Unwanted Fake Wife The Top Billionaire novel Chapter 319

Chapter 319 The Betrayer’s Confession

For Gideon, the news hit like a physical blow

Just leave me here-don’t come back, he muttered, voice hollow. He seemed utterly broken.

Cradling his head in his hands, he refused to meet Elena’s gaze. I’m worthless. I actually believed I could make a difference-was so sure of myself when I launched the lab. I even had you and Alexander help secure funding. And now… His words trailed off, thick with shame. “Look at the mess I’ve made.”

Life had always come easily to Gideon. This failure didn’t just sting-it shattered him.

Every night, as soon as he closed his eyes, the devastated, angry faces of those children and their parents flashed before him, gnawing at his conscience. He gripped his hair, shoulders tense with pain.

“Do you really think hiding in here fixes anything?”

Elena studied the man slumped across from her-every line of his face etched with defeat and guilt. “While you’re sitting here feeling sorry for yourself, everyone else is scrambling to clean up the fallout. Since when did you turn into such a coward, Gideon?”

Gideon stiffened, caught off guard by her bluntness. Slowly, he lifted his head.

“You’re right. I am a coward. Hiding away, wallowing in self-pity… so tell me, what am I supposed to do? I don’t have Alexander’s mental toughness. Sometimes I almost wish it had been me who–”

“You’re right, you don’t have his toughness, Elena cut in sharply. “But you weren’t the only one impacted when the lab failed. The Morgans got dragged into this-Kieran’s bar is shut down indefinitely. Pinnacle Group is taking heat online because they backed your research. And it’s not just them-Julian’s caught up in it, too. You can lock yourself away and pretend none of this is happening, but out there, people are hurting because of what went wrong, and they’re still pushing forward to find/answers.”

Gideon hadn’t fully grasped how far the damage had spread.

Ruining his own life was one thing-but dragging others down with him? That was unbearable.

“Then what do I do now?” he asked, eyes clouded with confusion,

Stuck in this holding cell, he couldn’t even step outside to help

“Tell me about Isaac,” Elena said, shifting gears.

Gideon looked even more lost. “He’s an old friend from my grad school days-specializes in pediatric asthma. We’ve always been close…”

Then, reading the intensity in Elena’s expression, it dawned on him where she was going with this.

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He shook his head quickly. “No, that’s impossible. I’ve known Isaac for years. He wouldn’t betray me. Isaar vanished right after the incident,” Elena stated flatly, repeating what Declan had told her. “As your lab partner, shouldn’t he be trying to figure out what went wrong? Instead, he disappeared without a trace. Even now, you think nothing’s off?”

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Chapter 319 The Betrayer’s Confession

“Maybe he… maybe something else came up. Elena, you don’t know him like I do. Back in school, we were inseparable…

He still couldn’t-wouldn’t-believe Isaac could be involved.

“Whether he’s involved or not, we won’t know until we find him. And clearing his name starts with locating him.”

Elena didn’t have time to debate. Every day that passed meant more damage.

“Was he connected to Nathan?”

“No,” Gideon answered. “Isaac’s pretty much a homebody. No way he’d run in Nathan’s circles.”

“Then where else would he go besides the lab and his apartment? Think.”

Elena switched into work mode, pressing Gideon for every possible detail.

An hour later, she walked out of the county detention center and called Declan. “I’ve got a lead. Check this address-Isaac might be there.”

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At a residential care facility across town, a young man stood in a quiet hallway, phone pressed to his ear. “I did exactly what you asked,” he hissed, voice strained. “You promised you’d arrange passports and flights for me and my family once I switched out those drugs. How much longer am I supposed to wait?”

His face was contorted with frustration. Soft, rounded features that usually looked gentle now seemed sharp with anger.

The person on the other end replied calmly.

The man’s expression darkened. “Are you screwing with me? What if I go public with everything? Your family’s reputation will be ruined, too.”

A light, mocking chuckle came through the line.

“Dr. Flynn… is that a threat?

“All I did was hire you to consult on my mother’s asthma medication. I paid you a consulting fee-500,000 dollars. Nothing improper about that, is there?”

The man-Isaac-breathed heavily, feeling the noose tighten. He wanted to reach through the phone and wrap his hands around Nathan’s throat.

A month earlier, Nathan had approached him.

The offer was straightforward; a million dollars upfront, plus relocation abroad for his family, in exchange for one small favor-swap the experimental drugs from Gideon’s lab into the prescriptions of several pediatric patients at Pinecrest Medical Center.

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