Chapter 5 - THE UNSEEN PUPPETEER
Three months passed.
Vanessa’s life had transformed into a refined nightmare. She was dressed in the finest clothes, drove luxury cars, and sat in high-level boardrooms—but she was entirely powerless. She was Andrew’s shadow.
Every night, she watched powerful CEOs, politicians, and aristocrats bow to the man she had once treated like a nobody. And every night, Andrew treated her with professional, icy distance. He never touched her, never raised his voice, and never mentioned the engagement ring again.
However, beneath the surface of Andrew's empire, a storm was brewing.
One evening, while working late at the Vance Consortium headquarters, Vanessa was organizing confidential files when she noticed a hidden folder marked Project Mirror.
Curiosity overcame her fear. She clicked on the file.
As she scrolled through the documents, her blood ran cold. The files contained detailed financial records, private photographs, and surveillance notes—not just on her family, but on every single person who had interacted with Andrew over the past five years.
Vanessa gasped as she saw a document dated two years ago—long before she had even met Andrew.
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It was a full psychological profile of her. Her habits, her weaknesses, her family’s debt, her relationship with Marcus Thornton. Everything had been calculated.
Andrew hadn't just met her by chance at an art gallery two years ago. He had targeted her.
