CHAPTER 2: THE WOMAN FROM THE RIVER
Sophie should have died.
The police believed it.
The newspapers reported it.
Even her family held a memorial service.
But twenty miles downstream, an old fishing captain spotted something caught between the reeds.
A woman.
Barely alive.
Her pulse was weak.
Her skull fractured.
Her body covered in bruises.
For two weeks she remained unconscious.
When she finally opened her eyes, she couldn't remember her own name.
Months passed.
Doctors called it traumatic amnesia.
Memories returned slowly.
Fragments.
Faces.
Voices.
Arguments.
Then one morning she remembered Ethan.
And everything else came flooding back.
The affair.
The documents.
The bridge.
The hand that never reached for hers.
By then, nearly a year had passed.
She searched for her old life.
What she found devastated her.
Ethan had inherited everything.
The company.
The properties.
The investments.
Even the lake house Sophie had purchased before their marriage.
And Lauren had moved into the penthouse less than three months after her "death."
Sophie sat alone in a small apartment staring at photographs she barely recognized.
The grief turned into something colder.
Determination.
She couldn't prove what happened on the bridge.
Not yet.
But she could prove something else.
The fraud.
The stolen assets.
The money.
And if Ethan built his empire using her life...
She would spend every day tearing it apart.
What Sophie didn't know was that someone else had been investigating Ethan too.
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Someone who possessed evidence that could destroy him forever.
And that person had just learned she was alive.
