Six Rigged Reviews for Your Assistant? Congrats, You Lost Your Fiancée Chapter 10

Six Rigged Reviews for Your Assistant? Congrats, You Lost Your Fiancée Chapter 10

“How could you do this?”

Nolan threw Sloane to the floor and called security.

“Take these files and turn her over to the police.”

Sloane caught her breath and stopped resisting.

As the guards dragged her toward the door, she began to laugh.

“I accomplished what I wanted. Nothing else matters.”

She looked back at Nolan.

“Maren left you. You will never find her again.”

Her laughter grew wilder.

“She loved you, and all I had to do was ask you not to marry her. You obeyed every time.”

“She was a good woman. I never wanted her dead, and paying someone to hurt her was wrong.”

Sloane’s smile twisted.

“But you deserved everything I did to you.”

Nolan’s control snapped.

He kicked her hard in the stomach.

Sloane screamed and collapsed.

She shook with pain but continued staring at him with hatred.

“You will lose Maren and everything else. That is your punishment.”

“Vance Innovations was built from the company your family stole from mine. What right did you ever have to feel proud?”

She lost consciousness before the guards could lift her again.

Nolan reached for his phone, still desperate to find me.

Police officers entered the outer office.

“Nolan, we received a report that you committed a violent assault. You need to come with us.”

He drew one slow breath and allowed them to place him under arrest.

News of the CEO’s arrest spread quickly through Briarhaven’s business community.

Vance Innovations’ share price plunged.

Clients withdrew, board members resigned, and reporters gathered outside headquarters. The empire Nolan believed he controlled began breaking apart without him.

With Ellis Capital withdrawing its financing and commercial support, the company could not defend itself.

Nolan watched the collapse on television from the county detention center.

He could do nothing.

When the news reached me in Seattle, I felt strangely calm.

The disaster was the result of his own choices.

Sloane had always been a threat waiting to explode.

Nolan was charged with felony assault.

He offered no real defense, but he repeatedly asked to see me.

I refused at first.

Then Mrs. Vance flew to Seattle and begged me to grant him one final visit.

For her sake, I agreed.

Nolan looked exhausted behind the visitation glass.

His face was unshaven, and his clothes were wrinkled.

The moment he saw me, his eyes brightened with regret.

“Maren, I drove you away.”

“You stayed beside me from college onward, and I betrayed everything you gave me.”

He pressed one hand to the glass.

“If there is another life, I will hold on to you and never let go.”

I did not want another life with him.

If such a thing existed, I hoped we would never meet.

Nolan did not deserve another chance.

“We ended a long time ago.”

I met his eyes without anger.

“In this life or any other, I want nothing more to do with you.”

“I came because you once drove through a snowstorm to have that pendant blessed for me. This is the last kindness I will return.”

“When I leave, we will never see each other again.”

I walked out of the detention center and answered a call from Graham.

“Maren, several companies reviewed your innovation proposal, and they’re competing for the rights to develop it. You need to come back.”

His voice softened.

“There’s something important I want to tell you in person. I’ll wait.”

I had noticed Graham’s concern since we met again.

After years of being manipulated, that patience mattered.

I simply was not ready.

Maybe, in time.

Feeling lighter, I looked up at the clear afternoon sky.

My future stretched far beyond the shadow of my past.

This time, I would step into it on my own and shine as brightly as the sun.