Chapter 1

Chloe Lewis lay on the hospital bed, her face as pale as parchment, her eyes vacant and devoid of life. The monotonous beep of the ventilator was the only sound piercing the sterile silence. Her son, Robert Myers, was gone, killed in a car accident. In his final moments, the one person he had desperately wanted to see was his father, Arthur Myers. But Arthur had been busy—dining with his precious "sweetheart". The door creaked open abruptly, the sharp click-clack of high heels announcing the newcomers before they fully entered. Chloe's listless gaze shifted towards the sound, and she froze. There stood her husband, Arthur, alongside the woman he'd always pined for—Jennifer Williams. The very woman who had systematically stolen everything from her. A cold, cruel smirk twisted Jennifer's lips as she looked down at Chloe. "Arthur is mine now," she declared, her voice dripping with venom. "That little bastard of yours is dead. Arthur will be formally recognizing my son as his heir. And you... It's your turn to die."