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Chapter 122. Caught in a lie.
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2026-01-18 18:13:46
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Rise Of The Betrayed Omega Chapter 312. A new beginning
**Stella's POV** Suddenly Shawn's fingers move. I feel it against my cheek and everything inside me that went completely still when the monitor made that flat sound — releases. All at once. Like a breath that has been held so long the body has forgotten it was holding it. "Shawn." I turn my face toward his. "Shawn." His eyelids move. Then slowly, with the unhurried resistance of a man who does absolutely everything on his own terms — They open. He finds the ceiling first. Then shifts. Then finds me. We look at each other. His mouth moves. I lean in close. "You kissed me," he says. Rough. Barely there. But unmistakably, completely there. I laugh. It comes out wet and wrecked and entirely undignified and I do not care even slightly. "You heard that," I say. "I heard all of it," he says. I sit back and look at him and shake my head slowly. "Of course you did," I say. "Of course you did, you insufferable man." The corner of his mouth moves. Just barely. But
Rise Of The Betrayed Omega Chapter 311. I love you.
**Stella's POV** "He's gone," Nara says, sounding surprised."No," I say.Nara looks at me."I'm sorry, Miss Stella—""No." I say it again. It is simply a refusal. A flat, complete, total refusal to accept the thing she is telling me. "No. He is not gone.""The moonshade has—""He is not gone."I cross the room.I don't think about it. My body makes the decision and carries me across the floor and I am at his bedside before I have fully processed that I am moving and I am looking down at him and something inside my chest tears open in a way I have no name for and have never felt before and cannot categorize or file away or function behind.I reach out and I take his hand.He is still warm and I hold onto that with everything I have."Shawn." My voice comes out differently than I expect it to. Stripped of everything — the authority, the steadiness, the careful architecture of composure I have been constructing and maintaining since the moment he collapsed on my floor. All of it gone.
Rise Of The Betrayed Omega Chapter 310. Can't stay away.
**Stella's POV** I last four minutes outside Shawn's room. I know because I count them — standing in the corridor with my back against the wall beside the door, arms folded, jaw tight, listening to the particular quality of the silence coming from inside the room and finding it completely unbearable. Four minutes. Auntie Lisa is seated beside me, hands folded, eyes closed, lips moving. Joe is down the hall. The doctor is at his station pretending to look at something on his clipboard. And I am standing here in this corridor being told to wait while Shawn is in that room and Nara is in that room and I am out here doing nothing and I have never been good at doing nothing, I have never once in my life found a way to make peace with standing still when something is happening that I cannot see or control or affect in any way— I push the door open and walk back in. Nara does not look up. "I said—" "I heard what you said," I say. I close the door behind me quietly. "I can't stay o
Rise Of The Betrayed Omega Chapter 309. Will he live?
**Stella's POV** "Auntie Lisa, talk to me. What happened — to Shawn—" She opens her eyes. They are red and wet like the face of a woman who has been holding something enormous inside a space that was not built to contain it. "He stopped breathing," she says. The words hit me like something physical. I find myself staggering backwards for a few steps. "What?" "A few minutes ago." Her voice is barely holding together, the seams of it visible, straining. "The monitors — they started screaming and the doctors came running and I was right there, I was right beside him, I had his hand and then—" She stops. Presses her fingers harder against her mouth. Breathes through her nose slowly. "They got him back. They got him back but it took—" Another breath. "It took longer than I would have liked." I stand very still. I am aware of my own heartbeat in a way I am not usually aware of it — loud, deliberate, each one a small announcement. "He's breathing now," I say. "He's breathing now
Rise Of The Betrayed Omega Chapter 308. Ancient medicine.
**Stella's POV** Nara looks at me for a long moment. Not the way Kael looked at me — assessing, guarded — but differently. Quietly. The way someone looks at a thing they already know the answer to but want to hear you ask properly first. "So, you said you are Ace Industries's CEO," she says. "Yes." "The big company Ace Industries." She says it again, not as a question but as something she is turning over carefully. "I have heard of them." A pause. "Even up here in the hills." Something in her tone makes me still. "Then you know who I am," I say carefully. "I know what you are," she says. "Which is not always the same thing." She moves to the worn wooden table in the corner of the room and opens a small carved chest sitting on top of it. Inside — I can see from where I stand — are rows of carefully wrapped leaves bound with twine, dark roots coiled like sleeping things, small clay vials stopped with cork, and paper packets folded tight and labeled in handwriting too smal
Rise Of The Betrayed Omega Chapter 307. Smoke signals.
**Stella's POV** The man is enormous in the way that some Alphas are enormous — not just physically but atmospherically, the kind of presence that arrives before the person does. Broad through the shoulder, dark-eyed, moving with the particular unhurried authority of someone who has never once had to announce himself in a room. He stops at the edge of the grounds and watches the chopper with his arms folded. He does not look surprised. He looks annoyed. I step out. The morning air up here is different — thinner, cooler, carrying the smell of old pine and something older beneath it that I cannot name. The packhouse behind him is exactly what it looked like from above. It's made of tone and timber. A place that has existed long enough to stop being impressed by things. I walk toward him. He doesn't move. "This is Mirae territory," he says, when I am close enough to hear him clearly. His voice is the kind that carries without effort. "You and yhe chopper needs to leave.
Rise Of The Betrayed Omega Chapter 158. What is my Worth.
**Stella's POV** The way Shawn's entire body goes rigid tells me I'm right. "That's it, isn't it?" I press. "He has some kind of leverage over you, and this—me going on a date with him—is what he's demanding." Shawn's silence confirms everything. "What is it?" I ask quietly. "What does he h
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**Stella's POV** The response comes almost immediately: [It's a crazy coincidental story actually.... I was dropping off a friend in your apartment building when I heard someone at the front desk talking about a Stella Matthews, and when I asked which Stella, they described you. Small world,
Terakhir Diperbarui : 2026-03-29Rise Of The Betrayed Omega Chapter 153. A delivery.
**Stella's POV** "Someone's been asking questions about you and your son. At your apartment building." My stomach drops. "What kind of questions?" "About your schedule. Your security detail. Whether you have visitors." Joe's expression is grim. "The doorman reported it to our team. We don't k
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**Shawn's POV** The drive to Stella's neighborhood takes forever even though it's been fifteen minutes of me gripping the steering wheel so hard my knuckles turn white as I imagine Stella with that faceless man from the video. Laughing with him. Touching him. Looking at him the way she look
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