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CHAPTER 573
Nella walked past the front of Tedmond’s study, her footsteps muffled by the thick hallway carpet.Through the slightly ajar double doors, she could see Tedmond hunched over a mountain of documents, his expression grim. Thomas stood beside him, methodically stamping pages and filing them into neat, sorted piles. The air was heavy with the sharp scent of ink.Nella tapped lightly on the doorframe, catching Tedmond’s attention.“May I come in?” she asked softly.Tedmond looked up, his gaze sharp yet weary. He set his pen down and leaned back in his leather chair.“Is the situation handled?” he asked, his voice low and commanding.“It is,” Nella replied, stepping just inside the threshold. “Everything has been taken care of as you requested. However, there’s something I need to discuss with you—something important regarding what I obtained from her.”Tedmond glanced at the clock on his desk, then back at the towering stacks of paperwork still waiting.He sighed and gestured toward the h
CHAPTER 572
The heavy silence of the VIP surgical lounge was finally broken by the rhythmic squeak of a doctor’s shoes.Adeline, Frank, Richard, and Tina scrambled to their feet as the Chief of Medicine approached, still adjusting his glasses.They hadn’t heard a word since Harold and Vivian were rushed into emergency surgery hours earlier. Now, at last, something, anything was coming, and they clung to it like a lifeline.“Good news,” the doctor announced with a professional nod. “Against all odds, both Harold and Vivian have stabilized. The water in their lungs has been cleared, their vitals are strong, and they are awake. They’ve been transferred to the recovery ward. You may see them now.”The siblings didn’t wait for a second invitation. They rushed down the hallway in a frantic swarm, their footsteps echoing off the sterile tile.But as they burst into the spacious private ward, the room felt strangely empty despite the two figures lying in the beds.Evelyn was nowhere to be seen.“Harold!
CHAPTER 571
Lisa didn’t have time to react. She only managed to throw up a hand, bracing herself for the impact.“Lisa! Move!”Nika didn’t hesitate. Dropping the bags, she lunged forward with a burst of pure adrenaline. Her shoulder slammed into Lisa’s ribs, shoving her violently out of the path of the speeding vehicle.The sound of impact was sickening.The silver Ferrari didn’t stop. It clipped Nika’s hip, sending her spinning through the air as shopping bags were crushed beneath the heavy tires.Lisa hit the pavement hard, rolling onto the sidewalk as the breath was knocked from her lungs.“Nika!” Lisa screamed, her voice cracking as she scrambled to her knees.The car sped off, the roar of its engine fading into the distance.Nika lay crumpled near the gutter, surrounded by ruined baby clothes and the stunned silence of onlookers.The crowd surged forward, but instead of helping, many pulled out their phones.The murmurs swelled into a dull roar.“Is that a Griffin?”“Isn’t that the wife fro
CHAPTER 570
“You look like you’re having a wonderful day, Lisa,” Nika said, her voice a low, dangerous hiss that made the hair on the back of Lisa’s neck stand up. “Shopping for baby clothes while the rest of the family is bleeding out in the ICU? You really are a piece of work.”Lisa’s beam vanished instantly, her face turning pale as she clutched her bags tighter to her chest.“What am I doing here?” Nika spat, stepping closer until she was inches from Lisa’s face.“I went to find you at the Hargrove estate this morning. Your own family told me you’d only gone there to cause trouble and demand money. They practically threw me out! I thought you were still a Griffin, but apparently you’re just a nomad now.”Lisa’s eyes flashed with a spark of the old fire, but it wasn’t the frantic, desperate heat Nika was used to.It was something colder.“You went to my parents’ house?” Lisa snapped. “How dare you pry into my business, Nika! I told you before, I’m done being a pawn in that mansion.”Nika laugh
CHAPTER 569
Standing at the edge of their table was a waitress wearing a distinctly unimpressed expression.She held a digital tablet and pen, her gaze flicking between Lisa’s frantic face and Nella’s composed, pregnant poise. She had clearly been within earshot for several minutes, absorbing every word about divorces, mistresses, and swapped or hidden babies.“Are you ladies quite finished with the… prologue?” the waitress asked, her tone heavy with professional exhaustion. “Because you’ve been occupying this high-demand table for exactly thirty-two minutes without ordering so much as a glass of tap water. There’s a line outside of people who would actually like to eat.”Lisa flushed beet red, her mouth falling open.“I—we’re discussing a very important family matter!”“I’m sure,” the waitress replied, unfazed, tapping her pen against the tablet. “The entire floor is now aware of the monsters and the bankrupt empire. But unless those monsters are paying for the lobster bisque, I’m going to need
CHAPTER 568
A cold realization struck Alicia.Neil.Lisa wasn’t remembering her; she was remembering Neil’s disguise from their earlier meetings.No amount of padding could have replicated what Alicia naturally had.She recovered quickly, smoothing her dress with practiced superiority.“It’s the pregnancy,” she said coolly. “Hormones. I’m carrying triplets—my body’s working overtime.”The lie tasted bitter. She hated the memory of being called flat when she had never been flat a day in her life. Now she was forced to pretend pregnancy had given her what she’d always possessed, and it felt like a slap to the face.Still, she could use it to wound Lisa.She leaned forward, her eyes flicking pointedly to Lisa’s chest.“Don’t tell me you didn’t get anything from your pregnancy. No glow? No growth? Just bitterness?”Her smile sharpened.“Maybe your body knows it’s not carrying anything worth showing off.”Lisa’s jaw clenched so hard her teeth nearly ground together.She was furious. Mocked by a mistr
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