Lahat ng Kabanata ng The Billionaire's Secret Heirs: Divorcing the Man Who Betray: Kabanata 61 - Kabanata 70

The exit on the second floor seemed to be locked.Jiang Wan shoved and shoved, but the door wouldn't budge.He cursed under his breath and kicked it hard in frustration.He gave up on that route and, instead of climbing to the third floor, peered down through the gaps in the stairwell railing.Claire and Jonathan immediately pressed themselves flat against the wall, staying out of sight.Fortunately, they'd been moving quietly enough that Jiang Wan hadn't yet noticed he'd been followed.His phone buzzed. He answered, voice low and hard. "You're saying someone's actually digging into what happened back then?""Who? Do you have a name yet?"Claire couldn't hear the other end, obviously.But she caught Jiang Wan's fury clearly enough."What good are you to me?""If you can't even handle something this simple, then once I'm completely ruined, let's see how any of you make a living after that!""Fine, so I rigged the match a little. So what?""Is she really that clean, start to finish?"Ji

"What?!" Grandma Wade nearly dropped the phone, stunned.Her hands trembled visibly, worrying Mrs. Parker beside her even further."Ma'am, please, take it easy."Grandma Wade waved her off, urging Mrs. Parker out too.Mrs. Parker left, reluctant, glancing back once.Watching her exit, Richard felt an alarm bell go off internally.Mrs. Parker is Mom's most trusted confidante. She hears everything I'm not privy to. So why is she being dismissed this time?What kind of call requires this level of caution?Inside the room, Grandma Wade snarled into the phone. "How exactly did you handle this on your end?""I didn't just help you win. I gave you money on top of it. Told you to bury this deep and never speak of it and yet here you are, exposed.""Jiang Wan, I'm warning you. If you drag me into this, I will not let it go quietly."Jiang Wan clearly remembered stories about the fire this old woman still carried, despite her age. He didn't dare push too hard."Ma'am, I'm not at fault here. How

Completely unaware that the secret she'd worked so hard to protect had just cracked wide open, Claire sat across from Zoe really, truly facing each other for the first time.The first genuine, unguarded conversation the two of them had shared since the whole truth came out.Claire broke the silence first. "Thank you. For earlier."She was still surprised Zoe had stepped in for her like that."It was nothing," Zoe said. "Honestly, looks like you'd have handled it fine without me anyway."The comment was a quiet nod to the hotel staff's obvious deference to Claire something Claire couldn't explain, so she just smiled and let it pass.Your whole attitude toward me caught me off guard,Claire thought. I expected hatred.But out of the entire Bennett family, Zoe was the only one who genuinely didn't seem to harbor any real hostility.Zoe lifted her coffee, composed, elegant every inch the product of a genuinely privileged upbringing. The Bennetts had clearly raised her well; she moved throu

Before Claire could react, Jonathan had already carried her down the stairs."Keep Cynthia calm," he called back to Butler Chu and Amy without breaking stride, and left.They snapped into action immediately, coaxing Cynthia."Miss, behave now, and Miss Bennett won't have to leave.""Please, no more of that, or she'll go home."Cynthia, still visibly shaken by her own actions, blinked. "Did I push Sister Claire?"Amy glanced at Butler Chu, unsure how to respond. He answered smoothly instead."Yes.""But you didn't mean to.""You're just stronger than you realize. You only wanted to hold her hand, and it came out too forcefully.""You should apologize to her in person tonight. She'll understand."Cynthia's eyes reddened, and she dropped her head, obedient, no fight left in her. "Okay."Amy was genuinely surprised. "She doesn't seem jealous, watching Mr. Reid carry Miss Bennett like that.""That is a bit unexpected," Butler Chu admitted.Claire was carried to a guest suite larger than he

Pete continued, "Jessica called the police, so Richard's been taken in.""As for Diane she's still in the ICU."Claire, naturally, was stunned. "What?""You're saying Richard stabbed Diane, put her in the hospital?""And now that he's been taken into custody, we don't even know what's happening with her?"For a moment, Claire's brain simply refused to process it.Even with everything already unraveling in this family, this crossed into something else entirely."Yes," Pete said. "Confirmed.""I asked Jasmine, she called around to her contacts, and they confirmed it happened.""Did Jasmine get any real details?" Claire asked."Staff have all been ordered to stay silent," Pete said. "No word gets out. Jasmine didn't get anything solid either."Claire's curiosity spiked hard.She'd originally had Pete investigating whether Richard had an illegitimate child somewhere.Before he'd even confirmed anything on that front, Diane had blindsided everyone by torching the attic.And now this. Vanis