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Chapter 140 Lucian's Pov
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Revenge Of The Rejected Ex-Wife Chapter 141 Lucian's Pov
Five minutes later Evelyn Byrne sat in our living room.The moment felt surreal.For months she had existed only as a mystery. A volunteer. A false name. A story.Now she was sitting on Mrs. Crawford's couch holding a cup of tea she hadn't touched.Reality rarely matched imagination.I had expected someone sharper. More intimidating. More manipulative.Instead she looked tired. Not just l physically. Emotionally too. It was the kind of tired that accumulated over years.Daniel sat beside Seraphina.Storm Captain occupied his usual position between them.Mara remained across the room with a legal pad.Mrs. Crawford stood in the doorway like a security system powered entirely by disapproval.Nobody seemed eager to begin.Eventually Evelyn did."The first thing you need to understand is that Daniel is not adopted."The statement hit the room immediately.Relief arrived. Briefly.Then confusion replaced it.Daniel looked at Seraphina. Then at Evelyn. Then back again. "Good."Evelyn almos
Revenge Of The Rejected Ex-Wife Chapter 140 Lucian's Pov
Nobody spoke at first. The statement lingered in the room, impossible to process all at once. Daniel's biological mother would eventually come back.The words made no sense.At least, they didn't make sense in any version of reality I understood.Seraphina looked as though someone had struck her. Her hand had moved instinctively toward Daniel, but she hadn't touched him yet. Mara sat completely motionless, her legal mind visibly racing ahead, pulling apart timelines, records, adoption laws, birth certificates, inheritance structures and every possible explanation that might exist beneath a statement that outrageous.Daniel was the only person who voiced the obvious. "What biological mother?"His voice was small and confused. The confusion somehow made everything worse.I looked at Evelyn. She looked back at Daniel.Whatever she had expected from this conversation, it clearly wasn't this.The woman who had calmly walked up to our gate and challenged years of secrets suddenly looked li
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 34 Lucian's Pov
Yes, I loved her. I had known it for months and had been saying it to myself for weeks and meant it more each time I said it.And she did not know what I had come to the cemetery intending to do.She had pressed her mouth to the scar on my ribs in the dark of my bedroom and held nothing back and t
Revenge Of The Rejected Ex-Wife Chapter 33 Lucian's Pov
Seraphina had been at the bag for forty minutes.I had stopped counting combinations at some point and had simply been watching, which was something I did not often permit myself to do without a corrective purpose attached to it. Watching without intervening was not how I had run these sessions fr
Revenge Of The Rejected Ex-Wife Chapter 30 Seraphina's Pov
Lucian pointed at the water when we reached it.The Reservoir caught the morning light and threw it back in long, moving lines across the surface. Two runners passed us on the track. A woman was standing at the railing with a coffee, looking at the water with the expression of a person who had give
Revenge Of The Rejected Ex-Wife Chapter 29 Seraphina's Pov
Lucian did not tell me where we were going.He had taken my hand on the corner outside the coffee shop and said come with me and I had looked at him and said I have the eleven o'clock call with the solicitor and he had looked back at me and said it can wait. Something in the way he said it, not di
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