Chapter 65: “Take Down The Allen Corporation”

Kourtney's eyes widened in a mixture of guilt and shame as she tried to turn away, hiding the evidence of her pain.

"It's... it’s nothing, just a little accident," she muttered, her voice barely above a whisper.

Sebastian's heart clenched at her obvious distress, a surge of protectiveness and worry flooding through him. To think he was rushing home to see the pretty face of his wife, not knowing it had already been messed up and bruised.

The raw agony etched on her features hit him like a punch to the gut. Even her swollen eyes meant she had been crying for long, and the sight pierced through his heart like a knife, seeing his vibrant wife reduced to a shell of herself.

Her cheeks were inflamed and discolored - a stark contrast to her usual radiance.

“Who did it?” he rasped.

“Uh??

“I said, who did it?”

“Uhmmm…. It's no one. No one did it, okay? I... I said it was an accident!” Kourtney stammered a lie through her teeth.

She had assumed the man would be back home late and probably woul