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Chapter 128
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THE BARREN EX-WIFE WHO CAME BACK Chapter 130
SEBASTIAN'S POV"Mr. Lancaster, we need to speak with you immediately."I looked up from my phone to find two security guards standing in the doorway of the east wing library where I'd retreated after the will reading. Their expressions were grim."What is it?" I asked, already feeling a sense of dread settling in my stomach."It's your wife, sir. There's been an incident."My blood ran cold. "What kind of incident?""She attempted to attack Mrs. Vanessa Lancaster with a knife."I almost let out a chuckle.The words didn't make sense at first.I just stared at them, certain I'd misheard what they'd said."What?""Your wife took a knife from the kitchen and went to Mr. Nicholas Lancaster's suite. She attempted to assault Mrs. Vanessa. Mr. Nicholas intervened and disarmed her. We have her contained, but we thought you should know before we proceed with formal charges."The room tilted.Formal charges...Isabella had... with a knife... she'd tried to..."Where is she?" My voice came out
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VANESSA'S POVFor one terrible, frozen moment, I saw my death reflected in the knife Isabella carried to hurt me.She was about to stab me. Then Nicholas moved.His arm wrapped around my waist like an iron band, yanking me backward with such force that I stumbled into him. The knife sliced through empty air where my chest had been a heartbeat before, missing me by inches."Isabella, put the knife down," Nicholas's voice came from behind me, deadly calm even as his body formed a protective wall between me and the blade.But Isabella wasn't listening.She was advancing, tears running down her face, her eyes wild and unfocused. The knife trembled in her grip but never fell down."Do you know how long I've hated you?" she spat, her voice breaking on every word. "How long I've wanted to destroy you? Even when we were best friends—ESPECIALLY when we were best friends—I hated you! Perfect Vanessa with her perfect life and her perfect husband who looked at her like she was the only woman in
THE BARREN EX-WIFE WHO CAME BACK Chapter 128
VANESSA'S POVI was still speechless.Even as Grandma Mae's lawyer, Henry Caldwell laid document after document in front of me, pointing to signature lines with his expensive pen, I couldn't form words. I still couldn't process what was happening.Eight hundred and fifty million dollars.Twenty percent of Lancaster Global Industries.All mine.All given to me by a woman whose funeral I had ruined. A woman whose final goodbye I had turned into a viral spectacle when I pushed Patricia, her daughter-in-law into a grave.The guilt was crushing me entirely. I wanted to cry. I wanted to break down right there in that study full of people who hated me and sob until I couldn't breathe. Grandma Mae had given me everything—her entire fortune, her legacy, and her trust."Sign here, Mrs. Lancaster," The lawyer said gently, pointing to another line.My hand shook as I picked up the pen. I could feel their eyes on me—all the Lancasters watching as I signed away their inheritance. As I took what
THE BARREN EX-WIFE WHO CAME BACK Chapter 127
VANESSA'S POVI chose a black pencil dress—elegant, understated, appropriate. I paired it with simple heels and minimal jewelry. If I was going to walk into that room, I was going to look like I belonged there.Even if I felt like an imposter.Nicholas was waiting for me when I emerged from the bedroom, looking devastatingly handsome in a dark suit that probably cost more than my first car. His eyes swept over me, something flickering in their depths that made my stomach flip."Ready?" he asked, offering his arm.I took it, feeling the solid warmth of him through the fabric of his jacket."As I'll ever be."We walked through the mansion in silence, my heels clicking against the marble floors. I could feel the tension radiating from Nicholas, could see the tight set of his jaw. This wasn't just a will reading for him—this was facing his entire family after what had happened at the funeral.After he'd beaten Sebastian bloody in front of everyone.The study was on the second floor—a mass
THE BARREN EX-WIFE WHO CAME BACK Chapter 126
VANESSA'S POVTwo days after I'd pushed Patricia Lancaster into a grave and watched Nicholas beat his own brother bloody at a funeral, I was still trying to process what had happened.The videos were everywhere.Every time I opened my phone—which I'd stopped doing after the first hundred notifications—there were more clips, more comments, and more people dissecting every moment of that disastrous day.Some people called me iconic.Others called me psychotic.I didn't care either way.What I cared about was the fact that I'd ruined Grandma Mae's funeral. The one person in the Lancaster family who'd ever shown me genuine kindness, and I'd turned her final goodbye into a viral spectacle.The guilt was eating me alive.Almost as much as the other thing that was consuming my thoughts.Nicholas.For two days, I'd been trying to avoid him.Which was nearly impossible when we lived in the same suite, ate meals together, and—God help me—slept in the same bed.We hadn't touched since that almos
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SEBASTIAN'S POVThere was a soft knock on the door about twenty minutes after Isabella left."Come in," I called out, still standing by the window, still replaying the humiliation of the day over and over in my mind.The door opened and Maria—one of the household nurses we kept on as a maid—entered carrying a medical kit."Mr. Lancaster," she called out professionally, her eyes taking in the damage to my face without comment. "Your mother asked me to come tend to your injuries."Of course she did.My mother had asked. Not Isabella.My wife hadn't even bothered to check if I needed medical attention. She'd been too busy ranting about Vanessa and Nicholas to care that I was bleeding."Thank you, Maria," I said, moving to sit in one of the leather chairs by the fireplace.She worked in efficient silence, cleaning the blood from my face with gentle swabs, applying antiseptic that stung like hell but I refused to flinch.The cut above my eyebrow would probably scar.The split in my lip wa
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