The Heiress He Underestimated novel Chapter 100

Burning Meadows Faced Endless Night by Arix Voss 100

Chapter 100 Revelation

“No,” he said, but there was something in his voice that made her wonder if he was lying. “No problem. We’ll make her suffer. That’s what we’ve always wanted.”

But later, after he’d dropped her off at his penthouse and kissed her goodnight and made sure she had everything she needed, Xan sat in his car in the underground parking garage and pulled out his phone again.

The message from Andrew Webb was short and to the point: “Found something interesting in the old police reports. Call me when you’re alone.”

Xan’s thumb hovered over the call button. This was it. The moment where he’d find out if the last three years of his life had been built on truth or lies. If Sarah was the victim she claimed to be, or if there was more to the story.

Did he even want to know? Wouldn’t it be easier to just keep believing what he’d always believed? To keep playing the avenging angel, the white knight defending his damaged lady love?

But then he thought of Elera on that stage. The confidence. The brilliance. The way she’d looked at Vex ike he was her whole world.

That should have been me, the traitorous voice in his head whispered again. And this time, Xan didn’t push it away.

He pressed the call.

Andrew answered on the first ring. “Valdris. Are you sitting down?”

Just tell me.”

The official story is that Sarah Lyros got drunk at a party, drove her parents‘ car, and crashed it. Both parents died instantly. Sarah was found at the scene with a blood alcohol level of 0.15, Case closed, she was ruled responsible, sentenced to psychiatric care due to her age and mental state.”

‘I know all that,” Xan said impatiently. “What’s the interesting part?”

“Who was it?”

The world tilted sideways. Xan gripped the steering wheel hard enough to make his knuckles white. “Elera’s father.”

“The very same. Now, I can’t prove anything. The paper trail is deliberately obscured. But the timeline is suspicious as hell. The Lyros parents refuse a merger, they die in a convenient accident, their daughter gets blamed, and Kieran Nethys ends up with their company. That’s a lot of coincidences.”

“What about Elera? Was she involved?”

“That’s where it gets murky. She was at the party, that much is confirmed. Several witnesses place her there. But no one can agree on when she left or if she interacted with Sarah that night. Some say they saw them talking, others say they never spoke. Elera’s own statement to the police was that she left early, went home, and was in bed by midnight. Her father backed that up. But Valdris, here’s the thing.” Andrew’s voice dropped. “The crash happened at 11:47 PM. If Elera left early like she claimed, she would have been gone before it happened. But one witness, the one who later recanted, originally said they saw Elera leaving the party at 11:30. With Sarah.”

Xan felt like he was going to be sick. “You’re saying Elera might have been in the car.”

“I’m saying there are holes in the official story big enough to drive a truck through. And when there are holes like that in cases involving rich, powerful families, it’s usually because someone powerful wants those holes there. Whether Elera was involved or not, whether she was a victim or a perpetrator or just a witness, I can’t tell you. But someone went to a lot of trouble to make sure the blame landed on Sarah and stayed there. And that someone had the Nethys’s name.”