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Chapter 39: The Longest Hour
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2026-08-26 05:54:01
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DIVORCE ME, MR. BILLIONAIRE Chapter 42: What Samuel Never Said
Amelia's thumb hovered over the screen, frozen mid-motion, her whole body caught somewhere between wanting the truth and being terrified of what it would cost her to finally have it."Say it," she said. "Whatever it is, Gregory, say it now, before I open this."Gregory's hand was still wrapped around her wrist, and she could feel it trembling, an old man's fear finally breaking through thirty years of careful composure. "Samuel didn't only tell me about Edmund," he said. "He told me something else. Something about why Edmund did it in the first place.""Why does that matter right now?""Because it matters who he was protecting," Gregory said. "Edmund didn't leak that schedule out of jealousy, or greed, the way Marcus did years later. He did it because someone convinced him your grandmother was about to destroy something far more dangerous than a business deal."Ryan's arm tightened around Amelia's shoulders. "What could possibly be more dangerous than that?"Gregory exhaled slowly, an
DIVORCE ME, MR. BILLIONAIRE Chapter 41: Who It Was
Amelia felt the ground shift under her again, the same way it had every single time tonight when she thought she'd finally reached the bottom of this story and found instead another floor beneath it."Then who," she said, barely more than breathing. "Gregory, if it wasn't you, then who leaked it."He didn't answer right away. He looked past her, out toward the skyline, like the answer had been sitting somewhere out there in the dark this whole time, waiting for him to finally be brave enough to say it out loud."Samuel said the assistant I trusted back then, the one I asked to look into Marcus's access, wasn't working alone," Gregory said slowly. "She was already reporting to someone else. Someone who'd been quietly building a relationship with her for months before that afternoon, long before I ever asked her that question.""Who," Amelia said again, and this time her voice cracked in the middle of the word."Arthur's own brother," Gregory said. "Not Marcus. Their older brother, Edmu
DIVORCE ME, MR. BILLIONAIRE Chapter 40: The Name
Charles Gregory Whitmore.The letters finished loading, and for a moment Amelia couldn't make her mind connect them to anything at all, like the sight of them had short-circuited something essential in her brain.Then her hand slipped free of Gregory's, and she took a step back without deciding to, putting distance between herself and the man standing beside her, the man whose fingers had been laced through hers not thirty seconds earlier."Gregory," she whispered. "That's your name. Your full name."He hadn't moved. He was staring at the screen with an expression she couldn't read, something caught between disbelief and a grief so old it had calcified into something else entirely."I haven't gone by Charles since I was a boy," he said quietly. "Nobody's called me that in decades. My father insisted on it as a child, wanted me to carry his name forward, and I hated every syllable of it.""That doesn't answer the question," Ryan said, his voice hard, protective, stepping slightly in fr
DIVORCE ME, MR. BILLIONAIRE Chapter 39: The Longest Hour
Nobody moved for what felt like a full minute, the small records room heavy with a silence none of them knew how to break first."She's lying," Gregory finally said, though his voice carried none of its usual certainty. "Whatever Nadia thinks she found, she's twisting it. Trying to turn all of you against me the same way she turned herself against this family.""Or she found something real," Selene said quietly, "and you've spent years not wanting to look at it closely enough to notice."Gregory's head snapped toward her. "You don't get to accuse me of anything. Not after tonight. Not after everything you and Lucas orchestrated.""I'm not accusing you," Selene said. "I'm telling you what it sounds like from the outside. And from the outside, Gregory, it sounds exactly like something you'd want buried."Amelia stood between them, her phone still warm in her hand, the countdown in her chest ticking louder than any clock in the room. Less than an hour now. Less than an hour until whateve
DIVORCE ME, MR. BILLIONAIRE Chapter 38: Before Midnight
Amelia stared at the screen until the words blurred, her own name sitting there in black and white beside her grandmother's, beside Marcus's, a private grief turned into something the whole city could scroll past on their way to bed."Who posted this," she said, and her voice came out flatter than she expected, exhaustion finally burning through fear and landing somewhere close to numbness."I don't know," Selene said, still staring at her phone like it might change if she looked hard enough. "It's not attributed to anyone. Just an account created tonight.""Convenient," Ryan said, his jaw tight.Gregory hadn't moved from where he stood near the door, his hand still pressed against the empty pocket where the recording used to be, like his body hadn't caught up yet to what his mind already understood. "Someone was in this building the entire time," he said slowly. "Not just Lucas. Not just Selene. Someone else, moving through all of this while we chased shadows."Marcus finally spoke,
DIVORCE ME, MR. BILLIONAIRE Chapter 37: The Face in the Doorway
Selene stood in the doorway, her gala dress catching what little light spilled from the hallway, and for a moment Amelia's mind simply refused to accept what her eyes were telling her."You," Amelia said, the word barely more than breath.Selene's expression held none of the sharp, brittle composure from the fountain twenty minutes earlier. Something colder had replaced it, something that looked almost relieved to finally stop pretending. "I did tell you not to make this worse," she said quietly. "I meant that as a warning, Amelia. Not an apology.""You were never actually sorry," Amelia said, understanding landing on her like a physical weight. "By the fountain. That whole conversation. You were stalling me.""I was giving Lucas time," Selene said. "He needed the notebook found before I finished my part. It had to look like your own doing, not something we arranged between us."Ryan's hand tightened around Amelia's arm, and she could feel the fury radiating off him even in the dark,
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