All Chapters of Once my Wife: Chapter 31 - Chapter 40

The streets outside the safe house were in chaos.Police cars flashed their lights. Sirens screamed. People were shouting over each other. But inside the building, everything went quiet for Bella. She couldn’t hear the noise anymore, all she could hear was the sound of her own heartbeat pounding in her chest.She was holding Lila close, too close. Her arms wrapped tightly around her daughter’s small frame, her face buried in Lila’s soft hair. Lila didn’t understand what had almost happened. She didn’t know how close danger had come. She was safe now, back inside the building’s secure zone. But Bella wasn’t. Not on the inside. Her heart was racing, and fear still clung to her like a second skin.Jason stood nearby, his face tight with rage. He wasn’t shouting, but every word he spoke into his headset came out cold and sharp. “Lock the exits. Sweep the entire floor. I want full security lockdown. Now.”Mark Jenkins and his team moved fast, spreading out like a trained response unit. The

The truth about the Silent Partner shook Jason and Bella deeply. This wasn’t just about George Reed anymore. This was something much bigger, something far more dangerous. George might be gone, but someone else had taken over. Someone who knew how to hide, how to move pieces around without being seen. It was like a game of chess, but they didn’t even know who they were playing against.Jason knew he couldn’t fight this alone. He had reached his limit. Between managing Reed International, keeping Bella and Lila safe, and trying to bring down this invisible enemy, he was stretched too thin. He needed help. Real help. Someone who could understand the kind of deep, hidden digital traps being set around them.That’s when he thought of one person; Dr. Aris Thorne. Silas’s younger brother.Unlike Silas, Aris had nothing to do with crime. He was a genius when it came to computers and security, but he had left his family behind long ago. He hated what Silas stood for. Aris had always stayed far

The proof Aris Thorne found against Helena Vance was sharp enough to cut in both directions. It finally confirmed what Jason and Bella had feared that Helena wasn’t just part of George Reed’s twisted empire. She was its new head. She was the one known as “The Weaver,” the woman working from the shadows, pulling the strings, finishing what George started. But exposing her wouldn’t be simple. Helena Vance wasn’t someone who panicked when cornered. She had power, deep connections, and more money than most people could dream of. She would fight like hell to protect what she’d built.With the evidence in hand, Jason and Bella brought Detective Harris into the loop. They showed him the encrypted emails, the money trails, the logs that linked Vance directly to George’s crimes. Harris, who’d always suspected George still had control over things, sat quietly for a moment, staring at the documents. Then he leaned back in his chair and said, “This is it. This ties her to everything; the embezzle

The hours after the gala felt like a storm no one was ready for. News about Helena Vance, once praised as a strong, smart leader, now revealed as “The Weaver,” spread across the city and beyond. She had been working with George Reed all along, not just as a partner but as the true hand behind many dark and harmful secrets. People were shocked. The media, who had once believed the story George and Helena told, now rushed to report the truth.The files Aris Thorne had found showed everything clearly. There were messages, money transfers, secret plans even talk of kidnapping. The lies stretched across countries and years. Helena tried to stop it, hiring expensive lawyers and sending her team to bury the truth. But it was too late. Her image was ruined. People no longer saw a leader, they saw a cold, dangerous woman who had played with lives and hidden behind power.George Reed, the mastermind behind it all, finally faced a defeat he couldn’t escape. His health gave out for real this time

Life had finally started to settle. But even in the quiet, Jason and Bella could feel something off, little moments that didn’t quite sit right.At first, Seraphina Dubois and her company, Greenlight Ventures, barely registered as more than a passing mention in business circles. But over time, the name kept popping up. She was everywhere holding interviews, mentioned in boardrooms and investment conferences. She spoke about ethics, the planet, the future. On paper, she was everything people wanted to see in a modern leader. But to Jason and Bella, something felt strange.Her rise was too fast. Her company’s mission too closely mirrored what they were trying to build with Reed & Co. And her background? Practically nonexistent.It wasn’t direct competition. Not yet. It was something more subtle. A strange sort of mimicry. Like someone was watching them closely and copying every move.Jason had thrown himself fully into rebuilding Reed International into Reed & Co. He wasn’t just runnin