Alpha's Abandoned Daughter is the Secret Heiress novel Chapter 388

Chapter 388: Time to Pay the Piper

Chapter 388: Time to Pay the Piper

(Author’s POV)

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At the end of the empty bowling alley, Griffin stood frozen. He gripped a heavy bowling ball tightly in his right hand.

An uncontrollable rage flared wildly within his cold grey eyes. He stared hatefully at the neatly arranged white pins standing ahead.

A low roar of pure fury tore violently from his throat. He hurled the heavy ball forward with an unstoppable physical force.

The bowling ball slammed brutally into the pristine white pins. A deafening crash of shattering impact echoed sharply throughout the silent building.

The damaged pins scattered and flew violently across the polished floor. Yet, this aggressive display did nothing to quell the massive fury inside his chest.

The vivid image of his grandmother Octavia being forcibly taken away replayed endlessly in his tortured

mind. It was exactly like a poisonous thorn buried deep inside his nerves.

His dark voice echoed eerily through the heavy silence of the empty alley. “Amelia will never expect this brilliant twist,” Griffin muttered darkly.

“This pathetic little live stream bet might actually cost her her wretched life.”

Griffin clenched his fists so tightly that his knuckles turned a ghostly white. His sharp nails dug ruthlessly into his palms, leaving deep red crescent marks.

His grandmother could not suffer this terrible implication in vain. He swore a silent, bloody oath to make Amelia Stone pay a truly agonizing price.

It was the night before the anticipated public bet. Amelia had just finished her secure video call with Theodore.

Her phone screen lit up brightly once again. An unknown number flashed on the display.

She answered the call with a calm facial expression. A deeply familiar and boring voice drifted through the speaker.

It was Damien Blackwood. He had deliberately changed to a new phone number just to bypass her blocks.

Damien immediately asked if she had received his birthday gift. His tone was laced with an arrogant sense of expectation.

Upon hearing that the gift had never arrived, he instantly seized the opportunity. He began to make a massive fuss over the missing item.

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He used undisguised sarcasm to imply that Theodore had intentionally withheld his present. His pathetic jealousy was painfully obvious.

Amelia maintained a calm tone throughout his childish rant. However, every single word she spoke in return was laced with sharp thorns.

She effortlessly turned the ridiculous situation right back around on his head. “You gave your gift to Theodore to pass on to me,” Amelia stated with a cold laugh.

“That kind of behavior is what we call true stupidity.”

Damien brushed off her accurate insult. He shifted the conversation to his own delusional personal

ambitions.

He confidently promised to snatch the Blackwood Pack inheritance back from Penelope within three

years.

Amelia listened to his arrogant boasting with genuine exasperation. “Penelope is vastly superior to you in absolutely every aspect of leadership,” Amelia told him truthfully.

“The mere fact that she has tolerated your useless existence until now is a rare leniency.”

She advised him to drop those pathetic, highly unrealistic delusions of grandeur. She told him to simply

tuck his tail between his legs and stay quiet.

“Just behave honestly in the Blackwood house,” Amelia finished speaking in a flat tone. “Perhaps your

family will still be willing to treat you decently.”

She decisively ended the frustrating call. She immediately blocked this brand new number without a second thought.

Her phone had barely settled onto the wooden desk when another unknown caller ID popped up. Amelia

picked the device right back up and answered it smoothly.

The very first desperate word spoken by the anxious person on the other end made her pause. A faint,

highly mocking smile deliberately curled the corners of her lips.

It was the thoroughly defeated Lucas Lloyd calling her. “Well, if it isn’t my pathetic little lapdog Lucas,” Amelia teased playfully into the receiver.

“What exactly is your specific purpose for calling me tonight?”

Lucas sounded incredibly frantic and desperate on the other end of the secure line. He straightforwardly offered to use a massive sum of money to completely cancel their humiliating public bet.

Amelia casually tossed out a ridiculous figure of ten billion dollars. “If you cannot immediately produce that exact amount, then do not waste our precious time,” she mocked him coldly.

Hitting a massive brick wall with his foolish financial offensive, Lucas took a sharp, incredibly deep breath.

He quickly and desperately pivoted his entire negotiation strategy.

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He anxiously offered to provide highly classified internal intelligence regarding Griffin Drake. He eagerly wanted to trade this secret information for a solid guarantee of his own personal safety.

Amelia remained completely noncommittal to his frantic bargaining attempts. She simply stated calmly

that she might consider his offer if the intelligence proved valuable enough.

Lucas fell into a heavy, incredibly tense silence for an agonizing moment. He hesitated for a significantly

long time before finally forcing the difficult words out.

He revealed nervously that Griffin had handed him an unknown, highly suspicious object earlier that day.

Griffin had strictly ordered him to tie it securely to the dog leash on the day of the live stream.

Lucas quietly admitted that he had nearly been beaten to absolute death by a furious Griffin yesterday. A

terrible premonition had deeply taken root in his racing heart.

He had been far too terrified to privately inspect the strange, heavy item himself. Instead, he had secretly

taken a clear photograph of it to send to her for verification.

A moment later, the message loaded onto her screen. Amelia stared incredibly intently at the digital image displayed clearly before her.

It was a small, compact device cleverly disguised in the innocent shape of a decorative bell. Her striking sapphire blue eyes instantly darkened with cold realization.

Having been deeply immersed in the complex ways of medicine and herbs for years, she was highly observant. She was absolutely no stranger to quickly identifying various highly dangerous items.

That seemingly innocent bell was actually a highly sophisticated, incredibly deadly miniature bomb. It possessed a relatively limited but highly concentrated blast radius.

However, it was powerful enough to cause immediate, lethal damage at such a close physical range. The

remote detonation controller was undoubtedly resting safely in Griffin’s hands.

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