Todos los capítulos de The Billionaire's Ex-wife Is a Brilliant Lawyer: Capítulo 161 - Capítulo 170

*Bella's POV* Alex did not send another message. I spent half the night beside Mum pretending I had not read it, while the phone lay face down on my lap like an accusation. At six in the morning, Clara called. “You sound awful,” she said. “Apparently everyone has agreed to greet me that way.” “Then perhaps everyone is right. How is your mum?” “Stable. They are reviewing the scan.” “And you?” “I am functioning.” “That was not the question.” I rubbed my eyes. “Alex knows I was pregnant.” Clara went quiet. Finally, she said. “How?” “I said it.” “You said it?” “Accidentally.” “How does someone accidentally reveal a pregnancy from five years ago?” “It was a complicated conversation.” “Bella.” “We found evidence that his father fabricated the accusations Alex believed about me. I told him he could have asked me, and then I said I could have told him I was pregnant.” “Oh.” “Yes.” “Did you tell him about the children?” “No.” “You didn’t tell him

*Bella's POV* By nine the next morning, Chloe had verified the invoice. It was genuine. Ashford Capital had paid the investigator who followed me five years ago, and Evelyn had been listed as the client contact. I sat at the hotel desk while Chloe read through the corporate registration records. “She was involved before the wedding,” Chloe said. “She was involved before Alex left me.” “That appears likely.” I hated the phrase because it sounded cautious enough for court and devastating enough for real life. “What can we prove?” “That Ashford Capital paid the investigator. We can prove the investigator produced photographs of you. We can prove those photographs ended up in Alex’s father’s archive.” “But we cannot prove Evelyn ordered the fabricated bank statements.” “Not yet.” I closed the file. “Then we keep digging.” Chloe hesitated. “What?” “Do you want to know why?” “I know why. Money, marriage, access to Banks Group.” “That explains the scheme. I

*Bella’s POV*By eight the next morning, I had read Evelyn's settlement proposal often enough to know where every carefully chosen phrase sat on the page.Chloe placed a second coffee beside my laptop. "You have not touched the first one.""Then this one can keep it company.""Bella."I looked up. "I am reading.""You are staring at the same paragraph you were staring at ten minutes ago."She was right, which made her irritating.The hidden attachment from Harding's archive was open on my screen behind the settlement offer. HART PREGNANCY CONFIRMED. Three words, dated two days before Alex ended our engagement, attached to an email whose body had been deleted from the archive."I need the original server record," I said. "Not a recovered copy, not a screenshot. I want the metadata and every recipient.""IT is working on it.""And Harding?""Still missing."I closed the laptop when someone knocked. Alex entered after Chloe opened the door, carrying a file instead of the questions I knew

*Bella's POV* Martin Cole chose a solicitor's office near Holborn for the meeting and insisted Alex remain outside the room. I agreed before Alex could object. "He is the person Cole helped deceive," Alex said in the corridor. "Which is precisely why you are not sitting across from him while I try to make him talk." "I can control myself." "You learned you have four children yesterday. I am not testing your emotional discipline for sport." His mouth closed. Chloe handed me the recorder. "Consent form is ready." Cole's solicitor, Miriam Shaw, opened the conference-room door. "My client is prepared to give a preliminary account. No formal statement until we discuss protection." "Protection from prosecution is not mine to grant," I said as we entered. "If he has committed a crime, he needs criminal counsel as well." Martin Cole looked older than the photographs in the records. His shirt collar was loose and his fingers kept rubbing the edge of a paper cup. "Mrs. Hart," he sai

Bella’s POV Alex did not speak during the first five minutes after we read the succession agreement. I understood why. The document tied a major Ashford investment to Alex marrying Evelyn within twelve months. It also provided that any spouse or child from a prior relationship could complicate voting control unless Alex signed a separate trust arrangement. The language was corporate, but the intention was not. His father had signed beneath it. "This does not prove your father knew Harding fabricated evidence," I said. Alex gave me a look that made it clear he did not appreciate the distinction. "It proves he benefited." "Benefit and knowledge are different questions." "He signed an agreement that depended on me marrying Evelyn." "Yes." "Three weeks before Harding convinced me you were cheating." "Yes." "You want me to believe that is a coincidence?" "I want you to stop asking me to believe anything. We prove things." He paced once, then stopped himself. "And how exactl