not only got back every dollar he had swindled from me, but within a month, he had crushed every single person who had ever wronged me.
Businessmen went bankrupt, politicians were thrown out of office.
Ryan’s nightclub was forced to close the very next day after I came home.
As for Chloe, her scandal with Ryan even made it onto the trending list.
Once people learned they had been scamming others out of their money, they became public enemies everyone wanted to see brought down.
“Compared to the filthy things you did to me, you think I’m the one being heartless?”
“I’d suggest you leave now, before my father sees you. Otherwise, you won’t be able to walk away.”
That actually scared him.
He’d come today hoping for my forgiveness, but seeing me standing there, confident and radiant, must have dragged back every memory of our time together.
Chapter 8
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If he hadn’t completely lost his mind, he never would have done something so stupid.
He had thrown away three years of his life, and for what-a little bit of money?
He’d completely cut off his path to becoming the son-in-law of the richest family in the city.
“Lena, can you at least ask your father to-”
I shrugged.
“Go ask him yourself.”
By the time the bodyguards threw him out, he’d even lost one of his shoes.
I burst out laughing twice, but after the laughter faded, all that was left was a sigh.
Three years of my youth, gone.
At least I’d woken up before it was too late.
From now on, I was going to live every day to the fullest and make up for every moment I’d lost.
I spent the next year cramming business management courses, and under my father’s influence, I started managing small
companies before eventually taking on the entire group.
During that time, I met a man at a gala.
He was a gentleman-handsome, dedicated, and utterly devoted.
We fell in love at first sight.
He was wealthy too, which went against my mother’s dying wish.
But I trusted my father’s judgment.
He said this man was a good one, someone worth entrusting my life to.
So be it.
I was no longer alone.
I had my father, and I had a man who loved and cherished me.
And from here on, I would rely on myself to hold up my own sky.
