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Chapter 531
Chapter 531:
“I’m sorry I’m late,” June said to the grave. “I finally see the truth. The man who tortured me for four years wasn’t you. He is just a fraud who stole your face p>
Alycia felt as though she had been struck by lightning. The blood in her veins turned to ice.
June reached out and gently traced the edge of the polaroid photograph protected behind glass on the headstone. Silent tears rolled down her cheeks.
“The light you gave me in that Swiss clinic — I kept it in my heart,” she whispered. “But I gave my love to the wrong man. I gave everything to a monster p>
𝘐ո𝘀t𝖺n𝘵 𝗮c𝖼e𝗌ѕ 𝗈𝘯 ѕ.𝖼o𝗆
Behind the statue, Alycia’s legs gave out beneath her.
She sank against the cold marble base, her heart hammering violently against her ribs.
The Swiss clinic. The light. The wrong man.
A thousand jagged pieces crashed together all at once inside her mind. Cole’s drunken whispers in the dark. The way he looked at her — not with love, but with a heavy, almost reluctant sense of duty. The way his eyes always seemed to search past her, reaching for someone who wasn’t there.
The truth detonated in her head, absurd and terrifying in equal measure.
Cole had believed Caleb’s dying wish was to protect Alycia. He had thought Alycia was Caleb’s soulmate.
But it had been June all along.
Cole had chosen the wrong woman from the very beginning. Alycia was a fake — an imposter who had stolen June’s identity to get Cole’s money.
Panic seized her throat. She could not breathe. If Cole ever discovered the truth, he would destroy her.
She heard movement. June rose to her feet, wiped the tears from her face, bowed deeply to the grave, and turned to leave.
Alycia scrambled backward and pressed herself flat against the rear of the statue, both hands clamped over her mouth, not daring to make a sound.
She waited. She listened to June’s footsteps fade, then heard the Range Rover’s engine turn over and disappear down the road.
Only then did she let out a long, shaking breath.
She sat on the cold grass and looked at Caleb’s grave. By degrees, the raw terror in her eyes began to change — hardening, cooling, sharpening into something far more dangerous.
This secret was a bomb with the power to destroy her. But it was also the most powerful weapon she had ever held.
As long as June refused to tell Cole the truth — and Alycia knew June despised Cole far too deeply to ever explain it — the gap in his knowledge would remain wide open.
The corners of Alycia’s mouth curled into a slow, cold smile. She stood, brushed the dirt from her skirt, and straightened her coat. She knew exactly how to use a dead man to put a leash on Cole Compton.
Two hours later, the sky cracked open.
A massive thunderstorm swept across the area, dropping sheets of heavy rain and shaking the ground with rolling thunder. A convoy of black armored SUVs tore down the road toward the mausoleum and screamed to a stop, tires shrieking against the wet asphalt.