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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
CHAPTER 567
The atmosphere at L'Étoile was one of suffocating elegance.Crystal chandeliers hung like frozen rain from the ceiling, and the soft clink of silver against porcelain provided a rhythmic backdrop to the hushed conversations of the city’s elite.Lisa sat at a secluded corner table, her posture rigid. She had spent nearly twenty minutes adjusting her silk scarf and checking her reflection in the back of a polished spoon. On the table before her sat a glass of sparkling water she hadn’t touched. She glanced at her rose-gold watch for the tenth time in three minutes.9:58 AM.She had asked Alicia to arrive around ten. The fact that the woman wasn’t there yet sent a ripple of anxiety through her.“She has to come,” Lisa whispered to herself, her fingers twitching over her phone.She felt the urge to send a Where are you? Text, but forced herself to pull her hand away.In her world, the person who messaged first was the person who was losing. She refused to look desperate, no matter how l
CHAPTER 566
Evelyn didn’t answer. She stood motionless as the nurses helped Maxine into the backseat of the SUV. The door closed with a heavy thud, followed by the unmistakable clack of the child locks engaging.Inside the car, Maxine pressed her forehead against the cool glass.As the vehicle began its long drive away from the city, toward the isolated hills of the countryside, she watched the hospital shrink into the distance.She didn’t know that just three floors below the room where she had been sleeping, her father was fighting for his life on a ventilator. She didn’t know that the world she believed was solid had already begun to collapse.The SUV turned onto the main road.With a soft hiss, the privacy partitions slid upward, sealing her inside a dark, velvet-lined capsule. Her view of the outside world vanished completely.Maxine slumped back into the leather seat, her face contorted with rage."I hope you’re happy, Mother!" she screamed at the soundproof glass. "You’re abandoning me! Y
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