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Chapter 122: The Crisis
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2026-06-04 00:05:06
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The Second Wife's Revenge Chapter 132: Victor's Release
The hearing took four hours.Victor's legal team presented the cooperation record. Complete. Documented. Forty-seven pages of testimony, evidence leads, and critical assistance provided to the federal prosecution.The storage facility key. The secret office. The partnership agreement that identified Morrison. The details about Edward Ashford's Covenant involvement. All of it traced directly to Victor's cooperation.The prosecutor's office didn't oppose the release. That was significant. The people who'd built the case against The Covenant's members telling the judge that Victor's assistance had been genuine and substantial.I sat in the gallery. Marcus beside me. I'd decided three days before the hearing what I would say if asked.The judge asked.I stood. "Victor Ashford ordered my kidnapping when I was five years old. That crime shaped my entire life. The damage it caused my mother. The years I spent in foster care not knowing who I was. Those things don't disappear because he coope
The Second Wife's Revenge Chapter 131: The Trial Begin
Three months changed everything and nothing.Grace at three months was a different creature from Grace at birth. Five pounds three ounces of fighter had become twelve pounds of person. Dark hair growing in properly now. Eyes tracking faces across rooms. Hands grabbing at anything within reach with the focused determination of someone who had decided the world belonged to her.Her cardiology follow-ups showed a heart working perfectly. Every appointment Dr. Hernandez called her his best patient. Grace looked at him with the serious evaluating expression she gave everyone new. Decided he was acceptable.The trials started in January.Not all of them. One hundred and thirty-six defendants across nineteen states meant years of court proceedings. Teams of prosecutors. Endless motions and continuances and legal maneuvering. Justice, real justice, was slow and exhausting and necessary.But the first trials started. The most significant ones. The two federal judges. The congressman. The bank
The Second Wife's Revenge Chapter 130: The Aftermath
Robert's hospital room was smaller than the ones at Albany Medical. Single window. View of a parking structure. The specific indignity of city hospital rooms.He sat up in bed. Left shoulder bandaged. Arm in a sling. IV line. Hospital gown.Complaining about the hospital gown when we arrived. A good sign."It opens in the back," he said. "Deliberately humiliating.""It's the same for everyone," Marcus said."That doesn't make it better."I carried Grace in her carrier. She'd slept the entire drive. She slept with the commitment of someone who'd decided rest was a full-time occupation.Robert's face changed when we came through the door. All the complaint draining out of it. Replaced by something simpler. Relief. Warmth.I sat in the chair beside his bed. Positioned Grace where he could see her face."How bad is it?" I asked. Meaning the shoulder. Meaning all of it."Through and through. Missed everything important. Surgeon said I was lucky." He looked at his bandaged shoulder with the
The Second Wife's Revenge Chapter 129: The Shot
Through the phone I heard it. The crack of the gunshot. Then Rodriguez's voice cutting through everything."Shot fired. Man down. Medical. NOW.""Rodriguez." My voice came out wrong. Flat. Someone else's. "Is it Robert?"Static. Voices overlapping. Commands. Movement."Rodriguez.""Robert is down. Shoulder. He's conscious. Medical is inside."Conscious. I held onto that word. Turned it into something I could breathe around.Marcus was already moving. Dante blocking the door again. The same immovable wall."Move," Marcus said."No.""Dante.""Not until Rodriguez clears it. Two minutes."Two minutes felt like surgery. Like labor. Like every moment of waiting I'd survived in the past year compressed into one hundred and twenty seconds.Grace slept through all of it. Her small chest rising and falling. Completely trusting.Inside the foundation corridor:Thomas Cross stood over Robert. Robert on the floor. Left shoulder. Hand pressed to it. Blood darkening his jacket.But his eyes open. A
The Second Wife's Revenge Chapter 128: The Standoff
Wait.Rodriguez had said Thomas cross is down hands secured in custody.But the line stayed open. And thirty seconds later her voice came back. Different."Correction. Thomas Cross broke away. He's inside the building. Service entrance. He had a second route we missed."My chest tightened. "Robert is inside.""I know. We're moving. Thirty seconds.""Rodriguez.""Thirty seconds Aria. Stay on the line."I stood from the couch. Grace still on my chest. Warm and sleeping. Completely unaware.Marcus appeared from the kitchen. Read my face. "What happened.""Thomas Cross got inside. Robert is in there."He moved immediately. Toward his jacket. His phone.Dante blocked the door before either of us reached it. "Nobody leaves this loft.""Robert is in there alone with Cross.""FBI is thirty seconds behind Thomas Cross. Robert is not alone." Dante's voice. Immovable. "Stay here."The phone against my ear. Rodriguez's line. Voices in the background. Movement. Tactical communication I could half-
The Second Wife's Revenge Chapter 127: The Trap
Rodriguez laid out the plan the following morning. Conference call. Marcus and I in the loft. Dante patched in. Robert at his hotel listening."Thomas Cross is moving toward your location. Getting bolder. We believe he's planning to make a move within the next forty-eight to seventy-two hours.""What kind of move?" Marcus asked."Unknown. Could be surveillance. Could be direct confrontation. Cross is unpredictable in a way his mother wasn't. Catherine planned. Thomas reacts. That makes him dangerous but also exploitable.""Exploitable how?""He's fixated on Aria. On a specific outcome. Destroying what she loves. That fixation makes him predictable in one way. He'll come to wherever he believes she is.""You want to use me as bait," I said."It would be the most efficient way to draw him out. Controlled location. Full tactical support. You'd never be in real danger.""No.""Aria.""Absolutely not. Grace is ten days old. She needs feeding every three hours. She just had heart surgery. I
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