Submitting To My Billionaire Ex-Wife

Chapter 129

The joy Genevieve felt at being discovered was indescribable. Andrea joined Lauraine and looked up, her expression subtly shifting. She didn’t react as strongly as Lauraine, simply asking, “How did she end up there? Louis has been going crazy looking for her. She didn’t just accidentally hang herself up there, did she?”

Lauraine frowned with displeasure on her face. “I’m going to check upstairs,” she said, darting up

the stairs.

Anthony’s bodyguards were still looking for Genevieve. But Lauraine had no idea who they were after. She had been told earlier that no one was allowed upstairs, and she stood there, chin high, eyeing them defiantly, “I’m Anthony’s little sister. Do you dare to stop me?”

Her words left no room for argument.

Lauraine reached room 602. The room had been turned upside down and searched numerous times; no one would come again. She pushed open the window and saw Genevieve, her face streaked with tears.

This was the first time Lauraine had seen Genevieve so disheveled. Usually, she was poised and indifferent, always so refined and radiant that even Lauraine, the Hoffman family’s beloved daughter, felt overshadowed.

But the current distress of Genevieve was hard to watch. She was gagged, her face deathly pale. Remembering how Genevieve had donated bone marrow to her, Lauraine couldn’t bring herself to just stand by and began to untie Genevieve’s bonds.

Hope lit up in Genevieve’s eyes, tears shimmering with gratitude.

But before the rope was untied, Andrea’s voice chimed in from below, her gentle tone carried on the night breeze to their ears. “Lauraine, you’re not thinking of saving her, are you? Have you forgotten the way she humiliated you? How she climbed over you to gain power, playing your brother and Louis like they were pawns in her game? If you save her, she won’t be grateful, she will only despise you more. But without her, no one will compete with you for Louis. He’ll be yours

alone.”

Lauraine’s body jolted, her expression shifting subtly, a hint of hesitation in her eyes. Andrea’s words had struck a chord.

Genevieve’s pitiful, glistening eyes were always so captivating. But Lauraine remembered the cold. disdain in those eyes the last time Genevieve had humiliated her in the restroom during Jacinta’s party. “How proud Genevieve had been, piercing my pride as she exposed my attempted emulation!” Lauraine’s gaze hardened as she mused.

warmth in her heart gradually cooled. Her heart felt as if it

in Lauraine’s hands.

tugged at the rope, her grip tightening slightly. Suddenly,

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way.

fall, her entire frame

she hit the wall. She looked up in alarm to see Lauraine had instinctively yanked back on the rope. Lauraine’s face showed

up, just let go, and pretend nothing happened. Don’t forget, Louis is also on this cruise. If she shows up again, do you think he will even glance your way? She tied herself up. Maybe it’s just a ploy to get sympathy

Lauraine’s face began to ease. The fireworks.

casting a glow on Genevieve’s face. She looked pitiful and beautiful. ‘Andrea was right, as long as Genevieve

will blame you. No one will know

making her heart tremble violently. But in the end,

I’m

loosened the rope in her

fell into the sea like a fallen leaf.

cruise remained a hive of activity. The fireworks show was far from over. The surprises meant for

the chilling, dead silence of the ocean,

darkness deeper and more terrifying than hell itself, her panic and fear spiked to their

the chance to say goodbye to her family when endless suffocation consumed everything…

A

her legs free to struggle as she desperately tried

silent world, hearing only the muffled roar of the waves, the cruise ship getting

gasping for air, the feeling of suffocation

stolen away, feeling the waning hope within her,