Divorce Failed My Wife's Secret Identities Shock the World novel Chapter 118

It was a kind of emotional spiral he'd never experienced before. He'd been the one to propose they not interfere with each other, but the more he learned about her, the less control he had over how deep he was falling.

When he woke up, Andres was still in his own bed.

That meant two possibilities: either the Binding between him and Maeve had failed, or Maeve hadn't slept all night.

Either way, he needed to know where she was, and who had been with her.

As dusk crept in again, unease tightened in his chest. Was she not coming back tonight either?

He called her again and again. Every time: out of service.

He even went to her study. Stranger still, no matter what he tried, he couldn't get that door open.

He'd considered ordering someone to break it down—then pictured Maeve finding out and making his life hell, and forced himself to drop the ridiculous idea.

By eight o'clock, he couldn't sit still anymore.

Murray came in after ending a call. "Mr. Colter called. He asked if you'd make time to see him. I declined politely."

Andres nodded absently.

Ever since Lincoln had been arrested, his older brother had started playing the family card, begging him to show mercy—stop pushing his own nephew to the edge.

As if Lincoln hadn't spent the last decade committing one vile act after another.

Even if Andres let it go, the authorities wouldn't.

Murray suddenly pointed out the window. "That's Miss Vance's car."

Andres's heart jolted. He looked instinctively.

Maeve eased her beat-up car into the mansion's courtyard, slow and casual.

Andres forced himself back into his seat, pretending calm.

So she finally decided to come home.

Murray stayed at the glass doors watching. "Mr. Andres... she's driving away again."

Maeve gave Mateo a brief nod in greeting.

Beyond the glass, multiple doctors were working over a patient, tubes and monitors everywhere.

The patient wasn't anyone else.

It was Declan Fulton.

Naomi explained fast. "After he was pulled off the cruise, he's been hospitalized ever since."

"He was supposed to be discharged tomorrow. Half an hour ago his heart stopped. They got him back—for now—but it doesn't look good."

Mateo's eyes were red. "I checked the security feed. Someone went into my brother's room while he was asleep. I think the White family is trying to finish him off."

Naomi's gaze flicked to Maeve.

Only today had she learned Maeve was the current wife of the head of the White family.

Maeve raised an eyebrow. "Why do you think it was the White family?"