Chapter 1104:

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Back at the Jones family house, Vera sat in her room, troubled by thoughts of Hannah. That woman always appeared at the worst times, disrupting her plans and testing her patience. Wait—hadn’t she already ordered Baily to mess with Hannah’s company?

With Baily’s methods, Luminara Group should have been in shambles by now, its stock price collapsing. So how did Hannah still have the time and energy to kidnap Vincent? And Hannah did not look like a woman overwhelmed by public criticism or a company on the verge of ruin.

A sense of foreboding crossed Vera’s mind. She grabbed the tablet beside her and quickly pulled up financial news and stock reports.

Luminara Group’s stock price was stable—worse, it had even risen slightly over the past few days.

Searching for negative news about Hannah or Luminara Group turned up very little, and what did appear was controlled and insignificant.

Instead, several financial sections featured positive reports about Luminara Group’s recent investment in a promising tech startup.

“This can’t be!” Vera’s fingers tightened around the tablet. What was Baily doing? She had poured a fortune into tasking him with sabotaging Luminara Group, and this was the outcome?

A surge of fury—sharp and humiliating—shot through her. She grabbed her phone at once, searching for Baily’s number. But the moment she dialed, she heard the tone of a disconnected line.

𝗖𝗁𝗂𝗇e𝘀е 𝗻о𝘃𝖾𝗅𝗌 𝘁𝗋а𝗻𝘴𝗅𝖺t𝗲𝘥 𝘰𝘯 𝗀а𝗅𝗻𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘭𝘀.с𝗼𝗆

Her face paled. She swiftly logged into the anonymous account she had used to pay Baily. The screen displayed:

“Account has been closed.”

She balled her fists. Well done, Baily.

Vera trembled with rage. She had been played. Baily had taken a large sum of her money but hadn’t followed through on the deal to crush Hannah, instead disappearing without a trace. “Taking my money, not doing the job, and even daring to run?” Vera muttered, her voice low and cold as ice.

Drawing a deep breath, then another, she forced her anger back into its cage. This was not the moment to hunt Baily down. The priority was the wedding—and securing full control of Jones Group.

Once she became Vincent’s legal wife, with the power of the Jones Group firmly in her hands, crushing Baily or eliminating Hannah entirely would be effortless. Neither Baily nor Hannah would escape her reach. Once she commanded the Jones Group, she would make them understand the cost of crossing her.

Hannah’s investigation revealed that Colden wasn’t merely Vera’s confidant—he was the silent shadow who had been tailing Vincent for weeks. With that in mind, she chose caution over impulse and sent Coen to reverse-track Colden’s movements.

A few minutes ago, Coen had reported back. Colden had been slipping in and out of a law firm for the past three days. And there, Coen had uncovered the most alarming detail of all—the firm was preparing an agreement concerning the transfer of controlling shares of the Jones Group, with Vera named as the beneficiary.

In that instant, Vera’s true agenda emerged in full view. She wanted more than Vincent—she wanted the reins of the Jones Group itself.

Hannah didn’t waste a second. She used a secure line to contact Vincent.

They arranged a meeting at an exclusive café.

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