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Chapter Nine:
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2026-04-30 16:59:49
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REBORN AND BECOME A BILLIONAIRE'S WIFE Epilogue:
Aurora's POVThe greenhouse smells like roses now.That is the first thing I notice when Sebastian opens the door and steps back to let me through. Not the old damp soil smell from the night everything changed. Not the cold river air pressing through cracked panes. Roses. Warm. Alive. Planted in clean rows along both walls with the specific deliberateness of someone who spent time thinking about what this place deserved to become.I stop just inside the door."When did you do this?""Three months ago," he says.I turn to look at him. "You've been growing roses in my mother's greenhouse for three months without telling me.""I've been having roses grown," he says, with the particular precision of a man who understands the difference between doing something and directing it to be done. "There is a distinction.""Sebastian." "You said she hated roses but loved greenhouses." He looks at me steadily. "I thought she deserved both." I turn back to the roses. My throat does something I don't
REBORN AND BECOME A BILLIONAIRE'S WIFE Chapter One Hundred and Twenty:
Aurora's POVI sit in the car for eleven minutes.I know because I watch the clock on the dashboard without meaning to, the way you watch something when your mind needs a number to hold onto while the rest of it decides what to do.The message is still open on my phone. Ask her who else was in that greenhouse twenty-six years ago. Eleven minutes. Then I close it, not because I don't want to know.Because I understand, sitting in this car outside my father's house with the morning settling into afternoon and the city moving around me like it always does, that there is a specific kind of person who sends messages like this one. Anonymous, Time. Designed to arrive exactly when the ground has just stopped shaking so it can start again, Designed to keep you running, Designed to make sure you never stop.I have been running since I opened my eyes six years ago in an apartment that smelled like the old life I had just died inside of. I have been running with my eyes forward and my hands full
REBORN AND BECOME A BILLIONAIRE'S WIFE Chapter One Hundred and Nineteen:
Aurora's POVThe city looks different in the morning after everything burns. Not destroyed, not transformed, just quietly, ordinarily different, the way a room looks after you've moved one piece of furniture and suddenly nothing sits where your eyes expect it to.I stand at the window of Sebastian's penthouse with a cup of coffee going cold in my hand and watch the city do what cities do after private catastrophes. Move. Breathe. Continue. Completely indifferent to the fact that last night two women signed a document in a greenhouse that dismantled thirty years of careful, patient, institutional rot.The city doesn't know. It doesn't need to. We know. That's enough. Behind me the penthouse is quiet. Not empty. Sebastian is in the kitchen. I can hear him moving, the specific unhurried way he moves in the morning that I have been learning without meaning to: coffee first, then the kettle, then the sound of him setting two cups down even when I haven't asked for one.He always sets two c
REBORN AND BECOME A BILLIONAIRE'S WIFE Chapter One Hundred and Eighteen:
Aurora's POVThe greenhouse goes so quiet after Lorna says his name that I can hear the river outside. Raymond, my father.The man who held my hand at my mother's funeral and cried so hard his whole body shook. The man who remarried too fast and looked away too often and chose the wrong people every single time, but never, not once, did I think to stop that thought before it finished.Because finishing it means making it real, and I am not ready for it to be real yet. "Say it again," I say. My voice comes out steady. I hate that it does.Lorna looks at me with the patience of someone who has been waiting twenty-six years to say a hard thing to the right person and is not going to flinch now that the moment has arrived."Raymond Sinclair," she says. "He was the first person who decided Elena had to go."Nadia makes a sound beside me. Small. Sharp. The sound of something cracking that she doesn't want to crack in front of witnesses. I reach for her hand without looking. She takes it wit
REBORN AND BECOME A BILLIONAIRE'S WIFE Chapter One Hundred and Seventeen:
Aurora’s POV“Put the order on the table.”The voice comes from the far end of the greenhouse before any of us fully step inside. I stop. So does everyone behind me.The air in here is warmer than outside, damp, and still. Rows of dead pots line one wall, and in the middle of them, beside an old workbench, stands a woman with short dark hair streaked with grey and a face that looks too tired for games and too sharp for mercy.Lorna Hale. No dramatic entrance. No gun, No mask, Just a woman who has been waiting.Arthur says her name first. Not warmly, not with surprise either, but with recognition. Good. That tells me more than anything else in the room. “You’re alive,” he says.Lorna looks at him. “You sound disappointed.”He doesn’t answer.I pull the unsigned destruction order from my bag but don’t move closer yet. “You sent the messages.” “Yes.” “You watched me for how long?”“Long enough to know you’d only trust the truth after it hurt.” Fair. I hate that it’s fair. Nadia steps bes
REBORN AND BECOME A BILLIONAIRE'S WIFE Chapter One Hundred and Sixteen:
Aurora’s POV“You’re not taking me anywhere.”Arthur says it like he still has the right to decide what happens in rooms he already ruined. I turn to him. “Yes, I am.” His jaw tightens. “That greenhouse is not a meeting place. It’s a graveyard for bad decisions.” “Perfect,” I say. “Then you should feel at home.” That lands. Good.The board screens are still live. Vincent is still in the room. Catherine is still standing too straight. Mrs. Dorian still has one hand near the bank phone. And somewhere under all of it is the simple fact that a woman we haven’t seen in twenty-six years just asked us to bring Arthur Reed, my sister, and the unsigned destruction order to Elena’s old greenhouse before six. No chance I am ignoring that.Sebastian steps closer to the table and takes the unsigned order from the stack before anyone else can touch it.“Vincent stays here,” he says. Vincent laughs once. “You think a bank room and a board screen can hold me?” “No,” Sebastian says. “I think the crim
REBORN AND BECOME A BILLIONAIRE'S WIFE Chapter Twenty-Six:
Aurora’s POV“I don’t belong to either of you.” The words leave my mouth before anyone else speaks.Vincent’s smile does not change. Damien goes still beside the table. Sebastian says nothing, but I can feel him shift half a step closer to me.Good.Let them all hear it.Vincent folds his hands in
REBORN AND BECOME A BILLIONAIRE'S WIFE Chapter Five:
Sebastian's POV"She was staring at you, sir.""People stare, Lucas.""Not like this." He sets my coffee on the desk and doesn't leave. That alone tells me he has decided this matters more than my schedule. "She wasn't impressed. Wasn't nervous. She was watching you like she already knew something
REBORN AND BECOME A BILLIONAIRE'S WIFE Chapter Four:
Nadia's POV"Aurora Sinclair, what is going on with you?"She looks up from her sketchbook like I startled her. But I have been sitting across from her for twenty minutes watching her draw the same line over and over without finishing it, and I am done pretending not to notice."Nothing is going on
REBORN AND BECOME A BILLIONAIRE'S WIFE Chapter Three:
Aurora's POV"You look tired."That is the first thing Damien says when I open the door.I almost laugh.Not because it is funny, but because in my first life, those exact words used to send me straight back to the mirror. He said it with concern. He wore it like control. A quiet way of reminding m
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