REBORN TO LOVE MY FATHER-IN-LAW의 모든 챕터: 챕터 41 - 챕터 50

Scarlett’s POV In my previous life I had seen him as many things. Powerful. Cold. Strategic. The man who looked at everyone around him like they were pieces on a board he was three moves ahead of. I had feared him and I had used him and I had poisoned his whiskey and watched him die and spent the last moments of my own life understanding that the man I had destroyed had loved me for years in silence.But I had never held him like this.He was shaking. Not violently. Not in a way that anyone standing ten feet away would notice. But I was not ten feet away. I was pressed against his chest with my arms around him and I could feel every tremor, feel the way his body was fighting to contain something that was too large for any amount of control to fully hold, and it broke something open in me that I had been keeping shut since the morning I woke up in this second life.This man had loved his daughter enough to send her away. Had loved his pack enough to spend thirty years fighting a war h

Scarlett's POV"She has a twelve-hour head start," Dagger said. "Possibly more.""Find her," Dominic said.Dagger left. The study door closed.And the four of us who remained, Dominic, Luca, Cain and me, sat with the full weight of what Zara carrying Luca's phone toward Priest actually meant. None of us said it out loud. Because saying it would not make it better. And we had too much else to do.I want you to understand something about Zara at this moment.For two lifetimes I had known her as the woman who betrayed me. The woman who stood over me in chains and smiled. Who walked out of a burning building holding my husband's hand. Who spat on my face and called me a stray dog with a Gucci collar and laughed about it.But sitting in that study, I started to understand something different.Zara was not loyal to Priest. She was not loyal to Luca. She had never been loyal to any of them, not really. She had been loyal to herself and to her own survival and to the hope that one day someone

Scarlett's POV"I know where Lilith is."Luca did not move from the window."The coordinates," I said. "The priest said them out loud in the recording. I have them."He turned then.His face was still the face from the window, fist against the glass, forehead against the fist. He had pulled some of it back together when he turned around. Not all of it. Enough to function. The rest was still visible around the edges, bleeding through the cracks, and I had been looking at Luca Vance's face across two lifetimes. I knew exactly where to look."Tell Dominic," he said. The words came out flat and overcontrolled."I will," I said. "In a minute."He looked at me."Go outside," I said. "You need a minute before we walk back into that operation.""I do not need""Luca." I said his name the way you say a name when you need the person inside it to stop pretending. "Go outside."He went.Not because I told him to. Because the window was not enough anymore and the room was not enough anymore and he

Scarlett's POV"Your role is communications," Dominic said. "You coordinate from the pack hub and you do not move.""Understood," I said.He looked at me the way he looked at things he was not sure of. One extra second. Reading me in layers."I mean it, Scarlett.""I heard you."He held the look for one more beat. Then he turned back to the map on the table and the operation moved forward and I stood at the communication hub in the east wing with a headset and a radio and four screens showing live position feeds from the convoy.I told myself this was the right call. Because it was.The plan was clean.Luca would contact Priest through the intermediary channel and report that Zara's recording had been intercepted before reaching anyone in Dark Eclipse. Contained and neutralized. He would propose a face-to-face at neutral ground, a roadhouse forty minutes east that both organizations had used before for exchanges. Priest, believing Luca was still his, would attend or send a representat

Scarlett's POV"Back door," I said to Lilith. "Now."She moved. I moved with her, crossing the kitchen fast, and we hit the back door together and I pushed it open and we both stopped.Three Iron Veil bikes in the narrow gap between the house and the tree line. Engines running. Riders watching us with the patient stillness of men who had been told to wait and were very good at it.We stepped back inside. I closed the door."Front," Lilith said."Same," I said.She accepted this without panic and that single response told me everything I needed to know about Dominic's daughter. She looked around the kitchen with quick, practical eyes. "Windows?""Iron Veil on both sides of the tree line. I saw them on the approach." I looked at Mama Roux. The witch had not moved from her chair. She sat with her hands in her lap and her pale eyes fixed on the front door with the expression of someone watching a clock rather than a threat. "Is there another way out?""No," Mama Roux said."Are you afraid