Jenny turned back toward the documents, still wearing a faintly confident expression. But the moment she flipped to the final page, her confidence shattered. Her eyes landed on the signature at the bottom of the page.Ethan Wade.His signature was already there—firm, clear, and final.Jenny stopped breathing. For several seconds, she simply stared at it, unable to believe what she was seeing. “No…” The word escaped her lips like a whisper.She looked at Ethan. He hadn’t pulled out this game just to frighten her. He hadn’t left the line blank, waiting for her to change his mind. He had already signed.He really wanted this.For the first time that night, panic replaced her anger. Jenny slowly picked up the pen, her fingers trembling as she lowered it to the page. She carefully wrote out the first letters of her name, J-e-n-n-y, before stopping abruptly.Her eyes moved to the space where her surname belonged.Wade.She couldn’t make herself write it.Her fingers tightened around the

Jenny rushed through the hospital corridor, her heels striking against the floor as she desperately searched for David’s room. Her heart was pounding, and Ethan’s cold words from earlier kept replaying in her mind. “I will make sure David feeds the fish in the Pacific." She pushed the thought away. Right now, none of that mattered. All she could think about was David. When she finally reached his room, she pushed the door open without knocking.Her heart shattered.David was lying on the hospital bed, his face swollen and bruised. There was a deep cut above his eyebrow, dried blood along his temple, and bruises covering his arms and neck. One of his eyes was nearly swollen shut, and every breath seemed to cause him pain.Jenny froze at the doorway.“David…”Her voice broke.She hurried to his bedside and grabbed his hand.“Oh my God.”Tears immediately filled her eyes as she looked at him.“What happened to you?”David slowly turned his head toward her. His expression was weak