Rebirth: The New Bride Wants A Divorce-Chapter 595: He has already seen this coming

The storm from the previous night had finally settled, but the damage it left behind was anything but calm. The air still carried the weight of chaos, of things that had gone terribly wrong in ways none of them had anticipated.

After confirming that Kathrine had been abducted and Roseline was left fighting for her life, Anna could no longer ignore the dread that had been building inside her. It pressed heavily against her chest, making every breath feel strained.

Their plan had been simple. Detain Collin first, then deal with Roseline.

But everything had spiraled out of control.

Collin had acted faster than they expected. Now Kathrine was gone, taken by him, and Roseline lay on the edge of death. As if that was not enough, Daniel had suddenly ordered a halt on the search, leaving Anna restless and confused.

Her gaze drifted toward the glass wall of the emergency ward.

Inside, Roseline lay motionless, her pale form barely visible beneath the harsh white lights. Machines surrounded her, their steady beeping the only indication that she was still alive.

She had lost a dangerous amount of blood. The doctors had said it was nothing short of a miracle that she had even made it this far. If Henry had not reached the house in time and rushed her to the hospital, things would have ended very differently.

Anna swallowed hard, her fingers curling into her palms.

Everything had changed.

Time was slipping through their fingers, and for the first time since all of this began, Anna felt fear truly settle inside her. It was no longer distant or controlled. It was real, sharp, and suffocating.

She closed her eyes, trying to steady her breathing, trying to push away the rising panic.

A hand rested gently on her shoulder.

Anna opened her eyes and turned to see Daniel standing beside her, his expression calm but firm.

"Everything is going to be fine," he said quietly.

The reassurance broke something inside her.

Without thinking, Anna stepped forward and wrapped her arms around him, burying her face against his chest. She held onto him tightly, as if grounding herself, as if he was the only thing keeping her from falling apart.

She was scared.

Not just for Kathrine, who was out there somewhere with Collin, but also for Roseline, who was fighting for every breath behind that glass wall.

No matter how much she had resented Roseline, no matter how complicated things had become between them in recent days, Anna had never imagined it would come to this.

She had never imagined seeing her like this.

Anna did not speak. She simply stayed there, holding onto Daniel, letting the silence say everything she could not put into words.

After a few moments, her grip slowly loosened.

She pulled back, lifting her gaze to meet his.

"I know what you are waiting for me to say," Anna said softly.

There was a quiet understanding in her eyes, something unspoken yet clear.

Daniel did not interrupt.

Instead, he let her take his hand.

Anna tightened her hold on his fingers and turned, leading him away from the emergency ward, down the long, quiet corridor.

***

Hugo’s room was dimly lit, the curtains drawn halfway, allowing only a sliver of light to seep in. The atmosphere inside was heavy, still, as if time itself had slowed within those walls.

On the bed lay Hugo.

Unconscious.

Silent.

Unaware of everything that had unfolded around him.

Anna stopped near the foot of the bed, her gaze fixed on him.

For a moment, she said nothing.

Then, taking a slow breath, she spoke.

"It was Dad behind all those recordings."

Her voice was calm, almost too calm, as if she had already processed the weight of what she was saying.

Daniel’s expression shifted slightly.

He looked at her, searching her face, then turned his gaze toward Hugo.

The man on the bed remained still, his condition unchanged, his face devoid of any reaction.

"He planned it," Anna continued, her eyes not leaving Hugo. "Every piece of it. The recordings, the manipulation, the way everything was set up to turn against each other."

Her fingers tightened slightly at her sides.

"I did not want to believe it at first. I thought there had to be another explanation. But there is not."

The room felt colder.

Daniel remained silent, absorbing her words, his jaw tightening almost imperceptibly.

Anna finally turned to look at him, tightening her grip around the phone in her hand as if it was the only thing keeping her steady.

"He had already seen this coming," she said quietly. "That is why he alerted me."

Her voice carried a strange mix of disbelief and lingering shock as the memory of the message resurfaced in her mind.

Daniel’s gaze shifted to the phone as she handed it to him.

Anna remembered the exact moment she had read it.

The apology had come first.

Unexpected. Uncharacteristic.

Hugo had never been the kind of man to admit his mistakes so easily, yet every word in that message had felt painfully sincere. It was not just an apology. It was regret, heavy and undeniable, bleeding through every line he had written.

And for a brief moment, it had shaken her.

But what came after that had left her completely stunned.

Daniel’s eyes scanned the message in silence, his expression growing darker with each passing second. The sincerity in Hugo’s words was evident, but it only made the truth that followed more unsettling.

Because the message did not end with an apology.

It ended with a confession.

Anna watched Daniel carefully, waiting for the exact moment it would sink in.

"The person behind those recordings..." she began, her voice steady despite the storm inside her.

Daniel’s grip on the phone tightened slightly. 𝓯𝙧𝙚𝒆𝙬𝙚𝒃𝙣𝙤𝒗𝓮𝓵.𝙘𝙤𝙢

"...was none other than Dad."

The room fell into a heavy silence.

Daniel slowly lifted his gaze from the screen, his eyes meeting Anna’s, searching for even the slightest sign that this could be wrong.

But there was none.

Anna did not look away.

There was no hesitation, no doubt in her expression. Only certainty.

"He admitted it himself," she added softly.

Behind them, Hugo lay on the bed, unconscious and unaware, as if the truth had chosen the worst possible moment to reveal itself.

The man they had been trying to protect.

The man they had been waiting on.

He had been the one pulling the strings all along and yet it took them a while to see it.

Hugo had clearly mentioned in his message that his life would be at risk. If anything happened to him, if he did not survive, she was to go to his study and find the phone he had hidden there. He had told her she would find all the answers she had been searching for.

And that was exactly what Anna did.

What she found there had changed everything.

It was the moment the truth unfolded, piece by piece, leaving no room for denial.

Anna knew Hugo.

He was not a man who would break so easily, nor someone who would choose to end his own life. He was the kind of person who, no matter how hard he fell, would always find a way to stand back up and rebuild himself from nothing.

That was who he had always been.

Which was why Roseline’s exaggerated claims about his condition felt completely unacceptable to her.

It did not sit right.

It never did.

Roseline had not just crossed a line this time. She had gone far beyond it. Whatever little humanity Anna had once believed she possessed seemed to have vanished entirely.

And that belief was only confirmed when Kathrine told her the truth.

Hugo had been trying to find George’s family.

He had been digging into something that should have stayed buried, something dangerous enough to make the wrong person feel threatened.

And that person was Roseline.

Somewhere along the way, she had panicked.

She had seen Hugo as a risk.

And just like before, she chose to protect herself.

No matter the cost.

She had planned everything carefully, just as she had done in the past. Every move, every lie, every step taken to ensure that she would come out untouched while others took the fall.

But this time, things had not gone according to her plan.

This time, it had backfired.

And that was what pushed Anna to agree with Norma.

To expose Collin.

They had never intended for things to spiral like this.

They did not want chaos. They did not want bloodshed.

All they had wanted was justice.

Justice that had been denied in the past.

Justice that had been buried under lies and manipulation.

But now, as everything unfolded in the worst possible way, as lives hung in the balance and truths surfaced at the cost of everything else, Anna could not help the doubt creeping into her mind.

Nothing was going the way it was supposed to.

And for the first time, she was no longer sure if any of this would end well.