Rising From Betrayal Reborn As The Family Outcast (Alicia Delaney) novel Chapter 147

Chapter 147

After taking his medicine, Leo quickly drifted off into a groggy sleep.

When he woke up again, it was already the next day.

After eating the breakfast the nurse brought him, he looked a lot healthier than before.

After a while, Nicole and her mother, Mavis, pushed the door open and walked in.

Mavis smiled warmly at him and asked, “Honey, did you sleep well last night?”

Leo’s face turned cold. “Don’t call me that. It makes me sick.”

Mavis’s smile faded. “Well, Leo, now that you’ve had a good rest, shouldn’t you sign the agreement?”

She was just waiting for him to come begging her for help later.

Leo asked, “If I sign the agreement, are you sure you’ll let me go?”

Mavis nodded. “Absolutely.”

Leo took the agreement from her, gave it another look, and signed it.

Mavis handed him an ink pad and asked him to put his fingerprint on the document.

Leo did as she asked.

Mavis hadn’t expected Leo to be so quick to agree this time.

‘Looks like that medicine really did the trick. Even someone as stubborn as him ended up caving in,’ she thought.

Leo asked, “Can I leave now?”

But Mavis replied, “Not yet. You’ll have to wait until all the assets are transferred to Nicole’s name before you can go.”

Letting Leo go now was just too risky-too many things could go wrong.

For the next few days, she’d keep giving him that sedative; she needed to make sure he got really hooked on it.

She’d cut him off from the meds just a few days before letting him go, so he’d be stuck with her, no way out.

That way, even after he got out, he wouldn’t breathe a word about being kept under lock and key-he’d be too desperate to keep coming back for the meds.

Leo’s face darkened. “Are you playing games with me?”

Mavis smiled. “We said we’d let you go, but we never said when, did we?

“Relax. As soon as the assets are in place, I’ll make sure you get home myself.”

Leo narrowed his eyes. “Fine. Just make sure you don’t end up regretting it.”

Mavis replied, “No way we will.”

‘Regret having too much cash to burn? Yeah, right,’ she thought.

Leo couldn’t stand having Mavis and Nicole in the room any longer. “Just get out,” he said.

He knew deep down they weren’t about to let him walk out today.

He’d endured all this crap just to get solid evidence that they were keeping him locked up and forcing him to sign over his assets.

Mavis picked up the agreement. “Alright, I’ll come see you in a couple of days.”

Once she and Nicole secured the assets, she’d sell off the old family house and buy herself a luxury villa.

She’d keep Leo in that new villa, making him live under her thumb day in and day out.

She couldn’t wait to see Kevin and his brothers’ jaws hit the floor when they found out.

With this agreement, the entire Hammond family fortune would be theirs-not a dime left for Kevin or his brothers.

Once Mavis and Nicole left, Leo yanked the blanket up and pretended to doze off.

Hidden under the covers, he tapped a button on his watch in a secret pattern, pressing it several times in a row.

When he felt the button click back into place, he finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Good thing he’d installed a tracker in his watch before meeting with Mavis and Nicole.

And he’d already had Kevin set up the tracking app on his phone, just in case.

As soon as he used the tracker, it meant he was stuck and Kevin should come find him.

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His dad cared a lot about his reputation. If everyone found out he’d been held captive, he’d totally lose it.

Alicia rolled her eyes. “Hasn’t the Hammond family embarrassed themselves enough lately?

“Is your dad trying to save face, or save his life?

“If you go barging in there yourself and something goes wrong, and if anything happens to him, Mavis and Nicole will just blame you for it.

“But if you call the cops, whatever happens is on them.”

‘Seriously, worrying about your dad’s reputation right now is a waste of time.

‘Getting Mavis and Nicole locked up is what really matters,’ she thought.

Kevin nodded, seeing her logic. “Okay, I’ll call the police.”

As soon as he hung up with Alicia, he dialed the police.

What Kevin didn’t notice was that Felix had been quietly eavesdropping from the shadows, catching every word of his call.

Once Kevin headed out to meet the cops, Felix slipped into the storage room, retrieved a burner phone from a hidden nook, and quickly dialed a number.

Julian hadn’t expected Leo to have a backup plan.

He’d already told Mavis to search Leo from head to toe and even made him change into a hospital gown.

‘Where did he manage to hide that tracker?’ he thought, mind racing.

While he was busy getting Leo moved, he scrubbed through the security footage, checking every angle.

The only person he’d told was Alicia..

Still, he never suspected Alicia of being the one to screw things up.

Even if Alicia had cut ties with their dad, there was no way she’d ever rat them out to the other side or stab them in the back.

Besides, she was the one who suggested calling the cops in the first place.

No matter how many times he went over it in his head, he just couldn’t figure out what slipped or where the leak was.

Before he knew it, he was dialing Alicia again.