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A Million Dollar Secret CHapter 13
The next morning, I dressed carefully, soft cream blouse, tailored slacks, and my hair pinned back. I looked the part, even if I felt like a stranger inside the costume. Frey barely said two words as we stepped out together for a charity breakfast with the city’s elite. He smiled when the cameras appeared, gripped my waist like it was scripted, but the tension in his jaw gave away the lie.As we walked down the red carpet of the hotel lobby, reporters called our names, flashing bulbs catching the glitter of my earrings. One reporter shouted, “You look radiant, Catherine! What’s your favourite thing about Frey?”I glanced sideways at him. He didn’t return the look. His smile was already aimed at another camera. So I smiled too and answered, “He knows how to make silence feel comfortable.” But that was a lie.Later that afternoon, I sat alone in the dressing room, rehearsing my lines for the next media appearance at a dinner the next night, the biggest one yet, and I was going to be the
A Million Dollar Secret Chapter 12
POV: CatherineWith barely any time to spare, the demands of playing soon to be CEO’s wife started to line up. Business meetings, dinners, and congresses, everywhere Frey went, I had to follow. Our wedding preparations was in full swing alongside. This I was looking forward to, I needed the first $10 million pay like my life depended on it, because it did. And not just mine but my entire family’s life as well.We had our weddings photographs taken earlier and the gown was returned in a garment bag like it had never existed, no proof left of the way it clung to me like a warning, how it shimmered beneath studio lights like it was made from truth polished into glass. I stared at the bag lying on the couch in Frey’s private residence where I had been staying, its elegance now seemingly mocking.The silence in the room pressed down on me, a suffocating thing that pooled in corners and echoed off marble. Frey was seated on the far end of the dining table, scrolling through his phone. The f
A Million Dollar Secret Chapter 11
The music hit like a riot in my chest, pulsing and relentless. A heavy rhythm of bass and light that made everything else blur into meaningless movement. The sound waves circulating in an endless loop transcended every being into realms they couldn’t recognise, making them lose touch with their senses.Inside Havana Lounge was alive, bodies packed tight, drenched in sweat and perfume. Neon-blue strobes carved through the smoke like starlight, flashing over laughing mouths and glassy eyes. It wasn’t a place for thought; it was a place for forgetting, and that was exactly why I was there.Javier slapped my back, his grin far too wide as he shouted something I couldn’t hear over the music. I didn’t bother asking him to repeat it. I just raised my glass and downed the rest of the tequila in one breath, it scorched my throa,t but the fire helped.Another round appeared within minutes, handed to me by pretty blonde in a silver dress, her fingers brushing mine longer than necessary, her soft
A Million Dollar Secret Chapter 10
Frey’s POV | Chicago, EveningLater that evening, after the meeting with the board I called Catherine to meet me. It rained all day, although it had subsided, the streets still shimmered like wet glass, mirroring the glow of streetlights and the weight I carried behind the wheel. The city hummed around me, honks, passing sirens, voices swallowed by distance, but inside the car, everything was still.Catherine sat in the passenger seat beside me, arms folded tightly over her coat, the tip of her nose red from the cold. She hadn’t said much since she stepped in. Just looked ahead like she was bracing for bad news.I tapped the steering wheel, trying to find the right words. “The board meeting happened this afternoon.”She glanced at me. “And?”I exhaled. “They want me to take over. They practically handed me the seat”“Then what?” she asked hurriedly“Then my father decided to drop the hammer,” I answered.“He refused?” she asked again with vested curiosity.“Absolutely. He said I haven
A Million Dollar Secret Chapter 9
Frey’s POV | Johnson Group Headquarters – Executive BoardroomThe elevator ride to the 48th floor was silent, but I could feel the weight in the air, thick and suffocating like the storm clouds brewing outside the glass skyscraper. Rain lashed against the tall windows, streaking down like nature’s version of sweat. A storm was raging outside, and an even bigger one was brewing inside.I stepped into the boardroom, and every pair of eyes turned to me: grey suits, dark ties, glinting cufflinks. Twelve men and women who had once answered to my father without blinking were now staring at me as if my shadow already belonged in that chair at the head of the table.Except I wasn’t sitting in that chair, not yet. It was still my father’s, and he sat in it. He was propped upright, pale under the collar, an oxygen aid discreetly clipped under his nose; he looked like a ghost of the man who once walked into this room like he owned gravity. But his eyes, those eyes, were still steel; he wasn’t le
A Million Dollar Secret Chapter 8
Catherine’s POV | Rhodes Residence, ChicagoThe rain had started just before noon, light at first, a misty drizzle veiling the windows like breath on glass. By the time I reached home, it had thickened into a steady curtain, the kind that blurred the streets and soaked through to the soul.I stepped out of the car and into the chill, the hem of my dress clinging to my legs as I hurried up the porch steps. One of the Johnson drivers gave a curt nod before pulling away, leaving me in the fading drone of rainfall and the tight ache in my chest that hadn’t left since Frey’s call.The door creaked as I pushed it open. The scent of jasmine tea and furniture polish met me like a familiar memory as I stepped inside. My mother sat in the living room, carefully folding laundry with tired fingers. Dad was in his recliner, covered in a light blanket, his face pale but peaceful in sleep.Vanessa looked up immediately, concern tightening the corners of her mouth. “You’re home early. Is everything ok
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