All Chapters of The Wife They Rejected Was a Billionaire Heiress: Chapter 91 - Chapter 100

Vivian put on a worried face. "Paige, my brothers genuinely like Naomi. You don't need to go pick a fight with her on my account.""No, I'm doing this. Someone needs to stand up for you tonight."Paige squeezed Vivian's hand reassuringly and headed off toward Naomi.Vivian watched her go, something entertained flickering across her face."You're Naomi?"Paige arrived in front of her, chin lifted, sweeping a dismissive glance over her outfit. "You're seriously wearing that to Vivian's birthday party?"Naomi recognized her instantly for what she was Vivian's loyal best friend, here for a fight.She met Paige's stare, unbothered. "What exactly is wrong with what I'm wearing?"The question caught Paige off guard for a beat."Look around. Nobody else is dressed this plain." Paige's expression soured further. "This is genuinely disrespectful to Vivian.""You're in a pretty ordinary outfit yourself," Naomi said, mouth curving faintly. "Should I take that as disrespect too?"Paige, unused to

Without exception, every voice in the room was tilting in Ethan's favor. His mouth curved, confident he'd already won.With this much of a crowd behind him, there's no way Naomi holds out."I'm not going anywhere with you." Naomi's refusal didn't waver.Something in Ethan's expression faltered this was the first time he'd seen her dig in quite this hard."Naomi. Don't you still feel something for me and Julian?" Ethan reached for the emotional angle. "He misses you. He knows he was wrong. He shouldn't have said that thing about Chloe being his mother, right in front of you."He paused, something uneasy flickering across his face. "I shouldn't have proposed to her either. I didn't think about how that would land for you."Naomi said nothing, meeting his sudden remorse with a flat, unmoved stare.She didn't believe for a second this was genuine.This is just Ethan's version of pulling me back into servitude for that family."Ethan. Isn't this a little late for a wake-up call?" Naomi's l

"Don't mention it. Just doing our job. Lucky the blood got here in time," the doctor said. "Real thanks belongs to whoever donated it."Naomi nodded, agreeing completely.I owe that man something real.Given the string of medical incidents making headlines lately, every inpatient at Crestview General now had round-the-clock nursing supervision.Once Lily was settled, Naomi shut the door to her room and headed for the director's office.Knock knock.No answer.Naomi wasn't ready to give up. She turned and headed for the assistant director's office instead."Ms. N? What brings you here in person?" The assistant recognized her instantly, deferential. "The director's over in the pulmonary ward right now. I'll go get him.""No need, I'll find him myself." Naomi paused. "Do you happen to know who the director's with right now?""I do, he's got the same clearance you do, actually. Full access to the top floor of the biomaterials building."Something lit up in Naomi's eyes at that. "Do you kn

The nurses' voices faded down the hall, and Ethan felt the color drain straight out of his face.Only one little girl on this whole floor. That's Lily.She'd rather call in a total stranger than reach out to me her biological father?Something crushing settled on his chest, breath catching hard.No. I need answers. Right now.First Marcus Sinclair. Then Sebastian Cole. Now some random man off the street?Is she really moving on this fast?Ethan barreled back into the room without a second thought, eyes locked on Naomi. "Who's the man who donated blood for Lily? Your new boyfriend?"Meanwhile, at Cole Enterprises.Knock knock."Mr. Cole, these are the finalists from the design competition's first round. Take a look when you can."Owen set a thick stack of submissions on Sebastian's desk, respectful.Sebastian gave a short nod and flipped through casually.The competition had drawn entries from all over no restrictions on background or age. Over a hundred thousand submissions in the fir

Miles shoved the parchment into Sebastian's hand, thoroughly put out, arms crossed.But his eyes stayed locked on Sebastian's face, waiting to see how he'd react.Sebastian ran his fingers slowly over the fragment.Barely a third of it remained, the torn edges making it clear this was the lower portion of something larger.What caught his eye first was the corner of a building rendered in even, deliberate ink strokes, the linework impossibly smooth.Every brick, every stone, looked handcrafted with an almost obsessive precision the kind of detail that pulled the eye in and refused to let go.Thump. Thump. Thump.Sebastian's heart pounded harder by the second, something surreal settling over him holding, finally, the exact thing he'd spent years turning over in his mind.His fingers trembled slightly against the paper. He couldn't tear his eyes away."So? Feeling anything, big guy?" Miles caught the storm churning under Sebastian's calm exterior and couldn't resist the jab.Already cal