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Chapter 156

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“All I’m asking is for you to stay with me, Rebecca. To stop this talk of divorce, Jeffrey explained, his voice patient. “This isn’t about taking away your freedom.”

Rebecca didn’t bother to reply. “Right, she thought bitterly. He won’t let me leave him, and he expects me to accept that he’s supporting Andrea forever. How is that any different from taking away my freedom?”

“Here. This is yours,” he said, pulling the unlimited black card from his jacket and offering it to her. “I had it reissued with a new design. Andrea never touched it.”

Once, such a thoughtful detail would have melted her heart. Now, it was just noise. Her mind was a single. looping track of panic. She thought, Is Samuel okay? How could this have happened? The school knew all his allergies…

Suddenly, a horrifying idea struck her. She shoved him away, scrambling back to put some distance between them. Her eyes were wide with a new kind of terror.

“Samuel..” she started. “His allergic reaction. That was you, wasn’t it? Did you stage this whole thing?”

The pieces clicked together with sickening speed: the prepared agreement, the order to the doctors to stand down, and the door to his suite left open. It was all too perfect to be a coincidence.

“No.” Jeffrey said flatly.

“Really?” Rebecca shot back.

“No,” he repeated.

She chose to believe him. He didn’t have to lie to her.

Once Rebecca’s emotions had somewhat settled, Jeffrey asked the question almost anyone in his position would have asked. “Do you really think I’m the kind of man who would risk our son’s life?”

“Are you serious?” Rebecca shot back. “You were literally using his life as a bargaining chip five minutes ago. Did you forget already?”

“Amazing,” she thought with biting sarcasm. How a man that powerful could have such a short memory.

Jeffrey’s jaw clenched, but he said nothing to defend himself. The truth was, he was just as terrified for Samuel as Rebecca was. But he didn’t tell her.

The clock rewound two hours, to the moment Rebecca had stormed out of his suite.

Jeffrey was about to call Gregory, intending to have him speak with the gaming division executives. He wanted them to ease up on the PrimePlay Technologies team’s workload and provide more hands–on training

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as he was about to dial, his

and it’s had, the teacher sand, her

on his condition. My team is on its way, Jeffrey cut

immediately dialed the private medical unit that shadowed Samuel 24/7, ordering them to

Samuel’s side in under sixty seconds, giving him the best

quite severe, the head of the medical team reported to Jeffrey over the phone, his voice

He’d set everything in motion

it,” the

“Say nothing of

“Okay.” Lena agreed.

left the video call with the medical team. He watched the monitor, his eyes locked on Samuel’s pained

what felt like forever, the doctors brought Samuel

Samuel doing?”

director, Emory Yeager, who had personally supervised the case, appeared on

frowned slightly. “Then why isn’t

vitals are perfect. Honestly, he’s probably just exhausted. It’s been a long day for him, Emory reassured him.

chest finally began to loosen.

remembered how hell–bent she was on divorcing him and taking Amelia and Samuel out of Jelasburg. In that moment,

the medical staff. “I want you to use makeup that’s safe for kids to make him look

silence met his request, but no one dared question

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And so, the stage

Rebecca’s glare and answered her accusation. “I

when it comes to Samuel. It’s the only

just quit your job at PrimePlay Technologies,” Jeffrey announced, shifting topics. He wanted her to have

only source of power, the one thing that was

card. You can

quitting that job. She snatched the paper off the table. “And for the record, there is nothing in your stupid agreement that says I can’t

what happens, she thought, the memory burning like acid. The next time we

mistake twice.

conceded. “If the job makes you

become a permanent thorn in her heart, but he

at him. As he watched her, a

‘She’s the same as she always was. The only difference is that now, all that fury is aimed at

Jeffrey said softly. “You should