I Saw Her Confession And Went Back In Time Chapter 09

I Saw Her Confession And Went Back In Time Chapter 09

Bennett closed his eyes, his jaw tightening.

“We’re done, Chloe. I’m filing for divorce.”

Chloe’s laughter cut off instantly. “What did you just say? Are you out of your mind, Bennett?”

Bennett lit a cigarette, his gaze cold and detached. “I’m filing for divorce. I’m asking for primary custody of

the twins, and I’ll let the lawyers handle the assets.”

“Like hell I will!” Chloe screamed. “I’m going to pretend you’re just drunk and talking nonsense. Tomorrow

morning, you’re going to apologize to me, and we are never mentioning Valerie Sterling’s name in this house

again.”

Bennett looked at her, his voice perfectly level but carrying a terrifying weight.

“If you fight me on this, I’ll send every piece of evidence to your agency’s ethics office.”

“If you don’t want the career you spent ten years building to vanish overnight, you’ll sign the divorce papers

by tomorrow morning.”

Panic finally set in as Chloe realized he was dead serious.

“Bennett, please, you can’t do this to me! I only did it because I was desperate back then,” she wept, reaching for him. “I swear I’ll never mention her again. Think about the kids! They need their mother!”

Bennett crushed his cigarette out in the ashtray. “When our children grow up and find out what kind of monster you are, they’ll be utterly ashamed to call you their mother.”

The dream shifted, showing them standing outside the family court after finalized divorce proceedings.

The moment the decree was stamped, Bennett marched straight to Chloe’s government agency and handed

over the full dossier of her illegal actions.

She was removed from her position and fired.

I woke up with a gasp, my face soaked with tears.

Even in that horrible past life, the moment Bennett discovered the truth, he had avenged me.

I threw my arms around Bennett and held on tight. Guilt hit me so hard I could barely breathe.

Why had I been so blind back then? Why hadn’t I trusted him?

I was torn between absolute regret for my past mistakes and profound gratitude for this second chance.

Muddled with sleep, Bennett stirred and wrapped his arms around me. “Hey, what’s wrong? Had a

nightmare?”

I buried my face into his chest, my voice muffled. “No. A beautiful dream.”

Bennett let out a soft chuckle. “Yeah? What was it about?”

“Bennett, I dreamed that we got married.”

Bennett woke up fully, his eyes widening as he looked at me. “Valerie… do you mean that the way I think you

mean it?”

I looked up, meeting his gaze directly. “Bennett Lewis, will you marry me?”

We were married two weeks later.

Our friends told me I was being impulsive, rushing into a marriage so early in my career, but none of them

understood the truth.

We had lost an entire decade to Chloe’s malice.

If I hadn’t pushed Bennett away in my first life, if I had let him stand by me through the dark times, I might

never have tried to end my life.

Three years into my career, during a routine municipal safety inspection of a local manufacturing subsidiary, I came face-to-face with the executive who had harassed me in my past life.

His company had been caught running illegally refurbished, decommissioned heavy machinery to cut costs,

creating a massive safety hazard.

The moment he saw my badge, his arrogance vanished the second he saw my badge.

He claimed the facility was struggling financially, that hundreds of local workers depended on the plant

staying open, and begged me to look the other way for the sake of the community.

I cut him off with a cold stare. I knew the inner workings of his firm better than anyone.

In my previous life, before the harassment started, I had overheard the floor workers talking about their

illegal practices.

They had deliberately used uncertified machinery to pad their margins, which eventually resulted in a floor

worker’s arm getting crushed and severed.

Instead of filing a proper workers’ compensation claim, the company fired him for alleged misconduct.

When the worker’s family came to protest, this exact executive had handled the cover-up.

In that past life, Chloe must have helped them clear their regulatory hurdles, later using that favor to pressure him into targeting me.

Without a word, I issued the maximum citation allowed and forwarded the case file to the state occupational safety agency.

The illegal equipment was seized, and the executive was terminated from his position immediately

His wife tried to storm our municipal office a week later, screaming that I had launched a personal vendetta

because her husband refused to pay me off.

“Director, you have to investigate her! She hinted that if we paid her, the inspection would disappear,” she yelled to my supervisor. “My husband is an honest man, we didn’t have that kind of money, so she fabricated

this report out of spite!”

The department launched an internal integrity audit, which quickly uncovered the executive’s full financial

records. Not only did they find documented safety violations, but they also uncovered evidence that he had

coerced multiple factory workers into sexual relationships and illegally fired those who refused.

Thanks to his wife’s public scene, his initial regulatory fine escalated into a multi-count criminal prosecution,

earning him a seven-year prison sentence.

My department awarded me a formal commendation for handling the high-profile enforcement case with absolute integrity.

Three years after that, I was promoted to regional director-the exact position Chloe had bragged about

holding in her viral post.

And at home, Bennett and I were celebrating our daughter’s second birthday, surrounded by a life that was

finally, truly my own.