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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
Reborn, I Married My Ex-Fiancé’s Older Brother Chapter 8
Lucas didn't wait long.Early the next morning, he appeared live on a financial news show, holding the engagement ring I'd left at the board meeting."The wedding hasn't been canceled. It's only been postponed." He faced the camera, looking haggard but composed. "Evelyn has been under too much pressure lately. Someone is taking advantage of her fear of wildfires and pushing her into rash decisions."The host asked whether that someone was Adrian.Lucas didn't answer. All he said was, "For her sake, I'm willing to drop out of the race for CEO. I want her to come home, so we can work things out the way we used to."The interview was quickly cut into short clips.Some commenters said a man willing to give up an entire company had proven his love. Others urged me not to throw away all our years together out of spite.Every time he talked like this in my last life, I went back to him. Jewelry, a trip, or a line about how I was the only one who deserved to stand beside him was enough to make
Reborn, I Married My Ex-Fiancé’s Older Brother Chapter 7
A photo of Adrian and me outside the ranger station made entertainment headlines the next day.In the photo, Adrian and I were walking side by side toward the same car. The image had been cropped to leave out the safety manager and Nathan, along with the reports each of us was carrying.The headline was pure innuendo: Fiancée Falls for Her Fiancé's Older Brother: Secrets Behind the Vale Succession Battle.Three of the foundation's sponsors put their partnerships on hold. Serena posted on Instagram that she had never meant to hurt anyone and only hoped that "secret relationships would never hold a charity hostage."She never actually said anyone had cheated. But put that line about secret relationships next to the photo, and it was hard for anyone to think otherwise.After Adrian read the PR briefing, he put a draft statement in front of me. It announced that he would step down as the public face of the project."I can step back for now," he said. "The external team will continue the au
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