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Chapter 260

“Knows what?” Edward asked.“Enough.”Edward looked at her sharply.“She knew Kennedy’s companies,” Mrs. Vale continued. “She knew which contracts were his before they became ours. She knew he trusted you with the machinery agreements.”“She never saw the private accounts.”“You don’t know what she saw.”“I know what was kept from her.”“You thought she was dead. We both did. For twenty seven years, no one worried about what Amelia might remember because Amelia was not supposed to be alive.”Edward’s face darkened. “Lower your voice.”“There’s no one here except us. Our children have left because they think we helped steal that woman’s daughter, and now we discover the one person who might connect everything is alive.”“Amelia cannot prove I ordered Shannon’s disappearance because I didn’t.”“But she can prove everything that happened before it.” Mrs. Vale pointed towards Sean’s phone. “Once they prove the contracts, the bribes and the shell companies, why would anyone doubt the rest?

Chapter 261

Sean went still.Aria felt it. She pulled away enough to see his face. “And Shannon?” she asked again.Sean looked down. Yesterday, he would have answered without hesitation. Shannon would marry him, their child would be born, Aria would remain beside them, and together they would build the family none of them had been given. Tonight, Shannon had watched him leave.“I’ll protect her first,” he said finally. “I’ll ask her to forgive me after.”Aria’s expression crumpled. “You don’t think she’ll still marry you.”“I don’t know what she thinks.”“She loves you.”“She loved me when she trusted me too.”“She still does.”Sean rested his head briefly against the seat. “Love didn’t stop her first marriage from destroying her. I won’t ask her to ignore evidence because she loves me.”“So you’re just going to lose her?”“No.” The answer came with sudden force. Sean looked at his sister. “I’m going to return everything. I’m going to prove who took Shannon and who paid that man yesterday.”“And

Chapter 262

The phone continued ringing.“Boss, are you there?”Sean closed his eyes.The call ended.His thumb hovered over Shannon’s name.A second later, it began ringing again.Pain tightened across his face.He rejected the call.Ethan went silent on the other end.Sean opened their messages and typed several different responses. I’m sorry. He erased it. I love you. He erased that too. The words felt too small for what stood between them.Finally, he sent: Aria is safe. You should rest.At Miles Estate, Shannon watched the message appear. No endearment, no question about the baby, no promise that he would return. Only six words delivered with the distance of a stranger.Tears slid down her cheeks.Amelia moved towards her, but Shannon stepped back. “He doesn’t want to speak to me.”“He’s hurt.”“So am I.”“I know.”“I called him twice.”“And he spent years becoming a man who never lets anyone see him wounded. Give him a moment.”Shannon stared at the message. “He used to call me babe just to

Chapter 263

The next day, the first alert arrived less than an hour later. after breakfast.Kennedy’s head of security returned to the study carrying a laptop and a folder thick enough to make the room fall silent before he spoke. “We received an anonymous message.”Kennedy’s expression hardened. “From whom?”“We don’t know. It was routed through several encrypted servers.”Sean had made the same observation only hours earlier.A burner phone, a hidden face, and evidence appearing exactly when someone wanted it found.Kennedy remembered Amelia’s warning but held out his hand. “What did they send?”“Not evidence, directions.” The investigator placed the laptop on the desk. “The message listed archive numbers, dissolved companies and storage locations connected to Meridian Industrial Holdings. Whoever sent it knew where the records were buried.”“And you trusted an anonymous message?”“No. We used the information only to locate the archives. Everything in this folder was retrieved from independent

Chapter 264

Ethan recognised her voice. “Ms. Miles.”“What did Edward say?”Another pause followed.“I only know what Sean reported during our call.”“Tell me.”Ethan hesitated.“Please,” Shannon whispered.“He asked Edward whether he authorized payments through Meridian Industrial Holdings.”“And?”“Edward said yes.”Shannon’s hand moved instinctively over her stomach.Kennedy’s face hardened. “What else?”“Mrs. Vale said everything they did was for Sean and Aria. Edward said they did what they had to do because Kennedy would have destroyed them if they hadn’t moved first.”The room became painfully still.Without Edward’s confusion, without the corporate crimes he believed they were discussing, the words sounded like an admission to everything.Kennedy’s voice dropped. “Did Sean ask about the hospital?”“Yes.”“And the recent payment?”“Yes.”“What did Edward say?”“Sean told him Shannon was carrying his child and that their grandchild nearly died because of money traced to Meridian.” Ethan’s p

Chapter 265

Silence fell over the study.Shannon looked at her father, but Kennedy turned towards the windows. His shoulders remained rigid, his anger too old and too deep to surrender in a single night.Amelia drew Shannon into her arms again. “You are not going to lose everyone,” she murmured. “Not after we only just found one another.”Shannon clung to her, but her gaze dropped to the phone still held in her hand.Across the city, Sean stood in the private departure lounge of a small airfield while Ethan spoke to the pilot.Aria sat on one of the leather couches, staring at the passport in her lap. She had not cried again, but the redness around her eyes remained.Sean preferred the tears. Her silence reminded him too much of Shannon.“The aircraft can be ready within the hour,” Ethan said as he approached. “The security team will travel with her and remain at the residence until you tell them otherwise.”“I don’t need a security team,” Aria muttered.Sean looked at her. “You’re taking them.”

Chapter 266

Shannon covered her mouth as tears filled her eyes.Sean pressed a hand against his forehead. He had imagined this conversation a hundred times since leaving the estate. In every version, he had been calmer. He had explained what his father admitted, told her about the assets, and promised that none of Edward’s crimes would ever touch her again. Now that he could hear her, none of those words came easily.“Did your father really say those things?” she asked.“Yes.”“And the payments?”“He admitted authorizing Meridian.”Shannon’s hand returned to her stomach. “Then the evidence is true.”“Some of it is.”She went still. “What does that mean?”“It means my father destroyed Kennedy’s company. It means he bribed people and stole from a man who trusted him.” Sean looked through the glass windows at the aircraft waiting beyond them. “But I still don’t understand the recent payment. None of it fits the way it should.”“Dad says...”“I know what your father says. He froze every agreement bet

Chapter 267

Aria's hand trembled over the final signature, but she completed it before sliding the documents towards her brother.“There.” Her voice cracked. “Now they can’t pretend I chose them.”Sean looked at her signature.Once, Aria’s greatest concern had been convincing Kennedy to accept her relationship with Shannon, and teasing Sean whenever Shannon made him lose his composure. Now she was leaving the country after signing away the voting power attached to her inheritance because their parents had turned love into something that felt like war.He pulled her into his arms.Aria clung to him. “Bring my brother back.”Sean frowned against her hair. “I’m right here.”“No.” She pulled back, tears gathering in her eyes. “Bring back the man Shannon made you become. Don’t let them turn you into Dad.”His throat closed.Aria kissed his cheek before he could answer. Then she picked up her bag and walked towards the private exit with the security team.She did not look back until she reached the doo

Chapter 268

Edward’s gaze dropped to the documents Ethan had placed on the table.Mrs. Vale moved towards the papers. “What did you make her sign?”“No one made her do anything,” Sean said.Edward picked up the proxy and read the first page. His mouth hardened when he reached Aria’s signature. “She gave you control of her voting rights?”“She gave me permission to protect what belongs to her.”“By helping Kennedy destroy this company?”“By stopping you from destroying what remains of it.”Edward threw the document onto the table. “Her shares do not restore your authority.”“I know.”“Then this changes nothing.”“It changes enough.” Sean looked around the table. “Aria’s vote means you do not have the majority required to remove me permanently. My suspension may prevent me from accessing company accounts, but I remain chief executive until the board completes its investigation.”Several directors shifted uneasily.Edward noticed. “You think delaying the vote will save you?” he asked.“No. I think i

Chapter 269

The phone on the table began ringing.Mr. Voss glanced at the screen. “It’s Ethan.”Kennedy answered and placed the call on speaker.“Mr. Miles,” Ethan said. “I’m contacting you on Mr. Vale’s instructions. His independent audit team will provide your investigators with copies of all authenticated Meridian records currently in our possession.”Kennedy’s face hardened. “Why?”“Because they belong to you.”“And what does Sean expect in return?”“Nothing.”“No one gives away evidence capable of destroying his own company for nothing.”“Mr. Vale was offered the restoration of his authority today,” Ethan said. “All he had to do was publicly deny your allegations, support Vale Group’s retaliation and end his relationship with Miss Miles.”Shannon stopped breathing.“He refused,” Ethan continued. “The board upheld his suspension.”Kennedy said nothing.“He also instructed us to continue investigating the payment to Leon Mercer,” Ethan added. “Whatever you believe about him, he did not choose

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