BOOK TWO - Chapter 30: The Confrontation Setup

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• THE BILLIONAIRE SECRET TWIN HEIR    BOOK 3 - Chapter 4: First Impressions

  ~ Isabella POV ~The coffee shop three blocks from my hotel had become my temporary office, my sanctuary in a city that still felt foreign despite my best efforts to claim it. I'd been there since seven that morning, my laptop open to emails from artists, vendors, and critics, but my mind kept drifting back to yesterday's meeting at the gallery.Specifically, to the way Alex Walton had looked at me like I was a puzzle he wanted to solve. And the way Austin had smiled when he called me gifted."You're doing it again," Nora said, sliding into the seat across from me with her own coffee. She'd been staying at my hotel, claiming she didn't trust me alone in the big city, but I knew she was worried about more than just my navigation skills."Doing what?""That thing where you replay conversations in your head until you've analyzed every word to death." She stirred sugar into her cup with more force than necessary. "It's not healthy, Bella.""I'm just trying to understand the dynamic," I sa

• THE BILLIONAIRE SECRET TWIN HEIR    BOOK 3 - Chapter 3: The Curator's Arrival ( Pt 2)

  "Someone safer."The admission hit me like a punch to the chest. Safe. God, I was so tired of being safe, of second-guessing every instinct, of letting fear make my choices."I'm many things," I said, meeting his gaze directly. "But safe isn't one of them."His smile this time was different, sharper. Predatory."Good," he said. "Safe is boring."Behind me, I heard Nora mutter something under her breath, but I couldn't focus on anything except the man in front of me and the way he was looking at me like I was the most interesting thing he'd seen in years.This was dangerous. He was dangerous. Everything about this situation screamed warning, from the way my pulse was racing to the heat pooling low in my stomach.But as Alex Walton handed back the photograph and our fingers brushed again, all I could think was that maybe dangerous was exactly what I needed.Maybe safe had been my problem all along."Isabella!" The voice came from across the gallery, warm and melodic, completely differe

• THE BILLIONAIRE SECRET TWIN HEIR    BOOK 3 - Chapter 2: The Curator's Arrival

  ~ Isabella POV ~The taxi lurched to a stop in front of the Walton Gallery, and my stomach clenched so hard I had to press my hand against it to keep from doubling over. Through the rain-streaked window, the building rose like a monument to everything I'd never been able to touch, sleek glass and steel reaching toward a gray Manhattan sky."This is it, right?" The driver's voice cut through my spiraling thoughts. "The fancy art place?""Yeah." My voice came out smaller than I'd intended. "This is it."Nora grabbed my wrist from the seat beside me, her fingers warm and grounding. "Breathe, Bella. You've got this."I wanted to believe her. God, I wanted to believe her so badly it hurt. But sitting here, staring up at the Walton name etched in elegant letters across the building's facade, all I could think about was everything that had gone wrong in Chicago. The whispers. The accusations. The way former colleagues had stopped returning my calls."I shouldn't have come," I whispered."Lik

• THE BILLIONAIRE SECRET TWIN HEIR    BOOK THREE - Tangled Hearts of the Billionaire Twins

  Chapter 1: The Walton Legacy~ Alex POV ~ The marble floors of the Walton Gallery gleamed under the afternoon light, each surface reflecting my own image back at me in fragments. I stood in the center of what would soon be New York's newest luxury art space, watching my twin brother Austin adjust a spotlight for the third time."It's perfect," I called out, my voice echoing off the pristine white walls. "Stop fussing with it."Austin shot me a look over his shoulder, that easy grin already spreading across his face. "Says the man who made me move that Rothko six inches to the left this morning.""That was different. The lighting was wrong." I checked my watch. Forty-eight hours until the preview night that would make or break our family's latest venture. My chest tightened at the thought."Alex." Austin's voice had shifted, losing its teasing edge. "We've got this. The gallery's going to be incredible."I wanted to believe him. Austin had always been the optimist between us, the one

• THE BILLIONAIRE SECRET TWIN HEIR    BOOK TWO - Chapter 38: Looking Forward

  FEW MONTHS LATER ~ Alex POV ~ The morning sun cuts through the floor-to-ceiling windows of our new headquarters, and I can't help but think how different everything looks in daylight. Six months ago, we were hiding in warehouses, dodging bullets, watching our grandmother get held hostage by a psychopath. Now Austin and I are sitting in leather chairs that probably cost more than most people's cars, reviewing quarterly reports like actual adults. "You're doing that thing again," Austin says without looking up from his laptop. "What thing?" "That brooding stare out the window thing. Like you're waiting for another shoe to drop." He's not wrong. I've been jumpy since graduation months ago. Every time someone knocks on the office door, every time my phone buzzes with an unknown number, my shoulders tense up. The therapist Mom made us see calls it hypervigilance. I call it being realistic about the fact that our lives have been anything but normal. "I'm not brooding. I'm thinking."

• THE BILLIONAIRE SECRET TWIN HEIR    BOOK TWO - Chapter 37: Legal Aftermath and Rebuilding (Pt 2)

  "They help us took a life. That's not something you just get over, even when it's justified."I closed my eyes, feeling the weight of every decision that had led us to that warehouse. If I'd handled the divorce differently years ago. If I'd stayed and fought instead of running. If I'd told Michael about the boys from the beginning."Do you think we'll ever be normal again?" I asked.Michael was quiet for so long I thought he wasn't going to answer. Then: "I don't think we were ever normal to begin with. But maybe that's okay. Maybe normal is overrated.""The media is calling us the 'Billionaire Family of Secrets.'""Better than the 'Dead Billionaire Family,' which is what we would have been if you hadn't come back when you did."He was right. Jessica's plan had been methodical and thorough. If I hadn't returned with the boys, if we hadn't been together to face her, she would have picked us off one by one."I keep thinking about what she said," I admitted. "About how she'd waited ten y