All Chapters of Hidden Heiress Rising: Married to my Ex-Husband’s Uncle: Chapter 151 - Chapter 159

~ LISA ~Victor's voice came through the speaker in Damien's study, smug and excited, every person in the room stopped breathing at once.Roman was already moving, phone to his ear, calling his men parked two streets from the estate. Damien stood over the laptop with his jaw set very hard. Eva's hand had found mine at some point and I had not noticed until her rings were digging into my fingers."He knew," Zac whispered from the corner. " Lisa, how could he know about how you knew your parents were being threatened?"I could not answer. My whole body was frozen in places as all sorts of scenes played out in my mind. "You are quiet," Victor's voice echoed, he chuckled and I could hear him walking, slow circles. "That is fine. You have always been better at listening than people gave you credit for. So sixteen years old you were listening through a wall on your parents' conversation. Do you know, your father came to us and told us about that? He begged us, actually. He said, ‘My daug

~ LISA ~The next day, Mac published at six in the morning and the media went into an uproar.The headline ‘THE INNOCENT DRIVER: HOW THE HILL FAMILY FRAMED AND FORCED A MAN TO TAKE HIS OWN LIFE THEREBY BURYING THE TRUTH ALONGSIDE HIS NAME FOR TEN YEARS.’He led with my father’s face, it was the garage photo, my dad was squinting his eyes into the sun, looking tired but happy and alive. By seven it was every network airing it. By eight the district attorney said the word I had waited ten years for. Exoneration. By twelve, strangers all over the country were saying my father’s name and they spoke highly of him.Amy broke first, followed by David. Mark just breathed loudly and I sat there feeling a wound that had been opening for the past ten years slowly healed.That evening, Eva shoved a key into my hand. “This is the key to our guest penthouse. The war is over. You are allowed to be happy now. That is an order.”Marty leaned in as they shoved me into the elevator. “Jackson has the o

~ JACKSON ~Marty's scream was still ringing in my ears when the black car disappeared into traffic.For three whole seconds, I could not move. My body simply refused. I stood on those courthouse steps watching the space where the car had been, and the whole world narrowed down to one thought.He has her.Marty suddenly grabbed my arm, shaking, tears already streaming down his face, and did the bravest thing I have ever watched a soft guy like him do."Plate," he gasped. "I got the plate. Write it down before I forget, WRITE IT DOWN."He recited it twice without a single mistake. Marty, who cries at the slightest harm being done to someone, made me proud of him. After that, everything became a blur of everyone screaming orders. Roman had the car on traffic cameras inside six minutes, barking into two phones at once. Damien pulled two retired detectives and one very motivated active one onto a conference call by minute nine. Eva took Amy and David to a secure floor and refused to le

~ JACKSON ~My agency called me eight days after the verdict, somehow I knew the reason why.Cathy called me herself, which I suppose was the polite way she could say what she was about to tell me.She spoke for six minutes about brand deals, market trends but never once did she say the actual sentence, so I said it for her."Cathy. Is the agency firing me?""No, they are releasing you as I am as well.""Releasing me from what?""Jackson." She sighed. "The Serona film pulled you this morning. The perfume campaign pulled you last night. There is a petition with over two million signatures asking every studio in this country not to hire a Hill again. Two million, Jackson. I cannot sell a name that people are signing petitions against.""It's my surname, Cathy," I said. "Not me.""In this business those are the same thing," she said, and she hung up.She was not wrong. I checked the petition later that night, which was a stupid thing to do.I read over two hundred comments, which was a s