Married First, Loved Later : A Flash Marriage with My Ex's 'Uncle' novel Chapter 587

Chapter 587: Power Struggles, Old and New

The driver shuddered at Logan’s words. Logan no longer spared him a glance.

"My phone got smashed in the crash. Yours—" 𝕗𝐫𝚎𝗲𝘄𝐞𝕓𝐧𝕠𝘃𝕖𝐥.𝐜𝚘𝚖

His gaze dropped, noticing Selina’s phone still wedged inside the wreck. He pulled it free; it worked, but there was no signal.

Logan’s eyes flickered when he saw the video recording on the screen. He casually tapped "end recording."

"I sent Jack my location earlier. He should be here soon. As for the Hill Family, they’ll probably just think you’re running late."

Selina gave a cold laugh.

Logan added, "Once Jack gets here, use his phone to call Aaron so he won’t worry. But as for those hoping you’d be ’late’—or hoping you’d end up dead—how do you plan to handle them?"

Selina’s eyes narrowed. She was never the type to cut the weeds and leave no roots; with this driver alive, plus the video and audio evidence, she’d naturally wring out every advantage.

While bandaging her own hand, her face remained expressionless.

"Then we wait."

Jack arrived twenty minutes later—and brought an unexpected guest.

Ethan tumbled out of the car, shirt half-buttoned, eyes widening when he saw the gash on Selina’s hand. He sucked in a sharp breath.

"Get in the car. Let me treat that right away."

Jack hauled the driver into his own vehicle. Logan and Selina switched to Ethan’s car. With Ethan tending Selina’s wound, Logan took over the wheel.

The sight of the bloody cut made Ethan wince.

"We’ll disinfect it. If you insist on showing up at the Hill Family instead of a hospital, I’ve got no painkillers on me. You’ll have to bear it."

Selina merely nodded. She feared pain, yes, but she wasn’t that delicate.

The antiseptic burned all the way down to the bone. Her brows knit slightly. Then, suddenly, an idea sparked.

"Can you make the wound look worse?"

Ethan froze. "Huh?"

Selina studied her hand, lips curving in a sly, half-smile.

"Take a guess—what do you think the Hill Family is saying about me right now?"

Ethan arched a brow, glancing at Logan behind the wheel, then hazarded a guess.

"Uh... that you’re late? That you’re being disrespectful?"

"Exactly."

Selina’s smile deepened. "So let’s make my injury look even more serious."

Ethan shivered. Damn, Selina was still as ruthless as ever.

Logan kept his eyes on the road, expression steady.

Ruthless? He only wished Mrs. Reid would be even crueler. Either way, anything she couldn’t handle, he would.

...

Meanwhile, at the Hill Family estate—

"Wasn’t the banquet supposed to start at six? Everyone’s here—where’s the guest of honor?"

"Could the Hill Family driver be running late?"

Eyes turned toward Hannah. She forced an apologetic, genteel tone. "The driver left early—Hill Family drivers are always punctual. If there’s a delay, it must be because—"

She trailed off.

Everyone understood the unspoken implication. The Hill Family driver always showed up on time. If Selina had boarded as scheduled, she’d be here by now. So why hadn’t she arrived? Because Selina was the one being late!

"That heiress is unbelievably rude... How disrespectful to be late on her very first recognition banquet—she’s the main character today and she just keeps us waiting?"

"Maybe not on purpose. I hear she’s a country girl—maybe she’s never learned to be punctual. She probably has no idea a banquet is this big or that so many people are waiting."

"She’s just spoiled and impolite. This is the Hill Family in City N, not her little village."

"We’re all waiting for her—what on earth does she think she’s doing? Who gave her the right?"

"Even Old Mr. Hill and Mrs. Hill are waiting," someone added. "Sigh..."

Matt and Hannah exchanged glances. A flicker of triumph lit Hannah’s eyes. She checked the time—Selina should already be dead by now, shouldn’t she? Even if she wasn’t dead, she was probably lying somewhere at the bottom of a cliff, calling for help that wouldn’t come. Selina would never make it to the banquet! Hannah’s face hardened with hatred.

It was Selina’s fault. After exposing the Morris Family, the old Morris heads ended up in jail or bankrupt; Kyle’s whereabouts were unknown; she’d even ended up divorced from Joe. That marriage didn’t last, and Hannah had become a laughingstock in their circles.

People were now saying City H’s Morris Family had fallen because their head had married Hannah—that she was a jinx. Hannah was furious. The nickname "jinx" had been intended for Victoria and Selina, a label she’d designed for them—but it had come back to bite her instead.

Thankfully, her father had promised she still had a shot to seize power and bring the Hill Family back under their control. Since returning to City N, the socialites had resumed fawning over her because she was still technically a Hill. But all her humiliation had been caused by Selina. Selina—Hannah spat the name silently in her mind.

Die, she thought. Die.