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CHAPTER 598
Thomas and Neil were the first to react.They spun around, hands instinctively moving toward their jackets, only to freeze when they saw the elegant, frantic figure of Lisa racing across the tarmac. They exchanged a glance, then looked toward Tedmond’s back.Without a word, they stepped aside, creating a path as she bolted past them, her breathing ragged and desperate.Tedmond stopped.The sound of his name, yelled with such raw vulnerability, acted like a tether, pulling him back. He turned slowly, his coat swirling around his boots, and his eyes widened in genuine shock. He had expected her to fly away without a backward glance, to vanish into the luxury he knew she craved.But here she was, skidding to a halt just inches from him, her chest heaving, her expensive dress damp with the cool evening mist.For a long moment, they simply stared at each other.The distance between them was only a few feet, but it felt like a canyon filled with the ghosts of the past few months. Tedmond
CHAPTER 597
The sound of Amara’s frantic pounding against the reinforced glass was muffled, like a distant, dying heartbeat.Inside the coupe, the air conditioning hummed, cool and clean.Lisa looked at Amara, the girl who had once been the sun around which her family’s entire world revolved, and saw nothing but a maniac.Amara’s face was pressed against the driver’s side window, her breath fogging the glass."Give it back!" she wailed, her voice cracking into a pitiful whimper. "Lisa, please! I have nothing! I’m hungry! Just give me the pink diamond!"Lisa didn’t roll down the window. She didn’t offer a cent. She reached over to the passenger seat and picked up the small, framed photo of Nika she had rescued from the house. She held it up so Amara could see it."Nika had nothing, too," Lisa said, though Amara couldn’t hear her. "And you still took her life."Lisa shifted the car into reverse.As the vehicle began to move, Amara stumbled, losing her grip on the door handle and falling hard onto t
CHAPTER 596
Back at the formal Hargrove mansion, Amara crept through the servants’ entrance, her breath hitching in her throat.Her bare feet were caked in dried mud and pine needles, the hem of her silk dress reduced to a tattered rag. She moved with the twitchy, desperate energy of a cornered animal. She didn’t care that the rooms were empty or that the locks were scheduled to be changed. All she knew was that she needed her insurance.The pink diamond.The emeralds.The platinum sets.As long as she could get her hands on them, she could disappear, live well somewhere else, and when the others eventually got out of jail, she could come back.In her mind, the jewels were her salvation. She would take them, flee to the city, and buy herself a new life far away from the police and Lisa’s cold, triumphant eyes.She scrambled up the back stairs and burst into her bedroom.“Where is it?” she hissed, yanking open the vanity drawer.Empty.She tore through jewelry boxes, flinging velvet linings onto
CHAPTER 595
The roar of the SUV’s engine was a deafening wall of sound, and the heat radiating from its grill bit at Lisa’s skin. She was mid-fall, her balance gone, the asphalt rushing to meet her as the horn blared a desperate, useless warning.Death was inches away.In that split second, Lisa didn’t think about the fifty-two million dollars, the mansion, or the jewels. Her hand instinctively flew to her stomach, fingers clawing at her own skin through her clothes.‘No! Not like this!’ her mind screamed in a shattered echo. ‘I finally have it. I finally have the money to protect you. I finally have the life we were supposed to live…’The thought of her unborn child crushed beneath cold steel sent a jolt of pure, maternal agony through her. She had endured the beatings, the insults, the betrayal of her entire family just to reach this point. She couldn’t let her baby die in the middle of the street because of a girl as pathetic as Chloe.“Please,” she begged a God she hadn’t spoken to in years
CHAPTER 594
Lisa drove straight to the city’s most prestigious jewelry district. She walked into a high-end store, the heavy bag over her shoulder a stark contrast to her elegant movements.The jeweler’s eyes nearly popped out of his head as Lisa began emptying the contents onto the black velvet display tray. He spent nearly an hour with his loupe, calculating values."The pink diamond alone is a fortune," he whispered, hands trembling as he held up Amara’s prized necklace."How much for the lot?" Lisa asked, her voice cold and bored."I can offer you—""Lisa? Is that actually you?"A shrill, mocking voice cut through the quiet of the luxury boutique. Lisa didn’t have to turn to recognize it.It was Chloe, one of Amara’s most loyal friends, a girl who had spent years helping Amara torment Lisa in exchange for designer hand-me-downs.Chloe strutted over, her eyes darting from Lisa’s face to the glittering mountain of gems on the tray. Her lip curled in disgust."I saw the news, you pathetic snake.
CHAPTER 593
Lisa stared at the thick file on the mahogany table, then flicked her gaze up at the lawyer.A flicker of suspicion crossed her mind. It had been less than ten minutes since she’d hit Submit on the real estate portal. How could a buyer move this fast?The thought was quickly drowned beneath a wave of cold indifference.Whether it was one of her father’s business rivals or an opportunistic shark didn’t matter. What mattered was the exit strategy.She hadn’t bought or built the house, so she felt no attachment to how it was sold.“You’re quite efficient, Mr. Jamy,” Lisa said smoothly.She pulled the document toward her and read. Her eyes skimmed the clauses: cash offer, twenty-percent premium, immediate transfer of title, total waiver of inspections.It was more than acceptable. It was a miracle.She picked up the pen and scrawled her signature across the final page.With that single stroke, the house, the site of her misery and her ultimate victory, no longer belonged to the Hargrove
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