All Chapters of The Ultimate Cure: A New Husband: Chapter 661 - Chapter 670

Adriana finished packing and came out of the bedroom to find a scene in the living room that was both funny and exasperating.Francesco was building blocks with Milo, the two of them heads bent together.Chris sat with Maeve on the other side, Maeve handing him blocks one by one.The four of them, each in their own little world, undisturbed by the others, the lines between them drawn perfectly clear.She let out a quiet sigh, keeping her expression neutral, and simply greeted Chris before calling out to Heidi to make a bit more for dinner.Chris spoke up. "No need to cook for me. I already ate. I was just passing by."As he said this, his gaze landed on the rolling suitcase sitting in the corner of the living room. "Heading out of town?"Adriana answered without much thought. "Yeah, business trip to Westin City tomorrow."Chris nodded thoughtfully, then gestured at the pile of toys he'd brought. "Edward asked me to bring these for Milo and Maeve."It took Adriana a moment to p

Dean corrected Chris. "She'll just cane you. In her eyes, her eldest grandson doesn't count for much of anything."With that, he took one last drag, ground out the cigarette, and turned back toward his room.Chris sat alone in the living room a while longer. The old estate felt even quieter and more hollow than anywhere else, like a frail, aging thing with no life left in it.Before bed, he pulled out his phone and booked a flight to Westin City.The next morning, Adriana woke early.She hadn't expected Francesco to already be up before her.She pushed open the bedroom door to find him seated on the living room sofa, long legs crossed, tablet in hand, focused on answering emails.Morning light streamed through the floor-to-ceiling windows, gilding him in a soft glow.Adriana smiled. "I only asked you to keep an eye on the kids. You didn't have to get up this early. You could've just come over after work."Francesco set the tablet's screen dark and rose to help her carry breakf

Adriana got up to answer the door and saw Riley standing there looking anxious. "Adriana, we're about to be late," Riley said."My alarm hasn't even gone off yet." Adriana reached for her phone as she spoke and found it had died and shut itself off.She shrugged, sheepish. "Sorry. I'm holding us up.""Go wash up. I'll get everything together."Riley took her phone, plugged it in to charge with quick, efficient movements, then packed the few essentials Adriana would need into her bag.The moment Adriana came out from washing up, Riley quickly did her makeup for her.Less than ten minutes later, the two of them were out the door, neat and put together.Riley's efficiency and clear thinking were exactly why Adriana had hired her as an assistant in the first place.With her around, there was a whole list of small things Adriana never had to waste her own energy on.Today's work ran the whole day, and by evening, Adriana turned down the director's dinner invitation and took Riley

That night, Adriana slept unusually soundly.The next day, Riley had a hiking trip planned through the mountains.Adriana had specifically asked for more outdoor activities, more time in nature, and the rolling forested peaks around here were the best option for it.She kept up a regular exercise routine year-round, so a hike like this wasn't much of a strain for her.The two of them fell in with a larger group of tourists, following the marked trail through the trees.The mountain air was damp and cool, and everywhere she looked was a deep, layered green.The foliage seemed almost alive, spilling toward them in dense, cascading waves from every branch.Walking through it, Adriana felt her whole spirit lighten, the mountain breeze seeming to pass straight through her soul and sweep away every trace of grime.Riley kept her camera raised the whole time, snapping away nonstop, exclaiming over everything she saw."Adriana, now I finally get what people mean by 'so green it looks

"About an hour."Bella had barely gotten the words out before the line went dead on the other end.Bella called home right away and booked the next available flight to Westin City.She knew Adriana well enough to know there was no way she'd have left Riley alone somewhere and gone wandering off on her own, and certainly no reason for her to have wandered anywhere near the edge of a cliff.If Adriana's phone had turned up at the base of that cliff, foul play was far more likely than an accident, and that possibility was a thousand times more frightening than a simple disappearance.She didn't dare think about it any further and drove straight to the airport.Whatever the truth turned out to be, she couldn't sit around in Heatherton waiting for an answer.Meanwhile, another private jet had requested an emergency flight path and was already waiting on the tarmac.The air pressure in the cabin felt almost as heavy as the darkness settled over Francesco's brow.Out in Westin City,