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Coming from one of the richest families in the world, everyone wanted something from her, and Cora felt she was never loved in all of her life. Desperate to find true love, Cora got married into a pauper she took a liking to and secretly helped him rise to the top. She pretended to be disabled and poor in order to prove to her family that he was a good man, but on the day she planned to reveal her identity to him, she found him cheating on her on their bed.

Filled with so much rage, Cora vowed to crush him piece by pieces.

Being this heartbreak. She vowed to never love again as well, but it felt like the world was waiting for her to be single because the moment she became single.

Over a Battalion men wanted to marry her.

THE DISABLED HEIRESS, MY EX-HUSBAND WOULD PAY DEARLY.

At that moment everyone looked at him, he raised a hand and pointed straight at James. "You. Find the person you crossed. Whoever you insulted. Whoever you belittled. Whoever you disrespected find them."

Immediately James swallowed hard. "But I don't even know who I offended!"

Darnell slammed his hand on the table. "Then start remembering! Because if you don't, we're all finished."

The weight of their anger, their desperation, fell hard on James's shoulders.

Ashcombe continued, "There's only one reason the Victor family would move like this swift, silent, and with no second chances. They're not doing this just to punish us. They're making an example. And unfortunately, we're caught in the crossfire."

"So what do we do?" another businessman asked, panic creeping into his voice.

CHAPTER 23