All Chapters of Ruthless Vows: The Billionaire Revenge: Chapter 151 - Chapter 160

"You're supposed to be dead."Damien's voice came out flat. Empty. Like all life got sucked out of him.His father smiled. "I get that a lot."She grabbed Damien's arm. I felt him shaking. "How's this possible?""Same way your mother faked hers." Damien's father walked in. Calm. Like he owned the place. "We both had reasons to disappear.""We gotta go." Her brother moved toward the door. "This place is still gonna blow.""No it's not." Damien's father pulled out a remote. Hit a button. "I shut off the timer ten minutes ago."The room felt smaller. Trapped."What do you want?" Damien asked. His hand went to his gun."To talk." His father held up his hands. "That's all. Just talk.""We're done talking." Damien raised the gun. Pointed it at his father's chest. "You lied to me my whole life.""I protected you.""By programming me? By making me do some kind of experiment?""By keeping you alive." His father's voice got harder. "You got no idea what I saved you from."She stepped between th

"Don't follow me."She slammed the car door before Damien could grab her wrist. I needed space. Needed air. Needed to think without him watching her every move like she might break.The drive to the Veritas estate took two hours. Two hours of silence and doubt eating away at her brain.Her mother's birthplace stood like a corpse on the hill. Windows smashed. Walls crumbling. Vines crawling up the stone like nature was trying to swallow the whole thing.She stepped out of the car. Wind bit at her face.This was where it all started. Where her mother grew up. Where she learned to lie and scheme and destroy.The front door hung off its hinges. She pushed through.Inside smelled like rot and mold. Dust covered everything. Furniture sat untouched, like people just got up one day and never came back.She walked through the main hall. Her footsteps echoed.Something pulled her toward the old library. Walls lined with empty shelves. Books scattered on the floor like trash.But the fireplace c

"We want to speak. Now."Damien burst into Celeste's room without knocking. His face was ghostly faded. His hands would not prevent shaking.Celeste glanced up from her pc. "what is wrong?”"Just got a message. From the council.""What council?""The Heirs' Council. All the big families. They're calling a meeting."Celeste got up slowly. "About what?""Word got out. About the pact. About us. Everybody knows."Her stomach twisted. "How'd they find out?""No clue. But it's everywhere now. The families are losing it. They want answers.""What kind of answers?"Damien dragged his hand via his hair. "They wanna recognise if we're going via with it. If we're virtually getting married.If we're making some alliance.""What if we tell them no?""Then we're threats. Loose ends that know too much."Celeste sat back down. Her legs felt like they might give out. "When is it?""Tomorrow night. Eight. Old Sterling mansion upstate.""Jesus, that's quick.""Scared people don't wait around. Especially

"Don't move."Damien's voice sliced through the darkness. Celeste's hand stopped midway to the water glass."What—""I said don't move." He changed across the room in seconds, grabbing the glass from her nightstand. His face looked off. way too pale.Her coronary heart started out hammering. "what's taking place?"He lifted the glass towards the moonlight.. Little particles floated in the water. Stuff that definitely shouldn't be there."Someone poisoned this."Everything spun. Celeste dropped back against the pillows, and that's when she noticed it—how bone-tired she felt. How everything seemed weighted down. She'd been ingesting from that cup for the final hour."How much did you have got?" Damien put the glass down like it would explode, turning to take a look at her with actual worry in his eyes."Just... a few sips. Tasted off but I figured—""Hospital. Now." His phone was already out.Celeste grabbed his wrist. "Wait. We go to a hospital, everyone knows. Whoever did this knows t

"They're here."Damien's voice cut through the quiet. He was at the window, gun already in his hand.Celeste shot up from the desk. "How many?""Too many to count." He looked at her. "Safe room. Now.""I'm not just gonna hide while—"The first window exploded.Glass flying everywhere. Celeste dropped to the floor as bullets tore via the room. Damien changed into covering her before she may want to even procedure what is going on."Basement," he said in her ear. "Exit through the wine cellar.""What about you?""I'll be right there."She knew he was lying. No time to argue though.Another window shattered. Then another. The whole estate was getting hit.Celeste crawled for the door. Her hands were cut up from the glass. It didn't matter.Damien changed into firing back at whoever became available. The sound became deafening.She made it to the hallway. Smoke everywhere already. Something burning.A figure showed up at the end of the hall. All black. Masked face.Celeste froze up.The f