Chapter 140
Sadie’s POV
That night, I sat in the study, my face illuminated by the glow of my computer screen. Lines of code raced across the display like a storm.}
In no time, I had traced the IP addresses of the online trolls.”
One by one, their real locations popped up, along with the devices they used and every single social account linked to them, [Sadie is a prostitute. Her son died of shame.]}
[Women like her deserve to rot in hell.]”
[Serves her right to get gang–raped!]}
I kept my hands steady as I verified their background data and cross–referenced it with every financial connection they had to Melanie.
Once I had confirmed the full list, I typed out the final line of code. And just like that, a virus I called Judgment was planted into each of their devices.
But this wasn’t your typical virus.
It wouldn’t destroy their computers, and it wouldn’t steal their private data.”
No. It just had one very specific function. It would dig up every cruel, vulgar, and degrading thing they’d ever posted and send it directly to everyone they knew, their parents, their friends, their coworkers, and their bosses, and even distant acquaintances they’d barely messaged. If they were in the contact list, they’d have it.”
And Judgment was indelible. Even if they replaced every device, wiped every account, and changed every contact, as soon as they reconnected to the internet, the virus would return like a ghost that never leaves.
Only when it was done did I lean back in my chair and finally exhale.
But this was just the opening act. Now that the puppets had paid, it was time to burn the puppet masters.
After a brief rest, my fingers flew across the keys again. This time, breaking into Melanie’s medical files and her complete personal history.”
Soon, I found out that her daughter, Jewel, didn’t have genetic heart problems. It was because Melanie had abused drugs heavily and repeatedly throughout her pregnancy, and that damage stunted the fetus’s development and nearly destroyed the baby’s heart.”
As for her divorce story, she often said it was because her ex–husband cheated on her, while the truth was the opposite.”
She was the one who committed that with multiple men. Her ex–husband also caught her multiple times. And for the 18th time she was caught, she was with four or five different men at once, of all skin tones in a hotel room. After that, her ex–husband finally decided to divorce her.
Typical of a drug addict, morals went out the window.
And her so–called “motherly love” was just a farce.”
She didn’t keep Jewel with her out of affection. She kept her as leverage to bleed more child support from her ex–husband and to manipulate Denton’s sympathy.”
She even said, more than once, that Mick’s heart could save her daughter.
That was why my poor Mick had his heart cut out of his little chest.
But Mick’s heart wasn’t even a match for Jewel.
How twisted is that?!
Denton, the man who once held my hand and promised me forever, destroyed our seven–year relationship because of a few poisonous words from Melanie.
He let her humiliate me, torture me. He even ripped our son’s heart out to save hers, without even checking for compatibility. And then, he turned the whole thing into a public spectacle, calling it justice and distribution.
He said I betrayed him.
But the real traitors were he and Melanie.
I stared at the compiled evidence on my screen, and for the first time in a long time, I smiled. “Melanie. Denton, I whispered. “Your nightmare has only just begun.”
