All Chapters of Reborn to Ruin Her Husband : Chapter 141 - Chapter 150

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calm before the banquet

Saturday morning arrived with a cool, quiet fog hanging over the estate grounds.By six o'clock, black SUVs were parked outside the side entrance. Elias’s private security detail moved fast and quiet. They brought Maya Sterling out of the lower holding wing, her hands bound, and secured her in the back of an armored vehicle. With heavy guards surrounding her, she was driven away to an off site, high security facility outside the city limits.Upper floors remained locked down. Emily was still kept in the east wing guest bedroom, fed and unharmed, but guarded by two men outside her door until the evening events concluded.---Inside Elias’s private study, warm morning light filtered through the heavy blinds. The large desk was covered in neat stacks of paper, bank printouts, and wire transfer logs.Thea sat in the leather chair opposite Elias. She wore a simple sweater, holding a pencil, tracing her finger down a list of offshore bank names. Elias stood beside her, leaning over the des

red carpet

Thea’s POV The entrance of the regency hall was blinding. Hundreds of camera flashes went off all at once, making the cool Saturday night air feel hot. Heavy velvet ropes kept back dozens of reporters, shouting questions over one another.I held tight to Elias’s arm as we walked down the long red carpet. Elias wore a tailored black tuxedo, his tall frame looking completely powerful and composed. I wore a dark blue silk gown that fell smoothly to the floor.As we walked, Elias slowed his steps to match mine. He felt me tense up against the loud noise, and he leaned down slightly, his lips almost touching my ear."You look breath-taking, Thea," Elias whispered softly. His voice was warm and steady against the cold air. "Just relax. Look at me, not at the cameras."I looked up into his dark eyes, and the tight knot in my chest instantly loosened. "I’m fine," I said, giving him a small, genuine smile. "I’m just ready for this night to be over.""It will be over soon," he said. He reached

traces of arrogance

Darius Manchester sat in the plush leather backseat of his sleek black sedan, parked right outside the brightly lit entrance of the Regency Hall.Outside his tinted windows, the night was alive with blinding camera flashes, red carpet noise, and the hum of luxury cars pulling up to the curb. He stared silently at the entrance, his fingers lightly tapping against his knee.His assistant, sitting in the front passenger seat, turned around slowly to look at him. "Sir? Are we not going inside? The event started twenty minutes ago."Darius didn't answer immediately. His dark eyes remained fixed on the glass doors of the hall.He was hesitating, and he hated it.Darius knew what was supposed to happen tonight. He knew Elias and Thea had all the financial ledgers and evidence they needed to destroy Sirius Vane on live television. Once the truth came out tonight, the Vane family crisis would be over.And once the crisis vanished, Thea wouldn't need him anymore.She wouldn't call him for infor

plans, plans

Elias walked away from Darius, his chest tight with anger. He hated the way Darius looked at his wife, and he hated how the man kept showing up in their lives. But he had to put those thoughts aside. Tonight was too important. Before he could take five steps, his father’s assistant hurried up to him, looking anxious. "Mr. Vane, please," the assistant said quickly, gesturing toward the front of the ballroom. "Your father is waiting for you near the main stage. He is introducing you to the chief investors from the capital." Elias took a deep breath, smoothing down his tuxedo jacket. "Lead the way." At the front of the hall, George Vane stood under a massive crystal chandelier, surrounded by elderly men in expensive suits. George was holding a glass of scotch, his face bright with pride as he saw his son approaching. "Ah, here he is!" George announced loudly, placing a heavy hand on Elias’s shoulder. "My son, Elias. The real mind behind our company’s new expansion." The investors

mushed together

THEA’s POV My head was throbbing with a sharp, blinding pain.I blinked my eyes open slowly, my vision blurry and unfocused. The air in the room smelled heavily of dust, old cardboard, and faint cleaning chemicals. I was lying on the cold, hard floor, my dark blue silk dress wrinkled beneath me.I reached up with a trembling hand to touch the side of my head. A soft, tender lump had formed near my hairline.>> What happened? Memory rushed back in a sudden, sharp flood. The red carpet. The flashing cameras. Sarah standing in front of me, making up silly excuses to delay me near the service corridor. I had accused her of helping Sirius, she had panicked and pushed me, and then... someone had hit me from behind.I pushed myself up into a sitting position, resting my back against a stack of metal shelves.I looked around the small space. It wasn't a guest bedroom or a fancy hotel suite. It was a narrow, windowless utility storeroom. Long metal shelves lined the walls, filled with extra

Plan D

THEA’s POV The air inside the storeroom was hot and heavy. In the dim light filtering through the crack under the door, I hurried over to a plastic cleaning bucket sitting on the bottom shelf. Luckily, it was filled with clean water from the housekeeping staff's morning shift.I grabbed a folded cotton tablecloth from a nearby stack, dipped it into the cool water, and wrung it out with trembling hands.I rushed back and pressed the wet cloth gently against Darius’s forehead. He flinched at the sudden cold, letting out a low, ragged breath. Sweat was still pouring down his neck, and his chest heaved as he fought the high fever."Look at you, Darius," I whispered, my voice a mix of anger and genuine worry as I wiped the sweat from his temples. "What were you thinking? Why do you always have to throw yourself into the middle of danger? You know Sirius had something planned today so coming here shouldn’t have been a choice or better still, watch from home."Darius’s eyelids fluttered ope

his insecurities

The screen continued to project the image of Thea wiping sweat from Darius’s feverish forehead. The audio of Darius slurring that he would do anything to protect her echoed through the massive speakers, filling the room with a suffocating silence before the crowd erupted into loud whispers and heavy gasps. Camera flashes exploded across the ballroom like blinding lightning. Photographers jostled for position, aiming their high-powered lenses straight at Elias Vane to catch every single detail of his reaction. For three agonizing seconds, Elias stood completely frozen. The blood ran entirely out of his face, leaving his skin pale and cold. His jaw clutched so tightly that a muscle twitched near his cheekbone. The sight of his wife, the woman he loved more than life itself, touching another man’s face in a private room felt like a physical blade thrust deep into his chest. Then, his instincts kicked in. Elias snapped out of his initial shock. He refused to give the media th

Rift

Darius was powerful, wealthy, and had openly shown interest in Thea in the past.And now, Elias had just watched his wife on a giant screen in front of five hundred people, gently wiping sweat from Darius’s face while Darius declared he would protect her. Hearing Thea defend Darius so passionately right now only added fuel to the fire burning in Elias’s chest. "He drank it to save me?" Elias asked, a bitter, cold laugh escaping his lips. "Darius Manchester... sacrificed himself for me?" "It’s the truth!" Thea pleaded, grabbing his suit lapels. "Elias, please look at him! He is going into medical shock! We need to get him to a hospital right now!" "Why do you care so much about his health right now, Thea?" Elias snapped, his cold composure finally breaking as his dark eyes locked onto hers with intense pain and suspicion. "Do you have any idea what just happened downstairs?!" Thea blinked, startled by the sharp anger in his voice. "What happened downstairs?" "There was a camer

spreading fire

The ride back to the Vane estate was suffocatingly quiet. Elias and Thea sat in the backseat of the dark armored SUV, separated by two feet of cold leather. Outside the tinted windows, the city lights blurred into long streaks of yellow and red, but neither of them looked out.Elias kept his hands clasped tightly on his lap, his jaw locked tight as he stared straight ahead at the driver's headrest.Thea turned her head to look at him, her chest rising and falling heavily. The silence was driving her crazy."Are you really not going to say a single word to me?" Thea asked, her voice cracking slightly under the quiet tension.Elias didn't turn his head. "There is nothing left to say tonight, Thea.""There is everything to say!" Thea shouted, turning her body toward him. "You treated me like a criminal in front of your security detail! You dragged me away like I committed a crime, when all I did was try to keep my drugged friend alive!""You were touching him!" Elias snapped, turning his

decisions

Meanwhile, as the first grey light of dawn began to creep over the horizon at five in the morning, Thea was already awake. She stood in the walk-in closet of the main bedroom, wearing a simple black sweater, dark jeans, and sneakers. Her eyes were red and swollen from crying, but her face was set in a determined line. She couldn't just sit in this house and wait for the world to fall apart. She knew Darius was still lying in that private clinic, poisoned by a drink meant for Elias. She needed to know if he would be okay. She grabbed her leather handbag, slipped out the quiet side entrance of the estate, and walked toward the security gate near the driveway. A young private driver was sitting inside one of the estate's secondary sedans, drinking coffee. Thea opened the passenger door. "Take me to the Vane Private Medical Clinic downtown. Right now." The driver looked surprised, checking his watch. "Mrs. Vane? Does Mr. Vane know you're leaving?" "Mr. Vane is busy," Thea said,

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