Semua Bab The Billionaire's Forgotten Bride : Bab 51 - Bab 57

Chapter 52The ruins of St. Jude’s Cathedral loomed in the stormy darkness like the rotting ribcage of a leviathan.The roof had collapsed in the fire three years ago, leaving the massive stone walls open to the pouring rain. The stained glass windows were shattered, and the pews were nothing more than charred, blackened timber.Three black SUVs rolled to a silent halt a quarter-mile down the muddy access road, their headlights killed.Ethan stepped out into the freezing rain. He reached into the trunk, pulling out a matte-black suppressed handgun, racking the slide with a terrifyingly calm precision.Zara stepped out behind him. She had taken one of the spare tactical vests from the SUV and strapped it over her silk blouse. Her dark eyes were devoid of fear. There was only the cold, mechanical focus of a mother going to war."You stay behind me," Ethan ordered softly, his arm automatically moving to shield her."I am standing beside you," Zara countered, stepping up to his shoulder.

Chapter 54Two Weeks Later.The sun was shining brightly over the sprawling grounds of the Frost Estate. The shattered gates had been replaced, the bullet holes in the foyer plastered and painted, and the heavy security presence had been reduced to a discreet, invisible perimeter.The corporate war was officially over. Arthur Sterling and Victor Vance were both denied bail, sitting in maximum-security federal holding cells awaiting trial for conspiracy, attempted murder, and corporate espionage. Chloe Sterling’s "pregnancy" had been outed as a complete fabrication by her own terrified doctor, destroying whatever shred of public sympathy she had left.Cole Enterprises had been fully absorbed into Frost Industries, creating a tech monolith that terrified the global market. Zara Frost was unequivocally the most powerful woman on the West Coast.But as she sat in her home office, staring at a stack of merger documents, her mind was entirely somewhere else. A soft knock on the open door

Chapter 56The rain lashed against the floor-to-ceiling windows of Ethan Cole’s penthouse office, blurring the neon skyline into streaks of weeping color. But inside, the air was dead and suffocating.Ethan sat frozen behind his massive mahogany desk, his knuckles turning white as he gripped the edges of an open manila folder.Jax, the underground private investigator Ethan had kept off the official company payroll, shifted uncomfortably on his feet.Jax had hunted down corporate spies and fleeing embezzlers without breaking a sweat, but looking at the expression on his billionaire employer’s face right now, the man looked terrified."I pulled everything I could from her time in London, Mr. Cole," Jax said, his voice cautious. "Zara Frost didn’t just rebuild her grandfather’s empire. She spent the first year completely off the grid. Medical records were sealed tightly, but I managed to trace a hospital admission in Surrey."Ethan didn't hear a word Jax was saying. The roaring in his e