Marry Ex's Billionaire Uncle After Divorce (Aurora and Jasper) novel Chapter 264

Chapter 229 The Wedding

Chapter 229: The Wedding

(Author’s POV)

Sebastian looked at her for a long moment before he spoke.

“That phone call,” he said. “Was that about the kidnapping?”

Sienna’s face went white.

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She didn’t answer. She didn’t have to. Sebastian had already pieced most of it together from what was circulating among the Everett guests – someone had taken Phineas’s wife’s family member this morning, and now here was Sienna, hiding in an emergency exit corridor making hushed calls with the kind of urgency that had nothing to do with a restroom break.

“Tell me it wasn’t you,” he said.

Sienna’s composure shattered.

She pressed her back against the wall, and her whole body started to shake. The careful elegance she’d maintained all morning – the dress, the smile, the practiced ease – none of it held anymore. Not in front of him.

“Sebastian.” Her voice broke on his name. “I didn’t – it wasn’t supposed to go this far. I didn’t think they’d-”

“Stop.” He stepped closer, his voice dropping. “Was it you or not?”

“I didn’t do it myself.” The words came out in fragments. “But I-I may have set things in motion. And now I don’t know how much the people who actually did it will say if Phineas’s people get to them first.”

Sebastian said nothing for several seconds.

He thought about Zachary. He thought about how efficiently Everett Global had dismantled that situation – how thorough, how final, how completely without mercy. And that had been over a business dispute. This was Aurora. This was Phineas’s wife.

He’d genuinely underestimated what this woman meant to Phineas Everett. He wouldn’t make that mistake twice.

“Tell me everything,” he said. “Every detail. Don’t leave anything out.”

Sienna told him. It came out in pieces, her voice unsteady, her hands twisting together. She insisted she hadn’t been directly involved in the physical act. She said she’d only made some calls, only pointed some people in a direction. She said she hadn’t known it would spiral the way it did.

Sebastian listened without interrupting.

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When she finished, he exhaled slowly through his nose.

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“Wipe your face,” he said. “Go to the restroom. Fix your makeup. Then walk back in there and sit down like nothing happened.”

“But if they find-”

“I’ll handle what’s visible.” He cut her off. “That’s all I can do. The rest is on you.”

Sienna reached for his arm. He didn’t pull away, but he didn’t soften either.

“Sienna.” His voice was quiet, and it carried a weight she hadn’t heard from him before. “Listen to me very carefully. You do not go near Aurora again. You don’t look for angles. You don’t make calls. You don’t do anything. Phineas Everett is not someone we can afford to make an enemy of – not you, not this family, not anyone. Do you understand me?”

She looked up at him with something burning behind her eyes. Not gratitude. Not relief. Something that looked a lot like fury being held down by sheer necessity.

“I understand,” she said.

She turned and walked toward the restroom. Sebastian watched her go, and the weight in his chest didn’t lift.

(Aurora’s POV)

By two-thirty in the afternoon, the last guest had finally filtered out.

I sat down at my seat and looked at the plates in front of me – everything had gone cold hours ago.

I picked up a fork anyway and started eating. The roasted vegetables were fine cold. The beef was less fine, but I was hungry enough not to care.

“Here.” Olivia appeared beside me and set down a fresh plate – warm roast beef, properly done, with a small bowl of lobster bisque steaming beside it. She’d gone to the buffet station and gotten it herself. “You haven’t eaten anything real all day.”

“I ate.”

“You ate half a dinner roll at eleven and I watched you put it down to go greet someone.” She sat across from me. “Eat.”

I ate. The bisque was good. I wrapped both hands around the bowl and let the warmth soak into my palms.

“I have to say,” Olivia said, watching me, “this was beautiful and I love you both, but I am rethinking the whole wedding concept entirely.”

“Don’t.”

“Aurora, you’ve been on your feet for four hours straight. You haven’t sat down once. You’ve

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spoken to approximately three hundred people and remembered all of their names.”

“It wasn’t three hundred.”

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“It felt like three hundred.” She leaned her chin on her hand. “I’m serious. Gavin and I could just do a courthouse thing. Very clean. Very efficient.”

“You would regret it,” I said. “For the rest of your life, every time you saw a wedding photo, you’d think about it.”

“Or I’d feel relieved.”

“Olivia.”

She sighed. “Fine. Maybe a small ceremony.”

“That’s all I’m asking.”

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