Chapter 144: Sleep Works Wonders

By morning, my suspicion had hardened into certainty. It was him. It was always the General. Every piece fit now. The paranoia, the lies, the sudden need to see, the fake illness that Reese spoke about. He wasn’t sick—he was just setting the stage. Pretending to be frail so we’d come running. So he could get us both in one place. His delusion had reached a point where he believed I was pregnant. And if I had been… if there was truly a life inside me… he would’ve harmed me. Harmed his own grandchild. That realization made my stomach twist. I didn’t know what was worse—his madness, or the fact that none of his children had seen it. How could a family full of powerful, intelligent people have missed the truth right under their noses? The signs were there all along. Maybe they were all blind. Or maybe they were just afraid to open their eyes. A soft weight on my chest shifted, and I blinked, startled out of my thoughts. They still churned in my mind like a storm, but then Roman stirred aga