The Divorce That Brought Us Back novel Chapter 331

"I will do the things you are too afraid to do. I will destroy the people you are too scared to touch."

Seraphina's grip on Nora's shoulder slowly tightened. There was a chilling, absolute insanity burning in her narrowed eyes. "If you want Bella dead, I can arrange that too."

Her words were a literal bombshell.

Nora stared at Seraphina in pure horror.

Cassidy, still sitting in the middle, was staring blindly at the video playing on the phone.

Her face mirrored Nora's disbelief. "Wasn't Bella in custody? How did you even get to her?"

"I didn't get her out. She was pregnant, remember? Pregnant women don't sit in jail cells, so they placed her in a secure hospital." A mocking, vicious sneer pulled at Seraphina's lips. "She thought she was so clever. Her baby came at the perfect time. Ironically, I agreed. If she had been locked in a maximum-security prison, getting to her would have been annoying."

Cassidy still couldn't wrap her head around it. "Were there no guards at the hospital?"

"Of course there were." Seraphina shot Cassidy a look of pure disdain. "Have you never heard of bribery?"

She was openly confessing to multiple felonies in broad daylight.

"Do you think it's difficult?" She scoffed, clearly insulted by their shock.

"Hospitals use full-time staff and contractors. Buying off a licensed doctor is hard, but paying off the hospital temps?"

Cassidy opened her mouth to argue, but Seraphina raised her voice, cutting her off. "Don't underestimate the temps. They do all the grunt work and cover the graveyard shifts. I just paid one to make sure Bella 'accidentally' slipped and took a nasty fall in the middle of the night. How hard is that?"

"And even if he botched the job and got caught, he'd serve a few years, and I'd wire him millions of dollars. Do you really think I'd ever run out of people willing to bleed for me?"

"Do you two have any grasp of how the real world works?"

Was orchestrating a hit in a hospital considered 'how the real world works'?

Both Nora and Cassidy were staring at her with wide, terrified eyes.

"Look, just tell me what you want done. You don't need to worry about my methods."

Nora finally found her voice. "What kind of deal are you trying to make?"

"I'll ask him," Nora said.

"I'm not telling you to ask him, I'm telling you to convince him." That look of disdain crawled back onto Seraphina's face. "If all I wanted was to ask, wouldn't I just go to him myself? Why would I need you? I need you to exert your influence."

"Give me your reasoning, and I will pitch it to him," Nora replied, her tone perfectly steady. "But I cannot guarantee he will say yes."

"He's hiding those people because he's waiting for the perfect time to have them file a joint testimony against the Coles," Seraphina said. "That is way too slow. It's agonizingly slow. I have a way to make them infinitely more useful."

"What are you planning?" Nora demanded.

"Ignite public outrage." Seraphina's eyes gleamed dangerously. "You don't need to know the details. Bringing vicious criminals to justice as quickly as possible is a win for everyone. We'd be doing society a massive favor."

Before Seraphina even finished, Cassidy slapped her hands over Nora's ears. "Don't listen to her psychotic bullshit."

Nora frowned deeply, pushing Cassidy's hands away. "If you do this, those people will be in extreme danger."

"Danger? Do you honestly think they care about danger? Believe me, if I told them I could put them face-to-face with the monsters who ruined their lives, they wouldn't run from the danger. They'd crack each other's skulls open just fighting for the chance!"