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Chapter Twenty Six
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2026-04-03 02:21:51
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Alexander's POVThe Alderman event was on Friday. Emma had been operating at a specific frequency all week, focused and efficient in a way that reminded me of myself before major deals, the particular energy of someone who had prepared thoroughly and was now executing. She left early each morning, came back late, and spent the evenings doing final checks with the kind of methodical attention that didn't leave room for anxiety because the anxiety had already been converted into work.I stayed out of her way and made sure there was food when she got home.Thursday evening she spread her final run of sheet for the event across the dining table and went through it item by item with the venue coordinator on speaker. I worked at the kitchen counter and listened without commenting, not because there was nothing to say but because she didn't need input. She needed the space to finish.When she hung up she sat back and looked at the ceiling for a moment."Ready?" I asked."Yes." She looked at
Contracted to The Billionaire Chapter Twenty Six
Emma's POVNaomi Walsh's piece ran at seven a.m. Wednesday. I read it in bed before I got up, which was probably not the healthiest approach but I couldn't wait. Alexander had already read it, I could tell because his bedroom door was open and the kitchen light was on when I came out at seven thirty.He handed me coffee without speaking, which meant he'd already processed it and was waiting for me.The piece was good. More than good. Naomi had written it without sentimentality but with precision, the way good journalism worked when the subject was genuinely interesting rather than manufactured. She'd framed the contract as context rather than scandal, placed it against the Sterling situation accurately, and given the evolution of what had become its own weight without overreaching.She'd quoted me saying chosen rather than contracted and every day.She'd quoted Alexander saying gradually and then suddenly.The response was immediate and significant. By eight a.m. the piece had been sh
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Alexander's POVNaomi Walsh arrived at nine a.m. exactly. She was smaller than I'd expected, mid forties, sharp eyes that catalogued everything without appearing to. She shook my hand and then Emma's and accepted coffee from Patricia and sat across from us in the living room with a recorder and a notebook, old fashioned in a way that suggested the notebook was where she actually thought."I want to be clear about something before we start," she said. "I'm not here to run an exposure piece. The contract story is already out. What I'm interested in is the fuller truth, whatever that is, and whether you're willing to tell it.""We are," Emma said.Naomi looked at her. "All of it? Including how it started?""Including how it started," Emma said.Naomi clicked her recorder on.We talked for two hours.Emma went first, naturally, the way she moved into rooms before me and made them easier. She described her situation at the time of the gala with the same directness she applied to everythin
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Emma's POVThe Alderman event was two weeks out when the story broke.I was at my West Village office on Monday morning reviewing the final vendor list when my phone started moving with notifications. I ignored the first few. Then Sophie texted, still in a new baby haze but apparently monitoring the internet anyway."There's something going around about you. Don't read the comments." Which meant I immediately read the comments.A gossip site had published a piece titled *Cross Marriage: The Contract Behind The Fairytale.* It was detailed. Too detailed for someone who'd simply speculated. Whoever had written it had specific numbers, a timeline that matched the actual sequence of events, and language that mirrored the structure of a legal document.Someone had seen the contract.My stomach dropped in a specific cold way that had nothing to do with my own exposure and everything to do with what it meant for Alexander.I called him before I finished reading.He answered on the first ring
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Alexander's POVJames called Saturday morning and said he wanted to play me something.Not a description of something. Not a recording sent through a text. He wanted to sit in a room and play it live, which meant it mattered to him in a way that most things James presented casually did not.He arrived at eleven with a keyboard he'd apparently been keeping in his car for reasons he didn't explain, set it up in the living room without ceremony, and sat down.Emma came in from the kitchen, saw what was happening, and quietly sat on the far end of the sofa without being asked, the way she did when she understood something required space rather than conversation.James played for six minutes.It was good. Not competent, not promising. Actually good, the kind of thing that had been worked on privately for years before being shown to anyone. It moved in a way that formal music training sometimes flattened out of people, it had something unschooled and specific to James in it.When he finishe
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Emma's POVPatricia apologized on Tuesday morning. She came to find me in my room while I was getting ready, knocked precisely twice, and when I opened the door she was standing with the same professional posture she always had except there was something deliberate in her expression that wasn't her usual efficiency."I owe you something," she said.I stepped back and let her in.She didn't sit. Patricia rarely sat unless a meeting required it. "When you arrived I made assumptions about your character and your intentions that weren't based on evidence. They were based on pattern and cynicism and a desire to protect Alexander from something I'd decided you were without knowing you." She met my eyes directly. "I was wrong and I'm sorry."I looked at her for a moment. "How long have you been working up to that?"Something shifted in her face. Almost a smile. "Three days.""Patricia." I sat on the edge of my bed. "You were protecting him. That's not something I'd hold against you." I pause
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Alexander's POVThe mole was someone in my inner circle.David confirmed it at eight a.m. Thursday, sitting across from me in my office with a printout that showed three internal documents Sterling had referenced in his press materials. Documents that had never left the executive floor. Documents t
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Emma's POVHarold Cross came to dinner.Nobody asked me if that was acceptable. Patricia simply informed me at four p.m. that Harold would be joining us at seven, that the chef had been notified, and that I should dress appropriately for a formal family dinner.I called Sophie."An ambush dinner wi
Última atualização : 2026-03-17Contracted to The Billionaire Chapter Six
Emma's POVThe justice of the peace was a tired-looking man named Gerald who clearly had better things to do on a Tuesday evening. Patricia had found him through some contact she refused to name, and he arrived at Alexander's penthouse at nine p.m. with a briefcase and reading glasses pushed up on
Última atualização : 2026-03-17Contracted to The Billionaire Chapter Seven
Alexander's POVSterling's statement hit every major outlet by six a.m. I was already awake, already dressed, already three cups of coffee into the morning when Patricia forwarded me the links. I read them standing at the kitchen counter while the city below was still gray and quiet.Sterling had s
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