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After Stephen and Andrea left, Rebecca closed the door. “Why did you tell me to accept his offer?” she asked Amelia, her voice laced with confusion. “Stephen can’t be trusted. He’s a snake who will do anything to get what he wants.”

“I know,” Amelia said calmly. She could see that Stephen was dangerously cunning.

“Then why would you-” Rebecca started.

“Because it was just a transaction,” Amelia cut in.

Rebecca replayed the conversation in her head. ‘He helps us get out of Jelasburg, and I promise not to kill Jeffrey?‘ she thought. ‘I’ll be lucky if Jeffrey doesn’t kill me. Since when am I the one holding his life in my

hands?‘

Amelia saw the confusion on her daughter’s face. “You’re getting stuck on the terms,” she advised. “Ignore what Stephen said and focus on the real players. Think about his relationship with Jeffrey.”

The gears in Rebecca’s mind turned, and the real plan clicked into place almost instantly. “You think Stephen wants to use my escape to distract Jeffrey,” she said, “so he’ll have an opening to seize control of the Hanson Group?”

Amelia merely grunted in dismissal.

The tension in Rebecca’s shoulders eased. Fine. ‘As long as I’m a diversion and not the target, I don’t care,‘ she thought. ‘Let them tear each other apart. It has nothing to do with me.

*****

That night, Jeffrey showed up at the hospital. After checking on Amelia, he turned to Rebecca and asked about Stephen. Rebecca just said Stephen dropped by with a friend to visit her mom, and didn’t mention anything else.

Jeffrey was suspicious. “He just came to visit your mother? That’s it?”

“Yeah,” Rebecca said, her face a blank wall.

“Are you coming home to the manor tonight?” Jeffrey asked, grabbing Rebecca’s hand right in front of Amelia, making sure she saw.

“No,” Rebecca said, instantly pulling her hand free. She didn’t even hesitate with her refusal. “Mom’s got rehab early in the morning. It doesn’t make sense to go all the way back and forth.”

“Samuel’s coming home tonight,” Jeffrey said.

Rebecca frowned. “What? I thought he wasn’t coming back until tomorrow afternoon.”

“I told him his grandmother was awake, and he insisted I go pick him up tonight,” Jeffrey said, glancing at his watch. “He should be arriving at the manor in the next hour or so.”

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In the end, Rebecca decided to go. She needed to talk to Samuel about leaving Jelasburg, to gently bring it up and see how he felt.

If he says yes, I’ll need to arrange everything without Jeffrey knowing,‘ she thought. ‘If he says no… then my time with him is running out.

‘Once I leave, I won’t be back for a long time. We’ll be nothing but a voice on the phone and a face on a

screen.’

The second they stepped out of the hospital, Rebecca laid down her first condition. “I’m sleeping in Samuel’s room tonight.”

He knew exactly what she was doing, but he merely nodded. “Of course.”

They arrived back at the manor, but an hour later, there was still no sign of Samuel.

A knot of worry tightened in Rebecca’s stomach. “You said he’d be home by now,” she said, turning to Jeffrey. “Shouldn’t we have heard something?”

Jeffrey dialed Samuel’s cell. He knew better than to call Victor while he was driving.

“Hello, Mr. Hanson,” came Samuel’s voice. He didn’t call Jeffrey “Dad” anymore.

“Where are you?” Jeffrey asked, his voice calm. He tapped the speakerphone button for Rebecca to hear. “Your mom’s been waiting for you at home for a while now.”

Samuel’s voice shot up, cracking with betrayal. “You liar! You promised you wouldn’t tell Mom. It was supposed to be a surprise for her.”

“Liar? I thought my name was Mr. Hanson,” Jeffrey said, his voice still calm.

The comment left Samuel speechless for a second. ‘Why does Dad have to be so annoying all the time?‘ he thought.

“I don’t want to talk to you,” Samuel muttered.

Jeffrey had no problem throwing his son under the bus. “Your mother wanted me to ask where you are,” he said, his voice low and smooth. “But if you’d rather make her worry, feel free to be mad with me and keep

silent.”

‘He’s being so unfair,‘ Samuel thought, taking a breath to control his temper. ‘But I have to stay calm for Mom.‘

“We had some car trouble,” Samuel grumbled, sounding annoyed. “Victor had to stop and fix it.”

“How long before you’re home?” Jeffrey asked.

Samuel relayed the question. “About an hour, give or take,” Victor’s voice came clearly through the phone. “Bad accident in the tunnel. Traffic’s a parking lot.”

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“Did you hear him?” Samuel asked his father.

Jeffrey didn’t even bother responding to him. Instead, he turned to Rebecca and said, “Why don’t you go on up and rest? I’ll let you know when he gets here.”

“No, that’s okay,” Rebecca said. “I’ll wait for him down here. I have nothing else to do.”

Jeffrey didn’t press her. A moment later, he ended the call.

Rebecca made herself comfortable on the living room sofa, pulling out her phone. She lost herself in research, scrolling through articles about industries she found interesting.

‘I can get the business plan drafted now,‘ she thought with a surge of purpose. Then, as soon as I’m out of Jelasburg, I can launch it.‘

“Rebecca,” Jeffrey said, coming over and sitting down next to her.

“Yeah?” she responded vaguely, her eyes still glued to her phone.

“Do you have any idea what today is?” Jeffrey asked, his deep eyes fixed on her. He knew that while she was physically in the room, her mind was a million miles away.

Rebecca didn’t bother looking up. “What day?”

“Two months ago today,” he said, his voice soft, “you asked me for a divorce.”

Rebecca’s fingers froze over her phone. After a beat, she shot back, “Funny, I remember it as the two–month anniversary of you shamelessly announcing that you were keeping Andrea on the side.”

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