Todos los capítulos de Reborn as the Ruthless Heir’s Contract Wife: Capítulo 101 - Capítulo 110

The next bullet was meant for Lucien.I threw myself across him.Caelan covered both of us as Mara returned fire from the clinic entrance. The assassin disappeared behind the rooftop wall.“Move!” Caelan shouted.The medical team lifted Lucien onto a stretcher and rushed him through the rear entrance. I kept one hand against his chest, continuing compressions while we moved.His face had lost all color.The doctor attached portable pads beneath his shirt.“Clear.”The shock moved through him.Nothing.“Again.”The second shock brought a weak rhythm onto the monitor.Lucien dragged in a broken breath.The doctor pushed the stretcher into an emergency treatment room.Caelan tried to follow, but the doors closed.I stood in the corridor with soot across my clothes and Lucien’s blood on my hands.The sight of it carried me back to another life.I had once begged this man to believe I was innocent.He had watched me lose my home, my company, and my name.When I needed him to save me, he ch

The six accounts contained more money than Mercer Holdings had lost in fifteen years.Some funds came from legitimate businesses. Most moved through charities, medical companies, political foundations, and private trusts.All six listed Selene as an owner.Not a beneficiary.Not an employee.The owner.“That’s impossible,” she said.Ronan enlarged the creation dates.The Mercer account was opened when Selene was eleven.The Vale account followed two months later.The Arden account was created before she met Lucien.The Crown account carried her fingerprints, voice authorization, and signature.“I never signed any of this.”“You signed medical forms after Amelia disappeared,” Gideon said through the secure video connection. “I handled the documents.”Selene turned toward the screen.“What kind of medical forms?”“Guardianship evaluations. School records. Insurance.”“Did you read them?”“Yes.”“Every page?”Gideon hesitated.“No.”The warning with his name circled in red remained insid

Selene did not speak for nearly an hour.The woman who argued through every accusation had nothing to say after hearing her mother approve her death.A doctor examined her and confirmed that the hospital transfer had left traces of an induction drug in her bloodstream. It had not yet triggered labor, but another dose could.Crowne planned to control when the child was born.Then they planned to control when Selene died.“We move tonight,” Mara said. “The Lake Arden house is secure.”“No electronic medical equipment,” the doctor warned. “If her condition changes, she needs immediate treatment.”“Portable equipment only,” Ronan replied. “No network connection.”Selene looked toward me.“You still plan to take me to the laboratory.”“Yes.”“Why protect me if Crowne needs me alive until delivery?”“Because their definition of alive may include strapping you beneath another machine.”She flinched.Lucien watched from his bed.“Take me too.”“No,” I said.“I know the account system.”“Ronan

Octavian’s voice came from every speaker.“Good evening, Elara.”Ronan tore open the clinic’s network cabinet.“This system is isolated.”“So was the bridge,” Octavian replied. “Isolation is a comforting lie.”Caelan moved toward the treatment room and positioned himself between Selene and the locked door.“What do you want?” I asked.“You know.”“M-Origin.”“Before midnight.”“You have Julian.”“I have many things.”“Where is Amelia?”A quiet laugh answered.“Ask her yourself.”The clinic screens activated.For one second, Amelia’s face appeared.Then the image changed to Gideon sitting inside his locked study.My father was alive, but a red target rested over his chest.A rifle scope.Someone watched him through a window.“Move Gideon now,” I told Mara.She contacted Mercer House.The guards rushed into the study and pulled Gideon behind the desk.A bullet shattered the window seconds later.Crowne wanted us running in several directions at once.Lucien.Selene.Gideon.Julian.Amel

Octavian agreed to speak only if we brought Victor Halden.“Then he can remain silent,” Caelan said.We stood inside the armored convoy outside the original Mercer factory. Ronan’s team searched for an entrance, but every door beneath the eastern wing required Mercer blood and a seven-part code.Halden had given us six parts.Octavian held the seventh.The countdown from Selene’s phone continued.One hour and forty-three minutes remained.“We use Halden as leverage,” I said.“We do not hand him over.”“I didn’t say we would.”Caelan looked at me.“You want Octavian to believe we might.”“Yes.”Halden was brought into the command vehicle under guard. His execution order remained visible on the screen before him.“If Octavian wanted you alive,” I said, “he would not have authorized this.”“He will not trade the laboratory for me.”“Then tell us the seventh code.”“I don’t know it.”“You helped design the security.”“Alaric kept one sequence for himself.”“Octavian knows it.”Halden said