All Chapters of REBORN TO BE A BILLIONAIRE: Chapter 61 - Chapter 70

ADRIAN'S POV“The previous injury was the complicating factor.” The doctor had said. I was a bit confused but I didn’t pursue further, I only waited for the doctor to continue.“Based on the imaging evidence the scan had produced,” the doctor continued. “The original TBI was sustained few years back, it had healed but not completely. There were regions of the brain that remained sensitive to pressure events and the collapse had been caused by a combination of acute emotional and physiological stress triggering a pressure response. But she was fortunate, if she had hit the pavement at a different angle, it would have been more disastrous.”"Will she be okay?" I had asked the doctor again with a fear that shouldn’t have been my concern.“Yes, she will. She just has to take her medications abd rest well for a few days, if she does that, she will recuperate better.”“I understand,” I had replied.But what I understood, sitting in that office with the scan images on the screen, was that Se

ADRIAN'S POVThe hospital gown shifted slightly when Selene reached for the folder I dropped on the bedside table.Then, I saw something around her collarbone. A mark that looked like a scar but I couldn’t visualize it well before she pulled her gown to quickly cover it up.I looked away and picked up my jacket from the arm of the chair."Miss Arden," I said. "I’m sorry, but I have to go.""Thank you, Mr. Laurent, I sincerely appreciate your kind gesture," she replied.I nodded and walked out of the private ward.***The Laurent family manor was located at the end of a private road at the elite area of the city. A deliberate insularity, maintained across generations by top class men and women who understood that proximity to wealth was not the same as belonging to it and that itself was a statement.I had grown up inside that statement without questioning it.Tonight, turning through the gate felt like I was driving into a courtroom. It felt so different.Celeste was in the anti-room

SELENE'S POVI spent two more nights in the hospital, Ava was with me all through, even when I told her I’m okay, she insisted.The morning the doctor discharged me, he still hammered it into my ears to make sure I rest more for the next one week. I promised him I’ll strictly adhere to his instructions, even when I know the truth is far from that.He gave me a handful of mediations with each prescription on it and I signed the discharge papers.Clara came with some new clothes to change to, she announced that the driver, Marcus was already outside the hospital entrance with the car to convey me home. I changed into the clothes Clara brought, a brown fitted trousers and a white blouse, in the ward rest room, my hair packed up in a bun. I stared at my reflection in the oval-shaped mirror attached to the wall. The popularly feared Selene Arden is back.Ava picked up her bag the moment I got out of the rest room, Clara carried the paper bag she had brought clothes in for me and we all

SELENE'S POVThe call ended on Leonard picking his estate ground as the meet up point.I wasn’t afraid, if anything, I was more confident.He didn’t let me die when I should have died in the ocean four years ago, he won’t make a hit on me now. He needs me alive, considerably more than I needed myself. I drove to his estate myself. I told Marcus to drop Ava at her apartment and I took the Bugatti Chiron. Ava had hesitated, insisting that Marcus should drive me while she gets a cab, but I assured her that I was okay and would be back safely.***Leonard's estate sat behind iron gates on the eastern edge of the city where old money had always preferred to exist.I had been here more times than I could count across four years. Had sat in Leonard's study, eaten at his table, walked the grounds in the early mornings when sleep refused to come and the weight of rebuilding felt heaviest. I had always entered through those gates with the particular ease of someone arriving at a place they bel

SELENE'S POVThe car stopped in front of Silla Exquisito. A luxury bar frequented by the high and mighty in the city and even the entire country at large.I had been here twice, both times with some foreign investors who demanded for more exclusivity.It’s a sort of bar that if you didn't already know it existed you would walk past it without noticing what the building was really for. They value confidentiality with great respect.The door opened on a sensor before I reached it. Inside, the noise level was precisely low enough for conversation, but high enough to make eavesdropping an effort. Dark wood and amber lighting hover above a long bar attended by two waiters who moved with the efficiency of professionals who understood their job so well without telling them. I noticed the four booths along the left wall with high backs that created the suggestion of privacy. A pianist at the far end was entertaining the audience with his melodious sound.The perfect kind of environment I n