All Chapters of The Billionaire's Rejected Twins: Chapter 51 - Chapter 60

Bella had been pacing since six a.m. The name on that follower list hadn't left Bella's head all night. Her former friend Angela. Bella had never mistaken her for a real friend. Angela's sudden interest after she returned to the city had always felt calculated, and Bella had kept her at a distance because of it. But she'd assumed Angela was just another social climber looking for an opening, not someone who might be feeding information to the people trying to destroy her. Carlos was at the counter eating toast and watching her pace without commenting on it. "She knew about the records," Bella said, not for the first time. "I trusted her with some of my mother's story years ago, back when I thought we were still friends. I told her some of what Alex had done. Not everything, but enough." She stopped pacing. "Now she's connected to the accounts that pushed the story. That's not a coincidence." "Has your attorney looked at Lorenzo's revisions yet?" Carlos asked. "My attorney's h

Stephanie's forwarded messages were still open on Bella's phone when she got home.She'd read them four times in the car, then again in the hallway with her coat still on while Helena gave her a look that said the twins had been difficult and breakfast had already happened without her."Give me ten minutes," Bella said.She went to the living room and spread everything on the coffee table. Stephanie's messages with Angela. Her own notes from the night before. The follower list printout. The timeline of when the story broke versus when Angela had been asking questions.It lined up. Every single piece of it lined up.Angela had started reaching out to Stephanie six weeks before the story dropped. Casual at first. How are you? How's Bella settling back in? But over three conversations, the questions gradually shifted toward Bella's life, her foundation, and the people around her.Stephanie had been careful. She hadn't told Angela everything, but she'd answered enough of the questions to

The Angela file was three pages long by seven a.m.Bella had been adding to it since five, piecing together the follower list, Stephanie's forwarded messages, the timeline of events, and every conversation she could remember where Angela had asked a question that only seemed suspicious in hindsight. Laid out in order, it painted a damning picture. Not enough for a courtroom, not yet, but enough to justify confronting her.Carlos came in at seven-thirty and read through it without sitting down."We move on her this week," Bella said. "Not next week. This week.""You still can't tie her directly to the leak. All you can prove is that she had access to the information that ended up in it.""It's enough to confront her." Bella gathered the pages into a neat stack. "I'm not filing charges. I just want to sit across from her, put everything in front of her, and see how she reacts." She looked at Carlos. "But before that, I need to deal with Alex and Evelyn. In person. No more messages. No m

Angela poured herself a second glass of wine at ten in the morning and didn't feel guilty about it.The hotel room was clean and anonymous, the kind of place that asked no questions as long as the card cleared. She'd chosen it herself, paid for three nights in advance, and switched off her location services before the plane landed. Not because she was scared but because she knew better. Evelyn had called at nine-thirty, same smooth voice she always used, the one that made everything sound like a business update even when it wasn't."The payment cleared this morning," Evelyn had said. "You did well."Angela didn't let it show how much the words meant to her.She thought about Bella standing in that park with her children, getting in Alex's face like she actually had the upper hand. All that anger, all that conviction, and nothing to back it up. Bella had always been like that. Passionate. Reactive and Convinced that being right was the same as winning. It wasn't.Angela hadn't needed

Four days of searching and Bella still hadn't found the crack in Webb.She'd gone through everything, his published papers, his hearing transcripts, his university records, and the studies he'd worked on with other experts. Carlos had pulled court documents from three different areas. Dr. Patel had reviewed how he did his research and came back with a one-page note saying his work was thorough and that, if he had any bias he had hidden it extremely well.Bella had barely slept. Not because she was scared, but because she was furious. It was the kind of anger that came from knowing something was wrong and not being able to prove it before it was too late.She'd snapped at Helena on Saturday over something small and immediately regretted it. On Sunday, after putting Julian to bed, she'd sat on the floor outside his room for twenty minutes, too exhausted to make herself go back downstairs to the documents covering every available surface.Monday morning she woke up at five and got dresse