Moonlit Mountain (Caleb and Sarah)

(Finding Forever After the Betrayal Chapter 18

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The investigation's results came back the next day. A cold, hard knot formed in my stomach as I read through the report. It confirmed everything I'd suspected. Hannah White-she'd targeted me from the moment she stepped foot in my office at Foster Designs. I remember thinking she seemed... fragile. Elegant, yes, with a quiet grace that spoke of old money, but there was a vulnerability about her too. A vulnerability she weaponized.

She played the victim perfectly, the tears welling up in her eyes so

convincingly. Fake phone calls from "parents" orchestrated to tug at my heartstrings. And I, fool that I was, fell for it. I took her under my wing, offered

her mentorship, a place to stay. I wanted to help.

It wasn't until she saw Aiden and Ethan - Aiden Peck, the man whose face

graced financial magazines, and Ethan Affleck, Los Angeles' famed race car driver, whose posters once plastered every wall in the city - that I understood the true extent of her envy. The realization hit me like a physical blow. The men I loved, the life I had... it was everything she craved, everything she could never have on her own.

The report laid bare her manipulative tactics: the constant complaints, the clinging, the calculated attempts to ingratiate herself with Aiden and Ethan. The petty jealousies, magnified into acts of sabotage. The faked injury to her hand, the fabricated stories of hardship, my award shattered on the floor... and the flowers. God, the flowers. After a short time as my intern, she knew about my 12:37

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