Between Ruin And Resolve: My Ex-Husband’s Regret

Chapter 1068:

His face emerged from behind the veil—angular, striking, and familiar. Nigel’s features lived in him, but the warmth was gone; what remained was sharper, colder, honed by loss and time.

Ralph did not flinch.

He merely reached for his cup and took a slow, measured sip, as though he had known this moment would arrive.

“Blaine already told me why you’ve come,” he said calmly.

Noah set the mask down on the coffee table with quiet finality. His expression remained unreadable. “But I want to hear it from you,” he said. “What really happened five years ago?”

Ralph’s fingers absently traced the rim of his cup. His eyes, once fierce, flickered with a weary complexity. A sigh slipped past his lips—long and weighted.

“Ah, it’s a long and tangled tale—knotted with old grudges and the wreckage left by the generation before yours,” Ralph said, his voice low and lined with weariness. He paused for a moment, collecting scattered thoughts.

“Sadie’s grandfather, Absolon, once held a prominent place in Wall Group, but ideological rifts—clashing visions of how the empire should be run—drove a wedge between him and the Wall family. Rather than wage a war he couldn’t win…”

Absolon chose to leave Wall Group of his own accord. Later, he married Laura—Sadie’s grandmother. From that union came a daughter, Brenda. Brenda eventually married Dederick, the head of Hudson Group. They are Sadie’s parents.

Brenda saw too much of the corporate world’s toll in her father’s life and her husband’s. She turned her back on finance entirely, choosing the pursuit of science instead. But when the Hudson empire collapsed into ruin, Brenda and Dederick vanished, like ghosts swallowed by the wind.

Ralph’s voice grew more burdened with every word.

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“Then, five years ago, on Labor Day, I received a message from them. They resurfaced—briefly—and asked to meet me at Faron Retreat. It was there that Brenda entrusted Sadie into my care. She didn’t offer many details—only that if something ever went wrong, she wanted someone to protect her daughter. So when the storm hit Wall Group and Sadie was left adrift, I didn’t hesitate. I came back from abroad to stand behind her, to help her steady the wreckage.”noveldrama

Noah sat in silence, the furrow between his brows deepening.

The history aligned with what he had pieced together, but it left critical gaps. Why did Ralph abduct Sharon? And why had his search for answers drawn so much resistance?

“And what happened after that?” he asked, his voice cool but insistent.

Ralph held Noah’s gaze—grief, guilt, something old and unresolved stirring in his eyes.

“Not long after Labor Day…” he murmured, voice heavy with memory, “Faron Retreat went up in flames.”

“Two burned corpses were discovered—one male, one female. But that wasn’t the full story. Further inspection revealed that the burial plots marked for Brenda and Dederick had been disturbed—both urns were vacant.”

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