Reborn Mother: The Billionaire's Ruthless Bride

violently as if she had just bro

e pierced her retinas. She blinked rapidly, the blindi

oyer of the King est

The sharp crack echoed through the cavernous room, displaci

King's voice was

lent tremor seized her spine. It was muscle memory. The sheer terror of bei

so tightly her molars ached. She swallowed th

ter, threw her small arms around Hazel's leg, burying her face in t

ch. The paralyzing fear evaporated, replaced inst

er arms. As she did, she intentionally let her rig

gonizing pain sh

hing away the last remnants of her past-life disorie

at at our table?" Ermina stood over them, her designer heels clicking against

Ermina's expensive floral perfume made her

r head. She didn't c

s. Her gaze was completely hollow, devoid

step back, her manicured fingers twitching as

rward, and her foot seemed to miraculously catch on the flat edge of the Persian rug. The tray in her hands lurched

rp. She twisted her torso, shie

sly onto the expensive Persia

mug expres

as low, but it carried a heavy, suffocating weight. It was the tone of a

enda stammered, her hand

n a guest," Hazel stated, her words clipping through the air like scissors. "Do you

sed, but no sound came out. T

htly, her tone dripping with cold, aristocratic malice. "In this house, we value loyalty. Brenda

very bit of that height. She stepped forward, invading Ermina's perso

eside the contract. In her past life, she h

cument, her eyes scanning the dens

nd fast. She kept glancing toward the heavy front doors. She

se 7B. It states that in the event of a divorce, my visitati

adpan. "You are trying to legall

rched doorway. Sloane, Hazel's soon-to-b

Sloane said, swirling the amb

lushing a deep, angry red. "Stay out of th

er, Hazel knelt back down. She stroked

er's ear. Serena's breathing gradually slowed, her sm

he marble floor echoed from the grand staircase. Th

ded the stairs. His eyes were like c

" Sterling demanded, his gaze sweeping ove

didn't fidget. She offered a

King," she said, he

terling, this woman is greedy. She is refusing to sign t

licing cleanly through Ermina's hysteria. "I only require a guaranteed, irrevocable trus

hick eyebrows pulled together. He studied Hazel, ge

ontinued, maintaining eye contact. "If the media finds out you forced the mother of your grandchild to sign

nched as he weighed the numbers in his head. She h

f the room, where a silent lawyer had been sta

st heaving. "Sterling,

out the pages and pushed th

ped the heavy pen and signed he

en. It clattered

"Now, follow me to my study. We have other matters to discuss regar

hers. She turned her back on the furious matriarch and followed Sterlin