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Every time he stumbled home drunk, no matter how upset she was, she still brewed him a hangover cure and patiently fed it to him.
But his drinking always made her furious.
A faint smile tugged at Zacharias‘ lips, but it vanished as quickly as it came. He remembered—Anneliese was divorcing him. She had noticed he was drunk earlier, but she hadn’t cared in the slightest.
“She’s getting brave. Let’s see if she really has the guts to follow through.”
He tilted his head back and drank faster, the liquor burning down his throat.
If his drinking pushed him into the hospital, he knew Anneliese would come to him.
Zacharias kept drinking until he was completely gone. When he finally surfaced from the haze, warmth pressed against his chest, the softness of a woman curled in his arms.
His pulse spiked. For a fleeting moment, joy flooded him, and he thought she had come back to him.
He wrapped his arms tighter around her and pressed his lips against her hair.
“Anne, I knew you wouldn’t really leave me. You’d never stop caring.”
“Zacharias, you’re awake? Are you still feeling sick?”
The voice was sweet, careful, but it wasn’t Anneliese’s.
His eyes flew open. His face hardened, his brow knitting in anger.
“What the hell? Why are you here? Where is this?”
It was Coral. And this was the bedroom in Madison Villa.
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She wore a thin, black lace slip. She slid her arms around his neck, her red lips parting as she leaned toward him.
“Don’t you remember? You were drunk at the bar. I happened to be there. You thought I was Anneliese and dragged me home. Last night, we even…‘
He was blackout drunk, and all he remembered was the call to Anneliese.
But he wasn’t naïve enough to believe Coral’s story of a chance encounter.
He shoved her away, grabbed his clothes off the floor, and yanked them on with sharp, angry movements.
His voice cut like ice. “Coral, I’ve told you before. Stop throwing away your dignity.”
Then it struck him. Anneliese already knew about Coral.
She wasn’t bluffing when she said she wanted out. She was absolutely serious.
So, what else had she done in the meantime? Besides trashing Sunrise Residence, obviously.
Was she gathering evidence against him?
Zacharias‘ stare turned like steel, scanning the room until his expression twisted darker.
Half an hour later, he sat on the couch, clean and dressed, his face a storm.
He pointed at the tiny pinhole camera he had found on the table.
“What is this? Tell me!”
Coral’s face drained of color. Her shoulders curled inward as her eyes welled.
“I swear I don’t know. I have no idea how that thing got here. I swear I didn’t put it there!”
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Her fear looked real. Too real to be an act.
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He hadn’t expected to actually find a hidden camera, but that didn’t mean he believed her.
She could have planted it herself, waiting to use it against him.
His stare bore into her, heavy and unrelenting.
If it wasn’t Coral, then it had to be Anneliese.
She had been playing him the whole time..
The thought turned his face pale.
He snatched the camera off the table and hurled it down, then stomped until the pieces scattered across the floor.
Coral bit her lip, and the look on her face showed she had reached the same conclusion.
It must have been installed during that “internet repair” the other day. No wonder the connection had mysteriously gone out.
Anneliese had pretended to side with her, even used her to push Zacharias into signing divorce papers. But behind her back, she had turned on her too.
Coral’s jaw tightened in fury. She grabbed at Zacharias‘ arm, panic spilling out of her voice.
“Who would put surveillance here? What if they leak our photos everywhere? That’s vicious!
“And it’s illegal to install hidden cameras without permission! We should call the police!”
Zacharias tore her hands away. “This house isn’t yours anymore. I’ll find you another place. Pack your things. I’ll send some guys to help you move out.”
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Madison Villa was marital property. Anneliese had every right to put cameras in her own house.
He had once promised to give it to Coral, but that was over. He wouldn’t risk handing Anneliese leverage by moving assets before the divorce.
“What? But I’ve gotten used to living here. We’ve made memories here. I won’t go! You promised this place to me, Zacharias!”
Her tears fell as anger twisted her face.
But when he looked at her, there was not a shred of pity in his eyes. His mother was still at the station.
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