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CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY
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2026-08-15 23:55:03
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Dumped by the Heir, Claimed by his Brother CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY
CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTYWhitfield's office looked more cluttered than usual when Dom and Cassie arrived that evening, files stacked in uneven towers across every flat surface, the particular disarray of a man who'd stopped organizing in favor of moving fast."I have a name," Whitfield said, without preamble, gesturing to the two chairs across from his desk. "Preston Locke. Junior associate at Hale Industries, he had low-level access to several departments.""How did you find him," Dom asked."The monitoring firm's witness reports from yesterday's incident included security footage timestamps," Whitfield said. "One shows an employee leaving the building through a side stairwell almost immediately after Marcus was escorted out, moving fast, clearly agitated. I had someone cross-reference building access logs. Locke's badge clocked that exit within ninety seconds of Marcus's.""That's circumstantial," Cassie said."It was," Whitfield agreed. "Until we pulled his financial records
Dumped by the Heir, Claimed by his Brother CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED AND NINETEEN
CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED AND NINETEEN"I need you both on this call," Whitefield said immediately he picked up. "Something happened at Hale Industries yesterday that you need to know about, and it connects directly to what we've been investigating."Dom put him on speaker, setting the phone on the kitchen table between them, both of them going still.“Speak.”"Apparently, Marcus tried to walk into a board meeting yesterday morning," Whitfield said. "The security stopped him as regards to the suspension, and things escalated. He had to be physically removed from the building.”“How bad?” Cassie asked with a frown on her face. “Very bad actually. And I am quite certain because the compliance monitoring firm we retained as part of the settlement flagged it, they track his movements around any Hale-affiliated property as a condition of the agreement."“If he's trespassing how do we know he has even changed? We should have just locked him up.”“No… we shouldn't have. We did the right thing, Do
Dumped by the Heir, Claimed by his Brother CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTEEN
CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTEENMarcus straightened his tie in the elevator's reflective panel, watching the floor numbers climb, and told himself the tightness in his chest was anticipation and not nerves. He had every right to be in this building. He'd built half of what stood inside these walls, long before anyone decided a suspension letter could erase that.The doors opened onto the fortieth floor, and for a moment everything looked exactly as it always had, the same glass conference room at the end of the hall, the same assistants moving briskly between desks, the same view of the city he'd once believed would always belong to him.He walked toward the boardroom with confidence because he had never for once doubted his welcome in a room. Not even when the staff were whispering among themselves and pretending they didn't see him walk in. "Mr. Hale?” A voice stopped him ten feet from the door. There were two security men positioned like they'd been waiting specifically for this
Dumped by the Heir, Claimed by his Brother CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTEEN
CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTEEN Vanessa sent a folder two days later, delivered by a courier to the office instead of the house, per Dom's insistence that nothing connected to this touch their home directly. "She's thorough," Dom admitted, flipping through the pages spread across his desk that evening, Cassie beside him with her own stack, Dom still in his work clothes hours after everyone else had gone home for the night, the office quiet except for the hum of the ventilation system. "I'll give her that much credit, at least.""She had a lot of time to pay attention," Cassie said, sliding another page toward the growing pile between them. "Sitting in rooms he thought she was too pretty to actually listen in on. His mistake, apparently, and now ours to benefit from.""Marcus always makes mistakes," Dom agreed, not looking up from the ledger in front of him.They worked in mostly comfortable silence for a while, cross-referencing dates against public records, Dom occasionally readi
Dumped by the Heir, Claimed by his Brother CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTEEN
CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTEEN The Ashford Foundation gala was held at the museum downtown. It's the kind of event where every surface gleamed under perfect lighting and every conversation carried the faint undertone of business being conducted beneath the small talk, fortunes and favors traded behind champagne flutes.Cassie had been holding her own for the better part of two hours, navigating introductions with Leo steady at her side, deflecting a handful of pointed questions about Marcus with the same practiced grace Dom had spent months teaching her, redirecting every barbed comment toward the company instead. She was finally taking a breath in the quiet of the ladies' room, splashing a little cool water on her wrists, when the door opened behind her."Cassie."She turned, and her whole body went rigid at the sight of Vanessa standing there, dressed elegantly in deep green silk, her eyes already red-rimmed like she'd been crying somewhere before finding her way in here, mascara
Dumped by the Heir, Claimed by his Brother CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTEEN
CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTEEN The Ashford Foundation gala was held at the museum downtown. It's the kind of event where every surface gleamed under perfect lighting and every conversation carried the faint undertone of business being conducted beneath the small talk, fortunes and favors traded behind champagne flutes.Cassie had been holding her own for the better part of two hours, navigating introductions with Leo steady at her side, deflecting a handful of pointed questions about Marcus with the same practiced grace Dom had spent months teaching her, redirecting every barbed comment toward the company instead. She was finally taking a breath in the quiet of the ladies' room, splashing a little cool water on her wrists, when the door opened behind her."Cassie."She turned, and her whole body went rigid at the sight of Vanessa standing there, dressed elegantly in deep green silk, her eyes already red-rimmed like she'd been crying somewhere before finding her way in here, mascara
Dumped by the Heir, Claimed by his Brother CHAPTER TWO
Her dress was pooling around her like a deflated parachute. As she cried so hard her entire body shook terribly. She wiped away the tears that had completely blocked her vision.Three years.Three years of dinner parties with the Hales where Eleanor critiqued everything from Cassie's posture to her
Dumped by the Heir, Claimed by his Brother CHAPTER ONE
"To Marcus and Cassie," someone called out, and the sea of champagne flutes lifted in unison like a choreographed wave. The sound of glass clinking filled the air in celebration, each clink another nail in the coffin of Cassie's composure.The crystal chandeliers of the Grand Rosewood Ballroom cast
Dumped by the Heir, Claimed by his Brother CHAPTER SIX
Cassie woke up in the massive guest bed, momentarily forgetting the chaos until sunlight hit her face, clearing the sleep from her eyes. For one blissful second, everything was normal.She was just a girl waking up on a sunny morning, but as she took in the sight of the room through her sleepy eyes
Dumped by the Heir, Claimed by his Brother CHAPTER FIVE
They pulled up to a high-rise building in Tribeca. It was made of glass and steel and had modern architecture. A valet appeared immediately, and Dom tossed him the keys without looking."Mr. Hale," the valet said with a nod."Jeremy." Dom came around to open Cassie's door, offering his hand again. S
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