Chapter 4: The Truth Behind the Contract
Three weeks later...
Everything changed.
Ricardo was in the middle of a board meeting when his assistant rushed inside.
"Sir..."
"We've identified the company responsible for the financial collapse of the Flores Flower Shop."
Ricardo frowned.
"I already know."
The assistant swallowed nervously.
"No, sir."
"You were given false information."
A thick investigation file landed on the conference table.
Inside were bank transfers.
Forged invoices.
Bribed auditors.
Every document pointed toward one name.
Sebastian Wolfe.
Ricardo's longtime business partner.
The very man who had convinced him that Elena's father had committed fraud against the Montero Group.
For several minutes...
Ricardo didn't move.
Then he turned another page.
There it was.
A recorded email.
Sebastian had deliberately manipulated the investigation.
He needed the flower shop to collapse.
He needed Elena desperate enough to accept Ricardo's contract.
Not for business.
For revenge against her father.
Ricardo slowly closed the file.
His hands remained perfectly still.
Only his eyes changed.
For the first time in years...
He realized he had destroyed an innocent woman's life.
Not because she deserved it.
Because someone had used him as the weapon.
Across the city...
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Elena stood inside the greenhouse, gently watering the white jasmine now blooming beneath the evening sun.
She smiled softly, unaware that the prison she had entered was about to become the battlefield that would reveal the truth—and force Ricardo to decide whether he would remain the man who bought a wife... or become the man willing to fight to earn her forgiveness.
