Chapter 79  hat are you trying to say  Tm daying  change what’s already happened, but we  what comes next. The fact that you did something bad to  he’s been hurt? It doesn’t lone deal. No amount of Tm sorry will fix it. What if then caught up in some scam? What  way of getting out. Once people hear do you think they’ll say matter if you manage to bring her back because secrets have about you? How  time the stepped closer, resting a hand on his shoulder leaning in to continue. “Chase, you know  make tough choices”  Tm a woman too if I went through something  family. Just living would fer  the same  there’d be only one thought in my  y mind to end it all I couldn’t bear to face my  her mind would be forever scared. Even if she’s rescued, those mental wounds could last a lifetime. Shell never the slightest thing could trigger her Even if she doesn’t harm herself while shes there, the chances of her doing so  that that means? this age of social media, no ones free from judgment. Have you thought abou  losing face. Sure, Amanda’s a victim, but the weight of public opinion could crush her, and you’d become the laughingstock. What would people say? That your wife’s tainted, that she’s been with countless men, you…” “Enough” Chase seemed to picture it all too vividly, his face growing dark  you know  about you, and I genuinely want what’s best. If you stick by Amands, folks will mock you if you divorce her call you cold heated. Onice gossip spreads, it’s not just your reputation at risk but the company’s, too. With Derek waiting in the  think Grandpa would decide?  ed down Chase’s  time  se shivered. “So this is a dead end?”  Nicole pressed harder and whispered in his ear, “Being replaced by Derek is just a matter of  teres a simple way out. Just stay out of it. Amanda’s already vanished, and no one can link it back to you. Even if something  no later the worst is that shed disappear without a trace, and no one would ever know she was Mrs. Reyes. She’ll be gone, and no blame will fall on you  Chase locked at Nicole intently.  me to do nothing to leave my wife in that place?”  Nicole dropped her pretense of vulneability and smirked. “Chese, you need a partner who can stand by you, not one with a shadowy pest. Do you really want to hand over the Reyes family on a silver platter?  “Neger  Degek comes back, and suddenly Amanda is missing its possible he orchestrated her disappearance.”  Are you saying he laid this trap  and is just waiting for me to fall into it?”