He Never Loved Me Until the Day I Finally Left Him novel Chapter 722

Because she and Charlotte shared the exact same surgeon.

After hanging up the phone, Sebastian sank into a suffocating silence.

Outside his window, Victoria Harbour was swept by a gentle breeze, yet the early autumn air still clung to a humid, stifling heat.

After a long while, he finally dragged himself to his laptop and began clearing out his emails.

Suddenly, a message notification from Beau Sterling flashed across the screen.

Beau: [Where are you?]

Sebastian: [Coralia.]

The second the message delivered, Beau's call blew up his phone.

He answered without hesitation.

"Did you seriously fly out there for her?" Beau demanded bluntly.

Sebastian offered absolutely nothing in response.

Beau went quiet for a second before his tone dropped into something dead serious. "Listen, I found something, and it's heavily off."

"Go ahead," Sebastian replied, entirely unfazed.

A massive file instantly popped up on his screen, sent directly from his friend.

Beau's voice immediately followed.

"IGM is hiding something massive," Beau warned sharply. "I just sent you The Financial Reports from the last few years. The sheer speed of their growth is completely unnatural. Yeah, they had Campbell money backing them, but that doesn't explain this."

"Given the blood feud between your family and his, Julian would never let a subsidiary move like this without intense oversight. Yet he's letting it run completely unchecked. And the woman sitting in the CEO chair is Helena—his own wife."

"Look at the ledger. Their biggest corporate partner by a landslide is The Hayes Corporation. They've been draining resources from you since the absolute second their doors opened."

Looking from the outside in, Beau easily spotted the trap.

"Every other company they do business with is practically pocket change. It's like they only took on those contracts to create the illusion of a legitimate, diversified business."

"Their only real target is your entire empire."

His tone grew increasingly grave. "Seb, I'm calling it right now. If IGM was built to target your company, then this whole partnership is nothing but a corporate suicide mission meant to bankrupt you."

Beau laid out the terrifying reality of the trap.

It wasn't just a paranoid theory; it was a highly calculated strike currently in motion.

"Loud and clear," Sebastian murmured smoothly.

"Doesn't any of this terrify you?" Beau demanded, totally bewildered.

His friend was a ruthless apex predator in the boardroom; there was no way he hadn't noticed the red flags.

Hell, Sebastian had known exactly what she was trying to do to him from the very beginning.

She had been actively trying to seduce him.

It was a meticulously calculated game of lethal temptation.

He had simply chosen to let her play it.

He had allowed her to run wild.

"This woman looks identical to your dead wife, and you don't think that's wildly suspicious? You really think that's just a crazy coincidence?" Beau's frantic voice blasted through the speaker again.

This time, Sebastian's voice dropped to a lethal whisper. "I don't think it's a coincidence at all. I'm certain they are the exact same person."

"Are you insane?" Beau shouted, totally floored. "Are you out of your mind? We literally re-ran the DNA! It didn't match. She's dead, Seb. They are not the same woman."