Chapter 5 - Adrien’s Perfect Fiancée Was Hiding a Phone That Contained Every Secret They Thought They Had BuriedSabrina Cross arrived at the hospital at 3:15 in the morning.
She wore a cream cashmere coat.
Perfect makeup.
Perfect hair.
Perfect expression.
She looked terrified in exactly the way a perfect woman was supposed to look terrified.
“My God,” she whispered when she saw Adrien.
He stood outside Daniel's hospital room.
A doctor had stitched Daniel's head.
His condition was stable.
Sabrina rushed forward.
“What happened?”
Adrien hugged her.
At least, he made it look like a hug.
Her body felt familiar.
But something inside him had changed.
He had begun noticing details.
The way she watched Elena.
The way she avoided questions.
The way her phone never left her hand.
“Who did this?” Sabrina asked.
“I don't know.”
“Is Elena safe?”
Adrien looked at her.
“Why do you care?”
Sabrina blinked.
“She works for you.”
“She does.”
“You said she was in the warehouse.”
Adrien's eyes narrowed.
“I never told you about the warehouse.”
Sabrina froze.
Only for half a second.
But Adrien saw it.
“I heard it from Henry,” she said.
“Henry wasn't there.”
Silence.
Sabrina's face hardened.
“You're testing me.”
“Yes.”
She smiled.
“Why?”
“Because someone has been leaking information.”
Sabrina stepped closer.
“You think it's me?”
“I didn't say that.”
“You didn't have to.”
Elena watched from the corridor.
She wanted to leave.
But Daniel had awakened ten minutes earlier.
He had one sentence for her.
“Don't trust the woman in cream.”
Sabrina wore cream.
Elena felt cold.
Adrien walked toward Elena.
“Sabrina, this is Elena.”
“I know.”
Adrien's gaze sharpened.
Sabrina corrected herself.
“I mean, I've seen her.”
Elena smiled politely.
“Likewise.”
Sabrina extended her hand.
Elena shook it.
The moment their fingers touched, Sabrina whispered,
“You should have stayed a maid.”
Elena's smile disappeared.
Adrien had not heard.
But Elena had.
Later, Adrien entered Sabrina's suite while she slept.
He opened the desk drawer.
Nothing.
Closet.
Nothing.
Safe.
Locked.
He called the security technician.
“Open it.”
The safe contained jewelry.
Documents.
A passport.
Then beneath everything, a second phone.
Adrien stared.
He turned it on.
No password.
There were dozens of messages.
The most recent one was from Thomas.
The girl has the ledger.
Another:
Adrien knows.
Another:
Then start phase two.
Adrien kept scrolling.
His hands trembled.
Because the messages were not just between Sabrina and Thomas.
There were conversations between Sabrina and a federal investigator.
Between Sabrina and a senator.
Between Sabrina and someone saved only as R.
Adrien opened the conversation.
R: You promised Adrien would sign before the wedding.
Sabrina replied.
He will.
R:
And Elena?
Sabrina:
She won't survive long enough to matter.
Adrien stopped breathing.
A message appeared.
R: You understand once the Calder transfer is complete, Adrien is finished.
Sabrina:
I understand.
Adrien closed his eyes.
His fiancée was planning to destroy him.
Then the door opened.
Sabrina stood behind him.
“You should not read other people's phones.”
Adrien turned.
“Interesting.”
She looked at the phone.
Then at him.
“How long have you known?”
“Long enough.”
Sabrina's expression became cold.
“You always were clever.”
“I trusted you.”
“That was your mistake.”
He stared at her.
“Who is R?”
She smiled.
“You know.”
“No.”
“Yes, you do.”
Adrien stepped forward.
“Who?”
Sabrina whispered,
“Your mother.”
He froze.
“That’s impossible.”
“She survived the cancer.”
“What?”
“She didn't die.”
Adrien's face went white.
“That is a lie.”
“Ask Elena.”
Elena had entered the doorway.
She had heard everything.
“My mother is dead.”
Sabrina laughed.
“No.”
She turned toward Elena.
“Your mother is alive.”
Elena staggered backward.
“Where?”
Sabrina walked past them.
“You've been looking in all the wrong places.”
Adrien grabbed her arm.
“Tell me.”
Sabrina looked at him.
“She’s been hiding under another name.”
“Where?”
Sabrina smiled.
“At the one place no one would ever search.”
She leaned closer.
“Inside your own company.”
Then the hospital alarm sounded.
Daniel's room had been breached.
Adrien released Sabrina and ran.
When he entered Daniel's room, the windows were open.
Daniel was gone.
Only one thing remained on the bed.
A violin string.
Tied into a knot.
And beneath it, a note.
BRING ELENA TO THE OLD OPERA HOUSE. COME ALONE.
Adrien looked at her.
Elena shook her head.
“No.”
“Yes.”
“You cannot go.”
“I have to.”
“You're walking into a trap.”
Adrien looked at the note.
“We already are.”
Elena stepped closer.
“Then we're walking into it together.”
Adrien looked at her.
“Why?”
“Because my brother is there.”
She hesitated.
“And because I don't want to lose another person.”
Their eyes locked.
Neither looked away.
For a moment, the conspiracy disappeared.
There was only fear.
And something else.
Something neither was ready to name.
Adrien took her hand.
“Stay close.”
Elena nodded.
And neither of them noticed the security camera above the doorway.
Behind it, Sabrina watched.
Then she called Thomas.
“They’re going.”
Thomas asked,
“And the girl?”
May you like
Sabrina smiled.
“She finally thinks Adrien will save her.”
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