All Chapters of REBORN TO LOVE MY FATHER-IN-LAW: Chapter 141 - Chapter 150

Dagger's POVI did not think about Ellis often. And it was not because I had moved past it, whatever that meant. Twelve years ago, I learned that thinking about Ellis while functioning at the level my job required was impossible, and I chose the job. Not because it mattered more, but because the job gave me somewhere to put my hands that was not the absence where he used to be.He was a carpenter.He built a table that is still in my room because I could not leave it when I left the old place. An oak, a kind of tree that understood proportion. It is the only thing in my room that is not strictly functional and I have never been able to explain that to anyone's satisfaction, including my own.The rival Alpha's name was Gareth.He was making a territorial claim against our pack's eastern hunting ground. The dispute had been running for two years without resolution. Ellis went to a boundary mediation, which was the correct and proper thing to do, and Gareth's men decided that mediation

Scarlett's POV I stood in the empty room with Luca's phone in my hand and the bed made behind me and the wardrobe bare and all of Zara's careful, disciplined presence completely absent from the space she had occupied for months.She was gone.My phone buzzed.Dagger messaged me. One line.“The car at the external gate just left. Fast, south road. And Luca is not in the building.”I read it twice.They had both gone.That they went together was something I did not think, but both went in the same window. Luca to wherever the eastern boundary meeting had taken him, Zara to wherever Morrow's fer had pointed her.And between the two of them, they had left behind a room full of clean sheets, a phone with a damning message thread, a broken window in the records room corridor, and two professional men on, the floor who were not going to tell us anything useful.I went back downstairs.Dominic was in the corridor. He read my face."She is gone," I said. "Luca too. And she left his phone."I

Dominic's POV "Reed told me everything, he has been building the counter-case for eleven months. The physical records Morrow took tonight are originals. The legal record is digital, encrypted, and registered. Morrow has paper. We have the law."Luca said nothing for a moment.Then he said, "I went to the eastern boundary two nights ago.""I know, and yes, Rafe tracked you.""Someone sent me a message, and the content contained them telling me they had information about you that Scarlett did not have." He paused. "It was a test..to see if I would cross alone.""And you did?” I asked."And I did." He looked at his hands. "There was nobody there, just the marker and the dark plus me standing at the boundary feeling like an idiot." He was quiet. "I came back through the north gate because I did not want to come back through the gate I had left from."I sat with that."The message was sent to distract you," I emphasized. "To move you out of the building on the same night they were plannin

Scarlett POV “Leadership instability.”Morrow had given a statement with that phrase in the last line and it had already been quoted in two of the three outlets."He wrote the statement before the filing," I nodded. "The instability line was prepared. He was waiting for something to use.""The hall meeting," Dominic responded from behind me. He was standing at the window. "Luca's challenge, the video and the Elder session were all public record through the council's community board.""And the photograph too.” Reed added. "The one posted to the community board two mornings ago. That is publicly accessible and it is being cited in one of the outlets as evidence of the leadership instability claim."I straightened up.I went to the map on the desk. Dominic had it out already, the eastern territory spread across the surface with the boundary markers photographed and logged. I looked at the shape of it. The northern corridor, the ridge and the river access at the south end.And around it,

Scarlett's POV"They have been listening to everything," Dagger said, holding up the device, "since the night of the break-in."The study went silent.Dominic looked at the device in her hand. Then at the certified copy open on the desk in front of him…He closed the document case."How much did they hear?" Scarlett asked."Everything said in this room for the past three days," Dagger added. "The regional office conversation, plus the submission strategy, alongside the Collins positioning discussion." She set the device on the desk. "All of it.""Then they already know about the certified copy," Reed mentioned."Yes," Dominic nodded in agreement."Which means Morrow will file a challenge to the regional office copy before we can submit it," I paused. "He will claim the certification process was irregular or that the record has been tampered with. He will tie it up in procedural challenges until the window closes."Dominic looked at me."How long does he need to file a challenge?" I ask