Ms. Escape Marrying to Run Fighting to Rise novel Chapter 395

Chapter 395 No More Friends

Silas was quiet for a long time. When he finally looked back at Adriana, there was apology in his eyes. “I’m sorry, Adriana. I can’t tell you who he is.”

Adriana had known he wouldn’t. She gave him a small smile anyway. “Still… I’m happy I got to see you again after all these years.”

Silas smiled back. “Have you been doing okay?”

Adriana paused. Okay wasn’t the word. But neither was ruined. And she knew Silas had already had someone dig into her life before he ever stepped into Lincoln Group. He was asking because he wanted to hear it from her.

“Not great,” she said lightly. “I was always just a little short on luck. After I was adopted, I got sent back. Then I met my husband, Curtis, and I finally understood. Maybe I wasn’t unlucky. Maybe I was saving up everything good I had to meet him.”

Her smile held for a beat, then thinned into something bitter. “Too bad happiness doesn’t last. Curtis is gone now, and everyone thinks I’m a jinx. Bad for my parents, bad for my husband. Like I bring disaster everywhere I go.”

Silas studied her, something complicated settling in his face. After a moment, he said quietly, “I don’t see you that way. I think you’re the opposite.”

He hesitated, then continued. “When I met you at the orphanage, those were the happiest and easiest days of my life. After you were adopted by a childless couple, they got pregnant right away. You’ve always been the kind of person who brings luck to others.”

Adriana blinked. All her life, she’d been sure she was a curse. Now she was supposed to be a blessing?

“Thank you,” she said, and left it at that.

They weren’t kids anymore. They weren’t the kind of close where you could say anything. If the one behind Silas was Mister, that meant they were standing on opposite sides. Whatever they still felt from the past didn’t change that.

“I can’t tell you who Mister is,” Silas said again, his gaze steady, earnest. “But Adriana, I won’t hurt you. I know you might not trust me, but-”

“I trust you,” Adriana cut in. She trusted that Silas wouldn’t harm her. That didn’t mean he wouldn’t calculate around her.

Something flared in Silas’s eyes, quick and sharp.

Adriana kept going. “But I also know why you came back to Haldoria. Lincoln Group was Curtis’s life’s work. I’m not going to stand by and watch it fall into the hands of that snake behind the curtain.”

Her voice didn’t rise, but it hardened. “He thinks he’s the one moving every piece from the shadows. He’s been controlling everything for years, and he’s gotten a lot of people killed. He’s my enemy. This ends one way.”

She looked at Silas, clear and unblinking. “So… Silas, I’m sorry. We can’t be friends this time.”

“Looks like even the financial genius everyone in the Moweland Centralian circle can’t stop talking about is taken with her.”

A bright, glamorous woman stepped up beside Savannah as she spoke. Savannah stiffened. It was Maggie Gill.

Savannah had never been good at knowing her place. She was loud, reckless, sure she could stare anyone down. But Maggie’s presence pressed in like weather, calm and unavoidable, and Savannah found herself instinctively wary.

“Ms. Maggie,” Savannah said, forcing a smile. “What a surprise. I heard you’ve always managed the Gills from behind the scenes. You never show up at public events like this.”

Maggie’s gaze drifted toward the entrance, where Justin had just arrived, leading a young woman in a simple white gown into the room.

“The Gills need partners,” Maggie said, unhurried. “These past few years, we’ve stalled. We need someone capable.”

She smiled faintly, and somehow it only made her more intimidating. “My sister chose Denton. He’s young, but his future is obvious. So I need an alliance of my own. A marriage, if that’s what it takes. Something binding that keeps our interests aligned.”

She didn’t bother hiding her intent. Savannah was the kind of idiot Maggie didn’t waste caution on. Savannah swallowed her curiosity and asked anyway, “So… Ms. Maggie already has someone in mind?”