His Lies My Revenge Novel Chapter 9 – The villa had already been tidied up by the servants, leaving no trace of the chaos, except for Martin’s mother-in-law, sitting stiffly on the couch, her face etched with disappointment.
“What are you doing back here now?” she snapped. “Rachel’s still in the hospital, waiting for you! Have you completely lost your mind?”
Martin didn’t even glance at her. He tore through the house, room by room, searching frantically.
“Where’s Jessie? What happened to her? She’s hurt too, she needs medical attention!”
His mother-in-law’s fury ignited. She grabbed the teacup in front of her and hurled it at him.
“Rachel’s lying in a hospital bed and you’re here looking for that bitch?” she screamed. “Let her die if she wants to! She’s been dragging that damn case around for five years. I’m sick of it! Martin, whether you admit it or not, the fact that Jessie attacked Rachel proves she’s no saint. You need to divorce her. Do you hear me?!”
Her words, sharp and relentless, echoed through the house.
But Martin was beyond anger. He had searched every corner, Jessie was gone. A cold, terrifying thought crept into his mind, one he didn’t dare linger on.
He grabbed the housekeeper.
“Where is she? Did anyone see her leave?”
The answer chilled him. Jessie hadn’t been seen since the family dinner. All the staff had been excused that night. No one knew where she’d gone.
Her room was completely emptied out. Every single thing of hers was gone. Even their wedding photo, ripped to pieces.
The finality of it hit him like a freight train.
She knew.
She had seen what was in the study.
The secret he’d buried for five years… was no longer a secret.
He remembered that night clearly now, the glass of warm milk, her sudden exit, the study door he’d forgotten to lock for the first time.
The moment he realized it, it was like plunging into a frozen lake. He could barely breathe.
Martin sank to the floor, his fists trembling as they pounded weakly against his legs. He couldn’t process it.
How had it come to this?
Jessie had promised she’d stop digging into the case.
He had promised himself he’d spend the rest of his life with her.
The vacation tickets were still saved in his phone.
But now, everything had crumbled.
He thought he’d protected Rachel.
He thought if Rachel could live happily, he and Jessie could live a quiet, ordinary life too. That no one would mention the Sward case again. That time would wash it all away.
He believed he could save two women, and three families.
But he had underestimated Jessie.
She had never given up.
The happiness they shared was like a soap bubble, shimmering for a moment, then gone in a breath.
One cigarette after another burned between his fingers. The smoke blurred the world, softened the edges of his guilt and panic.
In a haze, his mind drifted back to the day he proposed.
Jessie had been standing on that rooftop, broken and desperate. When she jumped, he caught her.
But that hadn’t been their first meeting.
The real first time was during her date with his younger brother.
Martin had come by to drop off an umbrella and car keys, and then he saw her.
Drenched in rain, her hair clinging to her face, and yet… she was breathtaking.
His heart stopped in that moment.
Still, he told himself his heart belonged to Rachel.
He didn’t want to break a promise, didn’t want to betray anyone.
So he buried that spark deep inside.
Until the day he heard she was going to end her life.
In that single, reckless second, he proposed.
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