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Chapter 59: Is This Fate?

مؤلف: Achille
last update تاريخ النشر: 2026-07-26 17:20:22

"Is that the truth?"

Naomi's eyes narrowed slightly, letting a quiet weight settle over the boy.

He shrank into his shoulders, something cold crawling up his spine, but still held his tongue.

Naomi fell back on the oldest trick in the book for getting a kid to talk. "Tell me quietly, and it stays between us. Keep stonewalling, and I'll just go get Ms. Carter instead."

"Then you'd officially be his accomplice. Might even land you a week's suspension right alongside him."

She said nothing further
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  • The Wife They Rejected Was a Billionaire Heiress   Chapter 60: Trading Secrets

    Sebastian froze slightly at the sight of her running toward him."What are you waiting for?" Miles said, unbothered. "Little Lily's asking for a hug, in case you missed it."Sebastian's mouth pressed into a thin line, something dark flickering across his eyes. "Not appropriate right now.""Why not?" Lily tilted her head, genuinely confused.Handsome uncle's never acted this cold before.She followed his gaze and found it locked on Marcus.Something clicked in her head instantly.Wait. Does handsome uncle think Mom and Uncle are together?Is he... jealous?"Handsome uncle, why do you keep staring at my uncle?" Lily asked, all innocence.At the word uncle, something shifted across Sebastian's expression. "What did you just call him?"Lily blinked, entirely unbothered. "You're staring at the guy next to my mom, right? That's my uncle!""Uncle?" Miles cut in, surprised. "Isn't that the new boyfriend you found for your mom?""Nope. Handsome uncle's the boyfriend I found for her." Lily beam

  • The Wife They Rejected Was a Billionaire Heiress   Chapter 59: Is This Fate?

    "Is that the truth?"Naomi's eyes narrowed slightly, letting a quiet weight settle over the boy.He shrank into his shoulders, something cold crawling up his spine, but still held his tongue.Naomi fell back on the oldest trick in the book for getting a kid to talk. "Tell me quietly, and it stays between us. Keep stonewalling, and I'll just go get Ms. Carter instead.""Then you'd officially be his accomplice. Might even land you a week's suspension right alongside him."She said nothing further, just watched him, patient, waiting.He was a kid, but weighing consequences was practically instinct at any age.Sure enough, after a short internal battle, the boy who'd been so loyally tight-lipped a moment ago folded."Pretty lady, you got it right. Julian told us to help him teach Lily a lesson. Said he'd split his toys with us if we did it."Something cold and unsurprised settled in Naomi's chest.She'd known Julian had drifted somewhere ugly. She hadn't expected him to go after his own s

  • The Wife They Rejected Was a Billionaire Heiress   Chapter 58: Is He Ms. Hart's Boyfriend?

    "What's going on with other people isn't our business," Sebastian said, unhurried.His eyes, though, stayed locked on the pair below.Marcus is walking her through a couture boutique in broad daylight. Is he planning to bring her to the family dinner tonight?Has it actually gotten this far between them?"He's technically your 'acquaintance,' though. Aren't you going to go say hi?" Miles pressed, deliberately baiting him.Sebastian shot him a cold look.Miles shut his mouth instantly."Mr. Cole, Mr. Foster?" Marcus spotted them on the stairs and greeted them first.Naomi followed his line of sight and found herself caught, briefly, in Sebastian's dark, unreadable gaze.Her mouth curved slightly. She gave him a small nod.Those eyes. Almost identical to the man from the archive room.If the two men hadn't looked so different otherwise, she'd have jumped straight to suspicion.But she wasn't going to leap to conclusions off a resemblance alone.I've heard rumors about synthetic skin mas

  • The Wife They Rejected Was a Billionaire Heiress   Chapter 57: Something's Going On

    Though it came out phrased as a question, Naomi understood exactly what he meant.He wants me to meet the man I'm technically engaged to, tonight, in person."I understand."She couldn't quite bring herself to say no.She knew the old man's intentions were genuinely good he just wanted to see her settled somewhere solid.And realistically, an arrangement between two families like this wasn't something she could simply wave off unilaterally.Shame she'd long since stopped believing in whatever people meant when they said "love.""Don't worry, sweetheart. Grandpa's not actually trying to force anything here." The old man's voice gentled. "Just take a look at him from across the room tonight. If nothing's there, we drop it completely. Sound fair?"Something in Naomi's expression eased.He's not actually pushing me into a blind date. Just a glance.That, she could live with."Okay," she agreed.Watching her fall in line so gracefully only deepened the old man's approval."Good. Go on, the

  • The Wife They Rejected Was a Billionaire Heiress   Chapter 56: I Want to Back Her

    "Understood," Sebastian said, even.He hung up, pulled open the email, and combed through Naomi's file carefully.It amounted to basic biographical data and a handful of architecture awards. Nothing more.Something sharpened with interest behind his eyes.She really has buried the rest of it. Deliberately. This isn't a woman with nothing to hide.The lab door swung open mid-thought."Sebastian, here's your mice." Miles set the cage down on the table, eyes catching on the phone screen.He clocked the file open on it instantly, eyebrows shooting up. "You told me you weren't interested in Naomi. And yet here you are, running a full background check."Sebastian didn't rise to the bait. "Basic information. That's all."His eyes settled on Miles, something pointed behind them."This is Owen's work, right? If even he came up dry, that confirms it she's hiding this on purpose." Miles thought it over, then brightened. "If the normal channels aren't cutting it, we go around them."Sebastian wai

  • The Wife They Rejected Was a Billionaire Heiress   Chapter 55: Don't You Owe Me an Explanation?

    "Sebastian, we're here. Redgate."Miles eased the car to a stop, glancing out at the cramped, low-slung neighborhood pressing in around them.To keep this whole operation off anyone's radar, Sebastian had leased a modest unit tucked into Redgate a dense, overlooked pocket on the edge of Crestview and quietly converted it into a private lab.Sebastian nodded and stepped out of the car."I've got this from here."Miles, halfway out of his own seat, sat back down."Call me if anything goes sideways."Sebastian gave a short "mm" and shut the door.A few minutes later, he reached the lab entrance, punched in the code, and stepped inside.He crossed to the workbench and lifted a small bottle of white powder.He pulled out a set of tweezers, transferred a pinch of the powder into a glass dish, and switched on the mixer.The powder ground down fine within seconds.Sebastian's eyes dimmed slightly as he transferred it into a test tube and began prepping the reagent.Naomi's face surfaced in hi

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