His Ex-Wife Is A Billionaire (Evadne and Thaddeus) novel Chapter 1056

The anguished cry echoed down the entire corridor.

Of course, Hans heard it as clear as day.

He froze for a split second, locking eyes with a middle-aged woman a few yards away, her gaze brimming with unshed tears.

Without warning, his heart thudded dully in his chest, heavy and sluggish, every breath tinged with a strange, suffocating emotion he couldn't quite name.

It was the same hollow heaviness he’d felt watching Evadne, battered and bruised, pull herself from the wreckage of an overturned car.

“Hubery… Is that you? Hubery!”

Suri, always the epitome of grace and composure, was now utterly undone—her face streaked with tears, her voice ragged and broken. “Hubery… It’s your mother! You’re alive… My God, you’re really alive!”

Mother…?

Hans stared at the woman approaching him, stunned. For a moment, his heart seemed to forget how to beat. The hand holding his cigarette trembled, rough and unsteady.

Then a sudden, splitting headache snapped him back to reality.

He crushed his cigarette out on the balcony rail and, like lightning, vanished from Suri’s sight.

“Hubery!” Suri hurled herself after him, heedless of anything but her desperate hope.

She stumbled, falling hard to the floor and skinning both knees. The pain and grief left her sprawled there, unable to rise, sobbing openly.

Meanwhile, separated by just a wall on the next balcony—

Hans listened to the woman’s heartbroken wails, drawing a deep, ragged breath as he fought to keep the pounding in his head at bay. Muscles taut, his jaw clenched, his eyes burned crimson with emotion he couldn’t suppress.

…

Inside the hospital room, the Ashbourne father and daughter finally shared a rare, private moment.

“Dad… please, don’t worry.”

Evadne was swallowed up in a baggy hospital gown, her tiny frame almost ghostly against the white sheets. Her face was pale as snow, as if the faintest breath would melt her away, yet she still forced a smile for her father. “I’m okay. It hurt at first, I won’t lie. But now… it’s behind me.”

“You and Thaddeus… it’s really over?” Emeric clutched her cold hand, eyes anxious and searching. “You’re my own flesh and blood. Do you really think I can’t tell what’s in your heart? I may be old, but I’m not senile—and I’m certainly not blind!”

“Dad…” Evadne’s voice caught in her throat.

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