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Reborn, I Married My Ex-Fiancé’s Older Brother
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Childhood Sweethearts
Marriage
Family Emotions
Revenge
Reborn
After Death
When the wildfire reached the door to my room at the treatment center, I heard my husband, Lucas Vale, order them to save Serena Cole first. There was only one seat left on the helicopter. He gave it to the girl I'd treated like a little sister my whole life, and he wouldn't even have anyone unlock my door. "Keep her calm. She's emotionally unstable right now. She can't leave the ward without authorization." Seven months pregnant, I gripped the receiver in one hand and cradled my belly with the other. Two hours earlier, he'd wiped away my tears and told me he'd sent me here to protect me. I'd begged him to let me see a lawyer and to look into the money diverted from the foundation. Instead, they took my phone, and I heard the lock click shut. As smoke poured in, someone in the hallway started slamming into my door and shouting my name over and over. It was Adrian Vale, my husband's older brother, who hadn't come home in years. I didn't last long enough to see that door open. When I opened my eyes again, Lucas was sitting beside me, pushing me to sign a voting proxy. The wedding was six weeks away. Once I signed, the shares my father had left me would become his leverage in the fight to take over the company. In my last life, I signed. I thought we were about to be family, so there was no need to keep things so separate. Serena walked in carrying a stack of wedding catalogs and smiled as she urged me to sign. "He's just trying to take some weight off your shoulders." This time, I closed the folder. "I'm taking this home to have an independent lawyer review it." Lucas frowned. "We're getting married in six weeks. You really want to treat me like an outsider now?" Right in front of him, I revoked the temporary proxy and walked out with the unsigned document. The lobby TV showed Adrian returning to Northern California. As the camera followed him, I heard the voice from the fire again. I texted him: Adrian, I want to see you.
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Reborn, I Married My Ex-Fiancé’s Older Brother Chapter 12
A year later, Serena pleaded guilty to embezzlement, perjury, and tampering with records.She repaid what she had taken, accepted the court's sentence, and received credit for cooperating with the investigation. Lucas, meanwhile, reached a plea agreement on charges of fraud, obstruction, and unlawful access to medical records. He was permanently barred from holding a management position at the Vale Hotel Group.His lawyer sent three letters of apology.I didn't open a single one. I sent them all back unopened.The foundation elected a new oversight committee. For the first time, a representative of the people it served held an official seat, and the beneficial owner behind every related-party transaction had to be publicly disclosed. The doctor who had challenged Lucas at the charity gala took over as chair. His first proposal was to reduce the size of the administrators' names on promotional materials and post updates about funded programs on the home page.I kept managing the Reed Tr
Reborn, I Married My Ex-Fiancé’s Older Brother Chapter 11
On the day of the annual shareholders' meeting, news vans packed the street outside the convention center.The head of the independent audit team spent 40 minutes explaining where the money had gone.A total of two hundred forty thousand dollars had passed through two layers of intermediary accounts before reaching the safety equipment supplier. The supplier used part of it to buy substandard private-label equipment; the rest went into a personal account controlled by Serena.The three invoices had been approved through Lucas's account. The legal department had backdated them on his instructions, and he had used the old IT login to delete the index entries.The last page showed the consulting fee paid to Dr. Bennett.He'd had an explanation for each bill. But with the invoices, the approvals, and the payment trail laid out side by side, those explanations no longer added up.Serena appeared with her lawyer. When it was her turn to speak, she admitted to altering the email, backdating d
Reborn, I Married My Ex-Fiancé’s Older Brother Chapter 10
The first weekend after the hearing, there were no meetings and no reporters.Adrian asked if I wanted to go on a date. I didn't say yes right away."I need to be sure about something," I said."What?""I want to know whether I'd still want to see you this much if we weren't going through the books and no one was chasing us with cameras."He nodded. "Okay. Take your time."So we spent two days apart.At the winery, I took inventory of the vintage wines my father had left behind and fixed a window that never quite closed. On Saturday afternoon, I picked up my phone and put it down three times. By that night, I realized I wanted to tell Adrian that my father had hidden his best bottle in a plain cardboard box because he always said people who really knew wine didn't need a gold label.I wanted to hear how Adrian would tease my father about it. That small detail was all I could think about that night.On Sunday, I texted Adrian.Are you free tomorrow night? I'd like to take you to dinner.
Reborn, I Married My Ex-Fiancé’s Older Brother Chapter 9
The hearing was set for 48 hours later.Helen found me an independent doctor. I completed the evaluation and turned over my recent meeting notes, work emails, and the original video of the public Q&A. Each record showed that I knew exactly what I was doing. Even so, I barely slept during the two nights before the hearing.Every time I closed my eyes, I thought of the door at the treatment center. Back then, it had started the same way: with a document. After that, everything I said had been dismissed as the ravings of a patient.In the courtroom, Lucas sat at the petitioner's table. He didn't look at me.His lawyer submitted Dr. Bennett's statement first. Then he listed everything I'd done: breaking off the engagement without warning, revoking the proxy, choosing Adrian, and warning about the wildfire risk. He claimed these decisions formed an ongoing "pattern of paranoia."The judge asked Lucas, "You're asking for a temporary conservatorship of her estate. Why is so much of this filin
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