His innocent wife is a dangerous hacker.-Chapter 472 Truth

Jessica let out a wounded gasp, stepping back as if someone had struck her. "What are you saying? She is my daughter and I have changed," she insisted, her voice trembling perfectly on cue. "And you’re my son-in-law! You cannot treat me like this. Bella, sweetheart, say something—"

But Bella simply stared at her, her expression softening into something distant and vacant, like someone watching rain slide down a windowpane. There was no anger there, no recognition... only a quiet, hollow stillness. It was the emptiness of a door left open to an empty room.

That emptiness frightened Leo more than any of Jessica’s manipulative games. Bella had always tried to find goodness in people. He would not let those old wounds be reopened. If Jessica wanted to pretend, then he would end the charade completely.

He stepped forward, the air around him shifting, growing colder and sharper, like a predator finally emerging from the shadows.

"Bella," he said, his voice low and steady, "don’t let her tears confuse you. She hasn’t changed. In fact, she’s worse. Do you know what she was planning behind your back?"

Bella’s delicate lashes trembled slightly, a faint flutter of awareness, but she remained motionless, her gaze fixed somewhere just past Jessica’s shoulder.

Jessica’s breath hitched, a sharp, panicked sound.

Leo did not give her time to recover. "I planted a spy in their house," he stated, his eyes locking onto Sam and then Jessica. "And I know exactly what you two were planning."

Sam’s face drained of color. Jessica’s fingers trembled visibly where they clutched at her own sleeves.

Leo’s voice dropped another degree, cold enough to freeze the blood in their veins.

"This woman," he said, pointing at Jessica with utter contempt, "planned to injure you, Bella. To stage an ’accident.’ To make you bleed. She wanted you to lose enough blood to require a transfusion... so she could swoop in and play the savior."

Bella’s lips parted in a silent, shaky inhale. The color slowly leached from her cheeks, leaving her pale, but her expression remained eerily calm, as if she were listening to a story about someone else.

"After donating blood," Leo continued, each word precise and cutting, "she intended to use that moment of false gratitude to force you into rescuing their collapsing business. That was her brilliant plan. To exploit your own blood for money."

His words landed in the room like a physical blow. Alessandro’s jaw tightened. Lina lifted a hand to her mouth, her eyes wide with horror. Jace and Jay exchanged stunned, disbelieving glances.

Bella simply stared at Jessica. There was no anger in her gaze, no betrayal. Only a deep, weary emptiness, as if a final, fragile thread had just quietly snapped.

Jessica’s eyes widened, glistening with theatrical tears. She shook her head, her body trembling with well-practiced distress. "No... no, he’s lying, my dear. Bella, he’s trying to turn you against me. I love you—"

Leo moved so swiftly that Jessica physically recoiled.

"Do not call her ’dear,’" he said, his voice low and lethal. "You lost that right a long time ago." 𝚏𝗿𝗲𝐞𝐰𝚎𝕓𝐧𝚘𝘃𝗲𝐥.𝐜𝚘𝕞

Sam finally erupted, his voice frayed with panic. "You can’t prove any of this! We don’t even have servants! You’re just making up stories to make yourself look superior!"

A slow, dangerous smirk curved Leo’s lips.

It was not a smile of amusement, but the cold, satisfied expression of a man who had already checkmated his opponent.

"No servants?" he asked, his tone deceptively soft. "That’s the problem with thinking too small, Sam. You assume spies only come in the guise of hired help."

Sam froze, his bluster evaporating.

Jessica’s nails bit into her own palms.

Leo slipped a hand into his pocket and withdrew a small, sleek black flash drive. It looked innocuous, almost trivial, in his palm.

Bella’s eyes, which had been downcast, slowly lifted to follow the movement.

"You forgot that," Leo said, his voice smooth and final, "the community CCTV system is owned by my company. Your new wiring, your smart lights, your bargain security system... all of it is mine. And your neighbours are not exactly loyal."

Jessica’s knees buckled slightly. Sam’s mouth hung open, slack with shock.

"I have watched every meeting," Leo continued, his piercing gaze never leaving Jessica. "I have heard every cheap, desperate scheme. You two plotted to use Bella as a transaction. My wife."

His voice fractured on the last word, raw fury breaking through the icy control and sending a visible chill through the room.

"And that," he said, his voice dropping to a deadly whisper, "is precisely why you are here. I want Bella to hear with her own ears exactly what kind of person you are. You do not deserve the title of mother."

Jessica stood frozen for a second before the performance resumed. Tears spilled over in a calculated cascade, and her voice broke into perfectly measured sobs as she stretched a pleading hand toward Bella.

"Bella... darling, please don’t believe him," she cried, her shoulders shaking. "I have changed... I swear to you. Stella has run away again, and I... I have no one left but you. I am getting older. Please, Bella, take care of us. I will be a good mother this time. Please, I have changed. Don’t listen to his lies. I am your mother. You have to believe me. I have changed... I swear it..."

She collapsed to the floor in a dramatic heap, one hand clutching her chest as if her heart were breaking.

Leo laughed.

It was a low, sharp, utterly humorless sound that made everyone in the room stiffen.

"Mother," he repeated, drawing the word out slowly. "No. Hahaha... Bella, would you like to know what else I discovered? She isn’t even your mother."

A deafening silence swallowed the room.

Bella’s eyes, which had been glazed and distant, snapped into focus. Her breath hitched audibly in her throat. A subtle tremor ran through her hands before she stilled them, pressing her fingertips together. Jessica’s crying ceased abruptly, her face frozen in a mask of horror. Sam looked as if he had been turned to stone.