บททั้งหมดของ The Hidden Heiress Returns : บทที่ 51 - บทที่ 60

Hailey's POV Kingsley’s office had always been designed to intimidate.Glass walls, dark wood. A desk so large it felt like a border rather than furniture. I had stood on the opposite side of it before as his fiancée, as his enemy, as his leverage. Now, I stood there as something else entirely.The laptop sat between us, open and glowing, its light cutting through the low hush of the room. Outside the windows, Singapore sprawled beneath us, all steel and ambition and money. Inside, the air was tight enough to fracture.I didn’t speak right away.I watched him read.Kingsley didn’t rush information. He absorbed it the way predators absorbed movement—still, alert, lethal. His eyes tracked line after line on the screen. Medical codes, prescriptions, dates. The quiet truth hiding beneath a very loud lie.Janet Lut was not pregnant.But she was sick.Not a cold, not stress. Not anything that could be brushed off with money and smiles. The medication list was long and precise, the kind of

Hailey's POV I moved out before he came back home, when the mansion was still holding its breath.I didn’t want witnesses, not staff, not security, not even him. I packed with the kind of efficiency that came from years of being taught not to hesitate. Clothes folded, shoes wrapped, jewelry left behind except for what I wore. I avoided his side of the closet like it was wired to explode.The penthouse smelled like him in the mornings, familiar in a way that crawled under my skin. I hated that my body noticed it even as my mind rejected everything he’d done.I told myself it was temporary.That was a lie.The car ride to the hotel felt longer than it should have. Singapore slid past the tinted windows in clean lines and controlled chaos, a city that thrived on precision. I usually loved that about it. Today it felt indifferent, like it would keep moving whether I stayed or not.The hotel suite was flawless, too flawless.Cream walls, glass tables, neutral art chosen by a designer who

Hailey's POV I didn’t step aside right away.Kingsley stood at the threshold of the hotel suite like he didn’t know whether he was allowed inside or not. Like crossing that invisible line depended entirely on whether I still believed he was the enemy.My hand stayed on the doorframe. My head still hurts, not the sharp agony from earlier, but a deep, bruised ache, the kind that came after something had been torn open and left exposed.“You knew,” I said finally.It wasn’t an accusation, it wasn’t even loud. It was flat, exhausted, scraped raw.Kingsley nodded once.“Yes.”The word landed hard.I turned and walked back into the living room without telling him to follow. I heard the door close behind him anyway in a soft and careful way, like he was afraid sudden movements might shatter me.The suite looked the same as it had an hour ago—immaculate, expensive, neutral. Beige walls, low lighting. A place designed to feel like home, right now, it felt obscene.I sank down onto the carpe

Hailey's POVThe gas burned my throat even after the bathroom was sealed, it was sharp and chemical, like crushed metal chased with citrus. Every breath felt borrowed, thin, filtered through damp fabric and stubborn will. Kingsley pushed me fully into the shower stall, his body following immediately, the glass door sliding shut with a soft click that sounded obscene in the silence—too neat, too final.He moved fast, not frantic, it was precise. Wet towels were jammed under the bathroom door, shoved into the vent, pressed into every seam where air might come in. He used his shoulder to nudge the vanity aside an inch, just enough to give himself a better angle. He didn't hesitate one bit.I pressed my palm to the tile to steady myself. It was cold and slick. My pulse thundered in my ears, loud enough that I was sure it could be heard through the walls. Steam clung to my skin, mixing with the sting in my eyes, the sour-sweet taste at the back of my tongue.Through the frosted bathroom

Hailey's POV “You’re bankrupt, Hailey.”The word echoed long after my grandfather stopped speaking, as if the walls themselves wanted to savor it.For a heartbeat, I let it land.I let my body register the familiar spike—the sharp, instinctive flinch of a girl trained to fear scarcity, disgrace, dependency. I felt it try to take root in my chest, the old reflex of shrinking, of calculating exits, of wondering how badly I’d misjudged the board.Then it passed.Because I wasn’t that girl anymore and definitely I won't be her anymore.I exhaled slowly and stepped back from the desk. The fire cracked behind them, too loud, too alive for what this room deserved. I didn’t look at my father again, I didn’t need to. He had already chosen his posture for the rest of his life—bent, careful, orbiting power instead of wielding it and now I'd learn to live with it too.My grandfather was still smiling.That was his mistake.I turned and walked out without another word.Not because I was stunned