Killed By My Husband But Reborn A Supermodel のすべてのチャプター: チャプター 111 - チャプター 120

The trial lasts three weeks, but the sentencing hearing feels longer than all of it combined.Elara sits in the courtroom gallery with Kieran. They arrived early to avoid the media crush. The room fills slowly. Journalists. Legal observers. A few people who knew Sienna years ago.DeVale is brought in wearing an orange jumpsuit and shackles. He looks diminished. Prison has aged him. The tan from Costa Rica has faded to sallow gray. His hair is completely white now. He is only forty-seven but looks sixty.He scans the courtroom and his eyes land on Elara. He stares. And stares. His expression shifts from recognition to confusion to something like fear.Elara holds his gaze without flinching. She is wearing Sienna's face. She wants him to see it. To be haunted by it.The judge enters. Everyone stands."Please be seated. We are here for sentencing in the matter of The People versus Marcus DeVale. The jury has found the defendant guilty of first-degree murder, conspiracy to commit murder,

After Natasha is escorted off the property, Elara brings Ethan inside and calls Kieran immediately."Natasha was here. At the house. She got past security somehow.""Are you okay? Is Ethan okay?""We are fine. She did not threaten us. But Kieran, she knows. She figured it out. About the soul transference."Silence on the other end. Then, "How much does she know?""She knows I am not the same person who went into the coma. She says her sister went through the same thing years ago. Her sister claimed her soul transferred after an accident. Natasha had her committed. The sister died in the facility. Now Natasha realizes her sister was telling the truth.""So she is using us to absolve her own guilt.""Or she is genuinely trying to understand what happened. Either way, she is too close to the truth. And she is unstable enough to go public with it.""We need to handle this. Tonight."Kieran comes home within the hour. They put Ethan to bed and sit in his office planning their next move."I

The morning of the wedding, Elara wakes to sunlight streaming through the bedroom windows and Diana sitting at the foot of her bed with coffee."Good morning, bride," Diana says. "You have four hours until you become Mrs. Vaughn. Again. Properly this time."Elara sits up and takes the coffee. "I am already Mrs. Vaughn. We got married months ago.""That was paperwork. Today is the real thing. Today you stand in front of the people you love and promise your life to that man. It matters."Diana is right. It does matter. The first wedding was strategy. Protection. This one is love."Are you nervous?" Diana asks."Terrified.""Good. That means it is real."Diana has orchestrated everything. The hair stylist arrives at nine. The makeup artist at ten. By noon, Elara looks like a bride. Not a model in a editorial shoot. An actual bride getting married for love.The dress is perfect. Simple silk with delicate lace at the sleeves. It flows when she moves. Makes her look ethereal. Like someone f

The first morning back from Greece, Elara wakes to Ethan crying through the baby monitor. She is in his room in seconds."Good morning, baby. Mama missed you so much."Ethan stops crying immediately when he sees her. He reaches up with both arms. She picks him up and holds him close, breathing in his baby smell."Let's get you breakfast."They establish a new routine quickly. Elara spends every morning with Ethan. Just the two of them. They eat breakfast together. She feeds him yogurt and fruit while he makes a mess and laughs.After breakfast, they play. Building blocks that Ethan knocks down. Board books about animals that Ethan chews on instead of looking at. Toy cars that Ethan pushes across the floor while making engine sounds."You are getting so big," Elara tells him. "So smart. Look at you pushing that car all by yourself."Ethan beams at the praise.Kieran joins them mid-morning. He has been working in his office but takes breaks to be with his family."How are my favorite pe

Elara wakes the morning after burning the letter with a strange feeling in her chest. Not quite regret. Not quite unfinished business. Something in between."I need to see him," she tells Kieran over breakfast."See who?""Lucas. In person. One more time."Kieran sets down his coffee. "We just burned his letter. You said it was over.""I thought it was. But I need to look him in the eye. I need him to see Rachel's face when I tell him no. The letter was too easy. Too distant. I need to confront him directly.""Elara—""I know you think it is a bad idea. Everyone will think it is a bad idea. But I need this. For closure. For Rachel. For me."Kieran is quiet for a long moment. "Then I am coming with you.""You do not have to.""Yes, I do. You are not facing him alone."They arrange the visit for two days later. Diana watches Ethan and does not hide her disapproval."What could you possibly gain from seeing that man?" she asks."Peace. Or at least the attempt at peace.""He does not dese