All Chapters of Shattered Vows : Chapter 11 - Chapter 13

ElenaAffairs are delicate things—beautiful in the beginning, reckless in the middle, and suffocating at the end.Especially when trust becomes a weapon.That night, I watched Daniel sleep.Or pretend to.His breathing was uneven. His fingers twitched. His body was still, but his mind was moving. I could feel it.Sophie had called him. I knew she had. And it hadn’t gone well.By morning, the mask he wore was thinner.He didn’t kiss me goodbye. Didn’t touch his breakfast. Just stared at his phone like it held a ticking bomb.And maybe it did.I waited exactly two hours before calling Rachel. “He’s unraveling.”“Then so is she,” she said. “I’ve got something you’ll want to see.”I met her at her apartment. She handed me a flash drive and poured two glasses of wine—no words, no need. We were past small talk now.“She sent Daniel a voice note last night,” Rachel said. “Crying. Accusing him of betrayal. I intercepted it through a trace

ElenaThey say revenge is a dish best served cold.I disagreed.I wanted Sophie to feel it. To choke on it. To burn with it.I wanted every smug smile she’d ever thrown my way to wither and rot.When I opened the files from the flash drive that night, a sick sort of satisfaction bloomed in my chest.Bank statements. Names. Dates. Scans of contracts forged under false pretenses. Videos—grainy but damning—of Sophie whispering promises to men who clearly weren’t in their right minds.I stayed up until dawn piecing together her empire of lies, a twisted mosaic of ambition and destruction. Every click of my mouse stitched a little more resolve into my bones.By morning, my plan was crystal clear.No messy confrontations. No screaming matches.I would end Sophie Mitchell the way she had tried to end me.Quietly. Thoroughly. Completely.I uploaded the files to a secure server, wrote an anonymous email to one of the city’s most ruthless i