บททั้งหมดของ Revenge From Ashes, Ruin for the Billionaire: บทที่ 31 - บทที่ 36

(Ava)A week passes.A week of silence from me. A week of texts from Zach I don’t open.A week of his calls I let ring out until voicemail. A week of lawyers emailing me about the divorce and another set about the evidence against Sienna.Paige is finally back home. She told me to “call if that billionaire idiot shows up uninvited.”He hasn’t. Not yet.Instead, he’s been bleeding money into the divorce like a man trying to resurrect the dead.The mansion? Signed over. Half of his shares? Signed over.Alimony? A number so big my lawyer actually laughed and did a double take and then phoned Zach’s lawyer to see if the extra zero was a typo.But if it isn’t enough, name the number. A blank check.I tell them I’m not interested in the money. He can’t buy me off like that. But those who mean the most to me tell me to not get in my own way on this. That kid of money can do so much good.Take it, set up charities, be a benefactor, make my own empire and never have to rely on a paycheck again

(Ava)One Week Later:The hospital’s Bioethics Committee room is nothing like I thought it would look.No dramatic lighting. No soft, calming music.Just bright overhead fluorescents, a long oval table, and twelve people who do not care about my feelings or Zach’s guilt or the mess our lives have become.They don’t care about the podcasts on our lives, about the true crime series built around Sienna. They don’t care about the drama that feeds the beast.They care about facts. They care about risk.They care about one thing only:Whether Kai’s survival justifies the medical burden placed on Lila.Their focus on medical facts is brutal.The process is clean and clinical. They don’t even pretend to look after our feelings. But they did allow a support person each.Zach is here alone. Of course.Paige is waiting outside for me. I wanted to do this part alone.Paige and I have thrown every otherworldly way to get information at this that we can. Can we rely on it? Maybe not. But I can rely

(Zach) Six months.Six months of watching my son fade.Six months of trying to learn what’s really important in life, and giving up on getting the forgiveness I know I’ll never get.Six months of showing up at every hospital shift change, every blood test, every consult, every damn second because I don’t know if I’ll get another moment with him.But I understand why we needed to wait. For Lila to be older, stronger. I understand and I am grateful. I see her regularly. She comes to visit Kai.Ava always declines. She comes to see him when I’m not here. I get it. I don’t blame her.Sienna is still behind bars. My brother Robert is under suspicion too. My whole existence that I knew has gone now.Lorne businesses lost investors and buyer faith. Most of the arms sank like a stone in water. I had some of my own dealings I managed to keep going.But only because the public believed I was a victim of Sienna. Because they feel sorry for me with Kai no doubt.But I wasn’t a victim. I allowed