The lawsuit had already been filed with the court, accusing Rex of marital infidelity, malicious transfer of assets, defamation, and academic fraud.
On the day of the trial, Rex stood outside the courthouse smirking.
“Juniper Hayes, you won’t get a penny from me.”
“You’re just damaged goods who got gang–banged in Vegas. You think you’re something special? I don’t have anything in my name, so even if you sue me, it’s useless!”
During the trial, Rex spewed vulgar language, tried to derail the proceedings, and even accused me of “climbing back up by sleeping with a gangster thug.”
But when I presented bank statements, screenshots of academic ghostwriting conversations, and recordings of asset
transfer contracts…
The entire courtroom fell silent.
Finally, the court ruled:
Rex was guilty of marital fraud, concealment and illegal transfer of significant assets, and emotional damages. He was ordered to pay me fifty million in economic damages and issue a public apology in a national scientific journal.
The problem was, where would he get fifty million?
So the court forcibly auctioned his parents‘ last remaining penthouse retirement home in downtown Chicago-
The Chandler family was completely bankrupt.
Leaving the courthouse, Rex happened to see Nash and me getting into a black Rolls–Royce together.
I walked past him on Nash’s arm.
His face instantly turned a sickly shade of green.
“You two were in on it!! You set me up from the beginning!!”
“You’re nothing but a whore! You teamed up to destroy me!!!”
He lost control and rushed forward to attack the car but was immediately restrained by Nash’s bodyguards.
I stepped out of the car and looked down at him.
Nash stood beside me and sneered:
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“I should thank you for personally delivering my wife back to me.”
Rex froze in place, his eyes bloodshot.
He finally understood–that night, he had pushed me right back into Nash’s world with his own hands.
The chaos happened in an instant.
Raven burst from the crowd holding a fruit knife.
Her voice hoarse with rage, she screamed at Rex.
Chandler! I’m going to kill you!! You killed my baby!!”
You promised you’d take care of me forever!!!”
“This is what you get for not giving me money to win it all back!”
The blade flashed, and Rex screamed in agony as the knife plunged into his abdomen!
‘AHHH!!”
Raven stabbed him repeatedly in a frenzy as the crowd quickly scattered. Her eyes were filled with bloodshot veins:
“It’s all your fault for not giving me money! I was just one hand away!! I could have won back eighty million!!!”
Rex’s parents rushed forward to stop her but were also stabbed repeatedly, collapsing to the ground!
When the police arrived, Raven was like a woman possessed. She was subdued on the spot and sent to a psychiatric hospital under strict surveillance.
Rex was rushed to the emergency room, where he remained in a coma for three days.
When he woke up, an even deeper hell awaited him.
The university announced his dismissal from all positions and sued him for repeatedly embezzling research funds during his tenure.
The Chicago courts froze all his accounts, seized his properties, vehicles, and investments, while his massive loans snowballed into crushing debt.
Traumatized by his dramatic gambling losses and wins, he kept mumbling in the hospital: “I need to gamble to make it back” and “I’m going to sue them all.”
The day the Chandler family was forced onto the streets by loan sharks, Rex broke into the psychiatric hospital and stabbed the already deranged Raven to death!
The woman he once cherished ultimately died brutally by his hand.
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Blood pooled as her body slowly grew cold under the bed.
After being arrested by police, Rex was sentenced months later–intentional homicide, punishable by death.
That same day. Nash and I held our wedding in Vegas.
In my wedding gown, surrounded by flowers and walking down the aisle toward the altar, I took each step with certainty.
The crowd applauded and cheered.
Nash held my hand, his lips curving into a smile: “This time, you’re mine for good.”
[squeezed his warm palm in return.
One day after our marriage. I found a file in Nash’s study.
It turned out that when Rex first appeared with Raven at Nash’s casino, Nash had already planned everything.
That trap of detaining Raven for debt repayment was designed to see if Rex was truly the kind of monster who would trick me into coming.
The file showed that if Rex had simply brought money to rescue Raven, Nash would have only sent me evidence of Rex’s infidelity to help me divorce him.
But Rex chose the path that led to destruction.
I turned around to find Nash standing behind me.
He smiled gently, placing his hand tenderly on my belly.
Darling, to have you back in my life, I’ve never been afraid to play dirty.”
looked at the wedding ring he’d worn on his finger for years and felt my eyes well up.
‘Good thing I don’t want to be some hypocritical good person either.”
I held him tightly, feeling the heartbeat of our child inside me.
