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Chapter 132 Seraphina's Pov
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Revenge Of The Rejected Ex-Wife Chapter 139 Seraphina's Pov
Evelyn looked directly at Daniel as she said, "The part where I liked talking to you."Daniel didn't react.Children who had been disappointed enough learned caution early."The bridge stuff?" He asked. A sad smile appeared. "Especially the bridge stuff."The room remained silent. Daniel looked down at Storm Captain. Then back up."Why didn't you tell me who you were?"The question landed with devastating simplicity.No accusations.No anger.Just confusion.Pure childhood confusion.Evelyn's eyes briefly filled. "I was afraid."Daniel frowned. "Of me?""No."Her answer came immediately. "Of what would happen after."The sentence hung in the air.Nobody seemed eager to explore it.Then Daniel asked the question that changed everything."Did Grandpa Arthur know about me before I was born?"Every adult froze.Every single one.Mara.Lucian.Mrs. Crawford.Me.Even Evelyn.The reaction itself became an answer.Daniel noticed.Of course he noticed.Children always noticed.His eyes widen
Revenge Of The Rejected Ex-Wife Chapter 138 Seraphina's Pov
Nobody moved for several seconds after Evelyn spoke.The silence inside the living room felt entirely different from the silence that had followed anonymous photographs, threatening messages, or legal filings. Those moments had carried hostility. They had announced themselves as attacks.This felt like standing on the edge of something buried.Something old.Something that had been waiting patiently beneath years of carefully arranged lies.The security monitor showed Evelyn standing outside the gate exactly as before. She wasn't pacing. She wasn't checking her phone. Her posture remained remarkably calm for a woman who had just informed us that dead men's lawyers might soon become a problem.Mara was the first person to recover."What lawyers?" she asked.Her voice was sharp enough to cut through steel.The intercom carried Evelyn's reply immediately."The lawyers Arthur retained before he died."Mara exchanged a look with me.Then with Lucian.None of us liked that answer.Arthur Bl
Revenge Of The Rejected Ex-Wife Chapter 137 Seraphina's Pov
By noon, Mara had arrived.The meeting happened in the living room after Daniel disappeared upstairs to work on a redesign of his bridge. The redesign apparently involved stronger foundations and fewer decorative elements. Mrs. Crawford claimed that sounded suspiciously therapeutic.Mara sat across from us with her tablet balanced on one knee."I assume neither of you replied,” she said to us."No.""Good."Again that word.Again nobody believed it.Mara pulled up a file."I spent the morning digging into Evelyn Byrne.""What did you find?"Her expression tightened in response, making me dread what was to come. Again, the words swam in front of my eyes. Evelyn Byrne. The message. The invitation. The twenty-seven minutes.Evelyn Byrne. The message. The invitation. The twenty-seven minutes."Almost nothing,” Mara said finally in response to what we had asked.That worried me immediately.People left footprints.Employment records. Tax records. Property records. Social media. Profession
Revenge Of The Rejected Ex-Wife Chapter 136 Seraphina's Pov
Sleep should have been impossible that night.Under normal circumstances, the discovery that a woman had entered our lives under a false name, spent months building trust with Daniel, revealed herself as Arthur Blackthorne's secret daughter and then calmly sent an invitation to meet would have been enough to keep me awake until dawn.Yet exhaustion had become its own kind of gravity.My body was carrying a child.My mind was carrying a war.At some point, both simply shut down.Morning arrived too quickly.I woke to sunlight pushing through the curtains and the unfamiliar sensation of Lucian still being awake beside me. He was sitting against the headboard with his laptop open, reading something with the focused expression he usually reserved for structural plans, legal briefs, and problems he intended to solve before anyone else woke up."You didn't sleep."He looked over. "A little.""You look terrible.""Thank you.""You do.""I appreciate your honesty."I sat up slowly.The pregn
Revenge Of The Rejected Ex-Wife Chapter 135 Lucian's Pov
Then Daniel said something that made every hair on the back of my neck stand up."Did she lie?"The room went still.Because children sometimes reached conclusions before adults finished assembling the evidence."Why would you ask that?" Seraphina said softly.Daniel hesitated for the first time all evening. Then he looked down.At Storm Captain. At his hands. Anywhere except at us.And suddenly I knew.There was more. A lot more."What happened during those twenty-seven minutes?" The question left my mouth before I planned it.Daniel's head snapped up.And every expression vanished from his face. Every single one.Children weren't supposed to be good at masks.Daniel had learned from professionals. From Kieran.From years of watching adults hide things behind polite smiles.And for one second I saw it.The wall.The one he built when he felt trapped."What twenty-seven minutes?" he asked too quickly. Too carefully. Seraphina reached for his hand.e didn't pull away.But he didn't rel
Revenge Of The Rejected Ex-Wife Chapter 134 Lucian's Pov
The problem with fear was that it invited imagination to do half the work.By the time Daniel came home from school that afternoon, Seraphina and I had already imagined twenty versions of Evelyn Byrne.In some versions, she was dangerous.In others, she was manipulative.In several, she was working with Arthur's attorneys.In one particularly unpleasant version she had spent months gathering information about Daniel for purposes none of us understood.The truth was that we knew almost nothing which somehow felt worse.Facts could be handled.Unknowns spread.Mrs. Crawford spent most of the afternoon searching through volunteer records from Ground.The results were frustrating.The woman calling herself Grace Donnelly had passed every background check.References. Identification. Employment history.Everything appeared legitimate…. everything!Too legitimate.People who built false identities professionally understood that credibility came from details.The more ordinary a story looked
Revenge Of The Rejected Ex-Wife Chapter 131 Lucian's Pov
By the time Seraphina fell asleep, it was almost midnight.She had insisted she wasn't tired.Then she had fallen asleep halfway through reading the same page for the fourth time.The book rested on her chest.One hand was curled protectively over her stomach.The bedside lamp cast a warm light acr
Revenge Of The Rejected Ex-Wife Chapter 130 Celeste's Pov
The penthouse was too quiet. It was just quiet in the way expensive places became quiet when the people inside had stopped living in them.I found Kieran exactly where I expected. He was standing in front of the floor-to-ceiling windows with a glass of whiskey he hadn't touched.His suit jacket was
Revenge Of The Rejected Ex-Wife Chapter 129 Seraphina's Pov
The next morning began with an alarm.Daniel.He appeared in the kitchen at exactly seven-thirteen wearing mismatched socks and carrying Storm Captain under one arm."I have a question."Lucian looked up from the coffee machine."That's usually dangerous."Daniel ignored him. "If Dad becomes nice,
Revenge Of The Rejected Ex-Wife Chapter 128 Kieran's Pov
People always assumed silence meant defeat.It was one of the reasons most people lost negotiations before they realized they had entered one.Lawyers filled silence with unnecessary words. Executives filled it with promises. Politicians filled it with lies. Weak men filled it with anger.I filled
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