Todos los capítulos de Dear Billionaire Ex-husband, I Moved On : Capítulo 131 - Capítulo 140

KARENI barely slept, even inside the safe house. Every time I closed my eyes, I saw the woman in black standing across the ballroom, smiling without smiling. Before the sun had fully risen, I was already sitting at the dining table with my laptop open scrolling through pages of property records. My mind refused to rest. If Erin Hale had been planning this for years, then somewhere in those documents was another answer waiting to be found.I didn't hear Jason walk up to me until I felt his hand gently touch my shoulder."You've been up for a while, haven't you?" he asked.I looked up and smiled tiredly."I couldn't sleep."He pulled out the chair beside me."You promised me you'd rest,” he said. "You broke that promise.""I know."He sighed, but there was no anger in his face. He simply looked worried. Then his eyes fell on my screen."What did you find?"I turned the laptop toward him."The Cambridge property."Jason leaned closer, rubbing the sleep from his eyes."What about it?""I

KARENThursday arrived much faster than I wanted. The last two days had disappeared into endless meetings with lawyers, licensing board preparations, and quiet FBI briefings that nobody outside a small circle even knew about. Every conversation felt like another piece of a puzzle that still refused to come together. By the time Thursday morning came, I was physically exhausted, but my mind was sharper than ever. Today, one way or another, Erin Hale would finally sit across from me.I was fastening my earrings when Sophie wandered into the bedroom, still wearing her little pajamas and holding Mr. Bear under one arm. She looked up at me for a long moment without saying anything. Children noticed things adults often missed, and I could tell from her face that she already knew something was wrong."Mommy?""Yes, sweetheart?""Is something wrong?" she asked innocently. “You look like you’re scared.”I knelt beside her and smiled."A little."She reached up and touched my cheek with her tin

KAREN.The moment Jane's call dropped, I knew something had gone terribly wrong. I did not stop to think about it, and I did not wait for the elevator, because the second I read those words, fear shot through me so fast that my whole body moved before my mind could catch up. I shoved my phone into my pocket and rushed toward the stairwell, with Gerald and Agent Webb right behind me while Webb spoke quickly into his radio, giving orders that I could not fully understand. Every step felt harder than the last, my breathing grew heavier, and the babies pressed painfully against my ribs, but I refused to slow down because something inside me kept screaming that this was bigger than another security breach.“Lock down every entrance and exit,” Webb said into his radio. “Nobody leaves that floor without my clearance. I want every camera checked and every access point secured immediately.”I gripped the railing as I climbed, forcing myself to keep moving even when my legs began to shake. The

KARENI remained frozen where I stood, Richard’s words still echoing inside my head as Eleanor stood only a few feet away from me. For several long seconds, everything around me seemed to disappear until there was nothing left but her face and the terrible question growing inside my mind. She looked genuinely confused by the expression on my face, and there was no sign that she knew her name had just been connected to the investigation that had consumed nearly two years of my life. I slowly lowered my phone from my ear, ending the call without saying another word because I needed to look at Eleanor myself before I allowed Richard’s accusation to become the truth.“Karen?” Eleanor asked softly. “Are you all right?”I studied her carefully, looking for anything that might reveal a lie. Her posture was calm, her face showed real concern, and there was something warm and familiar in her eyes that had always made me feel safe around her. Nothing about the woman standing before me looked li

KARENThe federal response was faster than I expected. Within hours of Gerald’s discovery and Marcus’s full confession, Thomas Reef’s cooperation agreement was formally suspended, and prosecutors reopened every part of his case. What had once been praised as one of the government’s strongest examples of successful cooperation suddenly became the center of a new criminal investigation, with fresh warrants approved and new charges prepared against the man we had once called a witness. For the first time, investigators stopped looking at Reef as someone who had helped them and started looking at him as the person who had quietly controlled everything from behind the scenes.Agent Webb called me that afternoon, and there was something different in her voice when she spoke. She sounded satisfied, not because the case was over, but because the final missing piece had finally been found. Reef had been transferred to a high-security federal facility under constant supervision while prosecutor