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CHAPTER THIRTY

Penulis: Lolly Brown
last update Tanggal publikasi: 2026-06-10 18:19:14

SELENE’s POV

I almost missed her.

It was the kind of almost that lived in the margin between a glance and a look — the difference between eyes passing over something and eyes landing on it. I had been walking toward the private entrance of Arden Tower after a lunch meeting that had run twenty minutes longer than scheduled, my mind already on the three o’clock call with the Tokyo partners, when something in my peripheral vision snagged.

I kept walking, then I stopped abruptly.

Across the street,
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    SELENE'S POVMy eyes fluttered open to the beep of machines and faint smile of antiseptics.That alone was enough for me to pull that I was lying on a hospital bed.I turned my head slowly, a sharp pain on my neck restricted the movement immediately. That was when it dawned on me that I had a cervical collar on my neck.Then, the door to the ward opened quietly and Ava was right there at the door way. I wanted to scream her name and watch her rush to my side. I want to unburden myself onto her, the burdens of betrayal and pain I couldn’t hold anymore. But sadly, I couldn’t do any of these. “Miss Selene. You’re finally awake,” she said as she walked into the ward. “We were scared this may be severe, we had to call for emergency services the moment Adrian saw you lying by the corner of the building on Stead street. Thank God he didn’t come out later than he did.”My brain started recapping as she said those words.Yes. We had been on Stead street together. Myself, Ava, and Adrian. I r

  • REBORN TO BE A BILLIONAIRE   CHAPTER FIFTY-EIGHT

    SELENE’S POVThe date range covered thirty-one months. Beginning four years and seven months ago.Seven months before the accident.I read the first exchange.FITCH: The inheritance matter has become complicated. The heir has been located. She’s married into the Laurent family, I don’t think that’s by coincidence, given what we know about how things like these arrange themselves.ARDEN: I'm aware. I've been tracking the genealogical line for some time. The timing of the marriage is unfortunate.FITCH: For whom.ARDEN: For everyone potentially. Including the people currently managing the assets.I kept my face completely still.Seven months before the accident, Leonard had known. He had known I was Serena Vale, the heir whose existence threatened the assets he had been diverting for eleven years. And he had been in correspondence with Gerald Fitch, the man who would later close the accident investigation and coordinate its operational side about the complication my existence represente

  • REBORN TO BE A BILLIONAIRE   CHAPTER FIFTY-SEVEN

    SELENE'S POV"Why are you here this morning?" I asked.Ruth turned to me. The question seemed to adjust her, pulling her back from the specific notice of the conversation with Adrian and Ava into a more demanding practical."Mr. Fitch called me four days ago," she began with shaky voice. "He told me the situation had become complicated. That there were people investigating the accident, and have now gotten close to the original documentation." She looked at the laptops. "He asked me to transfer specific files to a remote server and then wipe the local copies.” Her gaze moved from the laptop to her hands. “He pleaded that that was the last request he would ever ask of me.""And you agreed," I said solemnly."I don’t think I had a choice.""You had a choice four years ago," Ava said quietly. "And you made it then."Ruth didn't respond to that. She kept staring between her hand and the floor.The progress bar reached eighty-four percent.At this point, I was losing my patience. I dialed

  • REBORN TO BE A BILLIONAIRE   CHAPTER FIFTY-SIX

    SELENE'S POVThe ground floor was a single open room.Bare walls, concrete floor, and the smell of a space used for function rather than occupation.Dust and electronics and the faint chemical smell of equipment that had been running for hours. A folding table along the far wall held two laptops, both open and active, their screens casting the only light in the room beyond the early morning sunlight filtering through the frosted window.And at the table, her back to us, sat Ruth Callway.She looked older than the last time I saw her, of course, that was my days of being a devoted wife of Adrian Laurent. She looked smaller somehow, or perhaps that was simply the difference between a woman who worked in a large house where she managed the estate’s housekeep and a woman hunched over a laptop in a room she clearly hadn't expected to be interrupted in.She heard us the moment the door opened and turned.I watched her face move through several things in rapid succession: alarm, recognition

  • REBORN TO BE A BILLIONAIRE   CHAPTER FIFTY-FIVE

    ADRIAN’S POVAva closed the notebook and looked at the building across the street."The envelope Ruth Callway handed to the van driver. I described it as an envelope but I was looking at it from a far distance through a dry cleaner's window." She paused. "It could have been a drive or hard case for a storage device." She looked at me directly. "If Damien is moving physical documentation, that's one problem. If he's moving digital records, the footprint is different and the timeline for making those records unrecoverable is considerably shorter."The distinction mattered enormously and I had not been thinking about it clearly enough.Physical documentation; files, paper records, printed transaction histories, could be destroyed but the process takes time and could leave traces. Shredding equipment, incineration, secure disposal. Each method had its own signature.Digital records were different. A drive could be formatted, encrypted beyond recovery or transmitted to an offshore server

  • REBORN TO BE A BILLIONAIRE   CHAPTER FIFTY-FOUR

    SELENE’S POV"We need to move," I said. "If Fitch is inside that building and Ruth Callway just handed whatever we’re yet to discover to the van driver, they're close to completing whatever they came here to do. Once those vans leave, whatever documentation they're carrying becomes significantly harder to recover.""So, what do we do?" Ava asked.I looked at the corner one more time. Then I pulled out my phone and called Adrian.He answered before the first ring completed."I need you back on Stead Street," I said. "Number forty-seven. And I need Floyd Quake's team in position around the loading bay next door within ten minutes.""What happened?""We found Ruth Callway."The line went silent."Which Ruth Callway?" he asked. Then, he picked.“Ruth Callway, my former housekeeper?”"Exactly." I confirmed. "And I believe the person who told Damien's driver which road Serena would be on the night of the accident."The silence that followed lasted considerably longer than the ones before it

  • REBORN TO BE A BILLIONAIRE   CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE

    ADRIAN’s POVFour years ago, Damien had stood in a conference room and listened to a recording of a voice coordinating the accident that unalived Serena and my son and had said he recognized the voice. And then changed and said he was mistaken.And for four years while I buried my wife, struggled w

  • REBORN TO BE A BILLIONAIRE   CHAPTER THREE

    Adrian’s POV“Mr. Laurent?”I looked up sharply as one of the house staff rushed into my bedroom.“It’s almost midnight, sir.”I glanced at the clock beside the bed and frowned slightly.Serena still wasn’t home.It’s been hours I’ve been trying to reach her but can’t. I assumed she went to Ava’s p

  • REBORN TO BE A BILLIONAIRE   CHAPTER TWO

    Serena’s POVRain poured heavily outside the hotel as I drove through the empty road with trembling hands wrapped around the steering wheel.I could barely see properly through the windshield.But honestly, the storm outside felt nothing compared to the one inside me.My chest hurt so badly it was

  • REBORN TO BE A BILLIONAIRE   CHAPTER ONE - The Woman He Was Ashamed Of.

    Serena’s POV“You’re embarrassing me again.”Adrian’s voice was calm when he said it, but somehow, that made it worse.The entire dining table went silent.I stood beside his mother with a serving tray still in my hands while heat slowly crawled up my neck. Across the table, several business guests

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