For the next few days, I stayed in the laboratory. I finally created the antidote and suppressed the toxin in my body. To find out the truth, and because I was unwilling to end our marriage in such confusion, I privately asked Lucas to meet me. Once I started talking, everything came pouring out: the hurt, the suspicion, and the humiliation I had swallowed after Chloe's provocation. Lucas held his coffee cup and gently stirred it with a spoon. After listening to me pour everything out, he was silent at first. Then he smiled helplessly, as if he had long known this day would come, and slowly told me the truth. "Actually, Chloe is a Blackridge Syndicate mole." He stirred the coffee in his cup, his tone frighteningly calm. "Dante has been investigating her all along. He only fully confir

