Chapter 222

Meanwhile, back at the empty building, Regina pointed her finger towards the paper. “Sign it.” Her voice was sharp, commanding, her eyes narrowing as she studied Bellatrix, who's been silent for a solid minute now. She tried to decipher her composed expression that should have been ridden by panic, fear, better yet, dread, but came up short, but in the end, it didn’t matter to her, because once Bellatrix signed those papers and left Miami, her fate would be sealed. She and Mary would finally be free to erase both Bellatrix and that brat that popped out of nowhere and was lingering above her head like a ticking time bomb, from existence, as though they had never lived at all. The thought alone made Regina’s chest swell with dark satisfaction. At last, things would return to the way they were meant to be. Cillian would stand by her side, the Lancaster fortune would fall into her hands, and Mary—her dearest aunty—would finally look at her with pride instead of disappointment. She would fi