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Chapter 136

作者: Nini
last update 公開日: 2026-04-25 20:09:22

Zara looked at him for a long moment — this man in his expensive suit, fresh from the salon, who had walked out of a church full of three hundred people because she had called his name in a frightened voice and he had come running.

She almost felt something like pity.

Almost.

“You forget so quickly, Dante,” she said. “That’s the thing about you. You do something terrible and then you simply — move on. As though it never happened. As though the people you hurt just dissolve.”

Dante’s expression
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  • SAVED BY MY BROTHERS    Chapter 144

    Outside in the garden, Marcus reached for another piece of meat off the grill and said, almost as an afterthought: “Oh — and apparently the footage they found shows someone in a mask and specific gloves. That’s all they have.”Mrs. Ashford waved her hand. “Marcus, please. Don’t ruin a perfectly good meal with that. Let them find whoever they need to find. That’s their job.”Marcus shrugged and let it go.The barbecue continued.In the bedroom, Zara looked at the two men standing in the middle of her floor and let the silence sit for a moment before she spoke.“Your mother,” she said to Mark, “thought she was being clever. Paying someone to poison my food.” She tilted her head slightly. “But the girl she chose told me everything. Every word of it.” She paused. “So I returned the favour. A simple gas leak. I made sure you and your father were out of the house first — made sure you were safe. Your mother was alone because that was her own choice that evening.” She looked at Mark steadily

  • SAVED BY MY BROTHERS    Chapter 143

    Lilly screamed until her throat hurt and the sound bounced off the warehouse walls and went nowhere useful. The masked figure stopped. Reached up. Pulled the mask away. Mark. He was smiling — the particular smile of someone who has been planning something for long enough that the execution of it feels like relief. He reached into his bag and produced the knife, holding it loosely, not threatening yet but making the possibility very clear. “I came to your school for you,” he said. “I want to ruin you the way your mother ruined us.” Lilly stared at him. “What are you talking about?” “Your mother.” His voice hardened. “She took my father’s marriage. She destroyed my family. If she hadn’t interfered, everything would have been different—” “Are you serious?” Lilly’s fear had not gone but something else had arrived alongside it — the particular fury of someone who has grown up knowing exactly what the truth is. “Your mother is the one who destroyed my family. She helped a man try to

  • SAVED BY MY BROTHERS    Chapter 142

    After Bella died, Mark started to live with Henry.It was not a gentle upbringing.Henry’s new apartment was the same shabby, defeated place it had always been — the same bottles, the same smell, the same television flickering at nobody. The difference now was that there was a boy in it, growing up inside all of that, absorbing it the way children absorb everything around them whether anyone intends them to or not.Henry was a thief. He had always been a thief — small jobs, opportunistic crimes, the particular moral flexibility of a man who had decided long ago that the world owed him something and had been collecting informally ever since. He drank too much and worked too little and loved his son in the only way he knew how, which was imperfectly and with conditions attached.But there was one thing Henry planted in Mark with complete consistency, watered every day, tended with more care than he gave anything else in his life.Hatred.Zara Ashford, he told him. The woman who called

  • SAVED BY MY BROTHERS    Chapter 141

    The packing was quiet and methodical — clothes folded, boxes sealed, a life condensed into luggage with the particular efficiency of people who have learned not to be sentimental about objects.The rest of the family had already gone to their respective places. It was just the two of them now, moving through the house that had held them all for so long, carrying things to the car in small loads.Mrs. Ashford was in the sitting room when they came down for the last time.She was pretending to read something. She was not reading it.“My baby.” She looked up at Zara with a brightness that was working very hard to cover something else entirely. “Where exactly is this new house?”“Close, Mum. Very close. I’ll be coming to see you all the time.” Zara crossed the room and held her — properly, for a long moment. “You won’t even have time to miss me.”Mrs. Ashford hugged Lilly next, pulling her in tight, pressing her lips to her hair. “Take care of my grandchild,” she murmured. Then, to Lilly:

  • SAVED BY MY BROTHERS    Chapter 140

    They all sat down.Ann looked around the room — at each face in turn, measuring the weight of what she was about to say against the silence that was already pressing in from every direction.“I never expected,” she began, “that I would ever find myself here. In your family’s home. About to marry into it.” She folded her hands in her lap. “So before anything else is said, I want to tell you everything myself.”Nobody spoke.“I was cruel to Zara,” she said. “As cruel as the rest of them. I treated her badly and I treated Lilly badly and I have no excuse for it that would satisfy anyone in this room, including myself.” She paused. “I was part of that world and I behaved like it.”Julian had gone very still beside her. Marcus looked at the table. Victor’s jaw was tight.Mrs. Ashford reached across and took Zara’s hand quietly.“But there was a day,” Ann continued, “when everything changed for me. The accident — the one Dante and Margaret arranged for Zara and Lilly. When I found out what

  • SAVED BY MY BROTHERS    Chapter 139

    Life after Dante was quieter than Zara had known how to imagine while she was still fighting for it.She slowed down. Not from exhaustion but from choice — the deliberate, conscious decision to be present in the life she had worked so hard to reclaim. She went to the office when she wanted to and came home early when she didn’t. She took Lilly to school herself in the mornings. She sat through homework sessions and bedtime stories and the small, ordinary complaints of a child who is healthy and safe and has enough peace in her life to be bored sometimes.It was, she thought, the most beautiful thing she had ever experienced.Dante’s name was not spoken in the house. Not because it was forbidden — simply because it had ceased to be relevant. He existed somewhere else now, in a world that no longer overlapped with theirs, and they had all made a quiet collective decision to leave him there.Mrs. Ashford appeared in the kitchen doorway one morning with the particular brightness of someon

  • SAVED BY MY BROTHERS    Chapter 30

    Zara and Adrian signed the contract, and a wave of pride surged through her. She had done it she had truly contributed to something important, and it felt amazing .Adrian turned to her, his expression softening. “I didn’t expect you to be this intelligent, Zara. I’m so proud of you.”A small smile

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  • SAVED BY MY BROTHERS    Chapter 27

    Monday morning came faster than Zara expected.She sat nervously in the interview chair, her palms slightly trembling. She had been rejected so many times before that fear silently clawed at her chest. What if this was just like all the others? What if hope failed her again?Before leaving the orph

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  • SAVED BY MY BROTHERS    Chapter 31

    Zara was quiet the entire journey back to the office. Adrian noticed the storm behind her silence. She had finally spoken her mind, and though a wave of relief washed over her, it still wasn’t enough. If she could, she would have wrapped her fury around his throat and squeezed the life out of the p

    last update最終更新日 : 2026-03-21

  • SAVED BY MY BROTHERS    Chapter 30

    Zara was among the first to arrive at the office that morning. She settled at her desk with quiet purpose, diving into her tasks with unwavering determination. Every keystroke, every calculation, every decision reminded her of why she had returned she loved her work, truly and deeply, and that pass

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