A Donna's Open Casket Gambit
In my previous life, my husband, Finnian O’Malley, faked his own death during a family feud, leaving me to settle his “blood debt”—a price that ultimately cost me my life.
To protect my son, who was still a student at a prestigious private school, I sold the art gallery that had been in my family for generations.
In the end, I collapsed from exhaustion and heartbreak. Lying on my deathbed, I heard my son, who had already been named the family’s heir, laughing on the phone.
"Papa? It's me. Yes, she's dying. The life insurance policy I took out on her will be more than enough for us to start over abroad. You and Moira can finally take the family business for yourselves."
The “Moira” he mentioned was my husband’s mistress, Moira Tierney.
It was only then that I understood. The so-called blood debt, the faked death—it was all a scam orchestrated by my husband and his mistress. They had fabricated the debt to cover their embezzlement of family assets, and he had faked his death to escape the consequences.
And my beloved son, the heir so hungry for the pinnacle of power, had stood by and watched them bleed me dry.
When I opened my eyes again, I was back at the moment my husband faked his "assassination"—the day it all began.