2026-10-29 21:01:46With nearly four hundred million dollars in cash and a mountain of power, even an elite, high-society woman like Sophia Dean was taking the romantic initiative to text him first.
He deliberately locked his phone, set it face down on the table, and waited ten full minutes before typing out a simple reply. { Me too. Goodnight, Sophia. } He was never going to be anyone's desperate lapdog ever again. Not in this life. From now on, if women wanted a place beside him, they would have to do the chasing. That night, across the neighborhood, Susan couldn't sleep a single wink. Every time she closed her eyes, the same maddening images flashed behind her eyelids in a relentless loop: the twelve-million-dollar estate, Leonard's cold, mocking smile at the restaurant, and Sophia Dean sitting inches away from him, whispering into his ear. The humiliation, jealousy, and greed kept her tossing and turning until the first light of dawn broke through her bedroom window. The very second the clock struck eight in the morning, Susan grabbed her phone and dialed her attorney, Joe Dexter. The line rang twice before he picked up. "Susan?" "Did you get his official financial records from the bank yet?!" Susan demanded, sitting straight up in bed, her voice sharp with desperation. "Did the court grant the emergency subpoena?!" "I got them," Dexter said on the other end, his voice sounding oddly strained and heavy. Susan’s heart rate instantly spiked. "How much is it, Joe?! How much was he hiding from me?!" There was a long, suffocating silence on the line. "Susan... you should probably sit down before I read this to you," Dexter said slowly. A wave of intense heat rushed straight to Susan's head. Her hands began to tremble violently. "Just tell me the damn number, Joe! How much?!" If her lawyer was warning her to sit down in advance, the hidden amount had to be staggering! Twenty million?! Maybe even fifty million dollars?! On the other end of the phone, Joe Dexter exhaled a long, heavy breath into the microphone. "Your ex-husband's total liquid account activity over the last forty-eight hours..." Dexter paused, swallowing hard, "...totals close to four hundred million dollars." Susan’s mind went completely, terrifyingly blank. The bedroom around her seemed to tilt on its axis. Four... hundred... million...?! CRASH! A loud, violent thud echoed through the phone speaker as Susan’s grip gave out entirely. The phone tumbled from her hands, hitting the floor alongside her body as she fell straight off the side of her bed, crashing hard onto the hardwood floor. "Ms. Miller?!" Dexter’s panicked voice squeaked out from the phone speaker on the carpet. "Ms. Miller! Are you there?! Did you fall?!" Susan scrambled back up onto her knees, her heart hammering against her ribs so hard it felt like it was going to burst. She barely felt the throbbing pain in her bruised elbow as she snatched the phone back up to her ear. "Did you say four hundred million?!" she screamed into the receiver, her voice rising into an unhinged, hysterical shriek. "Not forty million?! FOUR HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS?!" "Four hundred million," Dexter confirmed, his tone utterly drained. "I checked the official bank wire statements three times myself. It's real." Then, his voice shifted, becoming heavy and grave. "But Susan... there's a massive, fatal problem with our petition." Susan shot to her feet, clutching the phone with both hands. "What problem?! What are you talking about?!" "The four hundred million dollars entered Leonard's bank account after your divorce agreement was officially stamped and finalized by the county clerk," Dexter explained, crushing her brief moment of euphoria into dust. "And the official source of the wire transfer was the State Lottery Commission's jackpot disbursement account." Susan stood frozen in the middle of her room, her face turning as white as a sheet. "W-What...?" Her voice cracked, barely above a whisper. "You're telling me... he won the state lottery... after we got divorced?!"
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Chapter 34
The moment the words "Give yourself to me" left Leonard's lips, Sara’s tearful, vulnerable expression vanished in an instant, replaced by a dark wave of pure, toxic disgust.She violently snatched her hand away from his silk robe, taking a swift step backward.“You creep!” Sara shrieked, her voice sharp and dripping with venom. “You really think just because you won a bunch of money that you can buy any woman you want?! Take a good look in the mirror, Leonard! What on earth makes a loser like you think you even have a damn chance with me?!”Leonard didn't flinch. He stood there in his doorway, looking almost completely innocent, his tone calm and unbothered.“Weren’t you the one who just said—word for word—that you would do absolutely anything to save Duke?”“That doesn’t include something disgusting like that!” Sara snapped, her face turning bright red.“Ah,” Leonard nodded slowly, a faint, cold smile touching his lips. “So when you say 'anything,' it comes with terms and conditions.
Chapter 33
After a relaxed breakfast, Leonard drove his sleek truck to an elite import dealership on the commercial strip, with Yvonne sitting in the passenger seat.The moment they walked through the glass doors, the staff treated them like royalty. The general manager personally brought out espresso while sales associates practically scrambled to pull up keys. Less than forty minutes later, Leonard picked out a stunning, high-performance luxury sports coupe valued at a little over seventy thousand dollars—and had the title registered directly in Yvonne’s name on the spot.Yvonne was completely over the moon.The second the ink dried on the registration forms, she threw her slender arms around his neck and kissed him again and again right in front of the showroom staff, her eyes sparkling, barely able to contain her explosive excitement.Then, Leonard bought something for himself.He walked straight over to the heavy-duty utility section and pointed to a massive, pitch-black Mercedes-AMG G 63 4
Chapter 32
After dinner, Leonard drove his sleek truck to the high-end branch of Apex National Bank near his temporary apartment.Recently, as his stock market investments continued to yield massive returns and his liquid capital exploded, he had been visiting the bank far more frequently. The dedicated representative assigned to personally oversee his multi-million-dollar accounts was none other than Yvonne Quinn, the senior branch manager.Yvonne had been dropping clear romantic hints to Leonard for quite some time.At first, it was undeniably about his astronomical wealth—a single man walking around with hundreds of millions in liquid cash was every ambitious woman's dream. But as she handled his private wire transfers and got to know him on a personal level, she gradually realized that Leonard possessed a calm, dangerous composure that seemed far beyond his years.More importantly, he wasn't like the vulgar nouveau riche snobs who won a bit of cash and walked around wearing a giant "I'm Rich
Chapter 31
Was Leonard surprised to see her standing there?Not in the slightest.If anything, he was actually surprised his ex-wife had taken this long to show up on his threshold.“Leonard, you’re finally back.” Susan deliberately softened her voice as much as she could, taking a fragile step forward. She clasped her hands in front of her chest, her eyes glistening with rehearsed sadness. “Do you have any idea how long I’ve been standing out here waiting for you? Please... there’s something important I need to tell you.”Leonard stood by the door frame, his hand resting casually in his jacket pocket, feeling the cold weight of the handgun concealed inside his holster. He could already guess the exact script she had spent all afternoon practicing in her head:I know I was wrong, Leonard. Please forgive me.From now on, you’ll be the only man in my life.Please... take me back.And what was all this dramatic performance really about?His money, of course.If Susan knew that his stock market port
Chapter 30
The elevator doors slid open again, breaking the heavy silence, and four burly men shoved their way into the cabin. Their exposed arms and necks were completely covered in thick, jagged tattoos, and one of them wore a glinting silver earring. They looked so rough they might as well have had the word “THUG” stamped right across their foreheads.The unkempt, debt-ridden man who smelled faintly of alcohol—the same guy who had just been eyeing Leonard with bitter envy—visibly turned pale. He shrank back, trying to vanish into the corner, but the elevator was so cramped that his back slammed hard against the mirrored wall.The man with the earring casually reached out, jammed his fingers into the control panel to cancel both selected floors, and planted his heavy boot right in the doorway to keep the doors from sliding shut.“Well, well, Paul. When the hell are you planning to pay us back?” A potbellied man pushed his way to the front, stepping right into Paul’s personal space with a terri
Chapter 29
The morning air was crisp, but Leonard didn’t spend a single second taking it in. He didn't know about the chaos that had unfolded with the Park family back at the hospital, nor did he have the time to care.Right now, he had bigger things to secure before the world went dark.He drove to a quiet, secluded bar on the far outskirts of Sydvale. The place was practically empty at eleven in the morning, bathed in dim yellow light and smelling faintly of stale beer. Sitting in a corner booth was a man wearing a thick, dark leather jacket and a low-profile cap—a look straight out of a private investigator's playbook.The moment the man looked up and saw Leonard walking in, his broody scowl instantly shattered into a wide, bright grin.“Bro!”His energetic, booming voice was completely at odds with his grim, intimidating getup. Beneath the shady clothes was just Sean—a guy in his mid-twenties who had served right alongside Leonard years ago.These days, though, Sean had carved out a very dif
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