After the Second Sunrise

---- Chapter 4 As the car sped away from the casino, Chester frantically pulled out his phone and dialed the bank, his next move shrouded in mystery. Seth's hand shot out, gripping Chester's wrist. "Hold ona sec!" Chester jerked away, irritation lacing his voice. "Let go! Tania's in trouble. Every second counts!" Seth snorted dismissively. "Why the panic? Tania's been nothing but trouble for Juliana. Maybe it's time she learned her place. "The casino is only after her cash, not her life. A few days to cool her heels might do her some good.

When we get her out, she'll probably be a little more... agreeable." Chester paused as the words sank in. Ever since my rebirth, the way | had targeted Juliana and the coldness | had shown him at my mother's grave had been like thorns in his heart. Maybe this so-called ' lesson' was meant to make me obedient again, just like in our previous life. ---- He hesitated, but then Juliana was there, her voice dripping with sweetness. "Don't fret, Chester. Dad's just spoiled Tania rotten. A little hardship might do her good.

And they wouldn't dare cross her at the casino." Chester looked at her, puzzled. Juliana was always the first to pamper Tania. Why the sudden change of heart? Nonetheless, her soothing words eased his worries. "Fine, we'll do it your way." Juliana's smile widened, a glint of victory in her eyes. The next day, as Chester and Seth kept Juliana company, a shrill ringtone sliced through the air. Chester's heart clenched without warning. The moment the call connected, a mafia goon's voice, laced with panic, blurted out, "Mr. Kane, we've got a huge problem!

At an old factory just outside town, they found a dead woman, her uterus missing, and she's got a birthmark on her arm just like Miss Tania's!" Chester's mind went blank with a thunderous crash. ---- "What are you talking about?" Seth grabbed the phone and yelled, "You've got to be wrong!" Juliana, shaken by their outburst, her voice quivering, said, "Dad just told me the life-signs chip we put in my sister went dark last night..." The room plunged into a deathly hush. Chester felt his blood turn to ice. "No! There's been some mistake.

Tania is still at the casino waiting for us to save her." In a frenzy, he bolted outside, jumped into a car, and sped off to the casino. Bursting through the casino doors, his eyes bloodshot, Chester was immediately swarmed by guards. He fought like a cornered beast, shouting at the top of his lungs, "Tania, where are you?!" He was eventually overpowered and dragged back to the VIP room they had used the night before. The moment the casino manager showed up, Chester thrashed about, his eyes icy with fury. "What ---- have you done with Tania?

| want to see her now!" The manager sneered, "We waited for you all night yesterday, but you never came. Someone made a hefty offer for her organs, and that cleared your tab." Chester froze, his stare boring into the manager, searching for any sign of deceit. "This can't be happening! You're lying!" However, when the manager played the video of Tania's organs being taken, Chester's world crumbled, and he fell to the floor, lifeless. His heart felt like it had been slammed by a sledgehammer, but adrenaline surged through him, giving him the strength to wrench away from the goons.

He gripped the manager's sleeve desperately. "Who said you could touch her? Give Tania back to me! Give her back!" Seth and Juliana rushed to his side, trying to restrain him. Juliana wrapped her arms around his waist. " Chester, please, stop this." ---- The manager watched with icy detachment as Chester unraveled. "It's you. You didn't rescue her in time." At that instant, Chester's strength drained away. He cradled his head, filled with self-blame, whispering over and over, "I killed Tania. It's my fault she's dead..." Seth shook him by the sleeve, trying to snap him out of it.

"Chester, snap out of it, man. It's done. Don't turn yourself into a laughingstock." However, Chester ignored him, his steps faltering, his eyes empty as he stumbled outside. A wave of regret drowned him. He should have raised the money immediately to save her. She would not have been gone had he done so. However, life did not deal in 'what ifs.' At that moment, Chester's phone buzzed with incoming photos and a message from his assistant. "Mr. Kane, I've just found out that Miss Juliana ---- rigged a gambling game yesterday, losing one billion dollars on purpose.

She paid off the gamblers to act it out. And that's not all, her personal account has 1.5 billion dollars, way more than enough to cover this so-called 'gambling debt'.