บททั้งหมดของ HE LEFT ME FOR MY STEPSISTER, I MOVED ON TO THE NEXT: บทที่ 511 - บทที่ 520

Chapter 511Nathan's voice hardened, "Enough."Beatrice ignored him, "I accomplished what I wanted."My fingers became cold."What are you saying?" I asked, my voice barely above a whisper.Beatrice's eyes gleamed, "The plan was to destroy you."The room seemed to shrink around me.She continued, her voice carrying across the silent hall, "And I succeeded."My lips parted, but no words came."You can expose me," she said. "You can expose Andrew. You can show every recording you have. You can put me behind bars for the rest of my life." She shrugged, "But you will still wake up every morning knowing your daughter is gone."My heart stopped.Nathan immediately squeezed my hand, "Don't listen to her."But I couldn't look away.Beatrice saw the pain in my face and seemed pleased by it, "Athena is dead, Elena."A murmur moved through the crowd. Someone gasped.I felt my knees weaken."Don't," Nathan warned her.Beatrice laughed softly, "Why? Because the truth hurts?""You don't know where

Chapter 513I barely made it halfway across the room before Ava opened her arms.I crashed into her.Her arms wrapped around me so tightly that for a moment, I forgot where we were. I forgot about the police. I forgot about Beatrice. I forgot about Andrew, the evidence, the bloodshed, and the years of pain that had brought us to this night.All I could feel was Ava. My friend. My sister in everything that mattered. The person I had spent so long wishing would walk through a door and tell me that everything would somehow be okay.I buried my face against her shoulder and broke.A sob tore from my chest before I could stop it."Ava..."My fingers gripped the back of her dress as though I was afraid she would disappear if I loosened my hold.Ava held me even tighter."Elena," she whispered, her voice trembling. "Oh God, Elena."She stroked the back of my head while I cried against her."I thought I was going to lose you too," I managed to say between sobs. "I thought... after everything.

Chapter 515I stared at the other side.The moment I saw the name inside the locket, everything around me seemed to disappear.The music that had been playing softly in the background vanished beneath the pounding of my heart. The voices of the guests became distant murmurs. Even the police officers standing around Beatrice and Andrew seemed to fade into the walls.I could only see that tiny piece of metal resting in my trembling hands.Athena.My daughter's name. The name Nathan and I had chosen before we ever knew what her face would look like. The name I had whispered to my unborn child. The name I had cried into my pillow after the factory collapsed because I was convinced I would never say it again.My fingers tightened around the locket."No..." I whispered.My voice barely existed.I lifted my eyes toward Ava. She was crying. Liam stood beside her, one hand resting protectively on the baby's shoulder as the little girl looked around the crowded room with innocent curiosity.I s

Chapter 517Nathan wrapped his arm around me, "She's here."I nodded."She's here."Then I looked at Athena again. Then I looked at Ava."You saved my daughter."Ava immediately shook her head."No, Elena. We simply loved a little girl who needed us."She stepped closer."And now she has found her mother."I reached for Ava with one arm while still holding Athena with the other. She leaned into the embrace. We cried together. Nathan joined us, wrapping his arms around both of us. Liam smiled through his tears.For a few seconds, the entire room witnessed something none of us had believed possible. A family being put back together. But then I felt a strange silence behind me.I turned.Beatrice was staring at Athena. Her face had gone completely pale. The confidence she had carried into the gala was gone. Her eyes moved from Athena to the locket. Then to me. Then to Nathan."You..." she whispered.I stared at her.She took one step backward."No."I held Athena closer.Beatrice shook h

Chapter 519 His face was wet with tears now but he didn't wipe them away.For the first time since I had known the truth about him, Andrew looked like he was finally seeing Noah differently. Not as the brother who had taken everything from him. Not as the man he had spent years resenting. But as the brother who had loved him. The brother who had wanted him home. The brother who had never stopped hoping for reconciliation.Andrew whispered something. I leaned forward slightly.His voice came again."I remember."Nobody moved.Andrew stared at the screen."I remember everything."His voice cracked.Andrew remained standing in the middle of the hall long after my father's recording had ended.The screen had already gone black, but he continued staring at it as though Noah might somehow return if he waited long enough.Nobody spoke.The room that had been filled with celebration only minutes earlier had become painfully quiet. Athena was still sleeping peacefully in my arms, completely u