Hearing My Husband’s Secret Thoughts, and Let Karma Find Him Chapter 10
A month later, the case was closed.
Summer was sentenced to fifteen years for corporate embezzlement and theft.
In prison, she couldn’t endure the beatings from the other inmates and eventually lost her mind.
My aunt was found to have committed years of corporate tax evasion. Her assets were seized and
auctioned off.
Buried under massive debt, she ended up homeless, digging through trash on the streets.
Ryan’s mother was tracked down by loan sharks at the hospital. They broke her other leg and both of
her hands on the spot.
Then they dragged her back to her hometown and dumped her in a decaying backwoods shack.
Ryan was facing life in prison for illegal overseas
loan–shark dealings and attempted murder.
He was tortured by other detainees every day in
the detention center.
After the product launch, I took complete control of Apex.
Because I revealed my true identity, Apex stock surged for twenty straight trading sessions.
I also topped the women’s billionaire rankings.
Late one night, I was sitting in the back seat of my town car, listening to music.
The driver slammed on the brakes.
“Ms. Sullivan, someone is blocking the road
ahead… He looks like a lunatic.”
I lowered the window and looked outside.
The headlights illuminated a man covered head to
toe in mud, crawling toward the car door.
His face was covered in knife scars.
It was Ryan, who had escaped.
He kept pounding both hands against the car
window and shouting, “Tessa! Tessa, please hear
me out! I know I was wrong. I really do!”
“Please, for the sake of the three years we were
married, give me a chance to live!”
“Lend me some money. Those people are going to
cut me to pieces. Tessa, I still love you!”
Even now, he was still trying to use the same old
emotional blackmail on me.
I lowered the window and looked down at the man
kneeling on the ground.
“Ryan, did you really think I had no idea what you
were thinking for the past three years?”
Ryan froze where he was.
I stared into his eyes and continued, repeating his
own thoughts back to him.
“Once that old bastard dies and Apex goes
bankrupt, I’m going to knock out every tooth in
your mouth, one by one.”
“Then we’ll see how you eat cherries.”
“By then, I’ll make you kneel on the ground like a
dog and lick my shoes.”
Ryan fell backward into a puddle.
His eyes bulged as he stared at me. His mouth hung open for a long time, but no sound came out.
Those were thoughts he had once kept buried in
his mind. He had never spoken them to anyone.
“You… you’re a monster… You could hear me…”
He scrambled backward, so terrified he wet
himself on the spot.
I looked into his eyes and spoke.
“Ryan, I didn’t just hear you. I’m going to make it
come true.”
I picked up the final divorce decree from the seat
beside me.
Then I grabbed a few unpitted cherries from the fruit tray and tossed them into the puddle.
“You want to be a dog?”
I looked down at him.
“Then you don’t even deserve pitted cherries. Swallow them with the pits.”
“If you choke to death by accident, consider
yourself lucky.”
After that, I threw the final divorce decree in his
face and raised the window.
“Drive. Run over those ruined cherries.”
The driver stepped on the gas.
The tires crushed the cherries in the muddy water,
and the car drove away.
In the rearview mirror, I saw a van stop beside
Ryan.
Several men got out with knives and dragged him.
straight into an alley.
Listening to the screams behind me, I filled my glass with red wine again.
From then on, my control over Apex Group was
unshakable.
Everyone who had tried to hurt me paid the price.
