Reborn as The Billionaire's Wife のすべてのチャプター: チャプター 51 - チャプター 60

The conference room was too bright white lights humming, glass walls gleaming, the city stretching endlessly behind Alex like a kingdom he ruled without blinking. He stood at the head of the table, tall and impossibly composed, while Elena felt like the ground beneath her heels was tilting.She clutched the folder he’d given her.A contract.Her name printed neatly on the front.Her life condensed into clauses and signatures.“You’re quiet,” Alex said, voice low, unreadable. “Too quiet, even for you.”Elena’s throat tightened. “Because I’m trying to understand why you think this is okay.”His eyes flicked to the contract again. “It’s protection.”“It’s control,” she whispered.He didn’t deny it.He walked toward her slow, deliberate steps that made her pulse jump. “Elena, this merger with the Skeletons isn’t just business. They want leverage. They want access to you, to your identity, to your past. I’m not letting that happen.”“And your solution is… binding me legally to you?” Her vo

Darkness swallowed everything.A blackout complete and total.Alex’s hand closed on air as Elena vanished from his grip.“Elena!”His voice tore through the pitch-black room, raw, urgent.No answer.Only the shriek of emergency alarms and the distant pounding of boots racing up the lower floors.Maya scrambled for her phone, its screen flickering weakly as backup power struggled to kick in. “Alex security feeds are dead. All systems are offline.”“Find her,” Alex growled, already moving.He didn’t bother feeling his way; he knew every inch of this building, even blind. But the world felt wrong. Too silent. Too tight. Too empty without her beside him.ThenA faint metallic click.A spark of light.Calla’s silhouette flared into view as her tactical cuff blinked green. Her voice was low, sharp, tinged with triumph.“She’s safe.”Alex lunged at her.Calla dodged, moving like a shadow slipping between shadows. “Relax, billionaire,” she said coolly. “They took her. Not me.”Alex froze mid-

The room felt too small to hold everything unsaid.Elena stood by the doorway, her fingers pressed against the wood as if she needed it to stay upright. Adrian didn’t move from where he stood by the window, his shoulders stiff, his jaw set like stone. Rain tapped against the glass, soft and unrelenting a cruel contrast to the storm twisting between them.“Say something,” she whispered.He didn’t turn. That hurt more than if he had shouted at her.“Elena,” he finally breathed, voice raw, “I don’t even know where to start.”“Start anywhere,” she said. “Start with why you shut me out.”He exhaled, slow and exhausted. “I didn’t shut you out. I was trying to protect you.”The laugh that escaped her was soft and bitter. “You call that protection? Keeping secrets until we’re drowning in them?”He ran a hand through his hair. “You don’t understand. If you knew the kind of enemies”“I don’t care about enemies,” she snapped, stepping into the room. “I care about you. Us. And you won’t even lo

The darkness fell so suddenly, so completely, it felt alive.One second Elena was staring at the space where Clara had disappeared.The next blackout.Then the sounds hit.A scream.A crash.Glass shattering.Gunfire ripping through the night like lightning tearing the sky.“Elena down!” Adrian’s voice snapped through the chaos.He shoved her behind the heavy marble counter just as bullets tore into the walls behind them. Sparks burst where metal met stone. Elena hit the ground hard, her heartbeat slamming against her ribs like it wanted out.She gasped. “Adrian what’s happening? Who”“Stay low,” he ordered, already drawing the pistol hidden beneath his jacket. “There’s more than one intruder. They cut power.”Another boom shook the house something slamming through a door, then footsteps pounding toward them.Elena swallowed a cry. “Clara said they were close, but this”“I know.” His voice softened for half a second. “I’m getting you out of this alive. I swear it.”Shadows moved in th

Elena’s POV Silence is the loudest sound in the world when the person you love might be dying on the other side of a door.The moment the steel panel sealed shut, it felt like the entire world vanished with it. One second Adrian was in front of me alive, fighting, bleeding. The nextA gunshot.A thud.Then nothing.“ADRIAN!” My scream tore my throat raw. I punched the metal door with both fists, frantic, desperate. “Adrian answer me! Adrian!”Silence.Cold. Absolute. Cruel.I dropped to my knees, palms stinging, tears blurring everything. My heartbeat was a hammer, hitting harder and harder until I felt sick.No. No. No.He couldn’t be gone. He couldn’t.Not when he’d fought so hard to get me here.Not when he’d promised he wouldn’t leave me.Not when I hadn’t even told himThat I was falling in love with him.My breath choked. “Adrian… please…”I pressed my forehead to the cold metal, hoping praying for even one sound from the other side.Nothing.The safe room lights flickered on a