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REBORN AND BECOME A BILLIONAIRE'S WIFE Chapter Eighty-Nine:
Aurora’s POV“What place?”I ask it too quickly. Eleanor Vale looks at me like she’s deciding whether the truth is a kindness or one more injury tonight. I don’t have patience for that.“Eleanor.” She exhales once.“Marian believed Elena split the code the way she split everything else. One part on your side. One part in Nadia’s life. The bracelet points to the second location.”Nadia takes one step closer. “Where?”Eleanor’s eyes move to the locket still hanging loose in Nadia’s hand. Then to me, then back again. “The cemetery.” No one speaks for a second. The room seems to shrink around the word. Cemetery, Of course. Of course Elena would leave part of it with the dead. Of course Marian would help her. Of course every woman in this story keeps asking daughters to dig through grief for instructions. “Which grave?” I ask.Eleanor says, “Not Elena’s.” That lands harder than I expect. “Then whose?”“Marian’s husband.”Nadia goes still. “I never met him.” “No,” Eleanor says. “But Marian
REBORN AND BECOME A BILLIONAIRE'S WIFE Chapter Eighty-Eight:
Sebastian’s POV“Down.”The word leaves my mouth the second the lights die. Glass rattles somewhere in the front hall. A frame falls. Eleanor lets out one sharp breath, not quite a scream. Then everything goes black and quiet in the wrong way. Not power-cut quiet, but occupied quiet.I pull my phone out and switch on the flashlight. White light cuts a narrow line through the dark.Aurora is already moving. Of course she is. She reaches Nadia first and pulls her away from the window. Good. Megan is pressed against the wall near the mantel. Arthur is still in his chair, one hand on his cane, looking annoyed more than frightened. Also good. Eleanor is halfway to her desk.“Stay away from the windows,” I say. Another crash, closer this time, in the front hall. Someone is inside.Aurora looks at me. No panic. Just one sharp nod. “I’ll check the hall,” I say. “No,” she says immediately. “We do it together.” Not the time to argue. I nod once. We move.Nadia says, “I’m not staying here.” “Yes
REBORN AND BECOME A BILLIONAIRE'S WIFE Chapter Eighty-Seven:
Aurora’s POV“What does that mean?”I hear the question come out of my mouth, but I already know why no one answers right away. Because the room knows exactly what it means.The key was left to me; the code phrase was left to Nadia. My mother split the truth the same way she split us: neat, cruel, and practical. Still choosing strategy over softness even from the grave.Clara looks at me. Then Nadia. “It means Elena did not trust either of you alone.” That lands harder than it should. Because some part of me still wants my mother to have loved us in a way that looked simple; she didn’t.She loved us like a woman under siege. Like someone who knew what men with money and family names do when they feel their inheritance slipping.Sebastian says, “What exactly is the code phrase?”Clara shakes her head. “Marian never told me.”Nadia’s fingers tighten around the locket. “My grandmother knew.” “Yes.” “And she told no one.” “Also yes.” Good. Another dead woman with a secret and a timetable.
REBORN AND BECOME A BILLIONAIRE'S WIFE Chapter Eighty-Six:
Sebastian’s POV“Don’t open that door.” I say it before the third knock lands; no one argues. Good.Aurora is already holding the affidavit tighter. Nadia still has the locket in one hand and the note in the other. Arthur hasn’t moved from the chair. Megan is nearest the window, trying to see the street without being seen from it.Eleanor Vale stands by the hall table with her chin lifted, the way old women do when they’ve already lived through enough to stop performing fear for anyone else. The knock comes again.Then a woman’s voice. “Eleanor, if you hand the wrong paper to the wrong people, Marian dies for the second time.”That gets a reaction, not from Eleanor, but from Nadia. I see it in the way her whole body goes still. Junebug was one thing. That name, that memory-this is another. “Do you know the voice?” I ask without looking away from the door.“No,” Nadia says. “But she knows too much.” Fair. Too much is becoming a pattern.Aurora steps toward the door. I catch her elbow.
REBORN AND BECOME A BILLIONAIRE'S WIFE Chapter Eighty-Five:
Nadia’s POV“What did you give her?”I hear my own voice before I feel it. Eleanor Vale does not look away. “Not what she came for,” she says. That is not enough. I step closer. “Then what did you give her?”The old woman folds her hands once on top of the desk, like she is deciding how much of me she can stand to look at before the truth does the rest.“A decoy packet,” she says. “Blank legal pages in an old envelope. Enough weight to feel important. Nothing inside that could hurt you.” The air in the room changes. Aurora lets out one breath. Sebastian does not move at all. Good. Let him stay still. One of us should. “How did you know it wasn’t me?” I ask.Eleanor studies my face. “Because I asked her what Marian used to call you when you were sick.” I stop, not because I don’t remember, because I do. So clearly it hurts."Junebug," I say.Eleanor nods. “She said Nadia.” That lands somewhere ugly and soft at the same time. My grandmother knew someone might come using my name. She lef
REBORN AND BECOME A BILLIONAIRE'S WIFE Chapter Eighty-Four:
Sebastian’s POV“Take the river road," Megan says it from the back seat so fast it sounds like the thought was waiting on her tongue. “If Vincent thinks we’re going to Vale, he’ll send people to the main route first.” I don’t waste time asking how she knows that. I take the next left hard enough to throw all of us slightly sideways. Good. Let the car complain. We don’t have time to drive politely.Aurora has Adrian’s will open in her lap again. Nadia is reading the hidden note for what must be the tenth time, like the words might shift if she stares long enough. Find Eleanor Vale before nine. Nine is getting too close.Arthur sits in the back beside Nadia, one hand on his cane, breathing steadily but slower than before. He’s older now than he was an hour ago. Or maybe he just looks that way because no one in the car is pretending around him anymore. “Address,” I say.Arthur answers immediately. “Bellcombe Row. End house. Blue door. She’s lived there twenty years.” “Why there?” Aurora
REBORN AND BECOME A BILLIONAIRE'S WIFE Chapter Fifty-Four:
Sebastian’s POV“Open it!” Aurora’s voice cuts through the smoke just as I hit the keycard against the reader: Red, again, Red.Behind me, paper catches fast. Too fast. The heat shifts across the room in waves, and Vane is still smiling like a man who thinks fire makes him powerful. “Wrong card?” N
REBORN AND BECOME A BILLIONAIRE'S WIFE Chapter Fifty-Three:
Aurora’s POV“Give me the file.”Vane smiles. Not because he finds me amusing. Because he thinks he has all the time in the world. “No.” The shredder keeps running behind him. That sound is going to stay in my head long after tonight. I take one more step.He lifts the brown folder slightly. Just e
REBORN AND BECOME A BILLIONAIRE'S WIFE Chapter Fifty-One:
Sebastian’s POV“What else did they do to her?” My voice comes out harder than I intend.Victoria looks at me, then at Nadia, then back at the page in Aurora’s hand. “Do not ask questions you are not ready to hear the answer to,” she says. I take one step toward her. “That stopped being an option t
REBORN AND BECOME A BILLIONAIRE'S WIFE Chapter Fifty:
Aurora's POV"She won't be at the house."Megan answers on the second ring. No greeting. No surprise. Just that flat, tired voice of someone who stopped pretending hours ago."Where is she?" I ask."The storage unit on Alcott Street. Unit 9. She keeps a locker there under a name that isn't hers." I
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