SCORNED EX WIFE Queen Of Ashes (Camille and Stefan)

Chapter 127

Chapter 127

Rose stared at the photos spread across the marble countertop of Herod's penthouse kitchen. Grainy images captured through a long-

distance lens, yet clear enough to show what mattered. Camille and Alexander outside Boston Memorial Hospital. His hand holding something small. Her visible shock. Their embrace. And most damning of all, "She's engaged," Rose whispered, the words burning her throat like acid. "He proposed and she said yes."

She'd sent one of their hired men to follow Camille that afternoon, a precaution after Walsh had provided them with the misleading Grid information. She hadn't expected this.

"Are you certain?" Herod asked, examining the photos over her shoulder. "The quality isn't great."

Rose's fingernail stabbed at the clearest image. "Look at her finger. That's an engagement ring."

Herod squinted. "Could be any ring."

"It's not just any ring." Rose's voice sharpened. "I know what an engagement ring looks like, and I know my sister's face. She's... happy."

The last word emerged like a curse. Her fingers curled around the edge of the photo, crumpling it slightly.

"Does this change our plans?" Herod asked carefully.

Rose didn't answer. Her mind raced through images from their childhood, Camille always the perfect daughter, the talented musician, the brilliant student. Rose, the adopted outsider, working twice

as hard for half the recognition. And now, after everything Rose had done to destroy her, Camille was

engaged to a Trillionaire who gazed at her with undisguised adoration.

"Rose?" Herod prompted.

Her hand swept across the counter, sending the photos flying.

"It's not fair! Why does she get everything? The career, the money, Victoria's approval and fortune and now him too?"

She stalked across the kitchen, her movements sharp and erratic. Herod watched her warily, keeping the marble island between them.

"We're still going to destroy her," he reminded her. "The Grid launch is in a week. We have the information about the western junction vulnerability..."

"Information she'll protect now more than ever," Rose cut in. "She has a reason to survive, a future to protect. It makes her more dangerous."

She yanked open a cabinet, grabbed a crystal tumbler, and slammed it down. The decanter of bourbon rattled as she poured, amber liquid splashing over the rim.

"She's going to have the life that should have been mine," Rose

continued, her voice rising. "Marriage to someone powerful, Our parents wealth, Victoria's company, respect, admiration, all of it stolen from me."

said soothingly. "Our plan remains the

him. The bourbon sloshed over her hand, unnoticed. "We need to hit her directly. No more sabotage, no more

in her.

wild eyes and trembling hands, seemed unhinged

that sent warning signals through

what, exactly?"

"Meaning exactly what it sounds like. We've been too subtle. The Grid launch, the press, Victoria, Alexander, all of them in one place, a

A chill

before, but always in hypothetical terms.

keeping his voice even. "Corporate takeover, yes. Financial ruin,

"Because there's no coming

Herod. Don't pretend you haven't thought

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and they both knew it. He had imagined

when she recognized him as the architect of her destruction. But

vast gulf between imagination and action, between revenge fantasies and

smart about this," he said, trying a

mistakes, and mistakes

caught," Rose whispered, her

with everything. Stealing Stefan. Taking my place at Kane

an engagement

I've suffered, what I've worked The crystal tumbler went flying, shattering against the wall in an explosion of glass shar need to calm down," he said, regretting the

narrowing dangerously. "Don't

space. "You promised me her destruction. You promised me

assured her. "But we do it my way. Calculated. Precise. Not with

jealousy

Wrong

with surprising force, the crack of the slap echoing in the sleek kitchen. "Jealousy?" she hissed. "Is that what you think

feeling the sting. For the first time since their partnership began, he felt a

"I

strongly, and

stepped back, her

a moment, she seemed to regain some control, smoothing her

want her to hurt, Herod. Not just her company, not just her reputation. I want her to feel

to the

twinkling city lights. "I want her to know, in her final moments, that her perfect life, her engagement, her future, all of it was just an

were approaching. The woman he had partnered with for revenge was transforming before his eyes into something mo "I can make that happen,"

Rose didn't

vengeance. Take down Victoria Kane, acquire her company. dismantle her achievements, all while making a profit. Clean, strategic, controlled.

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