I loved Keaton and trusted every promise he whispered to me. How devastating. Then I learned his tender affection was nothing but a carefully‑crafted weapon for his revenge. My soft heart? It became the tool he used to ruin my family’s fortune and shatter my whole life. But he never realized I endured ten brutal years while quietly gathering damning evidence against him. He thought I would break and beg for mercy after publicly exposing my pregnancy at the gala to destroy my reputation.
