Semua Bab Reborn: The Billionaire Second Chance Bride: Bab 51 - Bab 60

MIA’S POVThe file was still in my hands when everyone left, one after the other,like the meeting was over.Sophie hesitated the longest, trying to be comfort I needed but I knew I was better off alone at the moment. “I’m staying,” she said, arms crossed like she was ready to fight anyone who disagreed.“You’re not,” Ethan Black replied before I could, our heads snapped towards him. He stood Calm.Flat.Final. Her eyes narrowed. “Excuse me?” “She needs to think,” he said. “You hovering won’t help.”“I am not hovering….” She began to protest “Sophie.” I said her name quietly. She stopped. Looked at me. “I’m okay,” I added. It wasn’t entirely true. But it wasn’t entirely a lie either. A long pause. Then she sighed.“Call me if anything feels off,” she said, pointing at me. Then her gaze flicked to Ethan glaring into his eyes. “Anything.” He didn’t respond Didn’t acknowledge it. That seemed to annoy her more.The door closed behind her. Silence followed. Heavy silence. But not uncomfor

MIA’S POVI woke up anxious, that familiar fear anytime something big was to happen at home returned, I pushed through and dragged myself to the bathroom. My door cam rang as I got out, without another thought I went for the door. A cloth jacket almost bumped into me.“Hey!!” Sophie came after, smiling ear to ear, “I know your not expecting me, but I came anyways” she said walking in like she owned the place, which I didn’t mind.Her presence lifted my mood a little, “you know, you can come anytime” I replied closing the door behind me.“So let’s get you ready” she said excitedly, as she raised the dress in the air.The mansion looked exactly the same. That was the first thing I noticed. The lights. The music. The polished marble floors reflecting people who didn’t belong to me. It hadn’t changed. But I had.At least… I thought I had. I Sophie had dressed me in a lilac back drop dress, exposing my back to just above my waist, the front barely covering the sides of my boobs, with a lo

MIA’S POVReturning to my apartment last night felt like a daze, guilty completely consumed me inside and out, I didn’t sleep. Not even a blink, Every time I closed my eyes, I saw it again. The stage. The lights. My father’s hand on my shoulder.And my own voice…. As I gave it all away, the same thing I was given a second chance for and I let it go Again. By morning, the silence in my apartment felt heavier than the night before. Too quiet. Too still. Like it was waiting for me to decide something.A soft knock broke through it. “Mia?” Sophie didn’t wait for an answer before stepping in. She looked like she hadn’t slept either. “You didn’t answer your phone,” she said, scanning my face. “I was starting to think you’d disappeared.”I reached for my phone and that’s when I saw the missed calls, I was too out of it to notice, I sighed and placed it back.“I’m here,” I replied, Barely but I was. Her eyes narrowed slightly. “You don’t look okay.” She said placing a palm on my forehead “I’m

MIA’S POVI listened to the recording three times before I stopped. Not because I understood it fully but because I had heard enough to know it wasn’t ordinary.The first time, I focused on Lily. Her voice, her confidence, the ease with which she spoke about things she didn’t think twice about. That part wasn’t new.The second time, I listened to Jason. That was where things shifted. He didn’t interrupt her. He didn’t argue, he didn’t share his own thoughts he just let her speak and when he spoke. He didn’t even sound particularly interested.And yet… the conversation kept moving exactly where he wanted it to go. By the third time, I wasn’t listening to the words anymore. I was paying attention to the gaps between them.The pauses.The timing.The way he let her fill in the silence just enough to reveal more than she intended. It wasn’t casual. It wasn’t careless. It was deliberate. He was mining her. I lowered the phone slowly, staring at the screen long after the audio had ended.On

MIA’S POV“Waiting won’t help.” The words stayed with me long after I said them. The message on my phone still burned at the back of my mind.You weren’t supposed to walk away.In my first life, I would have panicked. I would have hidden. Spent days replaying every possibility until fear swallowed whatever chance I had to act.But standing outside that event beside Ethan, something felt different now. Not because I was fearless. Because I was tired. Tired of constantly arriving too late to my own life.And I knew something was coming. The opening of the Carter Group’s new business Carter technology.I remembered it clearly. Ryan had been working on it for over two years and it finally is being launched with him as the CEO. In my first life, my father had announced Ryan as the CEO of Carter tech while maintaining his executive authority over at the main as president due to the lack of availabile hands. Everyone praised the decision. I had even defended it publicly when investors quest