Reborn Betrayed Twin: From Starlet to Billionaire Chapter 08

Reborn Betrayed Twin: From Starlet to Billionaire Chapter 08 The Forehead Kiss Heard ‘Round The World

“Relax. After tonight, nobody’s going to protect her. Her dad won’t even be able to save himself.”

My heart dropped-but I couldn’t make a sound.

They planned to take down my parents too?

A few of them moved toward me, rubbing their hands like they’d already won.

Evelina stood off to the side, smirking, phone out, filming.

THUD!

The door flew open.

Killian stormed in, eyes red.

Before I could even react, he crossed the room and drove one brutal kick straight into Evelina.

She flew sideways and hit the floor with a scream.

His men grabbed the others.

I rushed straight into Killian’s arms.

“Killian, don’t worry. I didn’t actually drink any of that—”

I didn’t get to finish.

He pressed his lips to my forehead. Soft. Gentle. Like I was something precious.

My brain went completely blank.

“Seraphina.” His voice was low. Unsteady. “Promise me. Don’t ever put yourself in danger like this again.”

He held me tighter.

“I can’t lose you.”

My face was on fire. I mumbled, “Okay…”

Then I jolted.

“Wait. Dad. Go check on Dad-”

Before I could even finish, my dad’s laugh echoed from outside the room.

“Don’t worry, sweetheart. I’m fine.”

Then he paused: “You wanna know what your mom’s up to right now?”

Turns out, Monique had tried to drug him too.

He pretended to drink it. Let her drag him toward a room-he almost got forced into sleeping with her.

Joke’s on her, though.

My mom burst in with security and beat the crap out of her. Made her confess everything on

camera.

Monique admitted Evelina put her up to it. Said she wanted to be the next Mrs. Sterling.

And Evelina?

She wanted what I had. My place. My parents. My life. And she wanted to step on me until there was nothing left.

Their plan was simple:

Ruin my dad. Make him “cheat”.
My mom-being the softie she is-would flip out and demand a divorce.
My dad, guilty and ashamed, would agree.
Meanwhile, I’d be “damaged goods” too. They’d leak the tape, turn public opinion against
and force my dad to kick me out.

me,

One stone, two birds.

Too bad their aim sucked.

Checkmate.

Monique, those directors, and Evelina all got shipped off to the police station.

Only afterward did I find out the truth.

Killian had known what I was planning all along.

For years, he’d been secretly listening in.

Watching over me from a distance.

Not because he was controlling.

Because he was afraid.

Afraid that if he looked away for one second, something would happen to me.

The moment he realized I was planning to bait Evelina into making a move, he told my parents in secret.

The three of them decided to handle it together.

This time, they were going to wipe Evelina and Monique out for good.

Arthur looked absurdly pleased with himself.

“See? I told you not to worry. I was acting.” He grinned at me. “Pretty convincing, right?”

Mom immediately grabbed his ear.

“Convincing? You were terrible. If I hadn’t covered for you, you would’ve blown the whole thing.”

“Ow, ow, ow. Honey. Dignity.”

Looking at them-

at all of them-

my nose started to sting.

Then the tears came.

Killian panicked. “I’m sorry… are you mad? About the surveillance?”

He lifted his hands to wipe my face, clumsy and careful at the same time.

“I swear. I’ll never do it again.”

I sniffed and looked up at him.

Pretending to be stern.

“Then tell me. When did you start?”

He went quiet.

“Your eighteenth birthday. The brooch. I put a bug in it. I was just… I was scared. You were leaving for college. And I couldn’t protect you if I didn’t know where you were.”

My fingers curled.

A chill ran through me so fast it made my chest tighten.

Did he know?

Did he know I had lived another life?

Did Mom and Dad know too?

And if he did…

Would he think I was wrong?

Killian must have seen something on my face.

He pulled me closer at once.

“Sera, don’t worry. Mom and Dad only know Evelina was targeting you. I didn’t tell anything else.”

He rested his chin lightly against my hair.

anyone

“In my eyes… you’re still the same person you’ve always been. The one I want to protect for the rest of my life. I just wish I’d found you sooner in the last life. Then maybe… you wouldn’t have had to go through any of that.”

His voice roughened on the last words.

That broke me.

Completely.

All the fear.

All the shame.

Everything I had dragged with me from my last life into this one.

It cracked open in his arms.

I buried my face against his chest and started crying so hard I could barely breathe.

Now I understood.

Back then, in that lounge, when he had suddenly asked if I was hiding something from him-

this was why.

And when I denied it, that hurt look in his eyes…

He must have thought I was only being nice to him for some hidden purpose.

For some strategy.

For survival.

My hand twisted in the fabric of his shirt.

I looked up at him through wet lashes, eyes burning red.

“Killian,” I whispered, “I’m not using you. I just… really like you. For real.”

He just smiled and held me tighter.

“Yeah. I know.”

In the end, Evelina and Monique were sentenced for drugging and sexual assault.

Those directors got time too-attempted rape.

Killian made sure the story stayed on trending for a whole month.

The internet didn’t just drag them-they evaporated them.

Memes. Hate comments. Frame-by-frame takedowns.

Overnight, their names became synonyms for trash.

And me? Some people actually felt bad for me.

Then the shipping started.

[Help, why do they look so perfect together? They’re eating this look up! ]

[Literally! A protective, non-blood-related hot brother? I’m shipping this so hard. Catch me screaming at my screen! ]

Killian’s icy face melted a little every time he saw those comments.

Three years later, I wrote a screenplay that made over a hundred million at the box office. My company was booming.

And my dad? He couldn’t wait to retire. Wanted to take my mom on a trip around the world.

Arthur had already started trying to dump work on everyone else so he could retire again and take Celeste on a world tour.