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Chapter 79: What Rafael Knew
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2026-10-31 04:37:38
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THE BILLIONAIRE’S SECRET BRIDE Chapter 126: The Body That Wasn’t Hers
I read Samuel’s statement several times.The woman whose body was found at the warehouse was not Elena’s mother. I know because I was the person who moved her before the body was discovered.The sentence was impossible to ignore.If Samuel had moved my mother, he knew whether she had been alive. If he had moved someone else, he knew who the unidentified woman was.Either way, he had been involved.“Where is Sofia?” I asked.Adrian called her immediately.She answered after several attempts.“I’m at the station,” she said. “I reported my father missing.”“Did you find the document?”“Yes. It was on his desk.”“Did he tell you where he was going?”“No. He left his phone behind.”“Did he say anything about my mother?”Sofia was quiet.“He told me that he had made a promise to someone. He said if the original maternal record was ever recovered, he would have to keep that promise.”“What promise?”“He wouldn’t tell me.”I looked at Adrian.“Can you send us the exact location where he was l
THE BILLIONAIRE’S SECRET BRIDE Chapter 125: The Visitor Who Wasn’t Allowed In
The name on the hospital record was my mother’s.E. Reyes.But the note beneath it made no sense.VISITOR NOT PERMITTED TO SEE EITHER INFANT.If my mother had been part of the transfer arrangement, why had she been denied access to both children?I read the entry again.“Could the visitor have been someone impersonating her?” I asked.Julian nodded.“That is one possibility. The name alone is not enough to establish identity.”Adrian looked at Sofia.“Does Evelyn mention this entry?”Sofia searched through her papers.“Yes. There’s a note.”She placed it beside the record.The visitor in Room 313 was not the woman who signed the temporary placement statement.I felt my stomach tighten.“Then there were two women using my mother’s name.”“Possibly,” Julian said. “We need to distinguish the visitor from the witness.”I thought about the photograph of my mother beside Victoria.The note on the back.The body identified through Marianne’s ring.The woman carrying bracelet 313.The visitor
THE BILLIONAIRE’S SECRET BRIDE Chapter 124: Bracelet 313
Sofia sent the photograph to Julian’s office.It arrived less than five minutes after our call ended.The image was grainy, taken from a security camera positioned above the hospital records corridor. A woman stood near the entrance, her face partly hidden by the angle of the camera.She wore a dark coat.Her right hand was visible.A hospital bracelet circled her wrist.The number was 313.I stared at it.“Infant A was 313?”Sofia nodded.“That is what the original hospital index suggests. Bracelet 314 was assigned to Infant B.”“Then the woman in the photograph was wearing a baby’s bracelet?”“Not necessarily. It could have been attached to a document sleeve or carried in her hand. The image is too unclear to tell.”I looked closer.The woman was holding something small between two fingers.A strip of white material.The bracelet.“Who is she?” I asked.Sofia shook her head.“Evelyn never identified her by name. She only said the woman had access to Margaret’s identity.”“Could it h
THE BILLIONAIRE’S SECRET BRIDE Chapter 123: No Name on the Death Certificate
The original police file arrived at Julian’s office that afternoon.Daniel had not sent it directly. He had arranged for an investigator to retrieve the archive copy through the proper legal process. The file was incomplete, but it contained more than the summary Victoria had relied upon.I sat beside Adrian while Julian laid out the documents.The report described a female body recovered near an abandoned warehouse. The estimated age was between thirty and forty. The clothing included a dark blue coat, a handbag and a ring.My mother had owned a dark blue coat.She had also worn a ring with a small green stone.But the report contained no dental comparison, no DNA confirmation and no reliable facial identification.The cause of death was recorded as undetermined.I read the final page.IDENTIFICATION: PROVISIONAL. FAMILY REPRESENTATIVE: VICTORIA BLACKWOOD.“Provisional,” I repeated.Julian nodded.“The identification was never upgraded to confirmed status.”“Then why was she declared
THE BILLIONAIRE’S SECRET BRIDE Chapter 122: The Woman Who Identified the Body
Victoria agreed to meet us at her solicitor’s office.She did not look surprised when Adrian entered with me. She sat behind a large desk, dressed in a cream suit, her silver hair perfectly arranged.“I wondered how long it would take you to come,” she said.Adrian placed the photograph on the desk.“Where did you get this?”Victoria glanced at it.“I’ve seen it before.”“That’s not an answer.”“It’s a photograph from an old family archive.”“Is it genuine?”She looked at me.“Why don’t you ask the person who sent it?”“I am asking you.”Victoria folded her hands.“Your mother was involved in matters she didn’t understand, Elena. She was frightened, confused and surrounded by people who wanted to use her.”“Were you one of those people?”Her expression remained calm.“I tried to protect her.”I felt anger rise.“By identifying another woman as her body?”Victoria’s eyes moved to Adrian.“Who told you that?”“Your name is on the identification report.”She leaned back.“I was asked to
THE BILLIONAIRE’S SECRET BRIDE Chapter 121: The Night They Identified Her
I couldn’t stop looking at the photograph.My mother stood beside Victoria outside Edward Blackwood’s former residence. She wore the dark blue coat I remembered from my childhood, her hair pulled back, her expression serious.The date printed beneath the image was fourteen years old.I looked at Adrian.“What happened the night they identified her body?”He didn’t answer immediately.That silence told me more than I wanted to know.“Adrian.”He placed his phone on the table.“I was twenty.”“I know how old you were.”“My father had died. My mother had disappeared. The company was in chaos, and Victoria was handling most of the arrangements.”“That’s not what I asked.”He looked at me.“The police contacted the family after a woman was found near the old warehouse. Her identification documents carried your mother’s name.”My fingers went cold.“Was it her?”“I never saw the body.”I stared at him.“What?”“Victoria told me the police had confirmed the identity. She said the body had be
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