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Chapter 48: The Cruel Lie
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Embraced By The Billionaire Part 58: Everyone Has a Part
Avery was still staring at the glowing screen, at the plan for annihilation laid bare, and felt a tremor of fear mixed with a potent, unfamiliar surge of power. She closed her eyes for a while. The imagination about young Julian, and Adelia’s bright future just appeared uninvited. All her doubts were gone.“Don’t worry, Aver. Alistair is the best litigator in the country,” Ashton said, breaking the silence. He hadn’t moved from his chair beside her. “If he says this is the only way, then this is the only way.” As if he could read her mind.“I know,” Avery whispered. “It just feels so… big. Like we’re planning to topple a small country.”“We are,” Ashton replied, his voice a calm certainty. “And everyone will have their part to play. I will lead the financial assault. I will be the ghost in their machine. My analysts are ready. Alistair will handle the legal shields. My PR team will handle the media attacks. Clara is secure. Elena is back in her role, our eyes and ears.”He paused, tur
Embraced By The Billionaire Part 57: This is the Only Way
“Lose?” The word escaped Avery’s lips as a shocked, breathless whisper. “How? How could we possibly lose? We have proof she’s a monster. We have proof she’s a criminal.” Her eyes widen in disbelief.Ashton’s grip on her hand was the only thing keeping her grounded. “Avery, just listen to him. Let him explain.”“You are thinking about justice,” Alistair said, his eyes filled with the weary wisdom of a thousand legal defeats and victories. “I am thinking about Rose Reed. The moment we walk into a D.A.’s office, we are no longer in control. The system takes over. And Rose Reed owns pieces of that system. She will unleash a legal and media firestorm the likes of which you have never seen.”He began to tick points off on his fingers. “One: she will file a dozen motions to suppress the evidence. She will claim the search of her safe was illegal, a corporate espionage job, making the financial data inadmissible. Two: she will bury Clara in a blizzard of depositions so brutal and invasive tha
Embraced By The Billionaire Part 56: The Three Aces
“The quality is remarkable.”Mr. Alistair’s gravelly baritone cut through the 2 AM silence of the Knight Corp boardroom. The words were directed at Ashton, but his sharp, analytical eyes were fixed on the tablet in front of him. Avery sat beside Ashton at the vast, polished obsidian table, a mug of chamomile tea clutched in her hands, its warmth a small anchor in the overwhelming room.“Our source is to be commended for her composure under pressure,” Alistair continued, not looking up. “My tech team finished authenticating the images an hour ago. They are pristine. Irrefutable.”He swiped a finger across his screen, and the massive monitor at the end of the room came to life. Columns of numbers, names of offshore entities, transaction dates, and damning memos filled the screen. It was the detailed anatomy of a corrupt empire, laid bare for them to see.“So, that’s it, then?” Avery asked, her voice sounding small and fragile in the cavernous space. “We have everything we need already.”
Embraced By The Billionaire Part 55: Her Return
The soft, expensive click of her own bedroom door locking behind her was the sound that finally broke the dam. Elena’s legs gave out, and she slid down the solid wood to the floor, her body collapsing onto the plush carpet as a wave of violent, silent shudders wracked her frame. She was back. She was inside the fortress. She was, for the moment, safe.The escape from the Reed mansion had been a terror. After John, the head of security, had secured the study to await his backup team, the house had gone into a soft lockdown. But he was looking for a ghost who had come from the outside, not one who already lived within the walls.Elena had remained hidden in the darkness of a linen closet for what felt like an eternity, her heart hammering a frantic rhythm against her ribs, listening to the sweep teams move through the west wing. They were thorough, but they were not looking for a nanny who was supposed to be asleep in her bed miles away.When a window of silence finally opened, she had
Embraced By The Billionaire Part 54: In the Enemy's Nest
Okay, Elena. Breathe. Just breathe. You’ve walked this hall a thousand times. Every creak, every shadow is a friend.“Yes, but not like this,” a frantic voice in the back of her mind whispered. “Not as a thief. A traitor.”Stop it. You are not a thief. You are an asset. His asset. There is a difference. A big difference.“Is there? It feels exactly the same. The fear… it’s identical.”The grandfather clock at the far end of the grand, silent hall began its slow, sonorous chime for three a.m. Each deep, resonating gong was a hammer blow against her already frayed nerves, counting down the precious minutes of her life. One. Two. Three.One foot in front of the other. The floorboard near the Grecian vase… it groans under pressure. Avoid it. Good. The runner is worn thin here. Step lightly.She moved with the practiced grace of a ghost, a shadow slipping through deeper shadows. She wore simple, dark clothes, her soft-soled shoes making no sound on the polished marble. The air in the Reed
Embraced By The Billionaire Part 53: Mission Impossible
The silence in the Knight mansion had become a living entity, and Elena had learned to read its moods. Tonight, it was watchful. It coiled in the long, dark hallways and settled heavily in the corners of every room. She sat on the edge of her bed, her back straight, ears listening.Every distant creak of the old house was a potential footstep, every gust of wind against the glass a potential whisper. She was a ghost in this house, a spy turned prisoner, and she knew, with a certainty that chilled her to the bone, that her quiet, passive role was about to end.A soft knock came at her door. It wasn't the sharp, authoritative rap of security, nor the hesitant tap of Avery. It was a maid.“Elena?” the young woman whispered through the wood. “Mr. Knight is still in his study. He asked for a fresh pot of tea.”For a single, beautiful second, relief washed over Elena, so potent it almost made her knees weak. Tea. It was normal. It was a simple, domestic task that meant she was still just th
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