Substitute Wife, Genius CEO novel Chapter 554

She was completely cut off from everything happening outside.

A second later, Summer happily filled her in.

"Lilith, earlier you said you'd haunt me even as a ghost. Doesn't that sound oddly familiar? When you were out in international waters, right before you had Paige's eyes gouged out, didn't he say the exact same thing to you?"

Shock paralyzed Lilith. "How could you possibly know about that?"

"How do I know?" Summer chuckled darkly.

Lilith hadn't trusted Paige, but the feeling was entirely mutual.

Paige had only stayed by her side to quietly amass evidence of her depravity and expose her true colors to the world.

That was why he had been wearing a top-tier, military-grade hidden camera. Its concealment was so advanced that no standard security scanner could ever detect it.

"Paige recorded everything. High-definition footage of you orchestrating his brutal murder has been going viral across every major social media platform. The authorities have been tearing the world apart trying to find you."

"So even if your lawyers miraculously clear you of Tessa's kidnapping, what about Paige? Can you buy your way out of a videotaped murder?"

"And just for the record, I was wearing a hidden camera today as well. The moment you openly offered these mercenaries millions to execute me was broadcast in real time. Pack your bags, Lilith. You're going to rot in a cell until the day you die."

Leaving her with that devastating blow, Summer turned toward the ambulance. But just as she stepped up, she glanced back over her shoulder. "Oh, by the way. Your accommodations have already been pre-selected. You're going to the exact same prison you personally picked out for Xenia."

The facility Xenia had been sent to was notoriously brutal—a chaotic hellhole housing only the most violent, irredeemable criminals in the country.

The last shred of fight left Lilith's body as she slumped completely into the mud. The female officer violently hauled her to her feet and shoved her into the back of a police cruiser.

Inside the ambulance.

Tessa went into severe hemorrhagic shock from internal bleeding.

Summer's extremities turned ice-cold, her body trembling violently. She could only watch helplessly from the corner as the paramedics fought desperately to stabilize her friend.

She silently prayed over and over, begging the driver to go faster. Just a little bit faster.

At the hospital.

Though it wasn't a world-renowned medical center, the surgical team waiting in the trauma bay was assembled from elite international specialists.

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