All Chapters of My Husband Regretted Divorcing Me: Chapter 51 - Chapter 60

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Chapter 52: The Man Who Vanished Twice

The conference room erupted into questions."What do you mean he disappeared?" Sarah demanded.Detective Morales rubbed his forehead."He left the hospital.""That's impossible," Lena said."The entire floor was under police protection.""It should have been impossible."The detective's expression suggested he was as frustrated as everyone else."But somehow it happened."Sebastian remained silent.His mind kept returning to the photograph.Claire Bennett.The note.The promise.I never abandoned him.Then Elias disappeared.Again.Nothing about the timing felt accidental."Show me everything," Sebastian said.Morales nodded."Let's go."An hour later, they were back at Phoenix Memorial Hospital.The atmosphere felt completely different from the day before.More security.More police.More tension.Reporters crowded outside the entrances, sensing a major development.Inside, administrators looked terrified.The disappearance of a protected patient was exactly the kind of scandal hospi

Chapter 53: The Child They Stole

Sebastian remained motionless long after the call ended.The hospital corridor suddenly felt too small.Too quiet.Too ordinary for a conversation that had just turned his entire world upside down.Ask Nathaniel why he stole the baby.The words echoed through his mind.Again.And again.And again.A child.Not money.Not company shares.Not Hartwell.A child.For weeks, they had been chasing financial records and missing founders.Now it seemed the real secret had flesh and blood.A human life."Sebastian?"Lena's voice broke through his thoughts.He looked up.She immediately knew something was wrong."What happened?"He handed her the phone."That was Elias."Her eyes widened."What?"The others quickly gathered around.Morales looked stunned."He's alive?""Very much alive."Sebastian repeated every word of the conversation.Nobody interrupted.Nobody moved.The further he got, the more disturbed everyone became.Then he reached the final sentence.The baby.Silence followed.A lon

Chapter 54: The Missing Twin

Nobody spoke.The words remained on the screen.One child removed.Three words.Three ordinary words.Yet they carried the weight of nearly three decades of lies.Sebastian stared at the hospital record.The document suddenly felt heavier than every financial report, trust fund, and hidden contract they had uncovered.Because this wasn't about business.This wasn't about Hartwell.This was about family.About identity.About a child who had disappeared before they were old enough to know they existed.Sarah broke the silence first."We need to verify this."Her voice sounded unsteady.Nobody blamed her.The document changed everything.Harrison nodded."Agreed."He looked closer at the file."The record is incomplete.""So are most of the records connected to this case," Lena replied."That doesn't make them wrong."Nobody could argue with that.Sebastian walked toward the window.The lights of Phoenix shimmered in the darkness below.His reflection stared back at him.For the first t

Chapter 55: Waiting in Tucson

The room fell silent.Tucson.The city seemed to appear in every answer they uncovered.Every trail.Every secret.Every missing piece.Now Rebecca herself had resurfaced there.Or at least someone wanted them to believe she had.Sebastian stared at Detective Morales."Are you sure?"The detective nodded."The email originated from Tucson."Sarah immediately shook her head."That doesn't prove Rebecca sent it.""True."Morales folded his arms."But it proves whoever sent it wanted us to look in Tucson."Nobody liked that.Because it meant one of two things.Either Rebecca was finally revealing herself.Or someone was setting a trap.The following morning, the group left Phoenix before sunrise.The desert stretched endlessly around them as they headed south.Lena watched the landscape pass by through the passenger window.Golden light slowly crept across the horizon.The sky shifted from deep purple to orange.Beautiful.Peaceful.Completely at odds with the tension inside the vehicle.

Chapter 56: The Truth Rebecca Carried

For a moment, nobody moved.Rebecca's words hung in the warm Tucson air.Monica found him.The statement struck Sebastian like a physical blow.All this time, they had been racing to find Elias Mercer.Now they were standing in front of the one person who seemed to know the entire story.And she was telling them they were running out of time.Again.Rebecca glanced nervously toward the street.The movement didn't go unnoticed.Lena followed her gaze."What are you looking for?"Rebecca's expression tightened."Not what."A pause."Who?"Detective Morales immediately became alert."Are we being watched?"Rebecca laughed softly.Not because it was funny.Because the answer was obvious."We've all been watched for years."The comment silenced everyone.Even Morales.Because deep down, they all suspected it was true.Rebecca stepped aside."Come inside."The house was surprisingly modest.Bookshelves lined nearly every wall.Family photographs occupied small tables and shelves.Plants sat

Chapter 57: The Attack

The first gunshot shattered more than the window.It shattered the illusion that they still had time.Glass exploded across the living room.Rebecca dropped to the floor instinctively.Lena followed a split second later.Sarah screamed.Harrison pulled her down behind the dining table.Detective Morales drew his weapon and moved toward the wall beside the broken window."Everybody stay down!"Another shot blasted through the house.The bullet buried itself in a bookshelf.Books tumbled to the floor.Wood splintered.Rebecca's face had gone pale."How did they find us?"Nobody answered.Because nobody knew.And at that moment, it didn't matter.The only thing that mattered was surviving.Sebastian crawled toward Rebecca."Are you hurt?"She shook her head."No."A third shot struck the front door.Then silence.An eerie, terrifying silence.Morales carefully peered through the shattered window.His expression hardened."Vehicle.""What vehicle?" Lena asked."Black SUV."Rebecca closed

Chapter 58: The Name in the Letter

Nobody spoke.The grandfather clock on Rebecca's mantel ticked softly in the silence.Tick.Tick.Tick.Each second seemed louder than the last.Sebastian stared at the letter.His hands had become strangely cold.Across from him, Lena watched carefully.She had seen him handle boardroom crises worth millions.She had watched him navigate lawsuits, hostile takeovers, and public scandals.She had never seen him look like this.Like a man standing on the edge of a cliff.Afraid to look down.Rebecca slowly sat beside the fireplace.Her face looked pale.As though she already knew what came next.Perhaps she did.The letter had been in her possession for years.Maybe decades.And yet she'd never opened it.The envelope had been addressed to Sebastian.Only Sebastian.Morales finally broke the silence."Finish reading it."Sebastian nodded.Slowly.Then lowered his eyes back to the page.The handwriting belonged unmistakably to Elias Mercer.Firm.Precise.Confident.The handwriting of a

Chapter 59: Father and Children

Nobody spoke for several seconds.The words seemed impossible to process.He's asking to see both of his children.Rebecca sat frozen.Sebastian couldn't move.The letter still rested on the table between them.The proof.The confession.The truth.For twenty-nine years, they had lived separate lives.Now, in a single evening, they had discovered they shared the same father.And that father was alive.Waiting.Asking for them.Rebecca slowly shook her head."No."Her voice broke."No, no, no..."Tears streamed down her face.Years of unanswered questions were colliding at once.Who she was.Why she'd been hidden.Why she'd spent decades feeling as though part of her life never quite fit.Sebastian understood exactly how she felt.Because he felt it too.Morales glanced at his watch."We need to move."The reminder snapped everyone back to reality.Elias was alive.For now.And Monica was with him.For now.Neither condition felt guaranteed to last.The drive to the warehouse felt endl

Chapter 60: Monica's Confession

The warehouse fell into complete silence.No one moved.No one spoke.The name seemed to echo through the building.Victor Sketer.Rebecca stared at Elias.Sebastian stared at Monica.And Monica stared at the floor.For the first time since they had met her, she looked vulnerable.Not cunning.Not confident.Not dangerous.Just tired.Very tired.As though she had spent years carrying a burden she no longer had the strength to hold.Elias sat heavily in his chair.The revelation had drained him.Detective Morales broke the silence."You're saying Victor Sketer ordered Claire Bennett's murder?"Elias nodded slowly."Yes."The detective exchanged a look with the officers nearby.It was an extraordinary accusation.One that would require evidence.One that could rewrite decades of history.Monica finally spoke.Her voice sounded strangely calm."He did."Every head turned toward her.Sarah blinked."What?"Monica looked up.Tears glistened in her eyes."My father ordered it."The room fr

Chapter 61: Before Morning

The words followed them all the way back to the hotel.Assuming we survive the night.Nobody laughed.Nobody dismissed the remark as paranoia.Not after everything that had happened.Not after the shootings.Not after Claire Bennett's murder.Not after discovering that powerful people had spent nearly three decades burying the truth.If anything, Elias sounded realistic.That frightened everyone more than they cared to admit.The hotel occupied the upper floors of a modern building in downtown Tucson.Detective Morales had arranged additional security.Two officers guarded the lobby.More occupied the parking garage.Another team monitored the elevators.It seemed excessive.Until Lena remembered that someone had fired into Rebecca's home less than twelve hours earlier.Then it seemed barely adequate.Sarah, Harrison, and Rebecca occupied rooms on the same floor.Morales insisted on it.No one argued.Around midnight, most of them attempted sleep.Attempted.Nobody actually succeeded.

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