Imprisoned While Pregnant, She's Back for Payback novel Chapter 376

Chapter 376 The Cathedral

Chapter 376 The Cathedral

Chapter 376 The Cathedral

Chapter 376 The Cathedral

Tess quickly cleared the table.

Abel dropped his mocking tone and spoke more seriously.

“I heard it’s going to be at the biggest cathedral in Aetheris.”

At those words, Tess’s face changed.

The biggest cathedral in Aetheris …

Why that place of all places? Were Henry and Nadine doing this on purpose, or was it just coincidence?

She remembered something her grandmother once told her.

When Kylie and Henry got married, Ember Group had just started to rise. Henry wasn’t from one of the old powerful families in Aetheris, but with his savings, the money from the Larsons, and Kylie’s assets, he could have easily afforded a grand wedding.

Back then, their plan was to hold the ceremony at that cathedral. But in the end, the wedding never happened.

Tess pulled up the live stream on her phone again.

She stared at Kylie’s face. It was a strange world.

THAT

What on earth had Henry said to make Kylie believe him, even after seeing all those photos and videos with her own eyes?

Her brow furrowed.

After a long silence on Tess’s end, Abel finally asked, “Should we go there in person?”

“Of course.”

Tess pressed her lips together and answered firmly, without the slightest hesitation.

But she also knew Henry had made a big deal out of Nadine’s release from prison just to draw the media’s attention. He wanted the spotlight on himself to prove how much effort he was putting into Shannon’s funeral. With all that, it wouldn’t be easy for Tess to slip in unnoticed.

She voiced her concern. Abel’s laugh came through the phone, light and confident.

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“Tess, you’re underestimating me. Don’t worry, I’ll pick you up and we’ll go together.”

His words calmed her racing thoughts.

Warmth spread through her chest as she gripped the phone tighter.

“Alright,” she said softly.

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At the Ember Villa, Henry held Nadine by the arm.

“Nadine, it took me a lot of effort to get you out on bail.”

Nadine glanced toward Kylie, who had gone upstairs and shut the bedroom door, claiming she was too tired. Once she was sure Kylie couldn’t hear, she looked back at Henry. “Dad, what’s really going on? Why-”

“Hey!”

Henry quickly cut her off, pulling her toward the wall and lowering his voice. “Those stories Tess spread in the news, they’re hard to explain away. Our company has hit rock bottom. To bring it back to where it was before? That would take at least five or ten years. By then, how old do you think I will be?”

Nadine followed his reasoning, her face growing serious.

She grabbed his hand. “Dad, what are you going to do?”

“That’s what I wanted to tell you,” Henry said with a heavy sigh. “I plan to take all the assets we still have and move abroad. We’ll start over–me, you, your mom, and your brother. We’ll have a new life.”

He wore a sorrowful look.

Nadine looked puzzled. “If that’s the case, then about the funeral… once I got out, we could’ve just left. Why lie to her?”

She meant Kylie–the woman they had been fooling all along.

Nadine glanced at the closed bedroom door.

Kylie had always treated her like an apple to her eyes, protecting her and caring for her. But this time, after Nadine got out of prison, Kylie barely looked at her. She didn’t even say a few comforting words.

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That strange change made Nadine uneasy. What exactly had happened in the family while she was gone?

“Because…

behind her are the Larsons,” Henry whispered carefully, casting another look toward Kylie’s door. His eyes glimmered with greed. “Her family might have publicly claimed they had cut ties with her, but when I brought inspectors over last time, I found out they left her a wedding dress worth more than 300 million dollars.”

“300 million?!”

Nadine’s eyes went wide. She quickly covered her mouth to stop herself from shouting.

300 million–for just a wedding dress?

She had followed Finn to countless auctions, big and small, but she had never seen a wedding dress worth that much.

Her heart pounded wildly. The Larsons suddenly seemed more powerful and untouchable

than ever.

“So…”

Nadine grabbed Henry’s hand.

Their eyes locked, and in that silent space between them, the same calculation passed like a spark.

Henry leaned close and whispered in her car. ‘I already told your mom about this. What matters now is sticking to the same story. Before we leave the country, we need to squeeze every bit of money we can from her.”

Nadine couldn’t hide her excitement. She nodded hard at him.

“But …” She suddenly thought of something, lifting her eyes with doubt. “Dad, the Larsons already announced they cut her off. Do you really think it’ll be that easy to get money out of them? The Larsons are one of the most powerful families in Kingsland.”

Henry’s lips curled into a sly smile. “Don’t you worry about that. Your old man has his own way.”

Tess quickly cleared the table.

Abel dropped his mocking tone and spoke more seriously.

“I heard it’s going to be at the biggest cathedral in Aetheris.”

At those words, Tess’s face changed.

The biggest cathedral in Aetheris …

Why that place of all places? Were Henry and Nadine doing this on purpose, or was it just coincidence?

She remembered something her grandmother once told her.

When Kylie and Henry got married, Ember Group had just started to rise. Henry wasn’t from one of the old powerful families in Aetheris, but with his savings, the money from the Larsons, and Kylie’s assets, he could have easily afforded a grand wedding.

Back then, their plan was to hold the ceremony at that cathedral. But in the end, the wedding never happened.

Tess pulled up the live stream on her phone again.

She stared at Kylie’s face. It was a strange world.

THAT

What on earth had Henry said to make Kylie believe him, even after seeing all those photos and videos with her own eyes?

Her brow furrowed.

After a long silence on Tess’s end, Abel finally asked, “Should we go there in person?”

“Of course.”

Tess pressed her lips together and answered firmly, without the slightest hesitation.

But she also knew Henry had made a big deal out of Nadine’s release from prison just to draw the media’s attention. He wanted the spotlight on himself to prove how much effort he was putting into Shannon’s funeral. With all that, it wouldn’t be easy for Tess to slip in unnoticed.

She voiced her concern. Abel’s laugh came through the phone, light and confident.

1/3

16:35 Thu, Oct 23 B…

Chapter 376 The Cathedral

“Tess, you’re underestimating me. Don’t worry, I’ll pick you up and we’ll go together.”

His words calmed her racing thoughts.

Warmth spread through her chest as she gripped the phone tighter.

“Alright,” she said softly.

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At the Ember Villa, Henry held Nadine by the arm.

“Nadine, it took me a lot of effort to get you out on bail.”

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