He threw me out onto the street with not a single dollar, but when he found out I was expecting 3 heirs, he sent his lawyers to the hospital. ‘The babies are mine,’ he shouted, not knowing that the most feared magnate in the country had already paid my bill.

For months Adeline had endured humiliation in silence while hiding her pregnancy beneath loose coats, trying to protect her unborn children from a world already eager to destroy her.

Inside her chest something finally stopped resisting, because she understood that fighting Nick Drayke felt like standing in front of a moving train and expecting mercy.

Her shaking hand moved across the paper while tears blurred every line, and she signed away the apartment, the accounts, the vehicles, and everything that once represented her life.

Nick stood up immediately after the final signature, placing his phone into his jacket pocket as if concluding a routine meeting rather than dismantling a family.

As he walked past her, he said calmly, “A deposit has been made for you, so do not claim I left you with nothing at all.”

The door closed behind him without hesitation, leaving Adeline alone inside a silence that felt heavier than any argument she had ever survived.

Outside the tower, rain covered Stonebridge Coastal City in sheets of silver water, and Adeline stepped into it without an umbrella while holding her stomach protectively as if she could shield her unborn children from betrayal itself.