All Chapters of From Illegitimate To A Zillionaire Heir: Chapter 581
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Amara locked eyes with Lisa, expecting to read her the way she always had before, but all she saw was a smile, utterly devoid of fear.That look was confident. Too confident.‘She’s bluffing. She has to be,’ Amara thought, tearing her gaze away as she clung to her conclusion. There were no cameras on that stretch of road. The car was clean now.“Lisa, why are you doing this?” Amara sobbed, burying her face deeper into Ethan’s chest. “Are you still mad about our fight? Is that why you’re making up these lies?”She looked up at her brothers, eyes wide and glassy with tears.“She’s been like this for days. When I went to visit her in the hospital, she threatened me then, too! She tried to frame me for things I never did… I don’t know why she hates me so much. I’ve only ever tried to love her!”The brothers’ expressions softened instantly. They hadn’t seen what happened in the hospital; they only had Amara’s word, and her word had always been their truth. They had doubted her once bef
CHAPTER 581
The brothers froze. They looked at Amara, then at the locked door, then back at Lisa.“She’s lying!” Amara screamed, her voice cracking. “I never said that! She’s making up conversations now! She’s trying to gaslight all of you!”Lisa stepped forward, planting her foot squarely on one of the printed photos, right over Amara’s snarling face.“The thing about digital photos, Amara,” Lisa said calmly, “is that they come with metadata. Time. Date. Location. And I have the original video file saved on a cloud server, one your hands can’t reach.”She turned to Ethan, who was staring at Amara as if she were a stranger.“Are you really going to believe her over your own eyes?” Lisa asked quietly. “Look at her face in that photo, Ethan. Does that look like a girl who loves her sister?”Ethan’s hand dropped from Amara’s shoulder as if burned. He looked down at her, his voice trembling with a mixture of desperate hope and dawning horror.“Amara… just tell us the truth. Did you… did you really do
CHAPTER 582
The room fell silent.No one spoke. No one moved.Lisa arched a brow and tilted her head, waiting for a response, but none came at first.Then Matthew broke.“No!” he cried, stepping between Lisa and the bed. “We can’t do that. Amara is a Valerius. If she goes to prison for attempted murder, our reputation is finished. The family name will be dragged through the mud. Everything we’ve worked for, the business, the legacy, it’ll all vanish in a day.”Lisa let out a jagged, disbelieving laugh.“Reputation?” she snapped. “You’re sitting here defending a murderer because you’re worried about your social standing? Does my friend’s life mean nothing to you? Does my life mean nothing?”“We’re not saying it doesn’t matter,” Ethan said sharply, though he still couldn’t meet her eyes. “We’re saying there has to be another way. Anything but the police, Lisa. Do you want money? The estate? We can set up a trust. We can give you whatever you need to disappear, or to live comfortably.”Amara, watchi
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Lisa looked at her brother, a frown deepening on her face. Her brows twitched with disgust before her features settled into a cold sneer."And I’m giving you your freedom," Lisa countered. "Sign it. Now. In front of the lawyer."Desperate to end the nightmare, the brothers scribbled their digital signatures onto the new occupancy agreement. Once the lawyer confirmed the document was filed, Lisa finally pulled up the recording. With a few calculated taps, she hit delete and turned the screen to show them the empty folder."Now," Lisa said, her voice turning sharp as she pointed toward the hallway. "Get out. All of you. This is my room now.""But Amara is hurt—" Ethan started."OUT!" Lisa roared.She shoved them toward the threshold. As the brothers stumbled into the hall, Lisa slammed the heavy door shut. Click! In the hallway, the silence was broken by a soft gasp. Amara’s eyes rolled back into her head, and she slumped toward the floor in a dramatic, graceful faint.Ethan and Dani
CHAPTER 584
Lisa sat on the edge of the plush, oversized mattress, spine straight and legs crossed with an air of newfound authority. For a fleeting second, the softness of silk sheets felt like a victory lap. But then, the reality of whose sanctuary this had been hit like a physical wave of nausea.A downward glance at the duvet, a custom designer piece Amara had bragged about for months, brought a crawl of skin-deep revulsion. This was the bed where Amara had slept while plotting accidents.This was the very spot where the girl had sat while laughing at Nika’s tragedy."Disgusting," Lisa muttered.Standing abruptly, her eyes scanned the room until they landed on the linen closet near the ensuite bathroom. A frantic search through the shelves yielded fresh, crisp white sheets that still smelled of laundry detergent, a welcome relief from Amara’s cloying, expensive perfume. With aggressive, jerky movements, Lisa stripped the bed and draped the new linens, layering them thick so that not an in
CHAPTER 585
2:00 AMIn the guest wing, the door to a cramped back room creaked open.Amara stepped into the hall, her face a mask of cold, calculated fury. The whining had stopped. The tears were gone. In their place was a singular, deadly focus. Clutching a small, pressurized canister stolen from the gardening shed earlier that evening, she moved like a wraith. The canister contained a potent, fast-acting sedative spray meant for aggressive animals, now spiked with a chemical relaxant scavenged from the back of the medicine cabinet.Bare feet made no sound on the carpet as she reached Lisa’s door—her door. It was unlocked, exactly as she had hoped.Amara didn't enter immediately. Instead, she donned a thick, industrial face mask tucked into her waistband. Cracking the door just a fraction of an inch, she inserted the nozzle.Pssssssssssssst.A fine, odorless mist hissed into the room, swirling through the air and settling over the bed. Amara waited, counting the seconds with a rhythmic puls
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Lisa’s body twitched violently, her limbs spasming across the floor as if the very life were being scorched out of her. Her head thrashed from side to side, and a low, guttural rattling sound escaped her throat.Watching the spectacle, Amara threw her head back and laughed. It was a jagged, piercing sound that filled the room with madness.“Hahahahahahahahahahha!”"Finally!" Amara shrieked, clutching the empty syringe like a trophy. "Finally, the intruder is gone! You thought you could come into my house and take my legacy? You’re nothing, Lisa! Just a corpse in a designer room! Die! Just die already!"Suddenly, the heavy bedroom door didn't just open; it exploded inward.The crash silenced Amara’s laughter instantly.Matthew, Ethan, and Daniel charged into the room, their faces pale with horror.Behind them stood their father and mother, their eyes wide with a mixture of shock and fury.Every single one of them held a phone, the screens glowing not with flashlights, but with active r
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The heavy door slammed shut with a finality that seemed to vibrate through the floorboards.For a long, suffocating minute, Amara remained on the floor, the image of Lisa’s predatory grin burned into her retinas.The silence in the room was heavier than the noise had been. The reality of the trap set by her sister, the betrayal of her parents, and the recording, the digital proof of her own voice admitting to murder, swirled in her head until she couldn’t breathe.“Aaaaaah!”A blood-curdling shriek tore from Amara’s throat.This wasn’t the dainty, practiced sob of a victim; it was the howl of a cornered animal. Scrambling to her feet, her vision blurred in a red haze of fury.“I’ll kill you! I’ll kill you, Lisa!”Spinning toward the vanity, Amara snatched up a heavy crystal vase, the one her mother had given her for her nineteenth birthday, and hurled it against the wall.It shattered into a thousand glittering shards.The destruction didn’t stop there.Designer chairs were kicked ove
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The morning light filtered through the hallway windows, gray and cold, as the front doors of the Hargrove mansion swung open.Lisa was flanked by Matthew and Daniel, her weight leaning heavily into them.A white bandage was wrapped neatly around her forearm where the needle had pierced her, and she looked smaller, more fragile than she ever had before.“Easy, Lisa,” Matthew whispered, his hand firm at her waist as they reached the foot of the grand staircase. “Just a few more steps. The doctor said the antidote worked, but you need to rest.”Lisa’s head lolled slightly, eyes downcast. “You shouldn’t have brought me back here,” she murmured, her voice thin and hollow. “Just take me to a hotel. Somewhere far away.”“Don’t say that,” Daniel said, his jaw tight with guilt. “This is your home. We’re never letting her touch you again.”A soft, bitter laugh escaped Lisa before breaking into a cough.“It doesn’t matter. You’ll believe her anyway. You always do. By this afternoon, she’ll have
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Amara saw exactly what Lisa was doing, and a hard frown crossed her face. Her brows twitched with rage, and her eyes darkened."She’s just angry because she got caught," Matthew muttered, though he looked visibly disturbed by the screeching echoing from behind the oak panels."Is that all it is?" Lisa asked, her eyes wide with faux innocence. She leaned closer to the brothers, lowering her voice. "I’m starting to get worried. What are you actually going to do with her? Look at the evidence. She attacked me in the middle of the night with a needle. She’s screaming about conspiracies and 'grins' that no one else saw."She paused, watching the realization dawn on their faces."Amara might have truly lost it," Lisa continued, her voice dripping with artificial sympathy. "To attack her own sister like that... in her own home? Only a person who has lost their mind would be that reckless. Don't you think she needs help? The kind of help only a locked facility can provide?""You mean... an