Reborn: Revenge on My Cheating Family

Chapter 17: Dad In Danger

Marcus Kane did not escape with a key. He escaped with a ring.

The ring still inside Adrian.

Adrian had to poop the ring. The hospital bathroom was guarded, but the bathroom window was not.

Marcus pretended to have stomach pain. "Doctor! Doctor! The ring is moving!"

When the doctor and police came to his bed, Marcus grabbed the police's gun, hit him, and ran to the bathroom where Adrian was.

Adrian was weak from surgery.

Marcus locked the bathroom door. "Give me the Silver Seal, boy! That ring inside you is worth 2 billion! With it, I can leave South Africa forever!"

Adrian shouted: "Help! He is here!"

Outside, Ethan and Richard heard and ran.

Inside the bathroom, Marcus held a broken mirror shard to Adrian's throat. "You have two choices. Poop the ring here, give it to me, and I let you live. Or I cut you open and take it."

Adrian, despite fear, laughed. "You think Gold and Silver are just rings? They are us. You can never take us."

At that moment, Amara kicked the door down. She was strong from years of cleaning houses.

"GET AWAY FROM MY TWIN!" she screamed.

She hit Marcus with a mop. A mop! The billionaire heiress fighting with a cleaning mop — like her mother Grace used to!

Marcus fell. The police gun fell.

But Marcus grabbed Amara's leg and pulled her down.

"Your mother should have chosen me!" Marcus shouted, choking Amara.

Richard broke the door fully and tackled Marcus. Old man vs old man. Two brothers, 26 years of hate.

Richard punched Marcus: "You tried to take my wife! You tried to take my children! You tried to take my company!"

Marcus punched back: "You had everything! Dad loved you more!"

They were on the bathroom floor, fighting like kids in Soweto.

Then — BANG!

Ethan shot the ceiling with the police gun he picked up.

"STOP! BOTH OF YOU!"

Police rushed in. Marcus was handcuffed again. But he was smiling, bleeding.

"You think you won, Richard? The DNA says you are the father. Fine. But I still have something. Your wife's diary says where Grace's real money is hidden. $10 million she saved before she died. Only I know where."

Amara: "Where is my mother's money?!"

Marcus: "Kiss me goodbye, daughter, and I will tell you."

Adrian, still on the toilet, weak, finally... finally... he pooped the ring. _CLINK!_ Silver Seal in the toilet.

Everyone went silent. The $2 billion ring... in a hospital toilet.

Adrian picked it up, washed it, and put it on. Silver shining.

"My ring," Adrian said. "My grandfather's."

Marcus was dragged out, shouting: "You will never find Grace's $10 million! Never! It's under the house in Soweto where she died!"

Richard hugged his children, both shaking.

"Tomorrow," Richard said, "we go to Soweto. To Mama Grace's old house. To find what she left you."

Amara looked at her dad, her twin, Ethan. Her real family.

"Let's go home," she said. "To Soweto. To where our mother died. To find the truth."

But at the jail, Marcus was already making a phone call from a secret phone hidden in his orange uniform.

"Boss?" Marcus said. "It's me. Plan A failed. Start Plan B. Burn the house in Soweto tonight."

On the other end: "Consider it burned."

And in Soweto, at Grace's old house, smoke started to rise...