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Chapter 450: Victor Vaughan is out there!
"I still can't... process it," Hailey murmured, staring out at the neon-washed streets. "Jacqueline. Alive. All this time.""It explains everything," Nancy said from the back, her voice thoughtful. "Jackson's fugue state. It wasn't just collapse. It was... a homing signal. He was literally drawn to her."Andrew's grip tightened on the steering wheel. "And Gilbert. He orchestrated the entire tragedy. He's been the puppet master, feeding on their grief for twenty years." The sheer scale of the betrayal made his stomach churn.James, who had been staring silently out the window, finally spoke. His voice was low, carrying a weight that made the others turn. "We need to be very, very clear about what we're dealing with. Gilbert wasn't working in a vacuum. His alliance with Victor Vaughan... we treated that threat as neutralized. I don't think it is.""What are you saying, James?" Andrew asked, his eyes flicking to the rearview mirror."I'm saying we assumed Victor was gone because it was
Chapter 449: Restoring the Hart's Legacy!
The room slowly emptied, the charged energy dispersing into the quiet hum of the hospital night. Whitaker and Copper left with a new, grim purpose, already debating first steps in hushed tones. Andrew gently guided a shell-shocked but radiant Ella out, promising to get her settled safely, giving her one last, awestruck look over his shoulder at the family she had just rejoined.Finally, it was just the three of them. The original trio. Ruth, Jacqueline, and Jackson.The silence was different now. No longer fractured by missing pieces, but thick with the weight of all that had been said and all that was yet to come. Jackson lay back against his pillows, exhaustion etched into his face, but his eyes were clear, watching his mother and sister.Ruth pulled a chair close to Jacqueline’s, reaching for her hand again. This touch was not the desperate clutch of reunion, but a seeking of anchorage.“My darling girl,” Ruth began, her voice raspy from tears and fury. “Before we plan another th
Chapter 448: The Reactionary Part!
The door to Jackson's ward eased open again, and two more figures entered—Copper, his usually cheerful face uncharacteristically solemn, and Whitaker, his sharp eyes taking in the scene with immediate, stunned comprehension. They’d been called by Andrew, the news too monumental to be delivered over the phone.They stood just inside the threshold, frozen. Their eyes went from Ruth, clinging to a young woman, to Jackson, weak but radiant in the center of the group hug, and back to the young woman’s face.Copper was the first to break. His breath hitched audibly. He’d been there the day Jackson was born. He’d held the tiny, squirming bundle of Jacqueline a few minutes later, marveling at the pair. His eyes, crinkled at the corners from a lifetime of laughter, now swam with tears. He took a stumbling step forward, his hand rising to his mouth. "Phil’s girl,” he choked out, the words thick with a grief that was suddenly, miraculously transforming. “Sweet heavens… Phil’s little girl.”He
Chapter 447: The Game Master!
Irene and Martin were in the living room, still wondering where Ella could have gone to as they've tried to reach her all day but to no avail. Just then, the phone on the table rang, and believing it could be Ella, Irene answered, her voice hopeful.“Hello?”“You had one job.” The voice on the other end was Gilbert’s, but it was unlike any tone they had ever heard from him in twenty years of dutiful, distant check-ins. It was stripped of its usual polished calm, vibrating with a raw, barely contained rage. “One simple, goddamn task. Keep her away. Keep her ordinary.”Irene’s blood ran cold. She held the receiver away from her ear for a second, meeting Martin’s alarmed eyes across the table. “Gilbert? What are you talking about? We raised her. We kept her safe, just like you asked.”“Safe?” he spat the word like poison. “Safe is not her digging into Hart family history! Safe is not her having cozy little chats with Jackson's friend! Safe is not her walking into a hospital room and re
Chapter 446: Coincidental Reunion!
The quiet chorus of comfort was shattered by Ruth’s guttural growl. “That bastard!” It wasn’t a sob; it was a curse, venomous and raw, expelled from the depths of her betrayed soul. If someone had told her that the same Gilbert whom she had trusted so much would turn out to betray her like this, she would have doubted it.But then, the confession had come from his mouth, and there was nothing left to defend other than to accept the cruel truth that the man who had stood by his side for the past twenty years had betrayed her more than even those he had considered enemies.Each person in the room was grappling with their own version of the same, unanswerable question: Why? Why would Gilbert, the seemingly dedicated Watcher, the steadfast friend, do this? The scale of the deception—spanning decades, weaving itself into the very fabric of a family’s grief—was too vast to immediately comprehend.Andrew stared at the closed door, his pragmatic mind trying and failing to fit this new, grot
Chapter 445: A Shocking Confession!
All eyes turned to Gilbert, the architect of the silence, the man who had been a fixed point in the Hart family's tragedy for twenty years.Under Ruth's furious, grief-stricken gaze, Gilbert’s usual composure faltered. He didn't look at the twins, nor at the stunned onlookers. He looked only at Ruth, and in his eyes was a confession that went far deeper than a simple act of protection.“Ruth,” he began, his voice stripped of its usual authority, sounding hollow. “After you and Philip separated, I knew the best thing to do to keep you safe was to separate you from the child that had Philip's blood in his veins."The stare from those around was haunting and Gilbert could feel the weight of their stares."I found out that a man named Victor Vaughan wanted to get the children and that would put your life in danger. I couldn't allow that.""And who made you the judge to decide what happens to Philip's children. Why did you have to lie to Ruth?" James asked. "This isn't just about Victor V
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