The Billionaire's Contract Wife のすべてのチャプター: チャプター 21 - チャプター 30

The cemetery fell silent.Sophia stared at Emily.The words she had just heard didn't make sense.William Carter ordered everything.Those words should have destroyed the last piece of trust she had in her father.But then Emily added:He was trying to save her.Sophia felt trapped between two impossible truths."Explain."Her voice was quiet.But everyone could hear the pain behind it.Emily looked down."I know how it sounds.""No."Sophia stepped closer."You don't understand."Her eyes filled with anger and confusion."For weeks, I've been hearing different versions of my own life."She pointed at Emily."My father is guilty."She looked at Alexander."Your family is guilty."She looked toward Victoria."You betrayed my mother."Her voice shook."Now you're telling me my father did something terrible but for a good reason?"Emily swallowed."I know.""Then explain."Emily took a deep breath."Twenty years ago, Isabella discovered someone was planning to take control of Blackwood I

The room became completely silent.Charles Blackwood's words echoed in everyone's minds."Your contract marriage was never an accident."Sophia stared at Alexander.Then at Charles."What are you talking about?"Charles smiled."You still don't understand."Alexander stepped forward."Explain."Charles looked amused."Your grandfather knew about Sophia before she knew about herself."Sophia's heart tightened."My grandfather?"Charles nodded."Yes."He walked slowly into the room."Twenty years ago, after Adrian died, your grandfather discovered Isabella's secret."Sophia listened carefully."He knew Adrian had a daughter."Charles looked at Alexander."And he knew that daughter would one day inherit everything."Alexander frowned."Why didn't he tell me?""Because he didn't trust anyone."Charles laughed softly."Not even his own family."---Sophia looked at the documents again.Everything was connected.The contract marriage.The inheritance.The family war.But one question remain

The night air became thick with tension.Sophia's heart pounded against her chest.She knew that voice.She had heard it countless times in her childhood.But it was impossible.The figure stepped closer, and the moonlight revealed his face.Sophia felt her knees weaken."Uncle Marcus?"The man smiled.It was the same smile she remembered from her childhood.Marcus Chen.Her mother's brother.The man who had supposedly died in a car accident twelve years ago."Hello, little one."His voice was warm.But his eyes were cold.Alexander immediately positioned himself in front of Sophia."Who are you?"Marcus looked at him with amusement."Relax, Mr. Black. I'm not here to hurt anyone."Sophia grabbed Alexander's arm."He's my uncle."Alexander didn't move."Your dead uncle?"Marcus laughed softly."Death is a convenient excuse when you need to disappear."Sophia's mind raced.First Elizabeth.Now Marcus.How many dead people were actually alive?"Why?"Her voice trembled."Why did you let

Sophia's body went rigid.That voice.It was low, familiar, and impossible.For one second, her mind refused to connect the sound to reality. Too much had already happened in one night. Elizabeth Black had returned from the dead. Hidden accounts had been uncovered. Adrian Blackwood's name had surfaced again.And now this.Alexander stepped slightly in front of her, his entire posture changing. Protective. Dangerous. His eyes narrowed into the darkness beyond the estate gates."Show yourself," he said coldly.The figure moved closer.The dim lights from the driveway finally touched his face.Sophia felt the air leave her lungs."No..."Her voice barely came out.The man standing before them looked worn, thinner than she remembered, with deeper lines across his face and shadows under his eyes. But there was no doubt.She knew him."Ethan?"Alexander turned slightly toward her. "You know him?"Sophia could not stop staring.Ethan Reed.Her mother's former assistant.The man who had disap

The city looked different after midnight.It was quieter, colder, emptied of its usual noise. Streetlights stretched across wet pavement in long bands of gold, and every shadow seemed deeper than it should have been.Sophia sat in the back seat of Alexander's car, her hands clasped tightly in her lap.Across from her, Elizabeth was silent.In the front seat, Daniel kept checking his phone every few seconds, updating security teams, tracking locations, and trying to force order into a night that had become chaos.Alexander drove.His expression had not changed since they left the estate.Cold.Focused.Unreadable.But Sophia had spent enough time around him now to recognize the truth beneath the surface.He was angry.Not the loud kind of anger.The dangerous kind.The kind that moved quietly and waited for the right place to strike.She looked out the window for a moment, then back at him."You should let Daniel drive."Alexander didn't take his eyes off the road. "I'm fine."Daniel g