He Asked How to Compensate Me While I Was Dying Chapter 06

He Asked How to Compensate Me While I Was Dying Chapter 06

Everyone at Fort Blackstone believed Grant loved 

me more than his own life. 

I had stayed beside him through his coma and the 

bleak years when the Whitaker family treated him as expendable. 

After he rose to major general, he held a multimillion–dollar wedding and spent five years performing the role of an adoring husband. 

At least that was what outsiders saw. 

The truth was very different. 

Because Mallory cried over a tactical watch, he staged my kidnapping and made me believe his child had been conceived through assault. 

Now he remembered the empty, shattered smile I had given him when he chose Mallory at the abandoned complex. 

It had been the calm of someone whose heart 

was already dead and who was finally ready to 

follow it. 

The panic Grant had pushed down began clawing its way back. 

He turned to demand an explanation, but a courier 

entered through the gate. 

“Which of you is Major General Whitaker? I have an 

urgent package marked as Mrs. Whitaker’s 

personal effects.” 

Grant frowned and reached for it. Mallory, 

suddenly terrified, snatched it first. 

“Grant, first a memorial and now personal effects? 

Arden planned every bit of this. Don’t let her 

manipulate you. Send this man away. The holidays. 

are almost here, and a sham funeral will poison 

the whole season.” 

Her obvious fear sharpened Grant’s expression. For the first time, he looked at her with open 

suspicion. 

“What are you afraid of? Give it to me.” 

“No. Arden is trying to destroy us because you 

didn’t choose her. I won’t let that bitch win.” 

Mallory raised the envelope over the trash can, but 

her heel caught on a loose stone. 

The package split open when she fell, spilling a 

thick stack of photographs across the courtyard. 

The entire estate went silent. 

A guest picked up one photograph. Her 

expression changed, and then every disgusted eye 

turned toward Mallory. 

“Isn’t that Mallory with General Whitaker?” 

“They built their reputations around loving Arden, 

yet they were sleeping together. These pictures. 

are vile. How could they do this to her?” 

Someone remembered the relationship post that 

had circulated days earlier. 

“I saw a post where a man punished his wife 

because his family’s adopted daughter cried. He 

staged an abduction, made her believe she had 

been assaulted, and falsified the paternity of his 

own child.” 

“His wife developed severe depression and landed 

in the ICU ten times. People said it involved the 

Whitakers and the Bennetts, but I didn’t believe 

them because Grant’s devotion was famous.” 

“Apparently it was all an act. What a disgusting 

bastard.” 

Humiliated and furious, Mallory scrambled up 

screamed at the crowd. 

and 

“Stop looking. All of you, stop!”