THE HEIRESS'S REBIRTH:REBORN AS A THORN IN MY HUSBAND'S PATH のすべてのチャプター: チャプター 21 - チャプター 30

Rose's POV "How did you get that?" My voice was a ghost of a whisper, my eyes glued to the massive LED screen in Derek's living room.On the screen, the news was playing a looped video that had set the entire country on fire within one day. It was Richard and Katherine. They weren't just talking, they were kissing in the hallway of my father's house. Was I surprised? No I wasn't. Derek didn't look up from his tablet. He swiped through a series of data, with a calm indifference. "I have my ways, Rose. You should know by now that nothing happens in that house without me eventually finding out.""You've been watching them?" I turned to him, my face pale. "This whole time?""I have been watching everyone," Derek corrected, finally meeting my eyes. His eyes were so cold. "Including the people who think they can play you like a fool. Does it hurt? Seeing your husband cheating on you with your best friend?"I looked back at the TV. The news was now showing a side by side comparison. On one

Derek's POV"Derek, stop! You are going to kill him, let him talk!"A woman slid into the room, her sneakers squeaking against the floorboard. She looked tacky, wearing an oversized hoodie with a fading NASA logo and thick dorky glasses pushed up into her messy ponytail.Michelle.Of course, that was my nerdy sister standing right there in front of me. I had been trying to hook her up with Silas for almost a decade now, they were definitely made for each other.She didn't wait for an invitation. She sat cross-legged on the floor right next to my bleeding guard, pulled a high end laptop from her bag pack, and flipped it open. Her fingers began to click across the keys with a speed that made the typing sound like a rain on tin roof."I am already in the local server," Michelle muttered, her eyes reflecting the green lines of the screen. "Whoever did this was so professional, Lucy. They didn't just loop the feed, they used a localized EMP burst to scramble the digital signatures of the c

Derek's POV "Oh yeah... I am in. I have cracked their security system. The house is live."Michelle's voice was tight, her fingers flying across the keys of her ruggedized laptop in the passenger seat. The blue light of the screen reflected in her eyes, making her look like a digital ghost.I didn't respond. I couldn't. My hands were gripping the steering wheel so hard the leather groaned under the pressure. Every second felt like a drop of acid hitting my skin. Rose could be dead, my heart hammered against my ribs in a frantic, rhythm."Talk to me, Mich," I rasped, my voice dropped into a lethal, quiet register."I am pulling up the CCTV for the east wing. Wait that's weird." Michelle's squinted at a grainy black and white on her screen. "Richard is setting up a high tripod. Fuck his moving it to a room with no cameras. What the hell is he..."She stopped abruptly. I saw her jaw drop, her face turning a sickly shade of pale in the glow of the monitor."Derek...this guy is sick. What

Rose's POV "Is that the best Richard's team could do? A pack of stuttering suit fillers who can't even look me in the the eye?"My voice was smooth, like expensive silk pulled tight over a blade. I leaned back in the high backed chair that had once belonged to my father, my fingers interlaced on the mahogany desk. It's been two weeks now, no threat from Richard, no more schemes, it's as if he had disappeared into thin air.Across me five men in grey suits, Richard's pawns shuffled their papers, their foreheads glistening with sweat under the fluorescent office lights."The documents are in order, Mrs. Ros.." the head lawyer started, then flinched as my gaze sharpened. "I mean...Ms.Rose. Everything is here. The deeds of all estates, shares in the subsidiary firms, and the power of attorney over the remaining family holdings. These are the originals from your father's, and Richard has no right to anyone of them, we have confiscated them from him.""Right," I said, my voice dropping an

Rose's POV"She's been sitting in that mortuary for three weeks now, Rose. Nobody has come for her."Derek's voice was flat, but the tension was still visible in the way he held his shoulders. We were standing in the sterile, echoing hallway of the city mortuary. The smell of bleach and cold air was thick enough to taste, making my stomach turn."Not even Richard?" I asked, hugging my arms tightly around my chest to ward off the chill. "I don't understand. Richard worshiped her, Derek. He wouldn't just leave her here like...like trash.""He hasn't surfaced," Derek said, his eyes hard as flint. He glanced at the detective standing by the heavy metal door. "The police want a family member to claim her so they can move forward with the investigation. When Richard told me, he doesn't give a damn about his own mum then, I thought he was just bluffing."I took a shaky breath, forcing myself to nod. I didn't want to see the woman, but I needed to see her. She had never been kind to me. Not e