He Married His Childhood Sweetheart for a Day, Then Lost Me Forever Chapter 07
The words had barely left my mouth when Keira, who was cutting cake nearby, burst out The accusation was razor -sharp and left Keira no room to hide.
Keira went pale but tried to sound calm as she shot back. “I wrote this. I conducted every experiment myself. I spent three years on this paper. How dare you accuse me of stealing?”
The journalist didn’t flinch. Instead, she produced even stronger evidence.
“According to our investigation, the original first author of this paper was a woman named Vivian/Clarke. The name was changed just one day before this conference. Care to explain that?”
Keira instinctively stepped back. She had no idea how a journalist had gotten access to that kind of internal information.
A few miles away in a hotel room, I watched on my phone with interest as Keira floundered in panic.
That’s right. I had leaked every piece of information myself.
But I was far from done.
Other reporters piled on with their own questions, and the room descended into chaos.
While Keira was still reeling, I detonated the real bombshell.
The massive screen behind Keira filled with photos of her looking intimate with different men during her years
abroad.
Grace, Nathan’s sister, had found them at my request.
Grace,
Keira’s private life was exposed, and the audience erupted.
Even the security guards couldn’t contain the scene.
When Keira saw those photos, every drop of color drained from her face. The past she had tried so hard to bury came rushing back.
She had believed that marrying Adrian after returning home would erase everything.
Why did someone always have to rip her wounds open just when she was about to grasp happiness?
The cameras stayed trained on her like gun barrels, capturing every second of her panic.
The conference she had been so proud of would become a hell she could never bear to look back on.
Keira was dealt with. Now came the main event.
Adrian was a high-ranking officer and a nationally recognized public figure.
I had turned Adrian and Keira’s intimate photos into evidence of an affair.
Once released, his reputation would be destroyed.
Just as I pressed Send, someone knocked on the hotel door.
I opened it to find Adrian gasping for breath, leaning against the doorframe, his shirt and jacket soaked through with sweat.
Looking at his face again filled me with nothing but disgust.
moved to shut the door, but he jammed his foot in the gap.
He thrust his and Keira’s divorce papers into my hands.
“Vivian, I’ve already divorced Keira. We can be together again.”
I let out a cold laugh and rolled my eyes. “How do you have the nerve to say that to my face?”
“After what you did, do you really think I’d take you back?”
Adrian’s eyes dropped to my flat stomach, and he closed them in pain.
“Vivian, I was wrong. But I really didn’t know you were pregnant. If I had known, I would never have left you there alone.”
“I was just trying to grant Keira’s wish. I didn’t mean anything by it.”
“You’re still the one I love. Please, Vivian. Let’s start over. We can have another baby!”
The word “baby” sent a scene crashing through my mind: me, bleeding, alone on the side of the road where he had left me.
Then I remembered the searing pain on the operating table as the baby was taken from me.
That kind of agony tears you apart, and the wound never heals.
“Adrian, we’re divorced. You’re the one who forced me to sign those papers.
“I gave you what you wanted. What I do from now on is none of your business.
I called security and had them drag Adrian out.
It was exactly what he had done when he threw me out of our home.
The news of Adrian’s affair exploded on social media within minutes.
Since he and Keira had made their wedding so public, gathering the evidence had been effortless.
The evidence included their intimate photos and the story of how he had caused the death of his own child.
Public outrage came crashing down like a tidal wave. People were even calling his military headquarters directly.
“He abandoned his own child. Why is this scumbag still in uniform?”
“I thought he and Keira were a match made in heaven. Turns out he had a wife the whole time.”
“Rank doesn’t mean character. Does a man like this deserve to be called a high-ranking officer?”
