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Anna and Jonathan: The Arranged Marriage CHAPTER 96
JONATHAN'S POVThe boardroom felt different walking in that morning than it had nine days earlier, the same faces arranged around the same table, but something in the air had shifted, a current of uncertainty that hadn't been there the last time I'd taken this seat expecting to lose everything.I thought, sitting down, of every version of this morning I'd rehearsed over the past nine days, the speeches I'd prepared in the shower, the arguments I'd practiced in the car on the way here, and found, now that the moment had actually arrived, that none of them mattered nearly as much as simply sitting still and letting the numbers speak for themselves.Harold caught my eye as I sat down, a small nod rather than the grim shake of his head from before, though I understood, watching his expression, that he wasn't yet certain enough of the outcome to offer more than that.Whitmore arrived last, exactly on time, settling into his seat with a composure that looked, this morning, slightly more eff
Anna and Jonathan: The Arranged Marriage CHAPTER 95
JONATHAN'S POV Whitmore's office occupied the top floor of a glass tower that had always struck me as trying slightly too hard, every surface polished to a shine designed to remind visitors exactly how much money had been spent making them feel small before a single word was exchanged. I walked in anyway, unimpressed, carrying with me everything Anna and Grace and Priya's article had already handed to the rest of the world. I had expected, walking in, to feel something closer to nerves, the old instinct to prepare carefully for a negotiation the way I'd prepared for every important meeting of my career. Instead I felt strangely calm, the particular steadiness that comes from finally having nothing left to hide, no secret Whitmore could threaten to expose that hadn't already found its way into the light on its own terms. He didn't stand when I entered, simply gestured toward the chair across from his desk, his composure fully intact despite the story that had spent the entire previo
Anna and Jonathan: The Arranged Marriage CHAPTER 94
ANNA'S POV "His signature is on it directly," Grace said, her voice tight with the particular excitement of a woman who'd spent thirty years waiting for exactly this kind of find. "Not his firm's. His. A loan agreement from six years ago, structured almost identically to what he did to Jonathan's father, extended to a smaller manufacturing company outside Chicago, with a proxy clause buried in nearly the same language. The company folded within two years. Whitmore's fund acquired its assets for a fraction of their actual value." "How did you even find it," I asked, still catching up to the pace of what she was telling me. "An old colleague owed me a favor," she said. "It took some calling in of markers I'd rather not have spent yet, but Anna, this is exactly the kind of proof that turns a suspicion into a story a serious journalist can actually run." "Three instances," I said, my pulse quickening as the shape of it finally locked into place. "Isabela's retainer with Diane, your fa
Anna and Jonathan: The Arranged Marriage CHAPTER 93
JONATHAN'S POV Harold arrived within the hour, and Anna met him at the door with the legal pad she'd carried through half this fight already, waving him toward the dining table instead of the study, a small, deliberate choice I noticed and appreciated, a fresh room for a fresh approach. I watched them settle into their seats, both of them already reaching for pens before either had said a word, and thought, not for the first time this week, how strange it was that the two people I trusted most to help me save this company were a lifelong attorney who'd known me since I was twenty two, and a wife who'd spent this same year learning, piece by painful piece, that her own instincts were worth trusting after all. "Seven days," Harold said, settling in across from us, laptop open, spreadsheet already pulled up. "Six votes for Whitmore, three for us if Sarah and Thomas both come around, which after this morning's article, I'd call optimistic rather than likely. We need to flip at least tw
Anna and Jonathan: The Arranged Marriage CHAPTER 92
ANNA'S POVI sat on the edge of the bed for a long time after I left him downstairs, my hands resting on the curve of my stomach, waiting for the anger to burn itself out enough that I could think clearly again. It didn't take as long as I expected. Underneath the anger, I found, was mostly exhaustion, the particular kind that comes from loving someone who keeps circling back to the same wound no matter how many times you've already shown him the way out of it.I thought about walking back downstairs myself, forcing the conversation before either of us had time to retreat into separate corners the way we might have months ago. I decided against it. Some part of me understood that this particular repair needed to come from him finding his own way to it, rather than me chasing him into honesty the way I sometimes still caught myself doing, managing his growth as carefully as he'd once tried to manage my exposure to difficulty.Jonathan knocked on the doorframe maybe twenty minutes later
Anna and Jonathan: The Arranged Marriage CHAPTER 91
JONATHAN'S POV I didn't sleep. I lay beside Anna for most of the night, listening to her breathing even out into something like rest, and spent the hours turning the same thought over and over until it had worn a groove I couldn't climb out of anymore. At some point past two in the morning I got up and stood at the nursery door, looking in at the half painted yellow walls, the small stack of paint chips still sitting where Anna had left them days earlier, and felt the particular helplessness of a man who had spent his entire adult life solving problems with money and leverage and careful negotiation, standing in front of a threat none of those tools seemed able to touch. I remembered the flutter of movement I'd felt beneath both our hands in this same room, and thought, with a kind of quiet dread I hadn't let myself feel until that exact moment, about everything this child was going to inherit from a family that seemed incapable of protecting itself from its own history. Everyone w
Anna and Jonathan: The Arranged Marriage CHAPTER 6
JONATHAN'S POV We kept kissing as we made our way into a room in the VIP section. A place I made reserved personally for myself whenever I need to dig into something warm. I grabbed her ass violently and she moaned unbuttoning my shirt.She finally made her way with the buttons and pulled my shir
Anna and Jonathan: The Arranged Marriage CHAPTER 5
"I see that you like her." My dad commented on the drive back home. "She is beautiful." I shrugged, going through my phone. I was letting Lucas know to hold down the VIP slot at the club tonight. "Well, hopefully, this alliance brings more money to the family." My dad smiled at my mom. I was sil
Anna and Jonathan: The Arranged Marriage CHAPTER 4
JONATHAN'S POVMy lips curved in a smile as I glanced at the pretty young lady before me. Hell, those hips were great. I wanted to tell her so, but I knew better than that. Women tend to take compliments into their heads. With a courtesy nod, I shrugged past her and walked into the house. I sat
Anna and Jonathan: The Arranged Marriage CHAPTER 3
"Anna, are you okay?" My mom asked carefully."Are you trying to force me to get married to someone?" I asked pained by their words. "Yes!" They both chorused.God, the shamelessness of my parents. "Mom, Dad, I just returned from school yesterday. Heck, I am supposed to be having some respite her
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