Chapter 6

After a few days at home, my supposedly “dead” husband suddenly showed up. Mark began apologizing as soon as he walked in.

“Eve, I didn’t die that night. I’m back. I had no idea my mom would lie and say I was dead, and that she’d make you repay six million dollars.”

Oh, so now he was playing innocent and acting like this was not all his plan and trying to push the blame onto Judith.

He would not have shown up at all if it was not because they could not repay the one million he owed me.

He hugged me gently and said, “Let’s put all this behind us and move forward together. Your money is my money, and my money is yours. Let’s not be apart anymore.”

I thought, “Your money is my money, huh?”

After my mom died, with no one to support him, he’d been living off the lottery winnings, which most of it was already gone.

He just did not want to repay the one million he owed me.

I shoved Mark away. Then, I grabbed the ashtray nearby and smashed it hard against his head.

“Who are you? My