When They Beg I Rise (Lemira) novel Chapter 1015

"Thanks to me?" Lemira asked, confused.

"Because you're brilliant enough to hire a top-tier lawyer like me. Without me, your high-and-mighty ex-boyfriend could have tried intimidating the Joneses all he wanted, and it still wouldn't have worked."

"Well then, thank you, Attorney Bennett."

Sebastian smirked with a touch of pride. "By the way, your third brother is Rowan Langston, right? He's the one who contacted Gregory. He's probably trying to strike a deal too, claiming he's invented some drug that reverses aging. Is any of that actually legit?"

"Ah, that."

Lemira remembered hearing about it in her past life. The drug eventually caused severe, irreversible side effects.

Her tone was cool as she replied, "What do you think?"

"I think it's just a delusion people desperately want to believe."

"Exactly. It's a delusion."

She hung up the phone. She knew exactly what Rowan's so-called research was in her past life—a massive scam designed to milk money out of desperate billionaires.

Rowan wasn't some medical genius. The only reason he had managed to join that elite island laboratory in the first place was because she had previously secured a rare ancient medical text for him.

He had used her discovery as his ticket into that research team.

And yet, his ultimate repayment was putting her on an operating table and stealing her kidney.

Lemira wasn't going to expose his fraud just yet.

In fact, she thought it might work in her favor right now. These wealthy men were obsessed with the idea of regaining their youth. If Rowan could use it to distract Gregory Jones, maybe the man would drop his alliance with the Sinclairs.

Stella walked over. "Lemira, I checked around for you. It's true—Sophia has latched onto that spa mogul."

Lemira smiled. "I know. Don't worry."

Janice turned her attention back to Stella. "Spill the tea. What's the latest with the Sinclairs? What are those two-faced witches up to now?"

Lemira let out a cold laugh. "He already has. He nearly stole the flash drive and tried to have our only witness killed."

"Sophia is so arrogant. How could she settle for a guy like that? Is throwing away the rest of her life just to keep her mom out of prison really worth it?"

Janice couldn't wrap her head around Sophia's logic.

Stella crossed her arms. "I know a bit of the backstory. Sophia's mother is a master manipulator, a classic two-faced hypocrite. Someone that selfish is never going to just accept going to jail."

"Even so, I've never heard of a mother pushing her own daughter into the fire just to save herself. The Sinclairs are insane."