Todos los capítulos de His Tamed Wife, The Wild Heiress: Capítulo 241 - Capítulo 248

Chapter 241KIERAN"A warehouse," I said. "Concrete floor. I was on my knees. There was pain — real pain, Penny, I felt it happening in my body right there on the street, my skull, the back of my skull, like something had actually hit me even though nothing had." I swallowed. "And Darren was there. Younger. Sixteen, maybe. Saying the same thing he just said to me, except this time he had a pipe in his hand."Penny went very still."A pipe," she said."He hit me with it," I said. "I saw it happen. I felt it happen. And behind him — further back, at the edge of whatever light there was—"I stopped."Kieran.""Damien was there," I said. The words came out low, flat, the specific deadness of a man saying something he still couldn't fully believe even as he heard himself say it. "He was standing there. Watching. Not stopping it. Not trying to help. Just — standing there, watching another kid get beaten half to death with a pipe, and doing absolutely nothing about it."The room was very qui

Chapter 243ADRIANThe punishment depended on who you were. If you came from a top family, one with power and money and a seat near the table, the council did not kill you. That would have been too messy. It wiped your memory. It took away whatever you had done wrong, and it built you a new past. You walked around alive, and you did not know what you had lost.If you came from a lower family, the ones the council saw as tools, it was simpler. The person who broke the rules was killed. Or they were framed for a crime and sent to prison for the rest of their life. Either way, they were gone, and nobody asked questions.Kieran's family was high enough for the first kind. That was the only luck he got.They called a meeting. They told the two of us what would happen. Damien was sixteen. I was fifteen. We were both told to be there, so we would learn.I remember what they told me to do. They said Kieran had to be broken first. Not killed. Broken. They said t

Chapter 245ELIJAHI read that line more slowly than the rest.The divorce had been real. Damien had filed it himself, quietly, in the weeks before the shooting. He had signed a settlement that made Adria wealthy and free. He had done it, I now believed, to protect her. It was a private document. Two lawyers had seen it. A few people close to the family knew. It had never appeared in a newspaper. Adria had not told anyone in the house. She could barely say the word.Whoever wrote this had read the papers. They knew the terms. They knew the amount. They knew that it had been signed before the shooting, and they wanted me to know that they knew. And they had put it right next to the address of the flat.I did not need help understanding that. The message said two things at once. *We know where you came from.* And: *We know exactly what you are to her.*I stood up. My chair scraped the floor, loud in the quiet house, and I stopped and

Chapter 247MILAThis was correction. I said the words in my head, the same words I had said for weeks. *This is not cruelty. This is correction.* He had broken the rule. He had broken it again and again, in public, in front of cameras, in front of the whole world. He had brought a stranger into the family and put her name in the papers. He had let himself be seen. The council had already decided what came next. All I had done was ask that it be done properly, by people who knew how, before someone worse decided to do it in a cheaper way.I was saving him. That was the truth. If I had done nothing, they would have taken his company, his name, and his freedom, and left him a shell. I was giving him something back. A clean life. A good life. A life with a woman who had known him since they were young and who would never lie to him about who she was.*Me.* I would be there when he woke. I would be gentle. I would tell him everything he needed to know.I said al