Flora’s Guide to a Second Chance at Love and Life novel Chapter 1989

Honestly, it wasn’t just the Stonnell family dusting off their old family rules—the Woods family was doing the same. Things had gotten way out of hand, and there was no way a few quick words could fix any of this.

The chip-enhanced people had spread everywhere across the States, all thanks to leaks from the big families.

“Ms. Fiona, we really didn’t know anything! None of this was our fault—we just wanted a little extra cash, that’s all. We swear!”

“That’s right! It was the people from Country M who forced us to mess with the chip people. If we didn’t go along, they would’ve killed us.”

The group collapsed to their knees, begging for mercy. Fiona didn’t even glance at them—just shot them a cold, sarcastic smile.

They’d given in to temptation, and now they wanted to play the victim? Seriously shameless.

And with how far this mess had spread, no amount of begging could cover it up anymore.

“Fiona, come on. Whatever they did, they’re still elders of the Stonnell family. Maybe they just lost their heads for a second—can’t you let it go?”

“So, you want to beg for them?” Fiona narrowed her eyes, her voice sharp. “Are you defending them because you think they did nothing wrong, or do you want to take the punishment with them?”

At that, everyone instantly shut up. They all knew that saying anything else would only drag them down too.

“Fiona, that’s not what we mean. We just feel bad for them, that’s all.”

“Then keep your opinions to yourselves. Don’t go making excuses.”

Fiona didn’t bother with him anymore. She looked back at the people kneeling on the floor. All their earlier arrogance had vanished—they were terrified.

“Send them to the dungeon.”

Most of the people she punished were much older than her, but that didn’t matter to Fiona. If someone needed to be beaten or even killed, she didn’t hesitate.

Afterwards, Fiona officially took back control of the Stonnell family. Once she’d handled everything there, she drove straight to her apartment to meet Jackson. He’d already tracked down every chip-enhanced person from the Woods family and destroyed them all.

They did it all in secret—if word got out they were taking out that many chip people at once, the public would panic.

Meanwhile, Tyler started digging into everyone connected to this mess. And what he found was even worse than they’d thought—turns out, there were way more people involved. Both the Woods and Stonnell families had their people moving nonstop.

All the outsiders saw was that the two families were suddenly working together on something huge, but no one knew what it actually was.

Most of the chip people were destroyed. A few tried to run, but Fiona’s latest invention tracked them down in no time.

The fallout hit Country M’s labs hard. They never saw it coming—after years of planning, Jackson and Fiona wiped out everything in just seven days.