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The Second Wife's Revenge Chapter 102: Vienna
Vienna was beautiful in winter. Snow dusting the rooftops of baroque buildings. Christmas markets filling the air with cinnamon and roasted chestnuts.I couldn't enjoy any of it.We'd been here two days. Two days of following cold leads and dead ends. Two days of showing Robert Ashford's photo to hotel staff who shook their heads. Two days of my daughter kicking impatiently inside me, as if to say: can we go home now?I was beginning to think this was pointless.Then Marcus got a call from the private investigator we'd hired locally.Heinrich Mueller. Austrian. Former police detective. Specialized in finding people who didn't want to be found.Marcus answered. Listened. Face changing."Where?" he asked. Then, "We'll be there in twenty minutes."He hung up. Looked at me."He found him."My heart stopped. "Where?""Small pension in Leopoldstadt. Second district. Your father checked in under a different name but the hotel clerk recognized the photo. Confirmed he's there now."The room sp
The Second Wife's Revenge Chapter 101: The Ghost Father
"My father is alive?"The words came out strangled. FBI Agent Rodriguez set down a file folder. The kind that holds life-changing information in manila and paperclips."We don't know for certain. But we've found evidence suggesting Robert Ashford didn't die in that car accident twenty-four years ago."I was six months pregnant. My father had been dead my entire conscious life. And now, maybe, he wasn't.I pressed my hand to my belly. My daughter kicked. Rodriguez opened the file. Photographs spilled out. A car. Twisted metal. Burned wreckage at the bottom of a ravine."The accident happened when you were three. Your father's car went off a bridge in upstate New York. The body was burned beyond recognition. Identified by dental records.""I remember my mother telling me. He was gone. Just gone.""Except." Rodriguez pulled out another document. "New forensic analysis prompted by our Covenant investigation shows the dental records don't match Robert Ashford's military records. The body
The Second Wife's Revenge Chapter 100:New Beginning
Six months later.September. Leaves turning gold and red outside the loft windows. Crisp air. Autumn settling in.I stood in what would be the nursery. Paintbrush in hand. Belly round and obvious at six months pregnant.Marcus painted the far wall. Soft yellow. Neutral. We didn't know if the baby was a boy or girl. Didn't want to know."Hand me that roller?" he asked.I passed it. Carefully. Everything carefully now. Dr. Kim's orders. No heavy lifting. No stress. No over working.My shoulder had healed completely. Full range of motion. Physical therapy successful. The scar remained but faded. Barely noticeable.The pregnancy progressed normally. Healthy. No complications. December tenth still the due date."This color okay?" Marcus asked. "Not too bright?""It's perfect."He smiled. Continued painting. We'd been working on the nursery for weeks. Slow progress. Enjoying it. No rush.Life had settled into something resembling peace. Quiet. Domestic. Normal.The foundation thrived under
The Second Wife's Revenge Chapter 99: The Therapy
But as the initial shock wore off, fear crept in. Heavy. Suffocating.I'd thought I couldn't have children. Flynn's drugging. Years of Depo-Provera. The doctors had warned me. Possible infertility. Possible complications. Possible damage.I'd made peace with it. Accepted it. Built a life around helping other people's children. Never expecting my own.And now this.The next morning, I called my OB-GYN. Dr. Kim. Requested an appointment. Urgent.She saw me that afternoon."The blood test was clear," she said. "You're definitely pregnant. About eight weeks. But I understand your concerns given your history. Let's do a full workup."More blood tests. Ultrasound. Examination. Questions about Flynn. About the drugging. About everything.Dr. Kim reviewed the results carefully."The Depo-Provera is completely out of your system. Has been for over a year. Your hormone levels are normal. Uterine lining is healthy. Everything looks good.""But the drugging. Years of it. That didn't cause damage?
The Second Wife's Revenge Chapter 98: Aria's Pregnancy Discovery
I brought Catherine's letter to Santos the next morning.He read it twice. Face grim. Then set it down."She's trying to scare you.""Is it working?""Probably. But Aria, we've dismantled most of The Covenant's operations. Arrested dozens of members. Seized millions in assets. If Phoenix Protocol exists, if there's a successor plan, we'll find it.""You sound confident.""I am. Catherine Cross is dying in prison. Her brother's dead. Her organization's destroyed. She's desperate. Clinging to relevance. Making threats she can't back up.""What about the hydra reference? Cut off two heads, more grow back?""A metaphor. Nothing more. Yes, criminal organizations adapt. Survive. But The Covenant specifically? We've gutted it. There's nothing left to grow back from."I wanted to believe him. Wanted to feel safe.But Catherine's words haunted me."The organization survives. Leaders die."Santos stood. "I'll have the letter analyzed. See if there's hidden meaning. Coded messages. Anything. Bu
The Second Wife's Revenge Chapter 97: Aria's Recovery
One week in the hospital.Seven days of white walls. Beeping monitors. Nurses checking vitals every four hours. Pain medication making everything fuzzy.My shoulder healed. Slowly. Physical therapy twice daily. Lifting my arm. Rotating. Stretching scar tissue that pulled and burned.The physical recovery was straightforward. Predictable. Manageable.The rest wasn't.Day three, a door slammed in the hallway. I jerked awake. Heart racing. Reaching for a weapon that wasn't there. Panicking. Sweating. Unable to breathe.Marcus rushed to my side. "It's okay. You're safe. Just a door. Nothing else."But my body didn't believe him. Adrenaline flooding. Fight or flight. Trapped in a hospital bed. Nowhere to run.It took me twenty minutes to calm down. To breathe normally. To remember where I was.The nurses called it normal. Expected. Trauma response.I called it exhausting.Day five, Dr. Morgan visited. Sat in the chair beside my bed. Not as my therapist. As my friend."How are you really do
The Second Wife's Revenge chapter 10:The Photograph
I couldn't go back to the penthouse. Not yet. Not with Flynn waiting, expecting explanations I couldn't give without exposing that I knew everything.I sat in my car outside the storage facility. Boxes loaded in the trunk. And realized I had nowhere to go.No friends left after three years of isola
최신 업데이트 : 2026-03-18The Second Wife's Revenge chapter 36: Flynn's Deal
I didn't sleep. Spent the whole night weighing options. Justice versus revenge. Punishment versus results.At nine AM, the prosecutor called. Jennifer Marks. On speaker phone in the cabin's living room.Everyone gathered. Marcus. Rachel. Sienna. Dante. Victor. Even Sofia was there, sleeping in Sien
최신 업데이트 : 2026-03-31The Second Wife's Revenge chapter 12: The Shadow
I woke up to the smell of coffee and voices in the kitchen.For a disoriented moment, I didn't know where I was.Then it came back. Marcus's loft. Safety. Allies.I checked my phone. Twenty-three missed calls from Flynn. Fifteen texts escalating from concerned to angry to threatening.The last one,
최신 업데이트 : 2026-03-19The Second Wife's Revenge chapter 47:The Foundation
We held a press conference two weeks later. Midtown hotel. Conference room packed with reporters.I stood at the podium. Rachel beside me. Sienna holding Sofia in the front row.My hands were shaking. I gripped the sides of the podium to steady them."My name is Aria Winters. Three months ago, I di
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