Imprisoned While Pregnant, She's Back for Payback novel Chapter 367

Chapter 367 The Net Tightens

Leopold looked confused when he heard the name.

He scratched his head. “Ember Group?”

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The interrogation room went silent for a long moment. Finally, Leopold shook his head. “No word about Ember Group around here.”

Tess gave a faint smile.

So, Henry really had abandoned Nadine.

For someone as selfish as him, it wasn’t surprising.

Still, she wondered–what would Nadine feel when she realized everything she had been waiting for was nothing but a lie?

Ring! Ring!

Both Tess and Abel’s phones buzzed at the same time.

Tess opened hers and saw another flood of breaking news alerts.

Abel lazily swiped open his news app to check.

“#Henry_Ember_Exposed”

“#Shannon_Bolton_Back_From_Dead”

“#Nadine_Ember_Detained_For_Three_Months”

“#Henry_Ember_Ilegitimate_Son”

The hashtags shot straight to the top of the trending list. Almost every headline tied to the Embers was climbing fast.

Tess smirked.

The trap had finally closed.

Abel seemed to understand her plan without a word. He just stood beside her, a faint smile in his eyes.

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The man’s tall figure stood under the harsh light of the interrogation room, casting a shadow that covered Tess’s slender frame. It was as if his presence wrapped around her, becoming a mountain she could lean on, reminding her she wasn’t alone.

The comment sections under the news articles kept exploding with new posts.

Tess scrolled through a few. The sarcasm online was sharp enough to cut.

[Henry really is something–freeloading his wife and betrayed her. How can anyone be that shameless?]

[Shannon’s no better. Pulling off a fake–death stunt like that?]

[Kylie isn’t innocent. After all these scandals, the only one I feel sorry for is Tess.]

Tess paused at that last comment, her chest stirring with emotions she hadn’t expected.

It was true. From the moment Nadine entered her childhood home and turned her life upside down, to the years she suffered after marrying Finn only to end up in prison–her path had been nothing but painful.

But now, she was no longer that same girl.

Her lashes lowered, hiding her thoughts.

Abel, sharp as ever, noticed the shift in her mood. His gaze softened, holding a rare hint of worry for someone who usually lived carefree.

After a long silence, Tess steadied herself and rose. “Looks like we’ve got work to do.”

Abel followed right behind her.

The moment they stepped out of the detention center, Tess’s phone rang again. It was Lyra, her voice calm but edged with urgency.

“Tess, check your email. Henry’s dumping his company shares. I also found out he used Ember Group’s name—and Kylie’s identity—to take out massive loans!”

Tess narrowed her eyes slightly. Her face stayed calm.

None of this surprised her. After all, she’d seen it coming.

Henry’s scandal had blown up. Even if he held onto his position as chairman of Ember Group,

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the shame alone would drown him. If he didn’t step down soon, the company would collapse. Henry was selfish to the core. At a critical moment like this, he would do everything to grab more profit for himself. But Tess never expected him to go so low–trying to dump massive debt onto Kylie.

The thought pressed on Tess’s chest like a heavy stone.

She lifted her eyes to the horizon. The sky was glowing with streaks of red and gold, but the light was already being swallowed by the rising night.

Tess glanced sideways at Abel. “Keep someone on Kylic. Watch what she’s up to.”

When she sent an anonymous email to Kylie, she guessed Kylie would come to the Aetheris police station to see Nadine. Maybe she wanted to check if the “truth” in that email was real. That’s why Tess and Abel arrived ahead of her.

She was curious.

Rumors about her family had already been spreading online. Yet Kylie stayed quiet. Was it because Henry and Nadine did a good job keeping her in the dark? Or was Kylie lying to herself?

Tess pulled back her gaze and climbed into the car.

Meanwhile, inside the Ember Residence-

Henry sat in his study, his face dark with anger.

“Mr. Ember, are these all the items you want to put up for auction? Including this villa under your feet?”

The auction staff, wearing spotless white gloves, carefully inspected the piles of valuables stacked high on the desk.

The list included several of Henry’s houses, along with countless pieces of jewelry owned by Kylie and Nadine.

Henry clutched the bank card in his pocket. On it was all the money he had left–what he scraped together by selling his Ember Group shares at rock–bottom prices. At first, because of Tess’s deliberate smear campaign, no one wanted to buy. But just moments ago, a mysterious investor had suddenly swept in and bought every single share he had.