Divorced and Pregnant My New Life with a Billionaire Drives My Ex Crazy novel Chapter 248

Grandma Grace was losing her cool. She looked at Jace, then at Wiona, her eyes wide and pleading. “No, please… don’t…”

Jace hadn’t said a word, just stared, jaw clenched so hard it looked painful, his eyes rimmed red. But when he saw two men moving toward Wiona with steel pipes in hand, something in him snapped. He shouted, voice raw, “Don’t you dare touch her! Get away from her!”

Wiona barely reacted. She just stood there, calm, almost detached, as if none of this surprised her. She knew Jace had probably already figured out Alona and Bianca were here. She’d dropped enough hints. Now, even they had masks on, there was no way he couldn’t know. One was his mother. The other, his sister.

Masks might hide faces, but not everything else. After all those years together as a family, how could you not recognize the people closest to you?

But ever since she’d been slapped, Jace had done nothing but rage helplessly. He didn’t even have the guts to call out their real names or put a stop to any of this. Wiona had actually hoped to see the family drama explode, secrets flying and everyone turning on each other. But Jace just swallowed it all down. Maybe he was playing dumb, or maybe he wanted to learn Grandma Grace’s secret too. Either way, Wiona felt nothing but disgust for him. She couldn’t imagine ever expecting anything real from a man like that.

She fixed him with a cold stare until, looking miserable, he finally looked away. She let out a bitter laugh. “So, you don’t care that much after all.”

She’d thought he’d care about his own blood, about her and the babies, but clearly, she’d been wrong. When it came down to it, feelings were just empty words. Against real interests, they meant nothing.

Her quiet words must have hit a nerve. Jace suddenly thrashed against the ropes, face twisted in pain, voice breaking. “I said, don’t touch her! Grandma, please. I can’t lose Wiona, I can’t lose the babies. Grandma, please, just tell them…”

Grandma Grace’s lips trembled as if she wanted to speak, but she hesitated. Sam caught her eye and gave the tiniest signal. One of the thugs raised his pipe and swung down hard at Wiona.

She twisted just in time, barely dodging the blow, and hit the ground hard. The pipe crashed into a pillar behind her, sending a shudder through the whole floor. If she hadn’t moved, that would have been it—for her and the babies.

Wiona scrambled up. Before Bianca could react, Wiona grabbed her, yanking her close, and pressed a sharp piece of stone against her throat. “Don’t come any closer!”

Her right hand dripped blood. She’d started sawing at the ropes with a stone hidden in her sleeve the second they tied her up, working so fast and so hard she’d torn her own palm open. No one had noticed until now that she’d freed herself and dodged an attack.

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