Chapter 134

Drake’s POV

The house no longer felt divided.

For months it had been chaos. Accusations. Betrayal. Memory loss. Prison bars. Hospital monitors. Blood on white sheets.

Now there was a different kind of tension.

Quieter.

Controlled.

Earned.

Chloe had drawn her line clearly. No kiss. No bed. No intimacy until I was legally severed from Margaret and until justice finished what it started.

She had looked me straight in the eye when she said it. No trembling. No seduction. No desperation.

Strength.

I respected it.

I wanted her more because of it.

The divorce papers were already in motion. My attorneys worked day and night. Margaret had attempted to contest it at first, but the weight of her criminal charges made her leverage weak. The financial fraud alone was enough to dismantle any sympathy. When the evidence about Hilda surfaced in court, it sealed her fate.

Life imprisonment was not just a threat anym