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"My old firm did quiet consulting work," Julian said, staring at a point somewhere on the table rather than at either of them. "Due diligence, mostly. Legitimate, on paper. About three years in, a client came through who wasn't like the others — careful, generous, patient in a way that should have worried me more than it did at the time.""A name," Alexander said. "Give us a name."Julian's throat worked. "Dominic Cross."Elena felt the name land like something physical, though it meant nothing to her yet beyond the shape of a stranger. Beside her, Alexander had gone very still — not the stillness of surprise, she realized, but the stillness of a man recognizing a shape he'd half expected and dreaded confirming."You know him," she said, looking between them."I know of him," Alexander said carefully. "Reclusive. Private equity, on the surface. There have been — rumors, over the years, about how far his reach actually extends. Nothing anyone's ever been able to prove.""He proved it t
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The week Alexander asked for turned into five days before the pattern broke wide open on its own.It started small — Julian requesting access to an archived client folder he had no active reason to touch, flagged automatically by a compliance filter Gavin had quietly tightened without telling IT why. Then, two days later, a wire confirmation bounced back to an internal finance inbox nobody monitored closely, referencing an account number that matched, almost exactly, one of the shells feeding Leo's debt — off by a single digit, the kind of near-match that could be coincidence or could be the sloppy edge of someone moving quickly and carelessly."He's getting careless," Gavin said, spreading the new evidence across the table. "Or he's getting scared. Either way, the timeline's accelerating.""Scared of what?" Elena asked."Of us, maybe. Or of whoever he's actually working for, if someone above him is pushing harder now that the trail's getting warm." Gavin rubbed his eyes; he'd clearly
A ONE-NIGHT STAND WITH MY EX'S UNCLE CHAPTER 46
Watching a man you might be about to destroy, while treating him exactly the same as any other day, turned out to be one of the harder things Elena had done at Vance Enterprises.Julian Drake ran the mid-level analytics team two floors below her own office — mild-mannered, punctual, the kind of colleague who remembered everyone's coffee order and never once, in over a year, gave her reason to look twice at him. Now she found herself cataloguing every small thing: the way he checked his phone under the conference table during Monday standup, the extra ten minutes he'd started taking at lunch, the new habit of stepping into the stairwell to take calls instead of his own office.None of it was proof of anything. All of it felt, suddenly, like it might be."You're staring," Priya murmured, passing her desk with a stack of files. "At Julian. Third time today.""Am I that obvious?""To me. Probably not to him." Priya set the files down and lowered her voice. "Everything okay?""Just tired,"
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Elena didn't sleep. She sat up half the night in the estate's east wing while Alexander and Gavin worked downstairs, tracing whatever thread they could find of the people Leo owed money to, and by morning she still hadn't decided whether she was angrier at her brother or at the man she was supposed to trust.She found Alexander in the study at six, hollow-eyed, a wall of printouts already forming behind him — wire transfers, shell routing numbers, a spreadsheet Gavin had built overnight cross-referencing Leo's known contacts against known bad actors in Alexander's orbit."You should have told me," she said, before he could say good morning."I know." He didn't try to defend it this time, which surprised her more than an excuse would have. "I told myself I was protecting you. The longer I look at that sentence the more it sounds like something I made up to feel less guilty.""That's the most honest thing you've said to me in two weeks.""I'm trying." He turned the laptop toward her — a
A ONE-NIGHT STAND WITH MY EX'S UNCLE Chapter 44
Leo showed up at the Greenwich estate a little after nine at night, unannounced, soaked from a downpour that hadn't been in any forecast, and looking like a man who'd made the decision to come here somewhere around the second time he'd talked himself out of it.Viktor caught him at the gate first — a call up to the main house before anyone let a stranger, even Elena's brother, walk the grounds unescorted. By the time Elena reached the foyer, Leo was standing dripping on the marble, arms crossed tight over his chest, refusing the towel Mrs. Higgins was trying to hand him."Leo. What's wrong?" Elena crossed the floor fast, worry outpacing everything else — the awkwardness between them, the weeks of unanswered calls, all of it forgotten the second she saw his face."Nothing's wrong," he said, in the exact tone of someone for whom everything was wrong. "I just — I needed to see you. And I didn't want to call first because you'd have found some reason to put it off."Behind her, Alexander
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Julian Drake arrived at the office at his usual time — 7:45 a.m., three-quarters full coffee in hand, tablet tucked under his arm — and Elena, watching from the glass-walled conference room where the four of them had gathered before dawn, felt an unexpected pang at how utterly ordinary he looked. Six years of quiet competence, of knowing exactly which board members needed flattery and which needed facts, and none of it had ever once betrayed what he'd apparently been doing in the dark."Let me talk to him alone first," Alexander said, straightening his jacket."No," Elena said, and to her faint surprise, he didn't argue."Together, then," Alexander said, and something in the simple correction settled warmly in her chest even in the middle of everything else.They caught Julian in the small private office off the executive floor that he used for scheduling — the same office he'd occupied since Alexander was thirty-one years old, since long before Elena, since long before any of this. H
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