He Never Loved Me Until the Day I Finally Left Him novel Chapter 83

Back in the hospital room, Sebastian smashed everything in sight.

Every vase, monitor, and tray was shattered to pieces.

But the reality remained: Helena had vanished into thin air right under their noses.

*Helena, how dare you!*

Her disappearance cast a suffocating, dark cloud over Sebastian.

Even Grace Dale didn't dare cross him during this time.

She was caught off guard by the news of Helena's pregnancy as well.

Coupled with the restrictive clause in the late grandfather's will, Grace was forced to swallow her complaints and stay quiet.

No one in the Hayes family dared to mess with the corporate shares.

Janetta had also heard about the disappearance, and she was an anxious wreck.

Deep down, she wished Helena would never return—preferably dead.

But at the same time, she was terrified that something might actually happen to the baby, costing Sebastian his inheritance.

Trapped in this twisted headspace, Janetta was on the verge of a breakdown herself.

Meanwhile, Helena truly seemed to have evaporated.

Sebastian scoured the earth for her but turned up absolutely nothing.

It left everyone in stunned silence.

They had thought it was impossible for someone to just vanish, yet it had happened.

"Useless! All of you!" Sebastian swept everything off his desk in a blind rage.

His security team stood in a neat line, heads bowed, terrified to breathe.

"She's a pregnant woman. Riverton isn't that big. You're telling me you can't locate one pregnant woman?" He refused to believe it.

It was a decrepit block of apartments, but it sat right in the heart of the city, meaning the buyout costs were astronomical.

That was why no real estate developers had touched it for years.

Now that Sebastian had given the green light, the news sent shockwaves through the city.

But only Sebastian knew the real reason—it was bait to force Helena out of hiding.

Because that apartment was the only thing she truly cared about.

...

Meanwhile.

Helena sat quietly on a worn sofa, watching the chaotic news coverage of the demolition project on TV.

Her expression remained completely blank.

"Sebastian is trying to force your hand. He knows how much you value your mother's place. He assumes you'll come crawling back to beg him, or at least try to borrow millions of dollars from me to save it. Even if you don't sign the consent forms, he has ways to tear it down. He's gambling that you won't let your memories be destroyed," Lance James analyzed calmly from beside her.