Marry Ex's Billionaire Uncle After Divorce (Aurora and Jasper) novel Chapter 294

(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.

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.

When she finished, he exhaled slowly through his nose.

“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.”

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