The Ceo’s Convict Wife by Jennifer Mike

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A thin and frail woman with bloodstained hands was pressed forcefully onto the ground.

“The former best newcomer lawyer has turned into an incompetent.” A cold and malevolent voice sounded above Rosalie Leighton’s head.

Struggling, she raised her head, her gaze locking onto the attractive face before her. It was hard to fathom that the popular celebrity from the entertainment circle, someone who appeared so innocent to others, could be harboring such ruthlessness.

“Yvette, why?” Rosalie asked in a trembling voice.

“You took my sister’s life How can you even ask why Yvette Hamilton’s sneer conveyed a chilling edge, her eyes brimming

with malefic darkness.

“It wasn’t me. I’m innocent Rosalie managed to utter amidst her difficulty, her head shaking in persistent dental, trying to straighten herself up, her gaze unwaveringly fixed on the man standing beside Yvette.

He was none other than Rosalie’s ex-boyfriend. The man who had once vowed to protect her eternally

In the past, even a minor injury to her finger would cause him to worry for hours. Yet now, he merely stood there, a passive observer of her torment

“Z-Zachary.” Rosalie s cry was infused with nearly every ounce of her remaining strength. “Please. I beg you believe me.

He still wore the same suit and leather shoes as before, but as he fixed his dark eyes upon her, they held nothing but a haze of coldness

“Zachary, you’re not feeling sorry for this woman, are you! She’s the one who took my sister’s life! Everything Im doing is to

my sister can rest in peace”

Yvette held the man’s armi mi

at him

tely. Her malicious expression

sformed into a sort of pitiable charm when she looked

“She brought this upon herself Sympathy isn’t warranted Zachary Xanthos responded softly, his fingers tenderly brushing through Yvettes meticulously styled hair “You can do whatever you want.

Rosalie’s eyes widened all of a sudden as the mused. “I brought this upon myself? Ha“

The man who had once cherished Rosalie now reduced her anguish to this dismissive remark.

Drawing on an unfamiliar well of strength, she broke free from the constraining hold of the person pinning her down. She struggled and crawled forward, determined to get closer to the man.

“Zachary, I don’t know what happened in that car accident. I wasn’t drunk driving that day. It was Melanie’s car…. that crashed into mine.

Thud!

back of her hand heavily, sending waves

physically paled in comparison to the intense ache in Rosalie’s heart

to lift her head and locked eyes on Zachary, whose leather-clad shoe was pressing down on her left hand. The realization that he could be so heartless left

a deep breath, she said in a hoarse voice. “Did you ever truly love me””

of my life was ever being with you” Zachary’s words were delivered in

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hands. It was she who caused the accident that took my sister’s life.”

next instant, Rosalie heard him

opened her eyes to the present, realizing she had been dreaming about

now covered in calluses. After three years of incarceration, her hands were

her ten fingers had regrown, her

not flawlessly. The joints appeared

cold and damp, the discomfort in her fingers was

excruciating that she yearned to sever her hands

Melanie Hamilton. Melanie wasn’t just the eldest daughter of the Hamilton

Strico.

herself abandoned and cast aside by her own family.

to her feet, retrieving a cleaning tool as

the cold weather had bestowed a slight reddish hue upon her delicate face. Beneath her eyes rested a captivating nose and lips tinted with a delicate shade

vigor that should have animated her eyes

dozed off at the Environment and Sanitation Administration, she had nearly missed

she was preparing to depart, a colleague engrossed in her phone caught Rosalie’s attention. “Huh? Zachary and Yvette are getting engaged. Yvette is truly fortunate to be

to hastily depart from the Environment and Sanitation. Administration.

Yvette were like aching wounds etched

the road. The bones in her hands throbbed in response to the frigid air, sending

worker like her, even accessing painkillers had become an

unexpectedly pulled to a stop

man and a woman emerged from the vehicle. Pallor swept over Rosalie’s

harass her during her time with Zachary and

Leighton? What brings you to road sweeping?” Timothy

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giggled, “She’s

Zachary Xanthos girlfriend!” Timothy remarked, casting Rosalie

the night with me? What I can provide you is far beyond your earnings from road

to have his way with her. She struggled to evade the man’s grasp, but Timothy seized her arm and pinned her against

Rosalie raised her foot and kicked at Timothy, taking

flared red as he refused to relent. He jumped into his Ferrari and began to chase after

the other side of the road.

this area, it was hauntingly deserted. Not a soul was in

if there was no