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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.

Waiting for him to admit what they had already begun to suspect.

And yet, he couldn't bring himself to say it.

Because saying it would mean accepting that Cora Santiago, the woman he thought was powerless, had brought down a room full of men with just a whisper.

A woman he had once thought too weak to matter had possibly become the nightmare that now haunted their entire reality.

But he still couldn't believe it. No matter how loud the signs screamed at him.

At that moment James looked down at the floor, swallowed the lump in his throat, and tried to steady his trembling breath.

He told himself once more, more like a prayer than a conviction

"It can't be Cora… it just can't."

CHAPTER 25